Chuck Most

I'd be interested in all of them, but my first purchase of the bunch would be the Cherokee.

Betamax? I'm thinking a good 2/3 of this group never made the jump to Super 8.

Now that's a silk purse from a sow's ear! The engine bay kitbashing really brings it to life.

Already shaping up nicely.

Did you get to mess around with the key as well?

He's no Lee Iacocca, but I like this Roger guy. He seems to understand the muscle car market, at least.

People were complaining about too many buttons... even though that was kind of a status symobol on '80's cars. Now... let's make them accessible via a touch screen! I know that kind of tech has come a long way since Oldsmobile's ill-fated VIC, but... I'd rather have an overabundance of visible switchgear.

Yeah, but those 40+ buttons are all hidden in various sub-menus on a touchscreen, so it's not that bad. (Being about 30% sarcastic here. )

Must... have.... ORIGINAL BOX.... oh.... COLLECTIBLITY.... AAAAARRRRGGGG CLASSIC....

Love it! A lot of people hate the II's, I see them as a return to form for the Mustang after the Fat Albert, almost "Diet Thunderbird" years of '71-3. I'd really like to see this kit reissued one of these days.

Using the Suburbanites on mine, with some modified AMT inner wheels (source kit unknown but I'm about 75% sure they're from the '78 F350 Super Stones 4x4).

Looks so natural against the fall foliage.

When I read "derby" I was thinking "demolition", but that's cool! A kit with a building accessory like that only could have happened in the '60's. (Note- Since I wasn't around back then, that last sentence is little more than an educated guess. )

#11 is what I use 99% of the time, though lately I've been using Excel brand blades rather than Xacto. They cost the same as the Xacto #11 blades (at least they do at my local shop) but seem to hold an edge longer. They're also produced in the US, for those of you who get off on such things. I'll use the other blades for those peculiar situations where a #11 just won't do, but Old Eleven is my default blade.

I'm just going to throw this out here, and see where it goes. Today at work, a few co-workers and I were discussing interesting cars driven by various characters in TV shows and movies. After a little back and forth about that, conversation turned to speculation... in the case of many characters, you don't see what kind of vehicle they drive, and often it isn't really made clear if they own a vehicle at all. I got to thinking that such a creative thought exercise might spark an idea or two for model building. So, think of your favorite movie, TV program, comic book, or whatever. Think of the character who usually takes the bus or bums a ride from one of the other characters, or at the very least, is never seen driving or talking about owning a personal car. What do you think they'd drive? What kind of car do you think John McClaine from the Die Hard movies owns? Or Zeus from Die Hard With a Vengeance? Or Bonnie from Knight Rider? Or Mr. Creosote? You reckon that Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park drove a plain old Camry, or something as eccentric as he was? Now's your chance to dream it up! Hey- winter is coming, you're going to need something to think about while you're shoveling snow, right? That way, not only can you show us the car you are building for your character, but also a little bit of why you chose that particular car and style for that character. Start time would be whenever the first builder jumps in with progress to report, and much like the pain and suffering, there would be no end. My idea? I'm going to build a model of what I think Fire Marshall Bill used as his daily driver....

I'd rather pay more to get a larger box shipped, than have a bunch of warped and broken parts sardine-packed into a smaller, standard sized box. I'm looking at you, Revell....

I don't buy copies of model car kits, I just buy the actual kits. Twist ending... it probably ISN'T the Moebius Hudson Hornets everyone is thinking I buy in bulk (though they're right up there), it is likely the Revell '32 Ford five-window... so many cool parts in that one that even if you rob a bunch of stuff from a kit, you still have enough left to build a complete car. I probably had close to 30 of just that one kit on hand at one point.

All I can say is I like it. A LOT! Many modelers make their CH 359 kits all shiny and showy, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it's nice to see one done up the other way for a change.

You'd have to travel back in time to 1994 to find a 1:1 that nice! Very well done.

I'm not talking about gearing. Not necessarily anyway. I'm talking about how much of a toll a 'Slip-and-slide' transmission that only shifts once might take on the engine. They may be just dandy for drag racing (in highly modified form), but I'm not sure if I'd trust one if I had the thing floored for two ten-mile blasts. I'd want something a tad more efficient.

You kind of lost me with "Small Block Chevy"... then came "Powerglide"... yech. But even then, it's shaping up perfectly. It would look absolutely mean in a slightly distressed shade of factory dark green or blue. I can't say for sure, but I'd imagine Bonneville guys started running Powerglides about five minutes after you could start finding them in abundance at salvage yards, though I'm not sure how effective a trans with only two speeds would be if you're trying to set a top speed record.

Well, he didn't succeed in making a late '40's Cadillac any uglier than it was when stock, but since that's probably impossible I'd call it a hollow victory on that front. There are exceptions to every rule, but big wheels on a big car look better than 14" steelies on a big car, but then again, there are people who honestly think that cars from the era of four-wheel drums and points ignition were the best cars ever built (even though they have one of those evil disc-brake/coil-on-plug modern cars as a daily... go figure). Yeah, he did kind of drop the ball with the grille design, but at least it doesn't look like the chrome-plated grimace of a constipated chipmunk , the way the stock grille did. But this was around the time Cadillac decided they wanted to be the Tammy Faye Baker of luxury makes and start slathering their cars in more and more garish tinsel. Again- really hard to "ugly up" a design like this, but even then the grille just doesn't seem to "work". All that being said, if I won the car in a raffle or something I'd drive it- but I don't think I'd buy it or build/have one built like it. Even if I did, a postwar Cadillac is the absolute last base I'd use anyway. If I wanted to dump money into an ugly-duckling luxury car I think I'd have to go with a '49-'51 Baby Lincoln, or pretty much anything that ever had "Imperial" somewhere in it's name.

The weird thing about the roof flaw on this kit is that you barely notice it when the kit is built to this level of quality. VERY nicely done.

Just keep in mind that the Gremlin's wheels, while depicting a stock AMC steel rally wheel, are a bit too wide (too much negative offset) to accurately represent a stock unit. You could narrow them, but even if used straight off the sprue there's no mistaking the for anything else .

That monstrosity. The Matador coupe at least had some of that "'70's budget pimp-mobile" mojo going for it. That being said, if I could find a decent yellow and wood Matador wagon at an even more decent price, I'd totally rock it.