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That would be the blower housing for a car with A/C.

Thanks. It's the Titanium trim level and has the handling package. 235/40-18 summer Pilot Sport 3s on 8.5 inch wheels is interesting on a car of that size. Decent power and just over 30 mpg mixed city/highway in the 4000 miles since new. Awesome stereo system too :-)

I am currently driving the Dead Mother In Law's 06 Camry and a ZQ8 S10. The other half gets to drive the new Focus.

Having worked on the other side of things, I can guarantee that the dealership probably knew that the deal wasn't going to stick when they rolled her. Hoping against hope. Also possible that she "left something out" of her credit application.

A Maserati sedan, freshly purchased from Car Max of all places, with the right front corner bashed in. Twenty something lady driving. She was in the left lane with her right turn signal on and putting on eye makeup as she was waiting for the light to change. Sorry that the Honduh partially blocked the shot.

On the way home from work, I saw three "Holden" GTOs and what looked to be a barn find 70's Dodge conversion van on a broken down transporter. Oh, and a very straight "restomodded" Datsun 620 pickup.

Bill's kit seems like neither fish nor fowl. It has the 68 markers and the 67 XR-7 rocker hash marks. It also appears to have the chrome molding that the 68 XR-7 GT-E had to divide the argent lower bodyside paint from the body color. I had forgotten about the "emblem" vs "script" on the quarter.

Inside door handles, window cranks, steering wheel, dash trim, seat pattern, collapsible steering column, inside mirror, radio options. The 302 became available in 1968. '67 XR-7 had some "hash mark" moldings on the rockers, the '68 had a full rocker molding. Nothing earthshaking in the modeling world :-) Edit: The seat belt buckles were different and 68s had shoulder harnesses. As with the Mustang and Fairlane, the '67 had 4-piston fixed calipers and the '68 had single piston floaters. Because of the taller caliper, a '67 wheel won't clear a '68 caliper.

¿Que? Model or 1:1? Lots of differences, just like a Mustang. Biggest outside difference is side marker lamps on the '68, but there were lots of differences in the interior and in outside trim too.

The kits were made by? And they were styrene? You really old guys have to excuse me.i spent the first half of 1960 swimming in a 98.6 degree bag of fluid and didn't get my first promo until Christmas. Didn't get my first kit until 1967.

It never occurred to me that a 60 Comet would be of interest to a resin caster. So, as far as the "full size" '60 Fords go, both Hubley and AMT made both kits and promos?

I would say that this car has zero warp. If anything, it may have less warp than it did in 1988.

Art, It is interesting that you cite humidity as one of the reasons that promos warped. Around the time I was in my late 20s, I decided to buy a promo from the year of my birth. I settled on a reasonably cheap Comet, and imprisoned it in a (Jo-Han?) case right away. I just pried it out and took these pictures. I don't know where it lived before I bought it, but I live in relatively dry Northern California. [url=http://s161.photobucket.com/user/sja522/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20150317_175110.jpg.html] [url=http://s161.photobucket.com/user/sja522/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20150317_175053.jpg.html] [url=http://s161.photobucket.com/user/sja522/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20150317_175038.jpg.html]

Ugh. Seems like that would have been a lot of work for the likes of Ertl.

Thanks guys. I was very confused last night when I dove into the stash looking for the two Cougars that I thought I had. If I was to build one,it would be an XR-7 as a tribute car to the one a family friend had when I was a wee rodent. I haven't seen the later releases, but I suspect that they all still have the XR-7 interior.

What was the last version of the kit that had XR-7 badges? The countdown? I thought I had 2 versions in my stash, but I can't find them. I may have sold them off a few years ago. IIRC, I had a countdown and the first Eliminator version at one time.

Our forum member futurattraction supplies the upper shock mounts in resin, hidden among his Futura prostock parts. http://www.futurattraction.com The Comet is a pretty nice kit overall. The biggest problem that I have with it is that it should have a vacuum booster and dual master cylinder. AMT just carried over the '66 manual single master cylinder. I don't remember seeing a '67 390 GT with the '66-style open element air cleaner, but it could have happened. '67s typically had an oddball unit with two mesh inlets instead of a snorkel. I really like the Firestone Wide Oval tires that came in the Comet and Fairlane kits.

Nope. 2009-ish Focus RS MKII. 300 hp 2.5 5-cylnder. Not sure how a Euro hot hatch with Mexican plates wound up at a hobby store in the Kapital of Kalifornia, but it was cool.

At the LHS. No, it's not a riced out Civic. It was sporting Mexican license plates.

I had issues with that too in IE. It works correctly in Chrome.

Could you please post the link to find them on Shapeways? I guess that is legal :-) http://www.shapeways.com/product/RD5VYS8S2/1-24-scale-4wd-hub Matt has some other cool stuff too.

I got the hubs today from Shapeways. They are very nice! Too bad that my first 3D printed parts are going on such a crude model (AMT F-350) LOL.

He had end stage COPD. I had no idea he was sick.

Yeah. It's the reissued Firestone truck with the Model King Open Road Camper on Modelhaus dually wheels. I spent a bunch of time on the internet looking at period photos of the 4x4 trucks to figure out if they had manual locking hubs in '79 or were still using the old 203 full-time transfer case. AMT didn't include a transfer case lever in the kit, so I am going to have to fabricate something there too.

A member that has some on Shapeways PMed me and I ordered some from him. I will review them when I receive them. I have one of the old MPC Dodge trucks and could have copied its hubs in resin or epoxy, but I was looking for a DIFM solution this time. I am doing enough scratch building and "Imagineering" on this build anyway. Thanks for the responses. I will probably pick up one of the Blazers eventually. I have never had one.