1972coronet

"Upon Cripple Creek was swirling from the speaker at the right time.", said Clyyde as he was recounting his Saturday night date with Barbara's sister.

Would it kill 'em to, I dunno, make the boxes bigger? I can imagine that the ish-shoved contents only hasten the warping. this warpage problem reminds me of the Q.C. issues of Monogram kits in c.1986-c.1987, especially the then-new 1986 Monte Carlo SS. Slow-down production, guys! Make the boxes a little bit deeper and wider. Potentially great kits marred by Q.C issues is the quick trip to a vanishing customer base.

"A fool and his money..." That owner-operator is about as sharp as a bowling ball.

Idiots, par excellence. More dollars than sense. Harness-only restraints are illegal to employ on on-highway vehicles in California -- how about modern 3-point belts for those on-highway cruises? Lap-only belts are dangerous -- that guy's lucky that a dashboard smack is all that he got! Could've easily hyperextended his back and become paralysed! Then there's the tensing-up before impact -- the worse thing one can do! That impact energy's got to go somewhere! Looks like the (dipstick) owner-operator got a new elbow from the transferred energy. Where's the ignition? Why didn't Mr. Seventeen-Years-Old-Brakes hit the cutoff? Kill the ignition then put the vehicle in neutral! No excuse for operating that sticky-throttle-return, mediocre-dangerous-ages-old brakes red pile of dung knowing it has those safety issues!! Typical Platinum Credit Card build: "I'll do something about the inadequate brakes after I put a killer engine in..." Well, at least it had the Happy Meal Toy look he was after -- and stupid LED headlights.

It's murder on vinyl, plastic, rubber, and paint -- especially those trash 1970's water-based paints from California-built vehicles (my parents' 1976 Monarch Ghia Coupe's silver paint was sunburned to the primer coats within two years... they bought it new).

The nomenclature comes from a conversion company which was based in northern - or even central - California. The only info that I could find regarding this specific pickup - likely the same info you've managed to glean - is an ad seen here (see link to eBay listing). Ostensibly, their main gig was for step-side beds. In the U.S., all Japanese pickups were shipped sans bed due to the so-called Chicken Tax; the beds were installed at the port. None-the-less, I hope this helps in some capacity : 1978 Datsun 620 Pickup Truck California Sunshine Car Sales Brochure Folder | eBay

Here's an unboxing of the kit (see below). This dude must've lucked out -- different batch, maybe? Shame, shame, shame on the warpage that you folks are encountering.

Dang! That is rough! Man, with as much coin as these kits are these days, the Q.C. issues are even less 'acceptable' and are virtually unforgivable. I'll keep my duckets until the Q.C. issues are resolved...

Reading about these Q.C. issues make me glad that I didn't order one before I saw how it actually looked.

Air is the heir to all whom error

!!! WOW !!! Now that is a slick Olds! Love that colour, too (touchup paint?).

What are those wheel covers like? Are they the 'typical' hubcaps-with-wide-trim-rings setup (i.e., the ones seen frequently on the Mach 1 models of the same year)? The handful of 1971 BOSS 351's I've seen all had the 15" Magnum [et al.] wheels.

You beat me to it, my good man. The Yenko bonnet is this instance is 'merely' the JL-2 [?] model that all of the 1969 COPO Camaro were shod with, L72 or ZL-1.

An oldie but a goodie: My Name Is Earl.

The Motown Missile in either 1972 Barracuda or 1973 [?] Duster guise would be fantastic. I would be shocked to see the Challenger (especially since I recently dropped a long-note on a 1974 annual). The c.1978 Mustang II was issued during the Racing Chumps era, IIRC. Even that's been years ago already... The Pinto iteration (backdated, Gapp & Rousch livery would be boss!) could easily share its chassis, etc., with the Mustang II - just like the 1:1.

Glad that I got me a bottle of the stuff already. No explanation as to why it was discontinued?? I bought a bottle of it at the local Ace Hardware (no one else had it in-stock). I don't have any recommendations for a replacement.

Every time I hear or see that film's name, I'm reminded of All By Myself by Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers (written by and sung by Walter Lure): I don't need no wedding hall I just watch your roller ball Forget your friends and what they do I got to get inside of you

A set of deeper Cragars for the rear, plus Round2's famous pad printed tyres (heck, include the Blue Streak slicks, too!) with the thin blue line and thin Good Year logo. I'm not sure just how Dolenz (the only surviving member) and/or whoever owns the rights would be with giving the go-ahead with all of the livery, etc. And, who knows about Jeffries's heirs feelings on having Dean's namesake restored for his brainchild? ** EDIT ** I just read @SteveG's reply.

I'm keen on the 1972 catalogue's cover art (see image). I want to have that image on a shirt -- I even got the okay from Martyn Schorr and Joel Rosen to use that illustration.

Thanks much! I've long pondered which unit Motion employed -- I'd assumed it was the unit which included the differential gearbox. Hone-O-Drive was about a mile away from where I grew up. I used to see their shop on Washington Blvd. all of the time when I was young, playing little attention to it other than its interesting business name (and a handful of pickups with huge campers on them, ostensibly having one of the overdrive units installed -- this was in the seventies). My scratch building skills have atrophied, unfortunately (arthritis and age-related vision blurring). I'll perhaps whittle something out of an existing kit part (perhaps one of the generic MPC manual transmissions would suffice -- or the B&M Hydro-Stick from the AMT parts pack). Thanks for your reply and the info therein.

Wonder if a police version is planned? Sure, the police-specific interior mods would have to be included (column-shift, etc.) in addition to plain wheels, Unity spotlights, partition, etc.

Perhaps the Monkeemobile ? It'd be nice to see it with the Dean Jeffries emblems restored, and any mention of Bondo Barris removed entirely.

Some time soon enough here, I'm going to be building the R-M 1970 Chevelle Baldwin-Motion SS-454 (hold the wild decals, except for maybe the bonnet) and am wanting to add a Hone-O-Drive to it. Oddly (or not) this version of the kit includes not only a reverse-lockout lever, but the "one-armed-bandit" shifter for the Hone-O... but no accompanying Hone-O gear-splitter [?!?] Looking for recommendations here -- does anyone make one of these gear boxes? If not, what offering would be close enough (e.g., rear portion of a kit's manual gear box)? Thanks in advance.

The only Can-annada car magazine that I'm aware of that's in print is Muscle Cars: Bone Stock & Modified (I'm a subscriber). Muscle Cars Magazine - Summer 2022 Subscriptions | Pocketmags