Chuck Most

Well... I think it's a Mack. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Studies show that the kind of people who want to buy a hybrid want it to 'look like' a hybrid, not just a standard car with hybrid badges. At this point it seems like hybrids are more about making a statement than anything else.

Got mine for a pretty good price, unbuilt and completely intact. I'd really love to see it reissued. I really want to do a replica of Marilyn Manson's Tainted Love-

I remember a bunch of guys on some other forum going on and on about how these kits were just going to sit on the hobby shop shelves and collect dust. Looks like those guys are officially idiots now! Now, FINISH the thing already!

For me, personally, it usually isn't an issue. But in this case the lack of an up top might be a deal breaker for me, since both of the versions I want to build of this will require the lift-off hardtop. I'm sure it's possible to find a workable top for one, and/or wait for a resin caster to fill in the blank, and if that happens I might still get a couple. But until then, I don't have much use for a kit that's not 100% complete from the box for how I need to build it.

That Autumn Red is a tough one, Jacen. I know Ford currently has a color called Autumn Red, and it is metallic, but the shade is all wrong- Ford's Autumn Red is more of a burgundy or maroon color. In fact, most of the Autumn Red paint chips I've seen are way too dark, except for the non-metallic one used by IH in the '80's, which is a bit brighter but might work if you can get some. Most of the 1:1 Christine clones seem to use Plymouth's 1958 Toreador Red, which was available from the factory on the Belvedere, and was not metallic. I never could find a specific brand or name for the red used on the movie cars- I'm guessing they just grabbed the first off-the-shelf bright red paint the set designer's gopher picked up. All I found was information along the lines of 'the cars were painted red'... no mention of brand name, etc. And since all but a handful of the cars used in the movie were actually Belvederes (not Furies) it is possible a few were in fact painted in the factory Toreador Red. Oddly, though, the signed trunklid in your picture does look like it is a metallic red. The cars in the movie and most of the clones don't appear to have a metallic finish. Huh... I suppose it would be like a General Lee or an Enterprise model... use whatever shade of red looks right to you, naysayers be damned. Personally, I'd go for something that resembles '58 Toreador Red.

At least it isn't as bad as the twilight years of RC2- who remembers the '70 Dodge Daytona kit with the '68 Roadrunner chassis, K-H 'recall' wheels, and what appeared to be a few scratchbuilt underhood details... none of which came with the kit? Or the most recent reissue of the '60 Apache fleetside, which showed the old SMP longbed version with side trim, not the short bed, sans side trim version the kit builds into. That certainly isn't misleading or anything.

Revell screws up every so often with the box art (remember the pic of the stock grille on the '48 Ford coupe kit that looks nothing like the stock '48 grille and is nowhere to be found in the kit?). But honestly I didn't even notice the mention of printed whitewalls until you pointed it out.

They don't look anything like a '51 taillamp- I seem to remember seeing a very similar set on a 1:1 '49- just a round red lens in the middle, and they bolted on in place of the stock housings. The 1:1 was customized in the early '60's- about the time this kit originally came out, so it might have been inspired by that, or maybe the 1:1 was built by one of the guys AMT used as custom consultants back then.

Wonder if that guy is broke and living under a bridge now? I sure hope so!

I've heard the SnapFast Slammer '58 Plymouth's body proportions actually aren't all that bad (compared to this one). Any truth to that? Might be a bit easier on the wallet to kitbash that body with this kit if you want a better looking model and don't quite feel like ponying up for a JoHan or Modelhaus body.

I hope if they manage to sell off all those '70's truck and van reissues they'll at least consider doing something modern. But I doubt it.

Me. And the one in my backyard isn't as nice. Yes, I do have a C-series in my back yard... Pierre- I LOVE how this one is coming together! I stashed five or six of these kits when they came back out, but so far I haven't yet built a weathered one.

Just lovely!

I've got the Maisto diecast I'm planning to rework into something like this. But yeah, it wouldn't exactly kill anybody to have a somewhat modern light truck kit.

No, but it wouldn't be difficult to rework it to stock specs. Namely raise the suspension a couple of scale inches. The present exhaust system could be adapted into a stock version.

I don't blame you! I looked at this one, but it looks to be missing quite a bit of trim, and I didn't see it in the car and no mention was made of the trim. Or bumper. That and I need another 1:1 project like I need a another hole in my head.

That turned out just beautiful. Sometimes you get so used to the 427s you forget how good the small block cars looked.

Oh, yeah! That'll do.

Spotted this on the way back home from work this morning- dew and fog prevented me from getting any really good pics, but these should do.

Monogram '30 Ford Model A would be the ideal thing to start with. Fantastic job on the photography!

Eh... not too keen on cutting into an old Renwal kit, but I do have an appropriate leading edge for something like this. Emphasis on 'no'.

Sweet!