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Another old guy giving it a thumbs up. I’m not normally a fan of large diameter wheels, but dang they look good on that car.

Maybe. The boat is 1/25. Airfix made a 1/24 P-51D Mustang with a Merlin engine. This assumes that the stated scale for each is correct. Their old Spitfire may have had a Merlin, also. I believe their new(ish) Spitfire has a Merlin, too. Hmmm I wonder about their 1/24 Mosquito from about ten years ago??

Wow! Thank you. I ordered the decals from Spot Model in Spain.

The Testors kit with Rolls-Royce Merlin

Just cockpit and engine pics. The LHS had a builtup for $5.00. I ordered a new decal sheet from Spot Model in Spain. I’m pretty excited 👍🏻

I’ll dig through my stash later tonight.

If 68 doesn’t, I do.

That would be really cool, or even an all new ‘65 Riviera. It’s such a nice looking car. GM had a lot of nice looking cars in that era.

Did you scratch build the blower? It looks better than typical injection molded parts from the 1970s.

Thank you

Not bad for $40.

Part of the haul was an AMT Chevrolet Experimental Astro I. The seller pointed out that the asterisk on the price tag meant multiple kits in the same box. He opened it up and showed me there were three or four glue bomb Astro I kits. I just now opened it up and found two Astro I glue bombs, a Dodge Charger 3, and this other concept car that I don’t recognize. What is the white car?

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I got the ‘66 low rider kit. I also picked up an ancient Astro I kit. It has several glue bomb Astro Is. Another vendor made a me deal on two Lancia Monte Carlos; an Esci and Heller. One is long tail and the other short. Both based on the same molds.

Thank you. I’m hoping to find one tomorrow at a model contest/swap meet.

Was the 2000ish Riv low rider an all new tool or was it an updated version of the original release? Just wondering what to expect. It’s a really nice looking car.

This is made of two pieces. I also thought of the JPS Lotus. I’m sending all kinds of measurements and photos, but I don’t know if it will help the guy.

It’s part of the 1/8 scale McLaren M23. A guy on Facebook wants measurements in order to build a copy from scratch. I think it would be very difficult to get enough measurements build a copy without having the real part in his hands. The back side has compound curves that would would be very difficult to measure properly. Can this part be copied in resin at a price that would not be cost prohibitive?

What kind of shape are you looking for?

…Dragster… Houston, 1992. Way back then, I thought drag racing was the dumbest thing that could be done with money and horsepower. A coworker kept trying to get me to go watch it. I finally said I would go, if he would drop it if I didn’t like it. I went to a small event with another buddy. It was kind of cool watching the sportsman classes. Then there was Top Alcohol. I had to admit that was a heck of a thing to see. After that we were in the pits, talking with Don Prudhomme’s crew members. All of a sudden, everyone started walking away from the pits. We asked why. He said Eddie Hill and Joe Amato were about to make a run. That’s why we were there, so we RAN to the track. We didn’t realize we had run past barricades that said No Spectators Past This Point. We were just a few feet away from Joe Amato’s dragster. When that light turned green, everything changed. Wow. I have only been to see it a few times, but man what a spectacle.

Nice! Can you show more photos of it?

Tamiya street rods would be really cool, but until that happens, there’s always kit bashing. I think a Mercedes V-8 or V-12 would look cool in a street rod. I just love, love, love this tiny roadster pickup. That’s a Jaguar XK series inline six. Tamiya makes a Jaguar Mk II saloon with the same engine. The race version may have Weber carbs, but I’m not 100% sure on that.

Are they the same size for all Tamiya kits? I’m not sure if I have any car spares, but their Leopard 2A6 tank has poly caps that look right for 1/24 cars. It is a sprue with small caps and a longer one at the end. The long one is not used in the kit, IIRC. I have two of those Leopards.

Better the car than the people inside. No car is worth more than a person.