Chuck Most

Love it! One of these days I'm going to redo the one I'm 90% sure I still have and do it up as a Medler Electric van.

My thoughts exactly.

Fantastic job on both.

By today's mainstream you mean Eminem, right? (Yes, yes... I know he actually is a decent rapper, but his voice is annoying. Speak from the throat, Marshall, not your sinus! )

That I never got myself. I know that sounds weird coming from a guy like me, but you have to 'fake' it on plastic- I can't just take a model kit, leave it in the woods for 50 years and have it look the way I want from natural weathering. I mean, yeah, I can tell that takes a lot of skill, but why? I want to see faded paint and patina, but I want to see the real thing.

Not over- it's just blended in and become part of the mix just like Pro Touring, Gasser-look cars, and the like. I'm still waiting for '70's Street Freaks to make a comeback.

Pretty much exactly what they are, though the big Transit should be coming stateside shortly, if it hasn't already. Nice looking van, Rick!

Love this! I've always wanted to build a 1:1 '60 Plymouth, but use the front end from a '61.

This is the third or fourth time I've checked out these cars, and I can't say anything that hasn't already been said. Love '60's drag-racers, and you always bring a level of quality to all of your models that's rarely matched- great to see those two attributes combined, and thrice in one thread, no less!

N-I-C-E. These old annuals always look great built up, and bonus points for saving a shabby older builtup.

Bullet-Nose Studebaker Coupe '37 Studebaker Coupe or Coupe Express (pickup) '48-'50 Hudson Commodore '99-up Ford F-Series Super Duty A GOOD '57 Ford T-Bird

Not to rub it in, but for me it means once he's settled in at the Owosso location the round trip from my place to Dean's will be a whopping 30 miles less.

I used to own a '67 Impala four-door hardtop, but that's not why I'm interested in this. I'm interested in all the detail you plan to add, and the fact I'm a Supernatural fan, even though that show ruined this song for me... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfFjb3B9RRw Every time I hear the chorus now, I imagine Dean repeatedly being killed off in increasingly ridiculous (and often hilarious) ways.

Lovely Lincoln, Al! I built a '69 annual I managed to snag for a decent price a few years back. Love that all chrome MEL big block, even though it isn't correct for a '69 but would have been for your '68 if you wanted to represent an early model. Anyway, fantastic job on this one- always love seeing these suicide-door Connies done up right.

Or the turbine engine is long gone, which is the case whenever I've been able to track down an unbuilt example.

Indeed they did. I think you're right about that contest being in late '87, I think I have that issue floating around here someplace or another. Now that I think of it, today some of the "Hole in the wall" type 1:1 mags cover models sporadically, and Steve Magnante covers them in Hot Rod Deluxe. Yeah, Do Not Touch signs are pretty much useless. In my work we constantly put up "Out of Order" and "Do Not Enter" signs- think that stops anybody? (Do I really have to tell you the answer?)

If you visit or order from Dean's Hobby Stop, know that they will be moving from Flushing to Owosso this month. Orders will be delayed until December while they settle into their new digs. Dean says he wants to have the new store up and running by December 1st.

It wasn't just confined to those kits- pretty much all of MPC's turbochargers sucked, detail-wise. But yeah, I've got a couple of these kits myself (as you might have guessed) I plan on building a couple of ways. Of course I want to build the second version of KARR (silver rocker panel paint, amber scanner), and I was always going to cut one up to do a "Super Pursuit" version, until I found out Aoshima did that version in kit form.

Nice! MPC kit?

Nice, nice, nice! I don't care what anybody says- II's are cool, and a lot closer to the original Mustang concept than the big-boned '71-73 models. Great looking model- sucks that you couldn't keep the real one, too.

Never understood which country country music is supposed to be from, 'cuz it certainly isn't from any country I've ever heard of.

Indeed. Wasn't this the same period of time which spawned the infamous Revell AG "Marmobilt"? Compared to that, MPC's F-Body Pontiac foul-ups were barely noteworthy.

One of these days, I hope I'll be able to say that after a particularly decal-heavy project is done. You did a fantastic job on this one!

And I'd applaud you for it.