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Makes one wonder what the chassis is from...because that has to be how it's still registered, as whatever it was prior to this being done to it. In addition to seatbelts, it clearly has a license plate with valid registration. I would presume Minnesota is no different than anywhere else meaning you need a VIN for a title to apply for a license plate. Presume it's insured under the same VIN, wonder if GEICO knows what they're really insuring

How can it not? I mean it builds into a Turbocharged, Ground-Hugging, Mag-Wheeled, Wide-Tired, Spoilered, Mean Mini Muscle MACHINE!! An overly hyphenated one at that!

Well considering the attitude and behavior of a small, but highly vocal and visible group of car guys, combined with well deserved reputation of cheapness, and accepting any kit no matter how wrong and inaccurate.. why would a group for better or worse is an assembly of anal retentive detail freaks with deep pockets and an overly serious outlook on building want to associate with the mouth breather car people.

Accuracy trumps speed everyday and twice on Friday.

I suppose when out comes to wild fantasy customs where it's "all show and no go" so to speak accuracy might be meaningless as how accurate is your imagination. But otherwise factory stock, mild custom, drag, pro-touring, etc all exist with a pretty defined set of "rules".as what makes something accurate and how it should be detailed "correctly". Any given vehicle might offer more building styles than a MiG, or a M1A1, but without stirring the the "I build how I want hornets nest", I don't accept "more variety" as a substitute for accuracy and proper replication.

Oh here I thought after December they were closing their doors since they can't handle criticism of their kits.

17 anti-corrosion methods and they still rusted into the ground. How's that whole "metric is the new standard of American measurement" thing working out?

As Jonathan mentions they were just reissued this summer. Those two kits have rather large pictures of the real engine on the box top and ends with "incl FA20 type engine" bordering the engine photo.

I wouldn't have thought a bone stock '65 Impala Convertible - even if it was representing the last 409 powered cars - would have been a great sales leader either, but eventually they reissued that this past year. Hopefully one or both of them are on the '14 lists, I still haven't gotten a '59, and prices are ridonkulous on eBay anymore assuming you can even find one.

Well if Tower Hobbies is to be at all believed (hehehehehe) - The '53 Panel and the Slingster Dragster. The Slingster is getting a Monogram box. The Beetle rebox, Cuda, '57 Chevy and Shelby Convertible are showing November. That's an awfully big November!

Well have you seen the prices of hamsters lately? Through the ROOF I tell ya

Chances are if you're inside a solid structure your GPS isn't going to activate on your cell phone (or your digital camera - mine has a GPS built in) because it can't contact the satellite system from within your house. Easiest way to check would be run your phone GPS Map program from your hobby room and see if can find your location.

That's an interesting question, that Connie kit was tooled up specifically for the Convertible. The way they've been with "bonus" parts lately...

At this point I'm beginning to wonder if something hasn't happened to the '58/'59 tooling. Those kits were only ever run the one time each, and haven't seen the light of day since. It's getting close to 15 years since those kits were issued, I can't believe they haven't been reissued yet - but we've gotten a reissue of the '99 Lightning kit what seems like every other year.

Tower Hobbies has moved their expected date to February '14. I also noticed the Moebius marketing dohickie now says "Coming from Moebius in 2014". Find something else to do, this one isn't finished baking yet.

I'd say no, aren't the engines tuned too? I'd think turbocharging out that new engine would have been mentioned at some point. EDIT - Confirmed, this pair are curbsides, but allegedly some distributors will be carrying engine kits separately in the future.

Delighted to see after months of speculation, and scant answers from Aoshima that these kits will indeed have the Scion decals and LHD parts to make the cars they showed in the original advertising. If these were from Revell I'd have to get a vintage Nascar-Gasser taxi hot rod version to get those parts.

Forum members who routinely gripe about their finances, or lack thereof - and as a by product how many kits they can or cannot afford and then yell at other forum members who are simply trying to be helpful about their ability to understand said financial situation. Along with constantly whining about their internet connection and what it does or doesn't allow them to view, and all while stating incorrect information while attempting to sound factual.

Well that's where things get sloppy after the merger. The '58 Corvette was a Revell Pro Modeler, then the '59 was issued in a Monogram box. The '59 Cadillac was the honest to goodness pre-merger 1/25 tool.

The Postman Always Rings Twice, the FedEx guy is a crapashoot.

Well the article states is either a 2015 or 2014 1/2 depending on who you ask. It can't ACTUALLY be a 1/2 since VINs don't allow for that, but I'm sure it will be marketed as such in April. As for skipping a year, the model year changes over around July these days, so they've been making 2014s for 3 months now.

Alright so I will upfront admit I don't know enough about a '65 Mercury to know the answer to this...what's the deal with the hood? The Moebius marketing thing has a flat hood, and I can find several cars like that online. But I find several with the hood that the drag car is sporting. Seems a Convertible would be a "gimmie" modified reissue of this idea too...

Chop off all the aero scoops and flares and make street versions!

Or that could be an entirely different logo, unless you easily confuse a motorcycle tire with a passenger vehicle tire.

It's amazing, if you just drive according to the posted signs on the road, you don't get tickets. Magical even... As for the "licensing", it's not like a Police Department, or Ford, or Goodyear is making money from it. You're basically paying the salary of the legal department to research your project and make sure it's something they wished to be aligned with...Police Departments ESPECIALLY have a never-ending conveyor belt of nut jobs who hate "the Government" even if they never had a single negative interaction with the agency. So they have to protect their image, or anyone could make decals, badges, uniforms, et al. In the case of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, they are one of two places permitted to use the "Winged Wheel" logo, the other being a big oval in Speedway, Indiana.