Harry P.

Some nice models there! I like the "real" reflective tape on the trailers.

Another cool detail to add (if you have an airbrush) is that blue-green band of tint along the upper windshield. A very "50s-60s" look.

Hey Darin... doing research for a future magazine feature?

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/07/22/ungrateful-children-cars-that-killed-their-manufacturers/?intcmp=features

Remember... don't post hints or answers here! You need to specify year, make and model (all three!) to get credit. PM me with your answer. The answer: 1973 Dodge SE (South Africa)

We were kidding about the "slow boat"...

That's one of the oldest old wive's tales in the book. Seriously. If you could make a gas-powered internal-combustion car that got 250 MPG, they'd be making them! Whoever made it would sell hundreds and hundreds of thousands of them and make a huge profit! Do you think the automakers would be spending millions of dollars trying to wring out a few more MPG from their cars if they could build a 250 MPG car? Why aren't there any? Simple. It's impossible.

Very nice, but those holes in the sides of the radiator shell...

Seems to me that the cells needn't be compound-curved. You could have a steel inner roof panel (to maintain rollover standards), then smaller flat photovoltaics arranged in series in an array to sort of conform to the curvature of the roof, then a compound-curve glass roof on top. I suppose cost would be the hangup.

Yeah... that was the original question! Why haven't they done so? The subject matter seems like a no-brainer. If ever there was a subject that you could practically guarantee would sell well, it's a '57 Chevy.

I wouldn't want to go where that bat's about to go... Hmmm... she's a lot prettier on the box art than in "real life!"

Don't know... but that model not only gave you a choice of coupe or convertible, they even threw in a custom roof, too! And that kit was tooled when dinosaurs still walked the earth. They could do it then, but some of you say they can't do it now???

Naturally. That goes without saying...

Could have something to do with rollover/crashworthy standards? Just a guess, I may be totally off-base. But that does sound smart... on a sunny day, if you're parked outside (say, at work), you could be charging up your car for absolutely no cost.

On a slow boat?

I can always put up a really tall fence...

That's pretty nice.

The hood bulge was nothing but a styling element.

Nice paint on that one!

Very nice! I like it...

I don't think we have any members here from Berlin. Nobody that I've ever seen, at least.

You can post more than one photo at a time. Just repeat (in your post) what you did when you posted that first one.

That's exactly what I mean! Why hasn't a '57 ever been issued that way?

Sometimes it's not clearcut, you just have to use your own best judgement. But 99% of the time it's pretty clear as to what goes where.