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I just spent 10 days hiking and camping up in Banf and Jasper....stunning country up there. Hello to all up north. Waiting for some of that cool Canadian air down here in hot and humid Virginia.

"Surf Hearse". Not that far fetched. Found an interesting article online once about how the 60s surfers would buy up used hearses from huge lots and live in them at the beach. Apparently the funeral trades in California were always upgrading their fleets with newer fancier models and a decent relatively low mileage hearse could be had for minimal bucks...plenty of room for boards, blankets, bunnies.

Got the '29...but missed out on the '30. Fortunately I have squirreled away a couple of original issues of that Monogram stock '30...think one of them is molded in an olive green.

"Gotta love those 40's ..... " Https://goo.gl/images/FfGbyW

Then again...maybe Bill just isn't into Mustangs that much.

I'm not mechanically inclined so I can't speak to the simplicity of maintenance, but it does seem that mile for mile most of todays cars are pretty reliable. What bugs me the most? They all look the same to me! They all seem to look like the result of the same wind tunnel test for aerodynamic efficiency....no individual style whatsoever. And most cars these days seem to have made up names that don't relate to anything ...they just sound exotic...or foreign. There used to be Tempests, Mustangs, Stingrays, Barracudas, Wildcats, Cougars....now we have...Elantras? Or letters and numbers.

I wonder what our resident factory stock replica expert Bill "Mr Obsessive" Geary has to say about this topic?

Nice looking. What did you use for the interior carpet texture?

I spoke to him only briefly when I met him at the Mid Atlantic NNL many years ago....think he had an Isetta model that he had turned into a dragster. Seemed like a real jovial character.

Starbird's Futurista is pretty rare...especially in unbuilt form...almost never see one on e Bay..been looking for years. Same for the Uncertain T...its the plastic kit equivalent of Big Foot...or the Loch Ness monster.

Ditto. Sounds like you shared great times together.

Wow....its a grown up Annette of the Mouseketeers!

Dave Dickash....wasnt he a member of L.I.A.R.S. modeling club on Long Island? He passed away in 2004. His motto went something like "anyone can collect old model car kits, it takes a real man to cut them up". Met him at a NNL in Towson Md many years ago...built some crazy stuff. R.I.P.

From where I'm sittin looks like a super nice clean build. Agree about the wheels...the yellow on wide whites really makes it stand out.

At the height of the hot rod / car model craze of the early 60s it seemed you could find car model kits for sale everywhere...not just hobby shops but five and dimes, grocery stores. Stocking shelves with car kits was like printing money. I also recall vending machines that sold trading cards with pictures of famous show rods...

I like the low slung look. Any more pics?

One of my all time favorite kits...in all its variations. And not as easy as it looks...a bit finicky.

Lovely concept....Nicely realized.

It's a hot date ...cruising Mullholland Drive.

How about a vinyl L.P. car?

Cool color...what paint did you use? And those wide whites...where were the tires/wheels sourced? A really nice clean looking build!

I think Tim Sickle has some long standing issues with MCM so I don't think he would be putting together photos for them, but he might for that "other" magazine.

I'm pretty sure the photographer at the Mid Atlantic NNL in the OP was Tim Powers...not Tim Sickle.

Be interesting to see how the builders here rate these in comparison to other kitted versions. I've heard the 36 coupe holds its own against others.