Chuck Most

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.

Put in his shoes, I'd have done the same thing, but with a twist. Think anybody would buy my latest album, "Forty-Four Minutes of Flatus?"

Love how this one looks! And yeah, the cab fitment on that particular kit is far from the best- I had the same problem with mine. Think I might dig it out and try Jesse's idea.

When I think "Tesla" and "cars", I think of that high-performance hybrid... NOT what I was expecting, but I'll take it.

In '62, I was 20 years shy of being born. (What, you asked... ? )

Street Rodder and Custom Rodder had regular modeling columns- in fact, the one in SR was penned by none other than Tim Boyd for the first seventeen years or so it was in the mag. I brought up this idea a while ago (model kit makers advertising in 1:1 publications) and the general consensus was that it was too expensive for the kit manufacturers to bear. Good to see they made a way to make it work- I can't tell you how many times I've been to 1:1 car shows and the subject of models comes up... you'd be surprised how many people are shocked to find that not only are model car kits still being produced, but new subjects are still being brought out every few years. Putting this out in the view of a wider audience certainly can't be a bad deal.

Not a Cadillac guy at all, but I absolutely love this one.

One version I know I want to do... This was the episode where the Knight 2000 (the car) was modified so it would fit in when the foundation went in to infiltrate a traveling custom car show, when it is discovered that wherever this show goes, somebody's classic car ends up getting stolen. The always-stuffy KITT (the car's computer and the part that talks) is of course awfully snobby about being modified, but finally decided to shut up and take one for the team.

I'm kind of hoping they'll fix that nose, with the oddly shaped openings and the "Knight 2000" engraved in the middle. It looks almost nothing like any of the noses used on the TV car- and there were quite a few used. Watch the first episode (a two-parter) closely- you'll see that sometimes the nose changes from scene to scene, and a towbar will sprout from nowhere and be gone in the next shot! (Continuity errors, anyone?) And we aren't even going to get into the differences between seasons. And you thought that famous flying orange Mopar was a can of worms...

It can't be a '29 (last year for that Olds Economy Truck was 1923), but other than that everything is looking A-OK. Normally I'd tell you to go with painted steel wheels, but those Cragars would look pretty good too. So I'm gonna go ahead and recommend the mags this time.

Love it! I remember the commercial- I think it was for batteries. It had sounds of expensive cars cranking over but not starting, then an announcer described all the battery's features, then along came the $50 Duster, which fired right up.

Nice! Thanks.

Yeah, AMT botched that kit six ways to Sunday, but at least it ain't no Marmobilt. It actually looks so good in pink it's a little bit scary. Better bust out that Luberfinder.