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Heck with clearance have them ship at least 1 out to my Michael's! I've been trolling the shelves of the two closest to me since the fall, and neither have even carried the kit (not even a marked empty slot on the shelf), let alone needing to worry about not selling them...for that matter they both HAVE had a slot marked for the Revell dragsters and have never had any of those either.

Ahh yes but you forgot the Ecoboost and AWD are $$$$ options. Otherwise it's a dinky FWD car, that hasn't been a recipe for success for the prior Taurus police package, the Intrepid, nor the current Impala. Dodge sells a lot more V-6 Chargers than Hemis (because the Hemi is extra $$$), but that's still a RWD car. With the new Caprice, and refreshed Charger out there now, Ford is taking a HUGE gamble by not having this car ready to go till 2012. They had 75% of the police market with the CVPI, and I don't know that this is the right move to keep a majority of it. Only time will tell, but I know plenty of departments that stopped ordering new CVPIs when Ford officially canceled them, and went to Chargers because they in no way, shape, or form want to deal with a new FWD experiment.

I don't have, but I've seen pictures of the Impala SSs and the later Impala imposters...

I hope they eventually see fit to release this game for PC. There was a very large online community devoted to skinning the police cars (as well as everything else) in the early versions of Hot Pursuit.

The scale is a designation of how many inches of the real car (truck, boat, etc) equal an inch on the model. For example 1/24 means for every 24 inches of real car, you get 1 inch of plastic. The Audi R8 for example is 174.4 inches long in real 1/1 showroom floor goodness, the kit is a little over 7 inches long (174.4 divided by 24). The smaller the number, the bigger the kit (1/16, 1/12, 1/8, etc). Most automotive modeling is done in 1/24 and 1/25 scale. The exception is some snap kits are 1/32, and the model company Lindberg had a fetish for making their kits in 1/20 scale. Edit - I see Matt already put all this while I was typing...quick fingers there Matt, very quick fingers...

Your old stomping grounds picked up a couple of Chargers this year for DUI/Traffic Enforcement. Painted them solid black like the County Police's Highway Safety Chargers.

Welly officially sells it as 1/27th scale...what an oddball measurement.

But my where could you have gotten such an exciting piece of plastic?

O.K. so my problem with that is it lists the Gran Fury as being an M-Body from 1977-1989. However it was a still a C-Body in 1977, there were no Gran Furys in 1978-1979. When it resumed production in 1980 & 1981 it was an R-Body with the Newport & St. Regis...it didn't go to the M-Body until 1982. I know it's nit picking...but... Edit - Upon second inspection I see the Gran Fury is also listed as a C-Body from '65-'78.

Particularly in 1974 the cars were about 95% slicktop. The CHP started testing the idea of overhead lighting in '72-'74 so it possible to find very rare CHP cars with a variety of different lighting options including the "A-Bar" which was creation of the CHP shops. In late '74 CHP decided to go with the Cal-Spec Federal Twinsonic. The restored cars on the Police Car Site were both professionally done and are both correct for their type of setup (both slicktop and with lights). Be sure to note that the low-band whip is actually on TOP of the driver's side fender at the corner of the trunk, not on the side of the fender like they currently are. When you look at a Cal-Spec Twinsonic from overhead it works like this... Red - Rotater/Sealed Beam (Steady Red) << SIREN GRILL>> Blue - Sealed Beam (Flashed)/Rotator <-- Front Red - Rotater/Sealed Beam (Flashing Amber) << SIREN GRILL>> Blue - Sealed Beam (Flashed)/Rotator <-- Rear Of special note of the Cal-Spec set-up was the Rear-Facing Amber light was actually a piece of colored plastic that was riveted over the hole cut-out in the solid red dome on the driver's side. Also the rear sealed beams did not wig-wag (aka flash alternating with each other), the amber flashed at different (faster) rate.

I'm pretty sure Dalworthington Gardens still has their '06 GTO.

Got a reply back from Fugitive Ops...it does not belong to them, nor or they aware of whom it does belong to...speculate away

I've dropped an e-mail to a buddy of mine who's one of the Supervisory Deportation Officers for the ICE Baltimore Field Office - Fugitive Operations to see if it's one of his toys or if he knows who it belongs to otherwise.

Sounds to me like Uncle Sam got himself a seizure. Probably belongs to Customs & Border Protection, aside from the harbor areas CBP also operates a major immigration task force out of Baltimore and they have a Fugitive Task Force there that has been known to have some nice toys.

I will temporarily put my old public safety hat back on for a second (vollie FF for several years) for this quick MCM PSA. Watch how you drive around your kids. Because whether you want to admit it or not, how you drive is how your kids will drive. If you road rage, speed, talk/text on the phone, roll stop signs & lights, tailgate, or don't use your seat belt then the chances are your kid(s) are going to see the behavior, find it "normal" to drive that way and develop it as their driving style as well. I refuse to ride in a car with my wife's step-mom because I don't feel safe they way she drives (which is saying something coming from someone who teaches people to drive 18-Wheelers from scratch!) She taught my wife to drive, and my wife for several years she drove the same way(until a few close calls with the PSP and my subsequent "told ya so's"). She has slowly realized that driving like a maniac doesn't get you there any faster. Ultimately beyond knowing where our kids are, and who their with, and treating our own kids driving as a PRIVILEGE not a RIGHT we can't control what happens. You can only protect them so much before they wind up being all weird and living in your basement when they're 30. It's sad when these types of accidents happen around the Holidays or at Prom/Graduation, but the fact is they happen all year long. But far too many parents see a driver's license as a way to free themselves from having to deal with their kids. They don't have to run them around anywhere anymore. I can't tell you how many times I've overheard the State Police when contacting the parents on a minor accident to come get the kid, and where do you want the car towed, the parents had absolutely NO CLUE where that kid was at the time. Pennsylvania has adopted a new graduated licensing system that governs how many teens can be in a car, and even what hours someone under 18 can be behind the wheel, but the police can patrol EVERYONE, and it comes down again to parents PARENTING their kids, and not trying to be their best friends.

Unfortunately Matt I can't allow that, per the guidelines the kit had to be un-started, or if started no significant progress made. Tearing apart a build and re-building an unfinished build for a community build project is far too many builds in one sentence to permit you to proceed with it. :lol:

Neither has the legal system, but that's been entirely her own doing... You want to talk about a TRUCK movie that is simply awful try to sit down and watch, it's the Patrick Swayze movie "Black Dog". The continuity errors alone are worth the price of admission, but once you start to actually watch it from the perspective of what it claims to be...ugghh. Someone had a decent budget to get Swayze, Randy Travis and Meatloaf all in the same place at the same time, but after that they stopped trying.

No, no, my hobby area is in the basement, and I have a 3rd unused bedroom that I had been toying on cleaning out and making into my office, but I guess it still needs to be cleaned out for a different reason. If I wait 9 years I can get a bedroom back when the oldest ones leaves...she will leave...right?

I second that...all the kids in my stash! Current - 2006 Mustang GT Traffic Unit 2003 Chevrolet Impala S/O Unit Ferrari 612 Intermediate - (I've started poking at them, even though I hadn't planned to work on them till later) '91 Ford F-350 '66 Chevelle SS Future - Aka Winter Builds that will have to wait till Spring to get painted... 5th Wheel 38' Galaxie Trailer AMT Viper GTS Testors '06 Charger '37 Ford Pick-up & Panel Truck

I think that the biggest difference between automotive and other types of modeling is the individuality of it all. Anything owned by the Government (Planes, Armor, Ships) by it's own definition isn't going to allow for a lot of personalization and customization. I think one of the biggest steps outside of "it's the Government, so it's all identical" was the nose-art on WWII Bombers. But even that's has finite amount, as there were only x amount of them. But in automobila (here I include motorcycles and that ilk) a vehicle is a reflection of the owner. There are just so many styles and ideas of what you can build, that you never really run out of ideas. Hot Rod or Street Rod? Custom or Pro-Touring? DONK, So-Cal Lowrider or "Bagged" Lowrider? All out drag car or weekend bracket sleeper? In the past 15 minutes there have been 167 active users of this forum. If I flew you all to an ocean side warehouse for a paid vacation, chocked full of every aftermarket part and the world's largest parts box and made you all build the exact same kit, in a week I would expect 167 different, individualized builds of that same kit. (Please don't bombard me with a thousand I can't finish it in a week, it's a paid vacation, no kids or wife, just ease up on the bull sessions and umbrella drinks and you'll be fine) :) I know a popular mantra around here is "I build for ME", and I understand where that idea comes from...but I prefer to look at it as "I build TO me". I think that if your participating in this board, or any of the others you at some point want the if not validation, the "atta-boys" that come when you finish something. I build a certain way, and in certain styles and that's all there is to it. I'm not going to start building a style just because it's the current "thing" in the 1:1 or modeling world. No comment of "you should have built it x-way instead" is ever going to make me cave to that style either. The builds here that get my attention are the ones I can look at and go "Man I wouldn't have done that, but WOW!" That person is building their style and their way, but it still made me stop and stare slack-jawed at some part (or all) of their work. So I strive for that...I mean I don't build for me, as I want someone beyond my wife and 8 year old daughter to think I did a good build, but I build TO me, because that's how I do things, and I want you to like it anyway. It should be noted that it doesn't mean I don't try new things, or grow my skills, but rather that those improvements add to my way of building. The FUN way!

Been awhile since I've posted my workbench. So being Saturday here's my mess. Parts from a Mustang GT, Ferrari 612, '04 Impala S/O car, '91 F-350 and '66 Impala SS all on there. You can probably see this... Unfortunately all I see when I look at it is this...

So are you saying AMT/Ertl airbrushed the roof red for the box art? I'm confused as to what you're referring to...the original issue, and the Wal*Mart issue the entire car including roof is red without the bulky two tone/vinyl roof trim.

The original issue was 1998. I believe the convertible version came out a year later in 1999. You can see the beginnings of the end of AMT/Ertl in this kit if you get an original one. Gone are the road-map sized instruction sheets, and coming in are the much smaller, less detailed, and no printed words (just numbers and arrows) that we've come to expect from RC2 era kits. Also has a color chart much like an old Monogram/Revell kit where you have to constantly go back to see what letter corresponds to which color. One of the worst things AMT did was release this kit during the "REAL CAR ON THE BOX" era. Had they used a "retouched photo of actual model" then no one would have been the wiser. But the car on the front in all it's glory is a Fire Engine Red 442 W30, and what you get in the box is a car with the trim set-up for a vinyl top. In addition to needing to remove that side trim as Slant mentioned, you would also need to go back and continue the trim for the full wheel arches, as the trim as is on the kit stops where it meets the large side trim. That whole fiasco is why I've never built the one I have.

I have one of the original issues of this kit and the part number was 1. For some reason the current re-pop of the Z-28 & Yenko kit don't call out the body with a part number, but the instructions for the RS and Convertible do. Irregardless of the version the part number is still 1. If you want addition verification, flip the car over and look on the inside of the trunk lid, unless they've changed it, the different version/kit numbers are molded on there with a big 1 over top of all the information. So you need the kit number, the kit name (version), part name "body", and part # 1

I've been staring at this thing for 5 minutes, and I'm not sure my brain has caught up with processing what I'm seeing. Wicked drag car!