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That's significantly more attractive (in my eyes) than that weird roaster that had no windshield concept they did last year.

Poked my head in around lunchtime. Crowd seemed kind of subdued, not smaller, just...quieter. Might have been the weather it dumped about an inch of snow in a few hours right before the show started. As evidenced by the parking lot when it all melted, cars were all akimbo from where the lines on the ground where. Not sure everyone was out of hibernation yet. Talked to some friends, picked up a couple of kits, voted in the contest (although I left well before awards time). Well worth the drive.

SLIXX as Jonathan stated got out of NASCAR about 10 years or so ago. They've since then threatened to go out of business twice since then, but every time they do everyone panics to buy the Drag Racing stuff they still make and it's enough to magically cure them of their woes and keep them around. The line at the NNL East last year nearly went out of the room their table was in, with antsy customers. It was right after that show that they decided to keep going.

Not a bad kit, but it's an older tool that has a metal rear axle and tub style interior etc. The Monogram/Revell tool is probably just as good, but it's 1:24 (if the whole 1/24 vs. 1/25 thing bothers you). Round 2 just reissued the '67 Mustang Shelby GT-350, that's a nice new tool kit from the AMT/Ertl "heyday". But the '68 Mustang that was put out a few years back when they first started really getting the old tools flowing is a old school/old tool kit with metal rear axle. The '69 Plymouth GTX was repopped in 2011 (along with the '62 T-Bird and '66 4-4-2), and the '68 Roadrunner is going to be reissued later this year (Round 2's site says September).

Couple of other kits that skirt around the genre you're asking about would include '62 BelAir 409 (a "bubble top" rather than the more formal HT that Revell just did) '62 T-Bird - the newest Round 2 issue has all the Custom parts that were tooled, but never run before AMT imploded in the late '90's '66 Riviera - a new tool in the mid-90's not derived from the '66 annual or the oft-reissued '69 annual '68 El Camino - granted it's a truck, but one that's more muscle car than pick-up '67 Impala SS The '62 Impala and '66 Olds (as others mentioned) are also available in Convertible versions, but are trimmed more "up market" toward luxury than muscle car.

That probably has something to do with the abacuses they are running the inventory control program through...They have to be the only major retailer in existence that doesn't have some form of scanning register/computerized inventory.

I dunno if Hobby Lobby honors competitors coupons, Michael's does...so if you had a 50% off coupon for H.L., Michael's should take it. My point was more to his idea of having his entire family line up with coupons. It's one coupon per person per transaction per day, it says nothing of stacking the deck with your entire family in line behind you.

I think the ability to use more than one coupon per transaction is a hit or miss local thing. But I went to Hobby Lobby one time with a 40% coupon, and got a 50% off coupon back on my cash register receipt, and proceeded to march my wife right back into the store for her to buy another model. It's a family bonding experience!! Although if you just blew up your car, there might be better things to spend your money on than models...just sayin'

We got a Michael's circular in the Sunday paper with the 50% off coupon, which is odd since we don't have a Michael's in the county where the paper is based out of, but they are supposed to build one once the ground thaws (did the site prep last fall, but that was the end of it). The one closest to me is a mess (was just there last week), but there were a few things that I wouldn't mind paying half price to acquire. Best of all I then have ANOTHER coupon on my smart-phone...or unlimited ones if I wanted to make several trips really. Might check out the one that's up the road from where I work...see how many I come across out doing this week's deliveries...

It's only that the monster hasn't acquired a taste for styrene yet. When it does...look out!

Well I suspect having a decal sheet with just one decal missing off of it, in hope it could be chopped apart to fill potential replacement orders in the future is just as "wasteful" as sending you an entire new sheet.

Here...rather than debate it for eternity and babble about 10 other unrelated things...let me tell you how. From YOUR Facebook, choose a picture from the thumbnails in the album you're working in, when it becomes "full-size", right-click and select "View Image Info" A new window will pop up that will have a box full of gibberish links and one will be highlighted. There is a small (literal) window at the bottom of this that will display the picture that the highlighted link will display. Right-Click the high-lighted link and select "Copy" Then come over here to whatever post your writing hit that - the one in the reply/post you've been typing your post into - little image box at the top in the tool bar (looks like a tiny landscape portrait directly below the smiley icons box) that spits out the "Image Properties" pop-up box. Paste the link you copied from Facebook into that box. Hit "OK" and viola it'll appear.

There are those "reverse-tension" kind, I think Micro-Mark still sells them that hold tension on the object in the "grip" automatically and you apply pressure to it to release the part. The vinyl floor monster in my semi ate three ignition coils out of three separate GM kits a few years ago.

I don't know what the solution would be other than require smaller unrestricted engines or stop having events at Daytona & Talladega altogether. Letting them run wide open isn't an option considering the fact Elliot was breaking 210 twenty-six years ago. They might not be in packs, but I can't see where cars going 220+ is a better situation.

Pretty sure my LHS has one, if not I know exactly where I could source you one next weekend.

The police Chargers were never part if the Ollie's inventory. They exist BECAUSE of the Ollie's inventory. Depending on the store and if you got in before the good stuff sold out there were some of the earlier SRT-8 Superbee Chargers to be had. The Craft House days when they were in Toledo where when all the new tools were cut. I believe only the Charger and Dodge Monster Truck were tooled after.falling into the bottomless pit that is J. Lloyd.

Hobby Link Japan has the 1935 Typ G4 listed as a March Release for $56.53 http://www.hlj.com/product/icm24011

Unless Revell AG decides to co-brand them like they did some of the 1:35 kits, then the internet will have someplace to buy them. Squadron is their distributor in the States, but I'm sure you can import them from European retailers as well. It's all a matter of paying the shipping bill.

I suppose you're right, but it would give one the idea as to how 1:24 wheels would look under a 1:25 car.

The only inherent problem there is the mixing of scale issues. Has anyone actually put those wheels under an AMT Mustang to see how large they look?

There was an original one of those listed on eBay this morning for $195. The description goes on and on about it being never reissued. I was very tempted to e-mail the seller and tell him he better find that sucker who didn't know, was impatient or needed to have an original kit because the value of his object was about to severely plummet.

As others have said they were tooled around the same time, I believe the Chevy is about 3 years older. But the original run of the Ford didn't include the custom engine parts, 2 of the 3 wheel choices, or any of the other custom parts that are in the current kit. It was a bone stock truck cast in a "lovely" powder blue no less.

A K-9 UNIT???!!!??? Honestly who is building these box art models?

This brings about two questions... 1) Do you know what the employees are paid? Perhaps it's quite a nice wage, after all the when I was working at a company that was dedicated to hauling Miller Beer around the janitorial staff made almost $20/hr to sweep the floors, let alone the wages the people who actually "manufactured" the beer itself. 2) Is making wood pellets beneath you? You seem to have contempt for those workers? So they aren't making battleships...does that mean that can't be proud of their work and job? Having pride in something doesn't necessarily equate out to it's size or (for lack of a better term) epicness. I guess since I only drive the truck, I can't have pride in my job since I didn't build the truck, or the factory it's assembled in...

He said 2013, not 1990 Erik