Chuck Most

VCG Resins casts one- he lists it as a '75, but '73-'75 were the same. http://vcgresin.atspace.com/ Here it is foiled and paint detailed.

I like different types of box art... "retro" paintings and photos of the actual kit can both be effective ways to sell a kit. But it all boils down to subject matter for me- if I don't want a 1:25 scale 1977 Bohemian Opera Coupe, I won't buy the kit, no matter how cool the box art is.

Gotta laugh at all the people going on and on about how "American" the V8 engine is. The V8 was a French invention. It was popular there for quite a time before it became popular here. Info's out there... look it up. For the record, I suppose I should state that I am in no way anti-V8... more than half of the vehicles I've owned have been so equipped, My current daily driver is powered by a V8. But even with gas prices as (relatively) low as they currently are, there are times when I wish it wasn't. So I can see both sides of the coin.

Looks like a solid bargain to me. It even has its own theme song.

All this chatter is going to seem so silly in a thousand years when people are zipping around on beams of pure energy.

Originality is pretty much impossible at this point- everything you can think of has been done, and in some cases is completely played out. Every good idea has been tried, meaning that all the ideas left are the bad (or at least mediocre) ones. Not that that stops anybody from trying them out. Rectangular headlights on street rods comes to mind there. It might be a bit more doable on a model than on a real car, just because you can get away with the result. Sure, you could stuff a big-block Chevy into a Miata in real life, or splice together a '57 Plymouth and a Chevy S10, but then you'd have to live with the resulting machine and all of its faults. With a model, you can do something like that without having to deal with any repercussions like you would on a real vehicle.

Just like the '15 Mustang... those headlights are gonna need some serious help. Still looks pretty workable.

Showed up here yesterday.

Took about 30 steps back with my rotary Courier... but it's still on the to-do pile.

Cool! The Deere is one of my favorite models- good to see some "deleted scenes" from the project.

Great. Just don't try to bring it to a complete stop from 60 in less than half a mile or try to turn a corner any faster than about 5mph and you'll do just fine.

Complexity for the sake of complexity makes no sense. And yes, that is present on modern cars. I don't want or need heated/cooled/massaging leather seats and a satellite-guided ashtray. But even taking that into consideration I have to say we've got it better now than enthusiasts did 40 years ago. Consider... Would you rather have a 400 horsepower car based on existing compact car underpinnings, with a four-speed manual trans, dinky drum brakes, rock hard bias ply tires, that can't handle anything but a straight line... oh, and struggles to average low single-digits for MPG... ...or a 600 horsepower purpose-designed performance car, with a six-speed, four wheel discs, nice sticky radials, turns like it's on rails, and knocks down 25mpg or more on average? I don't know about you, but I'm gonna have to go with option B.

You aren't the only one entertaining that idea.

Old Challenger Vs. New.... why's the new one heavier, despite being built out of plastics and lightweight alloys? Well, how many old Challengers had air conditioning? Or antilock brakes? Or front and side airbags? Or power EVERYTHING? That all adds weight. The old Challenger, like most muscle cars, was a tin can with a big engine, while the new one is a Rolls-Royce by way of comparison. Same deal for the Mustangs, Camaros, or any other name from the musclecar era that has survived or been revived.

It's the grille. The grille just kills it for me. If it had the standard Ram grille, I'd personally like it.

Thread necromancy time... Finished the bodywork on the Hudson-powered '41 Chevy "bobber", and got the first few coats of bronze on the cab and bed. I was goint to paint them the same yellow as the scoop, but decided to match them to the frame. I might go another route with the scoop now, too. I guess we'll see.

Not counting ones that fall prey to some sort of catastrophic mishap during the process, 100%.... eventually. It may happen ten years after I start, but it WILL happen. Count the catastrophic mishaps... that number falls to about, oh, 50 to 60 percent.

That paint combo looks great on a Dentside.

Anyone remember that episode of BBC Top Gear, where the English and Australian presenters were competing against each other? And the Ford Transit (which turned out to be fitted with the V6 from a Jag XJ220) laid waste to the 'Vette-V8-powered Holden in a drag race? A drag race... where apparently V8 engines are supposed to rule supreme? Yeah...

Even if it happens (and that's a big IF), who cares? Eventually there will come a day when internal combustion engines of all kinds are consigned to the dustbin of history. Today, nobody mourns the loss of the Stanley Steamer.

Leaning toward a junked C600 or Dodge L700. Or I might go off in some other direction. I guess I'll find out when I plop something on the trailer and like how it looks.

"Durrrrrrrrr..... needs two more cylinders" cry the knuckle-dragging meatheads...