Modelmartin

Actually it was. Mooney sucked a bunch of money out of Porsche at the same time to foot the bill for redeveloping the plane. Then Mooney switched back to Lycoming a year later!

But what year and color was the f-350? You are a good wild guesser! I can not imagine how you guessed the other vehicle involved and the speed. The F-350 must have left a unique impression on the front of the Celica that you were able to identify. Have you thought of a career in accident reconstruction? Judging by how good you are upon seeing a single photo, I would venture that you could rise to the top of the field very quickly!

Porsche designed it in the 30s but it was manufactured by others in the 30s and after the war. The airplane was not designed by Porsche, just the adaptation of its flat 6 engine for aircraft use. Sorry to be so pedantic here, but you really wouldn't want to go around citing incorrect info would you? Doing crash photos now, Huh!

I was going to say Horch but then I saw the "Maybach" on the grille.

Let's go vintage. This one is not difficult. It is a very cool car, also. It was an exotic in its day.

Zundapp type 12

Of course they were built in South bend Indiana.... except for the final 2 years when they were assembled in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with small block Chev engines. They moved production there in 64. Look it up.

I believe the 65 and 66 Studes were assembled in CANADA! For all of you guys who were amused by the Ferrari Daytona pic I posted back on page 6 or so here is the story. That car belonged to Chuck Jordan, now retired VP of styling at GM. He was vacationing in Europe and the guys at Pininfarina stored the car for him while he took a side trip. While in storage the guys played a little joke on Chuck and restyled it with paper and foil. Apparently he was not amused!

There are so many 911 based racecars and even though I am a big Porsche enthusiast, I don't know that car. I am supposing it may be an IMSA GTU car. I thought the name of this game was to ID the car brand and model, not the specific car. Andy

The Volga/BMW V-12 is very cool. The sports racer looks a lot like the Man from Uncle car that AMT put out.

Bristol

Ford Invader

In defense of Ismael, I must say that 95% of these postings were really easy. The others I just right-click, click on properties, and most of them have the name on the .jpg file. Ooops! I gave away the secret! ###### me! Oh ######! Now you will be able to answer my latest post. Andy

Here is one for humor (there is a cute story behind it) and one to stump the band. I scanned these from old magazines so there is no place to track them to. All in good fun. I will give answers for both tomorrow night if no one gets them.

I think we should just crown Ismael the King of automobile ID and let it go at that. It is possible that he could be stumped but I don't think it is likely. Andy

Scaglietti Corvette, 327, Year 61-2?

I will name it Harold....after you!

OOOOOh! You are good. I found it on Ebay India. $2222.00 dollars!

You are close. It's actually an Auto Union. The 928 Golf was on the cover of Road & Track in the early 80s. Cool car!

Here is a bizarre one!

You could be right. The picture isn't real clear. The shape of the cam covers looked similar to what I remember from my SAAB 99. Andy

SAAB 99 0r 900 with a Triumph Stag V8 Transplanted to it. Standard-Triumph designed the Saab 99 4 cylinder and doubled it up to make the V8 for the Stag. Next? Andy Martin

This a fascinating thread! It's very interesting to see how different folks have different takes on this subject and differing levels of success / in relationships! My wife thinks my hobby is really cool and is more upset than I am when occasionally I get rid of some models or a 1/1. I tell her it's just a bunch of junk and I am fine with it.

Dwayne's ideas are good. I would add that I use a strong setting solution like Solva-set. I break the rules in these situations by using a damp cloth (cotton t-shirt material) to press the decal into place. I do it before the decal gets really soft. Be carefull not to slide the cloth or push the decal in any direction. Press straight down and then move to another spot. Don't slide it around. Sometimes cutting up large decals is wise, also. Good luck.

Palmer, Premier, and Pyro are easy targets here, too easy! Some of the "mainstream" kits mentioned above are not truly competitors in the Olympics of Crud! AAR Cuda and Turbine Car! Sorry ,Bill, but your choices are not even close. The AMT 62 Vette! Ha! The Firefighter(Dyno Don) Mustang Pro stock! Bull feathers! The LS sports cars and many early Japanese kits like those were meant more to be unassembled toys than kits. Many had electric motors for the Happy-Go-Fun factor. How about the Hawk Sandpiper "Dune Buggy"? How about those AMT NASCARs from the 80s that were styrene versions of polyethylene toys? The AMT moving van from the 70s that was another toy in styrene was another stellar piece of product planning - not! When it comes to 1/43rd there were John Day kits from England. He did a group of 4 mid 70s NASCAR cars that were exquisitely atrocious. They looked like they were done from memory by someone who had seen one picture of the car a year ago! In fairness to the late Mr.Day- 1/43rds when he was producing in the 70s were meant to be companion pieces to Dinky and Corgi toys. 1/43rd morphed into a nutzoid hobby later and everyone looked back at his kits and thought he was a total hack. Not true! He was only a partial hack! He produced over 500 different kits and some were OK. Then there are the kits that were executed well but were conceptually the "Worst Kit Idea Ever". My vote goes to most of the early 70s AMT Showrods. Royal Rail, Depth Charger, Stogie something or other. Man, those were turds! How about MPC's Elegant Farmer and Jolly Roger? AMTs Quarter Mile Smile, the Jimmy Carter Funny car? MPC's Gridiron Grabber and Hardhat Hauler do not have one useful part on them! These are all wastes of tool steel and styrene! I would rather see 3 more new 57 Chevy kits tooled up than one more of those! I am looking forward to seeing the rest of the nominees!