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Just saw this news item about Bruce Weiner's amazing Microcar Museum closing down. That place could be the source for about a thousand Auto ID's! http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/world-largest-collection-tiny-cars-going-going-gone-205639795.html If you've never looked at his website you owe it to yourself! Some of the cars are amazing and others are just amazingly weird but I love to look at them. http://microcarmuseum.com/

That's too cool! I hope it's real so I can build a model of it!

That's an excellent build and a very interesting bit of history. Who would guess that the first race winning Cobra was painted red? What was Shelby thinking?

Great looking Plymouth! One of my favorite cars and kits. As far as the wide whites, the look is a matter of opinion but if you want to make it look like it would have on the street in 1964 it has to be narrow whites. Narrow whites hit the streets with the new '62 cars and by '64 nobody used the wide ones. Tires didn't last very long back then and by about halfway through '62 you seldom saw wide ones. Of course, wide whites could be had dirt cheap so many of them got re-capped into cheater slicks!

Wow! The wonders of technology!

I don't remember those! Can anybody tell me exactly how that welder worked?

I would have never gotten that! It has a strong resemblance to an old Mercedes and I kept trying to go down that path.

Nice, nice, nice!

That's just about exactly what I planned to say! I better start building pretty fast if I'm actually going to get it done but I can't figure out what I'd be saving them for if I just saved them.

I hope the contents of that box look more like a Cobra than the box art does!

This is a very inspiring thread. I have no physical disabilities but I am getting older (if you figure out a way around that one please let me know) and beginning to realize just how lucky I am to still be able to do the many things I love. I hope that there are model clubs or at least individual modelers living near these guys who can see that they get to participate in modeling activities on a personal basis.

I'll second the '63 Max Wedge cars! You hafta wonder if Lindberg couldn't make those pretty easy based on their existing tooling of the '64 Mopars. A cool variation would be a '63 Dodge or Plymouth station wagon with the Max Wedge and drag parts. You used to see those at the strips back in the day. I think the wagon's extra weight moved them from S/S down to A/S if I recall correctly.

It's looking great and the maroon is a big improvement over the previous red. I think you nailed it!

I totally agree with the above. It looks fine but the Corvette is supposed to be the style leader or have a style of its own. It's not supposed to show you what you've already seen on the Camaro!

I remember that I had several of those and, yeah, I got 'em from 7-11. The "torque reaction" drive was fun for a while but after a couple of hours the plastic gears would be toothless! Time to buy a new one! Fortunately, they were cheap.

That would make some sense but I've seen Studebaker credited with it on a Studebaker site. I'll have to look into through my Studebaker sources.

It would be a shame to lose Lindberg at this point. I hope this is just a rumor. Their kits with modern (since the 90's) tooling are really excellent like the '64 Plymouths and Dodges that others have talked about. The '66 SS396 (which hasn't been available lately) is a work of molding art. It has things like no visible mold line on the major chrome parts. Just generally as clean and sharp a kit as I've seen. Their older stuff is a really mixed bag and, in fairness, a lot of it wasn't actually tooled up by Lindberg to begin with.

I think Replicas and Miniatures of Maryland sells a set of assorted different styles of boosters.

He just guessed the name of the ugliest car he'd ever seen and it turned out to be right!

I don't know anything about the Cannonball Run but I know that build is COOOOOL!

I understand that the winners are reading this thread because they can't think up any way to spend the money!

Nice! Nice! Nice! The Olds was born for that job!

Clean and pretty! I love it!

That sounds like a great way to end up with nothing left!

I think I don't want to know what it is! If you can't see it, consider yourself lucky!