DaveM

This is about the only new kit that could separate me from my money any more. I have hit the point where I could build 24/7 for the rest of my life and not even make a dent in the stash. I would build a few Kustom Kemps, as well as my usual four or five factory stock variations.

If they ran off a reissue of the Jeep Hombre to go with that Scout that would be even better. (I have no idea if the tool is even around. I don't remember it being butchered into another kit, but was about 40 years ago, so anything could have happened to it! ) I have one that the 12 year old version of me heavily spray painted on the sprues, and never built. I really should strip that kit and build it up. I had great dreams for it at one time, almost 40 years ago.

I am also hoping for the 1972 Cutlass Supreme. I doubt they will do it at this point. Most new Revell kits get their first big body upgrade within a couple of years of release. I think they will just release the convertible over and over. The Cutlass Supreme and '50 Olds seem to have both fallen off the face of the Earth after their first couple of variations. From the vintage front, I'd like to see the '71 Roadrunner released again. I have one in a MPC box molded in bright yellow. It's from the '80s, so the tooling should be okay. I don't remember any butchered versions of it being released. If Moebius does a '65 Coronet, I will come out of retirement to build one. Same goes for a '65 Falcon. (Three or four for the Falcon!) I imagine it will be a fun year.

Last year a bunch of people did a 4th of July build. I was thinking of it, but I would have needed to start this Morning. (Unless they try a Sat. Sun. Mon. build.) My Mother's birthday is the Fourth, so I will need to be at the nursing home for her party. I am also doing a lot of work around the house to get ready for her return in a week. The nursing home is in Grayling, so I am commuting in heavy holiday traffic. I can grab something and start it, but I would probably not be finished until Monday night or Tuesday. It would also have to be a really simple kit. (I have a few of those!) I would just shoot it with some of the Tamiya spray cans I have and brush paint some things I would normally airbrush, as I don't have any equipment set up. If some people are with me, I will jump in and do it. If not, then I will wait until later. It looks like we will have some decent weather for painting this weekend. If push came to shove, I could finish my 24 hour build, which never got very far. (I cleaned up a few parts, glued the engine block and seats together, did a preliminary clean up on the body and shot primer on the engine and interior.) I could call it the "Six Months to complete a four day build off"

Nice try, but there are a few problems with this kit. One shoe? The credit card number didn't work, and the watch didn't show the right time... The guitar also wasn't tuned correctly. Hopefully Lifefix can do better on its next release. I hear they are doing a kit with 5,000 1/25 scale rivets next. I'm going to make sure mine has exactly 5,000 in it! Actually, if that kit was real, we could finally say, "Money can buy happiness."

I hope things go well for you, Harry. I have dealt with some pretty major health issues, including 19 surgeries and procedures. (All abdominal in my case.) Sometimes, it seems like there is no solution coming quickly enough, but eventually, you will feel better. I have discovered the hard way why Doctors call us "Patients". Hopefully, you will start getting some answers and some real relief. Painkillers are a really crummy way to live.

Great tip! I use a lot of solid rod too, but sometimes, you need to have a hollow end. Then, I try to find a soft, solid wire that will fit inside the tube as tightly as possible. You just put enough wire in to fill the part of the tube you are bending, leaving the end of the tube open. If you have to have a bend right near the end, then you will probably see the filler wire when you look at the end of the tube, so it won't work.

I figured some guys had to be running the early Fords in the first year or so of NASCAR. I'll start looking up some of those names and see if I can find some good reference pics. Thanks for the link!

I needed to see this thread. There's a reason I don't have pictures of myself on the 'net. I ended up gaining about 75 lbs in the last three years. I left a fairly physical job to take care of a relative 24/7. Now, I can sit around and eat all I want and I don't really exercise. I tend to do a lot of small things every day, like laundry, cleaning, personal care, transfering, driving my Mother to appointments and the like. It keeps me busy and tired out, but I don't really burn off any more calories than I would on my lunch break at my old job. I am currently 308 lbs. I probably need to get back down to about 210 to really be happy. I have had a couple of scary health issues the last couple of years, so it's time to take care of my weight while I still can. I have reactive hypoglycemia, which is often a precursor to diabetes. I have some cardiac issues from a combination of too much weight, cholesterol and high blood pressure. Worse yet, I have a kidney issue which threatens to put me into renal failure at any time. The most obvious solution is to lose weight and put less strain on my heart, pancreas and kidney. (Yep, I only have one of those, now.) I just got back from a pretty grim appointment with my Doctor this week, and I need to turn things around pretty deliberately. My biggest obstacle is the fact that I take care of somebody 24/7. I can't get to the gym, or anything like that. I was never a gym person anyways. I would rather hop on my mountain bike and race up some hills, or take a long, fast walk. (I think if I went running in my current state, something would fall off!) I tried just spending an hour up on my feet, working with dumbells a few weeks back, but the activity made her too nervous. I pretty much have to stay quiet and watch her. Even doing housework, watching TV, or talking on the phone tends to upset her a bit. During the day, we seem to be able to tolerate a bit more activity, but I am too busy getting things done to exercise. I may try going just outside the room to work out a bit, but I need to be in direct contact and ready to jump if she needs help. I see what you mean about the grocery shopping. I buy dessert for the week, and it's gone by Wednesday! I probably won't do the cheat day myself, as that would mean having bad things in the house. I have to cook low fat- sodium free for my Mother. I think I'll start cooking that way for both of us. Thanks for the inspiration. Here I go!

Looks great. I think half of us will be hacking these up to see just how big a tire we can stuff under the fenders, and how big a mill we can fit up front. I think "Fat Jack" may have started something. I have already taken a chopped coupe and decided it looked more like a drag car than a custom. Now, I might want to take a full height one and do the same thing to it. As I am writing this post, I looked up a vid of Fat Jack's car running, and it was dated 1985! That's over thirty years ago! It might be fun to imagine what that car would look like if it was built today. Would it be matte black? Would a bunch of the body parts be carbon fiber? Would it be on slicks, like a pro mod, or would it be wearing really fat radials? Blown, Nitrous injected or... Turbos? Who will be the first to step up and build a killer drag car? This car would make a great factory stock model, moonshine runner, mild '60s custom, street rod, drag car, or almost any other type of build. I just did a quick search, and I didn't find any evidence of these being used in NASCAR. They started in late 1948, but I'm guessing that the '49s were already out and the '48s weren't really pushed by the factory? I see a bunch of 1949 Fords, but didn't see a '46-48. I would bet that a bunch were run at the local level, though.

I just grabbed them off of Bing. The main problem is I don't know the exterior colors of the cars. You will want to make sure the white interior in your green Six Pack was available. The die hard Mopar guys on here will be able to answer that for you. Both of these cars were listed as 1969 Super Bees, but I noticed a difference in trim levels on the two cars. The door panels and the chrome trim on them are both different. I would just pick the one that comes closest to matching the parts in the kit and paint it to match that photo. I built that kit way back in the eighties. It was the first kit I built after a five or six year layoff. I remember the interior being pretty heavily engraved. IIRC, it was a hair our of scale, but it made it pretty easy to go to town with the 10/0 paint brushes and pick out all of the knobs, instruments and dash details. Even though it's an older tool, that interior can really come alive with a bit of patience. After you get done painting up the instruments, you can put a drop of Micro Kristal Klear into each one to simulate glass.

Here are a couple of reference shots. A bench seat and a console. I am guessing that your green one might have colored carpet and trim inside. I know the blue and red ones could be ordered with the white and black interiors. (Or at least I have seen them restored that way) Hope this helps.

We were taking care of a friend's cats for the Winter while she was in Florida. I heard one of the cats batting something around on the bathroom floor upstairs, so I ran up to investigate. It had gotten my airbrush out of the holder and was batting it all over the place. Destroyed both the hose and the airbrush needle. It was an expensive lesson, and I kept all of the doors closed from that point on.

Great job! I usually skip the patina cars, but this one has a reason for being that way. You really made it realistic without overdoing it. A long time ago, a club built several models of a fictional Chevelle during its lifetime. One guy built it showroom stock, complete with a window sticker. Another guy built it slightly weathered with a couple of upgrades under the hood and fresh replacement tires. The next guy built it with a small dent and a little more weathering and a FOR SALE sign in the window. The next one had fat tires, ripped seats and half of the J.C. Whitney catalog installed. This continued until the car was modeled sitting in a field rusted and stripped. The last guy built the restored version. It sure would be fun to see your story continued. Did the Fairlane get restored? Did it get customized? Did "Pimp My Ride" rebuild it with wild paint and all kinds of electronic gadgets? What color did it end up getting painted? What did it look like when it was new? The possibilities are endless! I have threatened to build two or three models showing the life of a car, but I will probably never actually get around to it. (It would have to be a kit I really liked!)

Most of the kits you mention are pretty decent kits. Part of the decision will rest upon which car he likes the best. I will also give a thumbs up to the 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner and GTX kits. (I think the 'runner is the only current version.) They're not quite as flashy and fancy as some of the newer kits, but those older Monogram 1/24 kits all built up pretty well, and looked the part when they were finished. I would also toss in a mention of the 1969 Dodge Coronet Superbee (Six bbl) kit that shares a lot with the '70 Plymouth. That's the kit that lured me back after a couple of years away and a hospital stay. It went together like a charm and still looks nice on my shelf. Someday I am going to build another one with steel wheels from Fireball. You don't mention the Revell '69 Camaros, but they all go together nicely too. They have the tub interior, but with side panels that fit inside of it. It gives you an easy to detail interior with great detail, and eliminates alignment problems for the builder. They come in several variations from the z-28, to all kinds of barn burning big blocks. Tell him, Welcome to the addiction... I mean hobby... from all of us.

I guess I have a lot of favorite bands! When I was about 14 or so back in the late '70s I joined the Columbia House 12 for a penny deal, and got a bunch of 8-track tapes over the next few years. I ended up buying a few by these guys too. Great band and they had a few MTV video hits. The best part of their work, however, were their albums from the mid '70s. Crime Of The Century and Even In The Quietest Moments were both great albums to listen to over and over again while writing papers. Eventually, when the last 8 track player in the world gave up the ghost, I replaced them with Albums, and later again with CDs. Here's Supertramp!

These guys are pretty obscure, but I loved listening to them back in the day. I still do! This was pieced together from a jam session, but it's pretty cool! Here is a song from them I could post these guys all day... I'll be back later with some more cool old stuff. Maybe Toe Fat, or Atomic Rooster! Badfinger is always great.

Uriah Heep Live was the first album I ever bought. I still like them today, after forty one years. I also have been listening to these guy for about the same amount of time.

Did you hear that the man who invented Auto-Complete just died? His funfair is next Monkey! "Torque filter" sounds like an errant spell check, auto complete or other correction happened. I had friends with the name "Lockwood" and spell check always asked me if I meant to say "Locoweed". My Volare must have had a "Torque Filter" too, as something in that driveline filtered all of the torque out before it got to the wheels. (Of course a 2bbl 318 didn't have that much to begin with. )

Okay, this is why these threads are fun. I just listened to "Of Monsters And Men" and ended up checking out a couple more of their tunes. Little talks is a good tune by them too. Not exactly the style I usually listen to, and they look younger than most of our kids, but some really fun stuff. Cathie really seems to like them, too. I enjoy following these music threads and checking out all of the new (to me) bands. Cathie thinks they are the Icelandic version of Cloud Cult. I think they are a bit looser and more organic than Cloud Cult, myself. I was also wrong in my post earlier in this thread. We should have dedicated a thread to Icelandic artists. I did not realize there were two of them! Lets keep posting.

True. I was just thinking that a thread for favorite Icelandic bands would probably not be the most successful thread in board history. I suppose if you are going to get technical, then we would have to call it "Favorite non UK related member of the E.U. or other European political structure, or general geographic area band." I wonder if the Duchy of Grand Fenwick has any good bands. I think we are going to see mostly German, Dutch and Scandinavian bands with this thread. I don't remember too many French, Italian, Portuguese, or other bands from the day. When I visited in Europe as a kid in 1977, this was the hottest song going.and they were Spanish. I think I may have had the only copy of their 45 in the U.S. Our band even played it once, when we had two female singers. One person clapped twice, and then, silence. I think these guys are Swiss.... I always thought they were fun, but I have eclectic taste in music.

We've had threads for Canadian and Ozzie bands. Let's go for European bands. British bands should probably have their own thread, so let's keep this one limited to the rest of the Continent. Do you think ABBA was the hottest group out there? Bjork? (Iceland is Scandinavia after all) Are you a huge Scorpions fan? Kraftwerk your cup of tea? Most European bands were limited a bit in the American market by language. Very few foreign language songs made it big over here, and translated versions tend to reek. Some bands performed in English. I'll start off with a few that I have been listening to recently. I was into these guys way back in Middle School. Their song Hocus Pocus made them known over here, but they did a lot of other great music. A German band that I originally listened to because their singer ended up in Uriah Heep... here is a bonus track from them. Nobody else can totally rock out a French Horn like this! Lastly, I have been listening to these guys lately. They split with the lead singer and reformed under a name that I don't want to post. (Not one of the seven words you can't say on TV, but a drug reference...) Nina Hagen went onto fame by herself. Okay. Let's see what you guys come up with for this one. After this thread runs its course, I can start a British Bands thread. That one will be pretty easy after this one!

I'm sure a nice one drives really well. My memories of those things are from the High School parking lot, and when I was in college. I graduated in 1983, so the Matadors in our parking lot were pushing ten years old. In Northern Michigan, that's an old car. We weren't getting the cherries that had been garaged and maintained either. The rich kids could buy the $1,000 rides, but most of us mere mortals were happy to get something for $300. The two Matadors I remember from school were pretty fried out by the time they got down to my friends. They were still better than my Beetle that had the fenders laced to the body with bailing wire! Even a rusted out Volare station wagon that we had to "Dukes" in and out of was a pretty neat thing to have in high school. (I couldn't open the doors on the Volare because it took a floor jack to get them to close again, but that didn't stop us from road trips!) We took care of things on our cars in the following order. #1 Sound system. #2. Stickers #3. Engine (Louder = better) #4 Tires with big letters on them #5. Seat covers....... .......... #478. Shocks I never let my kids drive anything half as nasty as I used to drive. The "Father" gene kicked in, and when the oldest walked in her freshman year of college and proudly proclaimed, I have a car, now. I just bought it with my own money!" I took one look at it and towed it to the scrapyard myself. I ,at least knew how to keep things safe on an old junker... Brakes, throttle, steering, fuel system and structural suspension parts were checked occasionally. I also knew enough to heed warning signs of impeding doom. She didn't, so if something went wrong, she wouldn't notice it until she wrecked. It sounds like there would be enough sales just to people named Dave to float the Matador!

Having the Matador back in mostly stock trim would separate me from a lot of my money! I would buy two or three of them. They were big, ugly, bloated, slow ill handling goofy looking cars, but nothing screamed "Malaise era" quite as much as the big AMCs. Several people had those when I was in high school, and they had all seen better days, but they ran. In our day, any car that ran made you cooler than not having a car! I rode in a few Matadors in my day, and almost had one. (Ended up buying a Maverick instead) All of the cars from that era seem to bring back memories now. I was sure the Matador tooling was toasted to make the custom, but if most of the stock parts are there, then it needs to come back. On the same subject... Is that Capri on the poster above still intact? How possible would it be to release it in close to stock form? I would grab a few of those. I'm a sucker for anything '60s or '70s, as those are the cars I grew up with. Lots of race car potential for that Capri also. As for the others, I will grab a puller or two and the squad rod. Hopefully, the puller will do well enough to convince them to bring back the Orange Blossom Special, even if they have to change the name for licensing purposes. That kit had some great parts in it too.

I would be all over the dodge versions too! If you really wanted to pry the rest of my money from me, just make that Barracuda! You could do drag versions, Street machines, and stock versions. First generation Barracudas are about as cool as it gets.