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I have been tracking the prices of the MPC GM pickups since December and the average price for the most recent reissue (1984 GMC) goes on average for $40. A guy on a Facebook buy/sell page has two of them and wants $80 each for them! Don't think he'll get it...

1. Elm City Hobbies 2. 1779 Route 640 (Hanwell Road), Hanwell, NB 3. Don't try to use a GPS system to find this store, Google can't figure the address out. Scott runs this hobby shop from his home and is the only dedicated hobby shop in New Brunswick. He mostly carries current production kits, paints, accessories, and scratch building tools but every once in a while he will buy a collection to sell off. Whatever he doesn't have in stock he can order from his various suppliers. He also sells and ships worldwide from his website, 4. http://www.elmcityhobbies.com

They were also in the AMT 69 Cougar and Revell 69 Mustang, if that helps... None of them had centrecaps like your uncle's, however.

Only that truck is 1:24 and everything else is 1:25...

Prior to the release of the modern Charger the first thought in my mind was always a Shelby Charger as my neighbours had one when I was little. My uncle bought it from them and still has it, I think.

I stand corrected! Learn something new everday.

I know a bench seat was never offered in kit form and I don't recall ever having seen one in resin. A good start for making one rather than trying to modify the molded-in buckets would be the rear seat from a Blazer/Jimmy kit, perhaps? Should be pretty easy to cut in the middle and widen appropriately.

A while back I started trying to build a 1967 Charger with a Coronet roof as I rather dislike the roofline on the 66-67 Chargers. I got so far with it and forgot about it. Later someone else built the same thing, but a different route. I may still finish mine someday....

It is a generic run-of-the-mill SBC. I think it is just the Cameo's 283 with Weiand valve covers and air filter.

Hey Dave, I wouldn't mind seeing picture of that AMC minivan if any exist!

This year was my very first father's day (daughter is 17 days old)

I have a Meng 1:35 scale Toyota Hilux kit. The tires are Dunlcp, I kid you not. At some point in the 70s I think it was the top of the bed sides were flattened from the earlier angled version to allow the mounting of an aftermarket cap. Also, the bed sides are taller on the 70s beds than the 50s-60s versions.

The cab is an original MPC item from the 72-76 run of Dodge pickups; no worries about the brake fluid damaging it!

I currently have the cab for this grille sitting in brake fluid; once the paint is all stripped I will attempt to get this grille to fit. If it won't go back to shape, I'll just have to wait for the replacement!

Here's hoping. The seller claimed that this has never happened to him before, but considering the grille arrived in a bubble envelope with no cardboard inside to stiffen it up I'm rather surprised he hasn't had a claim! This particular seller almost always 74-76 Dodge grille up for auction, and I think he's had the 72-73 up before as well.

High school was the worst years of my life.

Also, isn't that compartment at the back for the spare tire and not a fuel tank? There's a fuel tank behind the seat...

It is just the grille by itself. The seller is sending me a new one, so here's hoping it arrives in proper shape!

I just received a resin 74-76 Dodge pickup grille from eBay and it is seriously deformed, to the point of being unusable. No idea if it came out of the mold that way or if it was deformed during shipping. Either way, I have contacted the seller to see if they will do an exchange or send a new one. Should the seller not come good for this, what would be the best way to try and massage this back into shape? Can it be handled like regular kit plastic and warmed up with water and slowly bent back into shape?

Nah, I don't think GAZ could make something this pretty.

Motive is a really good show, I really enjoyed the first season. One of those rare occasions of a Canadian TV show being picked up by a US network! My wife and I also really enjoy The Glades, even if it is a bit formulaic. I also like Longmire.

Ahh, back in the days when trucks were trucks...

I like it! I've always wished the Monogram Ramcharger kit was 1:25 scale to be able to back date it like this.

I guess you could theoretically put Henry J kits in with AMC. But, by that logic, AMC kits should be in with Chrysler...

You make a very good point, John. Even though they are both 1:25 scale, the Revell cab is just a wee bit smaller than the MPC cab. Enough of a difference to make the Revell interior tub loose in the MPC cap and the MPC interior too tight to fit properly in the Revell cab. The windows and hoods won't directly swap between the two, either. The MPC interior is a tight fit into its cab but it will fit; the Revell interior is a bit tighter to fit in but it will fit with the rear cab wall in place. The Monogram interior, however, is extremely difficult to get in with the rear cab wall in place; I'm going to have to use an elastic band or something similar around the cab when putting the interior in for the final time, I think. The only reason I can think of for Revell molding the cab the way they did is as Casey stated: keeping costs down. If you look at other Revell pickup offerings of similar vintage of similar subject material, they also have separate cab walls (Datsun pickup, Ford Courier). Perhaps they just went with what they knew?