Dave Van

Congrats on the win with your model Ira!!!! I have said in the past you kinda started my kitbashing career back in the Car Model mag days with this model....or what is left of the 1960's era build. I know you can tell what it was.......any one else here old enough to know what this is/was??? Thanks for years of fun!!!

Cool concept..... While not a DTM type....more a old school Trans Am racer I did this as soon as that Revell kit hit....

Love anything with a Western theme......cool start!!!

When I saw the box art a while back I thought of 'Cool Hand' right off!!!!! That was the first movie that wasn't a kids movie I ever saw. My buddy's mom dropped us off to see something else, kid type, and we decided to see Luke. We were 9.....I remember the car wash for sure!

I lived in Paris for two years and would be there still if I could have found a way to pay for it. When did your wife's family own these cars? I'm especially curious about the Mercury because a Simca Vedette would have looked much like a Mercury of that vintage. She was there from 1958 until 1963 IIRC...... Her Dad was military from WWII and just continued on in Paris. She has duel citizenship as if you are born in France you are French....but her folks being US citizens....USA claims too!!! They had a 54 full size Mercury. Her Dad bought it from a fellow service man returning to the USA. My father-in-law loves to tell stories about terrorizing the other French drivers with 'le monster'!!

Very nice build!!!! I have one in stash to build..... My wife was born in Paris France and their family owned a 2CV and a 54 Mercury!!! talk about opposite ends of the spectrum!

I need skulls!!!! Great work....but where did you get that many skulls!!!! Thx

Nice work and color!!!

Your craftsmanship is great!! I love this kit warts and all. I have more PLANS to build it than actual completions. I had to build this one first...... Lots of box stock with just a few parts swapped. Fun simple build. Can't wait to see yours finished.....

LOVE those Sq Birds!!!! All based on the Ford Fox platform....the Model T of the Era........I owned 2 Fairmonts, a LTDII wagon and a Mercury wagon like the LTDII......all rugged simple cars. Electronics the only sore spot......it killed my LTDII when it went down and took EFI and IGN with it. But I had paid $900 for it and we used it for 5 years trouble free......she did her job!!!

I can't link to photos online......I can only upload to this site. Is that SOP??

That's a case of having your cake AND eat it too. All Javelins share many parts, Door skins are the same for all years...same for A pillars and windshields. Shared rear bumpers and spoilers. So if you were to tool a early Javelin converting it later would be easy and really extend the tool life and lower cost.

The new Challengers were new tooling....as is the 69 Dodge Charger snap kit. Yes....I'd like to see more.....some....new tooling. But they have such an extensive library of tooling....not sure I could justify new tooling if I was in charge. There is still a lot of gold in that mine. Let Moebius know what you want in scale.

Another great AMC movie car!!!!! I did do that one.....

WOW WOW WOW....... Nice on so many levels.....build, color, subject and craftsmanship.

An AMC and a movie car!!!! Whats not to LOVE!!!

Nice stuff for the most part......SLOWER than a glacier getting product to market....or restocking.

Thank GOD I found Ignore..........

I've been lucky enough to help out in the kit development area for going on 30 years on and off. I thought, years ago, that I could make better choices than kit companies. But after years of seeing the time (ie money), skill and RISK in the model kit biz I understand better today. And while I still have kit ideas in the back of my mind I want to see become real kits....I understand why they will not. Let's put it this way......want to show you know better than the kit companies?? Put your money up. I know when I suggested an 'off the wall' idea and it was accepted IF I invested my own cash......things change.

decent prices but shipping kills it......cool stuff

You are correct in that Surfite towers over other Roth creations...... It does so because you sit up in it like you would in a dining table chair. And if you find photos of Roth in the car.....LOTS of head room yet!! The more traditional Roth showrods were cramped and you almost laid down in them to get bubble tops to close!! I myself have never measured the Revell Surfite but a buddy of mine that is informed on Roth and the models (knew him personally) says it's 1/25. Take it for what it is worth. There is a story about how when Revell tooled it they feared it was to SMALL....thus they added the hut to fill the box more.

They don't 'stock' kits at the store.....inventory sitting in a back room cost money. If you notice kits come in big returnable containers from a central warehouse. One thing I have noticed at HL visits is I am not alone on the model kit isle any longer.......empty shelves may be GOOD news.....

Was able to attend last time in Columbus......wanted to this time.....but family matters got in the way....

This started as the Revell Tony Nancy kit......... I like them all....I find something good in all of them. The Nancy kit not near as hard to build today as it was when I was 7 years old!!!

I have so many ideas for the kit that are NOT S&H I may order a case.......