oldcarfan

Is there a chance that he has an American vendor, or do you have to order direct?

Love the wheels and the beer! This body style of Ford and the 61-63 are really needed as kits. I have a few of the old AMT ones but they are getting super expensive. Maybe Moebius will do one or maybe some Indiana Jones-like AMT employee will come across the old tooling somewhere back in the warehouse.

This was a redo of the original Blue Beetle wasn't it? That would mean that the engine was probably the Cadillac engine modified so they didn't have to pay royalties to Cadillac.

MPC had a nice Toyota Supra that could stand to see a reissue.

Beautiful work! I saw one of this on eBay last week and meant to bid on it, then forgot about it until it was over.

Beautiful!

Great job on the weathering!

They've been pretty good at bringing them out, but I would like to see MPC's Vega and Pinto hatchback, their 78 Camaro, really any of MPC's old annuals. AMT's Ford Courier in stock form. Any and all of Monogram's 70s curbside exotics, the 911, 924, 240z, and all the rest, preferably with the optional edition parts all included in one box. The James Bond Aston Martin would be nice and I wonder if the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang tooling still exists.

I've been browsing the C1 site a lot lately, but I prefer to pay with a money order rather than PayPal so my wife doesn't know exactly how much I spend. Plausible deniability!

For a dream car, probably a Singer Porsche 911.

I go to Dollar Tree and buy those cheap knockoff Gladware tubs. Lots of sizes and they are airtight. If you get the right size, they are good for keeping dust off a painted body while it dries.

Thanks, they have some stuff I can definitely use.

Love that interior. I've got those fine tip Sharpies, but I also have a shaky hand, so I don't do very well with it. You did great though!

I'm watching to see what you do, looking good!

You're nailing it, looks good!

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.