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Nice to see a new kit manufacturer out there! Also, there can never be too many kits of 3rd Gen GM A-Bodies. Unfortunately that price is just a bit too much for a Stock Car kit. I mean they're cool and I have a bunch of them with plans to build them all, but I'm not that crazy about Stock Car models that I'd pay $40 plus all shipping charges and customs etc for that kit. Once it is on my hands it would be somewhere between $75-$80 so it's too much. If it was a stock, or at least street version, I'd be happy to pay that amount all day long. Anyway, I hope these will sell great and I'm interested to see what other kits they will produce after this one.

That gave me a good laugh! X2 on both of those sentences. Now I just need to figure out what make it is.

Great to see one of these Falcons finally finished. Watching the WIP thread was very interesting and the end result is definitely worth the wait. Simply amazing, don't know what else could I say that hasn't been said already.

Wow! That thing is huge ! I had to check from the box top picture that is it even 1/24 or 1/25 scale. Looks like I'll need to play with the pulleys on my Supercharged Chevy Stovebolt to get more boost on it in order to beat that monster.

Wow that was a rough starting point! To be honest if I was a resin caster I simply couldn't sell anything that bad... Despite that you turned that thing into a beautiful model. I'm sure many people would have given up even before they started, so my hat is off to you for actually building it and making it look that good.

At least I was in the correct country as I was searching for Renaults and other French cars....

I hope you guys can get the problem sorted out. This whole build looks so great that I can't wait to see the finished product!

I hate to say it, but I'm absolutely clueless on this one. I've never seen anything like that, so interesting to see what it really is. All I know is that it's not pretty.

Charlie... I'm pretty sure we all want to see the finished pics on this fantastic build. So if you can't figure out how to post the pics, I can help you by posting the pics in here. If you want to do that, just E-Mail the pictures to me and I'll post them here. My E-Mail is S-SS570(At)hotmail.com

Alright guys, count me in with a '62 Chevy Bel Air Bubbletop. The starting point is an old AMT '62 Bubbletop builtup that I've had laying around for years. It has most of the parts except for the engine that I robbed for Don Nicholson's '61 Impala Super Stock car. That said, it's the perfect choice for this build. And while some of the other Cannonballers seem to trust in modern powerplants and technology, I'll be hopping up a '50s Chevy Stovebolt Six for this thing. Because that engine is pretty weak as stock, it'll need some speed parts on it and most importantly somekind of a power adder. Of course, a turbocharger would be obvious choice, but because I like to go a bit different route, I'm going to install a supercharger setup from a '57 Ford on that Chevy engine. Here are a couple of pics of the starting point...

That's a nice and unique build! We don't see many of these old British Fords built, so it's great to see one for a change. Especially when it's built this well. Nice work overall, I like how it looks! Anyway, to make it legal for Gasser classes, you'll need at least a roll bar (All Supercharged Gassers had to use a roll bar) and a rear bumper or push bar. Or then you could run just like it is in Altered class.

That looks excellent! I think you got the overall look just right for a late '50s/early '60s Hot Rod. The color fits very well to this body, but my favorite part is definitely the upholstered Tuck 'n' Roll wheel wells and roof! Very nice work overall.

Great to see the possibility to build a base model Cutlass. Because of that I'm just going to buy this kit and make it into a Super Stock car. This is a great looking body style.

Yep I understand that very well, and that's probably why the shipping prices often are so high... But, let's see what happens with the tracking!

Well, unfortunately they are, and they use it a lot at least here in the Southern Finland... The best days in the winter are those when it's so cold that the road salt doesn't work. Of course the roads are very slippery then, but then we just have to drive carefully... And we can be happy that there is none of that disgusting road salt all over the chassis.

I picked one of those AquaRod kits for about $25 a couple of years ago... Either that's not so rare or then mine was just very cheap. It was complete, only some chassis parts were painted and glued together. Now I just need to build that. I've never seen that Strip & Surf Van anywhere. I'd love to have one of those Vegas on my stash but finding them is not easy... Those Red Alerts are not common either, but I've seen one or two pop up for sale sometimes.

Well, tracking is always a bonus, but I'm completely fine without tracking as well. I've ordered bunch of stuff from The US before and all of the packages have showed up just fine. So, I'm not ready to pay huge amounts of shipping costs just for the tracking. But even with the tracking, $50 is just unreal.... Edit: My order was just shipped and I got a tracking code. $25 Shipping, not so bad.

Looks like I'll need to buy one from eBay. All Hobby Shops seem to ask for some ridicullous shipping prices to Finland, but on eBay the shipping cost seems to be $25, which is something I can live with. Some company in the internet wanted $50 for shipping to Finland?!

Very cool looking Corvette! We don't see many of these built, but this is a great looking 'Vette body style. You did a great job on that. I thought it was a real car at first, nice job!

Yep, they produced some very nice bodies, but in many kits the chassis and engine bays are pretty poor quality... I have the Drag On Lady AMX on the works too and so far I've done some massive chassis modifications on that and hopefully I'll soon be at the same position than if the chassis was decent quality so that I can actually paint and assemble something instead of cutting and sanding... This looks like pretty much similar project, except that the front axle area is not that bad as it is in the AMX kit...

Wow! Some fantastic work going on here! Everything looks so good that I don't know what to say... Really nice work! Those hubcaps look good. I know I'd buy a set or two if there was a resin version available. Those would look great on a Custom.

That sounds familiar! I was going to use Lindberg chassis under my '64 Polara Factory Experimental car but because of the same issue I'll probably end up with the Jo-Han chassis too. Anyway, looks like you're doing a great job on this... Keep the pictures coming!

This is an interesting project, I'll gotta keep an eye on it! Are you going to build the earlier version of Street Beast with the higher stance or the later, more aerodynamic version? In my opinion the earlier version was a lot cooler, but of course to keep up with the competition I understand that some modifications have to be done...

...And today I saw this Rambler American coming the other way than I was going on a highway. The owner is a real AMC enthusiast with several different AMC cars. Some of them are in flawless condition, some are not that flawless, but even though this Rambler looks a bit used it's driven all year round without any problems. The picture is taken last summer at a local Cruising Night as today I didn't have a camera with me.

Yep, but with the shipping costs as high (or even higher!) than the model itself I'm pretty sure I can't find a good enough deal from eBay... This cost me about $20. I want one of those Golden Commandos Plymouths too!