oldcarfan

I have a nostalgic attraction to Monogram's old 1/24th sports cars. Their Datsun was one of my favorites of the batch. Love your builds.

Until I looked it up, I forgot how small the tires were on older cars and how high they rode. My dad had a 1968 Mustang and he talked about how he had wide tires on it. I found a picture of it a while back and those wide tires were probably narrower than those on a stock Camry these days.

Not sure where the mental glitch happened, I guess I'm going senile. The pack in the photo literally said Evergreen on it and I was still searching under Plastruct.

I wonder if Salvinos has these molds too?

Thank you! I was looking for it as Plastruct not Evergreen. Appreciate the help.

How did I miss this kit? I didn't know they made a Square-Bird. Looks like you are making excellent progress, have fun on it!

I'm thinking of making a Winnebago and I'd like to use something like this. Years ago someone sold this sort of plastic in larger sheets, like 12x24 or so. It has raised lines on it and would look pretty close to the stuff used on a 1:1 Winnie. I bought some when building a spaceship for a failed low budget local TV show. Now that I'm looking for it, I can't find it anymore. Am I just overlooking it?

There was a Texaco station in my hometown that looked like the one in the picture when I was little. It had survived being torn down and was still in use. This station was built in the late 50s-early 60's and my dad told me it had been delivered on a flatbed truck and assembled on site. The whole thing was made of white enameled steel panels. The panels were probably 8 feet each and were embossed in a 2x2 foot pattern. I think it was finally sold, dismantled and moved somewhere else to reassemble. The reason for this long story was that Plastruct has a sheet called sidewalk, I think. The pattern would come close to those 2x2 panels. It might be a good option to use, bonded to balsa or maybe modelers plywood.

Looks amazing with excellent paint and love those wheels!

I think I remember that. I used to steal my uncle's Car Craft magazines when he got through with them.

I definitely want one of these! Are the windows precut or does it just have scribed lines? I keep asking Round 2 to backdate their current issue of the van. Maybe some day they will.

There is someone in our town of less than 20,000 that has good tastes in daily drivers. Several times I've seen him in everything from Aston Martins to Lamborghinis to various Porsches. This is one of the few times I've seen one of his cars parked.

Nice model! I have a Bburago Daytona I finished in that same color. Let me know it you decide to do the decals, I could use a set.

I stole this picture from who knows where and forgot about it. Now I'm thinking it would make for an interesting car carrier.

Not sure where I got this picture, but I think this trailer originally came from AMT. Has it been reissued recently in any kit? I'd like to have one.

Tamiya's Racing White is pretty close to Ford's Wimbledon White, so it won't work for the FHP cars. You want something more like a light sand color for that.

I'd pay good money if they were to do a good detailed documentary of the OG Cannonball runs. I wish someone had taken more candid pictures of the individual cars. At one point I considered trying to make a model of all the original contenders, but the lack of pictures and viable model kits ruled that out.

If you want to read it from the horse's mouth, this is a good book to get. In 2019 our kids were graduating High School and getting ready to move out so we took a long delayed family road trip. We drove from Austin, Texas to Lake Tahoe, then down to San Francisco and back to Austin. We hit all the attractions, stopping in Roswell, New Mexico to see the alien themed museum, the Grand Canyon, and of course Bonneville. This is a picture I took on the interstate as we neared the Salt Flats. My wife had just taken over the driving after she noticed I had us cruising at 97 mph. Even then we had been passed by several SUVs, a few sedans, and a Highway Patrol car who zipped by and pulled off the road shortly thereafter to go into a fast food place. Also, here is another article on the last original Cannonball Run. They had done all the others with no issues, but I think Yates felt it was getting too commercial and too crazy. It was just a matter of time before something happened. The second article is about the official Cannonball successor, the One Lap Of America, a more organized and controlled, but still fun followup. In between were a few off-brand unofficial races, the US Express, and some others. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15135751/the-last-cannonball-feature/ https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/articles/one-lap-origin-story/

You did a great job on that! Wouldn't it be nice if Atlantis or Revell still had this tooling and could reissue this?

I grew up building the MPC kits so I have a sentimental attachment. I'd definitely love to see them invest some money into updating the kits, maybe redoing and updating the tools, and maybe fixing some of the poorly done retooling they did over the years.

Drove down to Austin to see the new grandbaby and made a quick pit stop at Hobby Town. They didn't have much I needed, but I couldn't pass these two up for the price. Also got some Tamiya primer since I'm getting low.

I came across this a while back and was really impressed. Now that I'm working on a photo backdrop, I need to make one of these!

I'm envious over those Dodge vans! Every time someone from Round 2 asks for comments, I tell them to backdate the van tooling or to clone it to make a 72ish Dodge van, and also maybe to do a 1999ish Dodge van for all us Dajiban fans.

That's a cool idea, never heard of Agar gel. Good luck on your videos!

I'm hoping that this kit will sell well and perhaps inspire Revell to also do a new tool or modified reissue Blazer for Sheriff Brody's Jaws Blazer.