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Now anyone doing that should be automatically banned for life and info forwarded to all other known model car forums. That would be just plain dirty IMHO.

Looks really good. Did I read correctly that this is the GTX kit? My 70 Roadrunner Monogram kit has been giving me a ton of grief trying to smooth the center of the hood. Maybe getting that kit, swapping hoods, and opening up the Roadrunner hood with a blower on the GTX would be a viable option.

The way I heard it on NBC nightly news, in the midst of my wife getting my daughter ready for her Nutcracker performance: The truck and Carbon 60 were recovered near the gas station where it was stolen and is on the way to a waste disposal facility. If that's the case, the thieves most likely discovered what they had stolen and didn't want to get caught with it. Again, if you've ever been in the room with a woman trying to put makeup on a 9 year old girl then, you must understand if I heard wrong.

We're the writers so ignorant as to have also passed up the newer Camaro style headlights and 60s style Camaro taillights? And I don't mean stupid, just ignorant as to what those design elements really are.

Here is another article I just found. Although it veers off center into the entertainment industry toward the end. It's more on the level of actual journalism than a lot of what I have seen so far. http://gma.yahoo.com/paul-walker-died-within-seconds-crash-coroner-rules-185254772--abc-news-movies.html

Great looking build. It's so great to see everyone coming together to honor such a great indiviual who contributed so much to those around him.

Adam, that's what's beautiful about modeling. Everyone has their own little tricks and ways of doing things.

OK, the autopsy report is released. Now take what is said here with a grain of salt because it is a tabloid. Then again. TMZ, another tabloid was one of the first places my wife got the news. If I am reading this correctly, Roger died before the cabin caught fire and Paul was injured and well, yeah. I will give him the courtesy of not describing the rest...certainly not a passing of deserving of someone who did so much for others in life. Just read for yourself. Very sad situation folks. Count your blessings for your friends and loved ones. http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/paul-walker-autopsy-results-actor-died-traumatic-thermal-184538201.html

Wish I still had mine. I had the red and black version created from the Revell kit and donated black stripes.

Now that I think about it, that's a good way to look at it. I guess I was thinking more along the lines of the fact that he died riding in the kind of car he loved and it would be a sort of memorial to Paul, Roger, and the car. I think I will be sticking more to my other plan of building his personal 67 Nova.

Kit really doesn't have spindles on the lowered suspension. It's just some flat styrene with mounting tabs for the wheel backs. I got enough drop out of mine to mount 22s with the tops touching the bottoms of the fenders and the frame laying. EDIT http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79652 There is my semi-abandoned build. You can't see the frame rails for my terrible photography but, they are laying. PS I am so surprised this hasn't been moved to trucks or questions yet.

Yeah, it's really starting to bug me how much this story makes less sense every day. If the car didn't blow up until 60 seconds after impact, then I can't help but wander if they were knocked unconscious or killed on impact.

I cut up the lower control arms behind the ends and mounted them further up on the frame. The front doesn't really do a good job of representing a true lowered suspension anyway so, you work have to work hard for realism. I'm working right now or I would get up and get it to take a picture. In the rear you may want to fab up some kind of lowering blocks or four link and c notch the frame a bit.

That's an interesting question. I have not heard whether there have been clear videos released. You would think, being in a business park, the cameras would be running everywhere. On holding the autopsy information, I am sure they are busy either using the data to help sort out what happened or they are deciding just what to let the public know and getting their collaborative stories straight.

Ludacris' truck or any of the off road Dodges from 2 Fast 2 Furious would be could if anyone made the kit.

Interior is looking great so far. You are definitely on the right path.

Bill, I think you and I are barking up the same tree...only you are on the way up a little faster. I hadn't thought of the locked steering with locked wheels factor. But still yet, as you said, a professional driver should have had the presence to lift off the brakes and regain steering UNLESS the brakes were stuck and he couldn't. Locked brakes, failed steering, or both could have played roles.

If life weren't standing in the way right now, I'd gladly join in. I have the Hammer about half finished. However, after the beginning of the year, I am also planning on using the recent Grumpy's Toy 66 Nova to build an approximate replica of Paul Walker's 67 Nova.

Carl, I agree whole heartedly that there should be nothing to hide. Unfortunately, with the way things go, sometimes facts get twisted into untruths and we, the public, get a watered down or rehashed truth. Don't really wanna go far beyond saying that cause I don't want to get into the gray area between general discussion and politics. But, I am truely beginning to think that, even if speed was involved, it wasn't the deciding factor in their death. I am really starting to think the nature of Carerra GTs and the condition of this one in particular was a factor. After six owners in eight years and a possible bad power steering pump or whatever has been mentioned, there has to be some reason this car never found a real "home".

I mean the one that is released as an "official" statement by the LA County Sheriff's office. We all know we don't always get all the information as we should and it would be nieve to think we ever will.

I really need to get back on mine but, I honestly don't have enough time away from work and "life" to work on it. Always a joy to see this kit built. Please give us some more pics.

Closest thing I remember in recent history are the Pegasus that look like torque thrusts

I saw a cool stick figure mockery sticker the other day. Of all things, the following was on a minivan. The sticker showed a mini truck dragging over a stick figure family with the caption, "I don't care about your stick figure family." Wouldn't be fun in real life but, with a stick figure family ...... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Are you interested in getting a group together to do this as a community build? If you are, try having a mod move it there and you may have some luck with it.

Big 80s awesomeness right there. I can hear "Pour Some Sugar on me" right now coming out the windows. Came out pretty dang good James!