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Maybe this will help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeLorean EDIT And this. https://www.lencoracing.com/

It was bugging me that I had missed one on the Hobbylinc pages. Here it is. 1962 Buick Electra From the 'Go-Go' late 50's through JFK's presidency.Era when they let John Delorean loose in Ponticac's perfomance department. Hence cars like th Pontiac with the 421 Super Duty. Dragstrip versions had 2 two speeds put together to make a heavy duty 4 speed. Modern racing trannies are based on that. EDIT Lenco transmission. Shifts faster. Old ones were air button shift. Lenco made the trannies tor top fuel funny cars and the like in the 70's. The Buick has a lowered option. That is First Generation lowering. Second Generation is hydraulics, bouncing the car and all that. I had a 54 Ford that was a showcar. I said it was a 'Midwest' lowrider to separate it from later lowriders. Buick is a cool little showcar kit.

The 3 two barrel package engine was the Super Marauder. First engine to hit 400 hp. 1958 Edsel Pacer. That kit is pretty unique. Henry Ford started a new division named after his son. Ford was huge from the Model T up to the 70's.When you travel it is no mistake that you see a Walmart and a Ford dealer next to each other in hundreds of these small towns still.That's a long time to be dominate. Lot of dollars went into the bank there.

http://www.autoworldstore.com/product_p/amt904.htm Two 1966 Ford's in one year. Yes. They did make a lot of Fords. ' The Lincoln is not curbside....not the issue I have with retro box..... ' The kit in the striped box from about 10 years ago is curbside. Whole kit is about 25 parts and even has the steel axles. Anybody know if there was a '64 Mercury hardtop? It came out same time as '60 Ford Starliner. Back when Autoworld was taking over AMT. If that kit has the 3 two barrel 430 with special aircleaner THAT is a rare engine! Most people would trade it for a SOHC 427 Cammer though. Cammer wins hands down horsepower wise. Both just as rare though. Mercury kit might have been a Parklane and it came with a roll bar. EDIT Precisely it is a ''64 Hardtop Customizing Kit'.'Marauder Fastback' is in bold below it.

According to Hobbylinc these are on the way. Fireball 500. Believe it was used in Fireball 500 Elvis movie. 1958 Edsel Pacer. Edsel was only made a couple years. 1962 Pontiac Catalina Polyglas Gasser I. Guess they felt it was worth another issue. They just released a drag stock and custom one. 1965 Lincoln Continental.The one we have from 10 years ago is a curbside kit. Includes station wagon version and rare plexiglass top. 1966 Ford Fairlane GT. Probably different than Ford with Nascar version on boxtop they just rereleased. Might be the 390 version. 1966 Mercury Hardtop. Mercury Marauder MEL 430 cu in 3 two barrel option was a scary fast engine. Think this has FE engine. Interesting batch of releases!

Oldmodelkits.com had one for $800 and it sold. Personally if you have one you should hang on to it. That would give you membership to a pretty exclusive club. There are probably under one hundred people that have one. That's like the 'Owned by Elvis Presley' car club.

Thinking about these blank spots I came up with an idea. Maybe they could release these 'partial kit's'. Like people are saying. Missing a sprue or whatnot. Release them as 'White box' kit's. Or 'Builder's Specials'. Blank spots are 60-63 B-O-P and mid fifties to muscle car Mopars. Sure there are a handful that are made in each of those categories but a lot have gone out of production.

I believe if you have a physical kit you can produce them readily.. So. All that is necessary are the rights to make which we can figure AMT has. Good suggestion about the F-85 and early 442. Those were pre-muscle car era. I call them 'Astronaut cars'. Special order packages that could really move along. You had to be 'in the know' to figure out they even existed at the time.

Thanks for pointing out the '65 Gran Prix. It wasn't registering with me because of the way the box looked. Plus coming out about the same time as the '70 Bonneville. AMT needs to do what they have to and bring back the Toronado's. Then they would have a fair number of GM personal luxury cars. They are interesting cars. For the crowd that did some research before they headed down to the dealer. Anybody could just go down and get an Eldo but these cars were for those who 'though before they bought'. Probably bought by engineers and doctors. The '65 Gran Prix looks pretty good stock. That custom body on it looks better in lighter colors. It's probably a Gene Winfield treatment or customization. He was an 'in-house' customizer at AMT.

There have been some gaping holes in AMT's reissue strategy. Early B-O-P's is one of them. Looks like they reissued the Buick Electra 225 kit. Maybe I was seeing things. Looking to see them reissue the '65 Buick Rivera and I think it's the '68 or '68. Then the Oldsmobile Toronado. I think one version had a clear hood.That's very cool. May have had an unusual intake set up for the 425. They came out with the '70 Pontiac Gran Prix and did a great job with that. Pickup conversion was really a 'sign of the times'. Saw a lot of El Dorado pickup and station wagon conversions then. Color version of the kit was major nostalgia feature. Palmer kits came in colors.

The guy lived life his own way and paid the bills. Very difficult thing to do. When he brought out Playboy in the 50's that was really out there. 50's were not all fun and games. Very very conformist type living. People would leave the small towns to go to the big cities to get away from it. I remember dressing EXACTLY like everybody else or you would just not have any friends. That was early mid 60's. More or less the same thing.

Colors like pale yellow and dark blue will get you by. Guess you could say 'custom mix' colors. Maroon and shades of purple are good ones. If the kit comes with pinstripe decals you are all set.

Thank you for the answers. What about the enamel paint interacting with acrylic paint? Truck bed is painted with Testors acrylic. If I paint the unpainted floor of bed with enamel will bad things happen where it touches acrylic?

Will this look okay if it is brushed on? Have another question. Will Testors Enamel interact with Testors Acrylic? Want to paint bed of Lindberg 1930 Model A Pickup 1/32 with Wood color enamel. Body is painted with yellow acrylic.

Thank you for looking that all up. Mat is too thick for scale models or unnecessary. We'll get 2 oz and 5 oz cloth. Put a coat of glass on them and see what it's like.

Is fiberglass matte used in this? I would think fiberglass clothe would be thick enough for models. Have not gotten 2 oz and 5 oz cloth is pretty thick. I watched somebody build a fiberglass body. 5 oz cloth was about as thick as levi's material. Matte he was using was about an 1/8" thick. Woven matte.

Picked up 'How to Build a Fiberglass Car' book from Ebay. Original 1953 edition. They sell Floyd Clymer Veloce Publishing reprints for about $20. Fits into building final scale fiberglass body. You can see the original simple way in the book.

Update. Sorted out a few things. 1 Front subchassis width formula. 2 Overall length formula 3 Cockpit dimensions 4 Decided to build a 'mule'. Solid suspension 'roller'. That gives a green light to actually build something.

Big news is settled in with Van Aken clay. Protolina soft gray/green. They were a little snitty at Chavant clays. Van Aken clays are a tad less money than Chavant so that worked out. Another big jump ahead. 'You Can Draw Cars' book from about 1960, It's the greatest! Sample drawing are unreal! Cars generally look like Eldon Invader. Some a little subtler. Will be posting my own scanned drawings ASAP. Also picked up booklet only from 60's Lakeside toy illuminated drawing table from about the same year. It's sample drawings have that same great look.

Progress report 1) Came around to 'Single leaf spring, single pair of links' suspension for each axle Picture bucket T suspension in a sprint car tubular frame and that's about it. Keep in mind this is a small race car. Triumph TR6 size or a tad bigger 2)This is more of a side note. Lindberg Diamond Duster/SC 101 Roadster frame is a Kurtis SS kit car frame. Like the link up above. I thought that was pretty darn interesting. I would say the SC in that stands for Southern California and the 101 is for Highway 101 along the coast. So you have a Southern California Highway 101 Roadster. Yep! That's cool!

Thanks Ray Well it's stuctured so to speak. A little short on the triangulation though. Right now just 4 pieces are at an angle and the rest are on the square. It does not have to last years. Do want it strong to carry over to machine shop and show them though. Have a good 4th! Bob

'what are the other two' Ooops! 1/8" and 1/4" square balsa and basswood sticks. Longest section 18" long. It's a scale race car frame. Kinda like a sprint car construction. Spaceframe. Okay. Looks like it will be Devcon epoxies. I don't have the patience to clamp with wood glue. Any tips on drying time to pick? 5 min? 30 min?

Can I use Devcon epoxy? It will be load bearing. It's not an airplane so not concerned with weight. It's 1/8" and 1/4" sticks.

Good job! I think there is a large scale Corvette too. If you want to build more large scale. Finished kit looks great!

http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/lnd/lndhl137-12.htm $31.95 Just got email alert it is available to order. I would jump on it. That's $10 less than the Bullhorn T. Of course if you like tradtional bucket T the Bullhorn is better. Let me know if we are not supposed to mention companies and I will change title. Just helping other members here. No. I get don't get any reward from Hobbylinc for this.