Harry P.

The Brown Stripe Package was optional...

When done right (like the Camaro you posted), they look very cool. But it's easy to go overboard, especially with the clown car wheels, and jump from "cool" to "cartoon." It's like any other style of car... it can be done well, clean and tasteful... or it can be a disaster.

Well, I tried a google search, but I'm stumped. On a 1932 Ford roadster, how is the back of the top attached to the body? It looks like it's attached by snaps along the edge, but all the photos of the car with the top removed don't show any snaps. So how (or where) was the top attached?

A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says "Hey, buddy... why the long face?" A guy walks into a bar and has a seat. Suddenly he hears a voice say "hey... nice shirt!" The guy looks around and sees there's nobody else sitting hear him. He hears the voice again..."Hey, buddy... that's a nice haircut!" Startled, the guy looks around again... again there is nobody near. He motions to the bartender. "It's weird," he tells the bartender. "I keep hearing a voice saying nice things to me, but when I look up there's nobody there!" The bartender smiles and points to a bowl on the bar in front of the guy. "It's the peanuts. They're complimentary!" A snail crawls into a bar. The bartender picks up the snail and tosses it out the door. A week later, the snail crawls into the bar again and asks the bartender, "Hey, what did you do that for?" Two cannibals captured a circus clown, cooked him, and began to eat him. One cannibal takes a bite and asks the other cannibal, "Does this taste funny to you?" A short piece of rope walks into a bar. The bartender says "Hey, pal... you'll have to leave. We don't serve your type here." So the rope leaves, ties himself into a knot, frays his ends, and walks back into the bar. The bartender looks at the rope and says "Hey! Aren't you that same piece of rope that I just kicked out?" The rope replies, "No, I'm a frayed knot." A sandwich walks into a bar. The bartender tells him to leave. "We don't serve food here." A dyslexic guy walks into a bra... A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and asks, "What is this? Some sort of joke?" Two guys were playing a Saturday round of golf. A funeral procession drives by, and the one guy removes his cap and holds it over his heart as he stands in silence as the funeral procession drives past. His golf buddy says "Gee, you sure have a lot of respect for the dead." The other guy replies, "Well, I was married to her for almost 50 years!" A blonde was taking helicopter flying lessons. Finally the day of her first solo flight came, so she got into the helicopter, fired it up and took off, her instructor standing off to the side, smiling and giving her a "thumbs up." After only a few seconds, the helicopter suddenly stalls and crashes to the ground. The horrified instructor runs to the crashed helicopter. The blonde seems to be ok. "What happened?," the instructor asks. "I have no idea," the blonde says with a confused look on her face. "All I know is that it was getting a little chilly, so I turned the overhead fan off"... A blonde, a brunette and a redhead were taking survival classes. The instructor asks the brunette, "If you had to cross the hottest desert and could take only one item with you to keep you cool, what would that item be?" The brunette thinks a few seconds and answers, "I'd take a blanket, because I could hang it between two cactuses and sit under it in the shade if it gets too hot!" The instructor tells the brunette that her idea is pretty good, then asks the redhead the same question. The redhead replies, "I'd take a white bedsheet and drape it over myself to reflect the heat!" Again, the instructor replies that her answer is pretty good. Finally it's the blonde's turn to answer. "I'd carry a car door!," she says, smiling. "A car door? WHY?," the instructor asks her. The blonde replies, "Because if I get too hot I could roll down the window!"

That front grille needs to be reworked, but the rest of the car is pretty nice.

Very impressive work. I'm starting to see a pattern in your posts... you really have some talent!

Please post questions in the Question and Answer section, not in the Tips section.

I've always liked that car.

Yeah, I can see where that would be a problem in an identification game...

You guys need to start looking through the thread before posting. The same cars are starting to be posted over and over...

I wonder if that's some sort of homemade one-off and not a "real" hearse. I doubt Impalas would have been used as a hearse. Not "dignified" enough.

Nice model. And a nice website, too!

Very nicely done! But I like your first wheel set better...

There was a thread regarding a new Daytona kit that was supposedly going to be released by Accurate Miniatures. The problem was, that post was made in 2006. And since it is now 2013 and there still is no Accurate Miniatures Daytona kit, I decided to close the thread. Here is the last comment that was posted, by Dave Van, and it sums things up pretty well: I do know Accurate Miniatures had many planned kits in the pipeline. They had some fantastic people on staff. If you own a B-25 kit from the Concord era of AM, I packed it. I got to help out time to time because my brother in law was a primary staff member of AM at the time, in fact two of my brother in laws, my kids, my nephew all put in time there. AM had one of the all time best kit designers. Many of you know who I am talking about. He had already designed a 1/18 die cast Cobra Daytona so he had the info on hand and it just needed to be modified to a design for a 1/24 scale plastic kit. All was roiling along well........ Then my brother in law passed very unexpectedly. He was only 49 and in very good health. He got sick and dies 3 days later. This was a huge blow to the AM team. It caused, in my opinion, everyone at AM to look at themselves and their life. The kit designer left and moved back to his home state, and doing well today BTW. This pretty much caused the remaining AM staff to split up and go separate ways....and all the planned 'stuff' just went away. As you know Revell bought the leftover GS Vette kits, reboxed them and sold out quick. The rest of the kits went to MRC as the guy there was a ex Revell guy and knew the AM guys. The tooling....not 100% sure but I bet we never see the cars, Vette and NASCAR Taurus again.

The problem is that some of the "information" in that thread was over six years old. If you want to start a new thread about the Daytona with new information, that's fine. No need to be combing through 8 pages of a 6 year old topic trying to find current info, that's why I locked it.

Well, after almost 6-1/2 years, I guess this topic has finally been wrapped up.

If there was a Buddah quote posted, it was probably deleted due to the "no religion" rule. That's my guess.

Bernard, the pleasure is all mine.

If it's not red, it's not a Ferrari! (In my opinion only, of course...)

How do you get in if the doors are welded shut at the chop? Through the roof?

You don't understand because there's no science or logic behind collector car prices. It can't be understood. The prices can fluctuate wildly with no real ties to reality. Same as the stock market... it's all based on emotion, not reality. Remember just a couple of years ago when MOPARS were selling at sky-high prices? I'm talking six-figures. Those prices have dropped a lot in the past few years. A Superbird or Hemi cuda is just as rare and "collectible" today as it was in 2005, but their auction prices have dropped 25%-50% or more. Go figure...

Is it possible to buy this kit all at once? Or is it only available a little at a time? I think waiting for the next shipment of parts would drive me crazy!

I'm up for it! Just in time for Christmas (hint, hint, kids... )

A nice idea in theory. but not in reality. Perfection is impossible.

http://www.schmitt.com/viewimage.asp?ID=4540 Scroll down a bit...