Craig Irwin

Our local speed shop had a mechanic who bought a new 73 SS 454 4 speed, I was impressed because I didn't know that you could still even buy anything like that. All of these years later I feel like I need to model the 73 Chevelle SS, the 73 GTO and the 73 Hurst Olds.

I'm limited on funds so about 100 miles or so. I'd be in Cincinati today if the weather had been nicer. (I would have had to have rode my motorcycle). I hope to get to some bigger NNL's someday if the economy ever gets better.

I call it "Weather" , remember the George Carlin skit when "Al Sleet, the Hippy Dippy Weatherman" forcast that the weather would continue to change for a long, long time?

GnR shows all depended on Axl's mood. When we was ticked off the whole band was down trying to deal with it. The best "GnR" show I ever saw was a tribute band "Paradise City", all the looks, moves and great music without the short fuse.

"Finally! It's warm outside!" Well, that didn't last long.....

I didn't take to KISS back in the 70's, I saw the makeup and fireworks and thought "kiddy band". Severial years later I was working third shift with a big KISS fan who brought in KISS tapes and played them all night. Thats when I discovered the music was great and got into the band. ABBA will suffer the wrath of the KISS ARMY !!

I was always hoping the KISS Army would be called up and war would be declared on ABBA.

Guilty, I was best man at my brothers wedding, and left the reception early to make a KISS show, and than stood in line in a thunderstorm to get into the outdoor venue. All of this when I was in my 50's.

Not an improvment over stock.

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I thought all of the Motion cars were SS's, not Lagunas.

The important thing is that the finished model "looks right". Both of those Corvettes will look just fine, even setting next to each other on a shelf.. My Triumph experance was working at a Triumph dealership from 72 to 74, and based on my experance with those cars I made the mistake of buying a 76 TR7. I had to buy a Hyundai 30 years later to get another car that bad.

Porsche is like Harley Davidson, everything new they build has to look almost like what they built 45 years ago or the buyers scream out loud and stay away from the showrooms. Some of us like it that way.

Just Smurf me a wee bit of Smurf in a class, do it Smurfly!

John, look again, it has a mirror on the left door, just as most of the 1:1's did. Also for the Superbird I like the idea of a kitbash, use the old Jo-Han body on an AMT 69 GTX chassis.

Sad to hear, but she's been suffering for a long time. I remember her Mickey Mouse Club sweater fitting her better than most of the other girls sweaters did.

Nice save! I like that you went with the 8 lugs.

Thanks! I'll be watching the rest of your build!

My guess is a volunteer to take photos and write it up for submission.

Sometimes the spindles can be swaped side for side and installed upside down to lower a model with poseable steering.

Some are, and some arn't. Depends on if the subject is modified kit part or an orignal sculpt.

But GM wasn't competing against itself back then, buyers "steped up" from a lesser make as they could afford it. Chevy was a small 6 cyl. car, Pontiac was a longer wheelbase car with an available 8, and so on.

I'm sure all three sold in disapointing numbers because there were three on the shelf.

Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Saturn are gone because they were redundant. GM's orignal idea of moving up from one make to the next in asending order as you became more afluent was replaced by 6 makes building badge enginered versions of the same cars. For many years Pontiacs were nothing but Chevys with stuck on plastic body clading and red dash lights. Oldsmobiles were very little differant from Buicks. GM was competing with itself.

The average American has to haul the kids and such and requires the seats to do so. I'd love to have a Mustang, but I need an Equnox.