oldcarfan

I've been on a sort of Porsche buying kick lately. I've currently got several 911s and a couple of 924s. I built some as stock kits. Now I'm looking for some aftermarket parts to do hot rod style cars. C1 has some really nice wheel sets and conversion parts and I found a Magnus Walker decal set. I think someone used to make a decal sheet that had Porsche and Carrera sidestripes and those PORSCHE decals that go on the back trunk lid all on one sheet and in different colors, but I can't find it now. Anyone know of other offerings? Maybe some Porsche Safari stuff?

Love it!

I got the old Revell kit as a kid. I never built it as all those fiddly parts and the opening doors and trunk defeated my 8 year old fingers!

A lot of people are complaining about this truck being too little. It's actually too large for its target market. Buyers have been asking for a smaller truck the size of an old school Ranger since Ford killed it off. Two years ago, I saw one of these new trucks parked here in Austin, (it had Mexico plates) and I parked beside it in my 1982 full-size F-100. They are about the same size.

Sedan sales are dying off. Even Honda and TOyota are seeing their Accord and Camry drop. People are just not buying them. Ford has two things they could do pretty easily. They are already doing one of them by making the Focus Active as a rival to the Subaru Crosstrek. They also have a Focus wagon in Europe that they could do the same thing to and sell to compete with the Outback. They could probably save the Fusion by doing the same thing. Butch it up, raise it an inch or two and people would buy it.

Obscure NASCAR cars are the best NASCAR cars! I like it!

One thing that kept them in the kit business was the dime store trade. My grandmother ran a small mom and pop style store in the early 70's and she stocked some of them because they could be gotten for a 1/4 the price of the name brand kits.

I went to one in San Antonio and the store was larger, but the merchandise was more generalized. They still had models, just not as many.

They are pretty cool. Japanese guys take old Dodge vans, lower them and race them around. https://jalopnik.com/5481898/crazy-japanese-build-serial-killer-vans-for-the-race-track-dajiban

I so wish someone would tool up that generation and the one before that of Toyota truck in 1/24th.

This isn't a kit I need, but it is one I'll buy and enjoy!

Notice: I may be panicking, LOL. We have three Hobby Towns and several Hobby Lobbys in our area. The HLs have been cutting back on the selection of models for a few years, but recently the HTs seem to have started doing this as well. Two of them are having a sale on some kits, and they don't seem to be restocking the way they used to. One of the employees said that corporate is experimenting with going a different way. They seem to be moving more to a general purpose hobby store with an emphasis on bringing in women and children. Can't blame them I guess, but they ran the old line hobby shops out of town and now we may be stuck with buying online.

You captured the look! Perfect!

So nice. Is this a reissue? I remember having a kit like this back in the 90s. It got crushed by movers.

Watching this. It looks great!

Beautiful build! As far as the axles, I would take one to the hobby store and match the diameter to either some plastic or brass rod. Then you just cut it to the needed length..

Good catch! I would either keep them as a colector's item or put them on eBay and sell them for a good profit rather than try to rehab them. Unless you enjoy the challenge of making them usable. There are people who collect memorabilia like that.

I was just at the LHS a little while ago looking at this kit and the Foose 56 Ford truck as well, trying to decide if they would be good to buy for parts.

Cool idea!

I can vouch for this set. I ordered it last year and it is great!

I really like where this is going!

I was a Ford fan as a kid, so I never really payed attention to these cars. Now I really like them!

If you decide to cast it, let me know! My grandparents had two of these. My gran had a fully loaded dark brown one and my grandpa bought a creme colored one with the police package and (I think), the 350 in it, vinyl bench seats and all. I know that it was fast. He drove to projects a lot as a civil engineer and wanted something fun to drive.