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Are you going to build the trailer into a hauler for this as well? Not sure how good an enclosed trailer would be for a boat, but I look forward to seeing what you do!

Kijiji score! Some of these are built, all of them are at least started. There's a guy in town that's moving out west and doesn't want to haul all his models with him anymore. If he doesn't sell off all his 1:25 stuff (he has a bunch of larger scale he's keeping) then he's going to let me know and I can probably get what he has left for dirt cheap.

My LHS owner posts here, so I'll wait for him to put up a picture. Aside from him, though, there's only a Michael's in town and they're not very good at all. The only online purchasing I do these days are for OOP kits. And even for those I get them sent to a place across the border to save on the ridiculous shipping to Canada. I usually wait until I have a few parcels waiting before I go down. Most new Revell kits that come out are priced between $20-27 at the shop. By the time I get them online and get them either shipped to my door or across the border and I pick them up, I'm not saving anything. I mentioned to the shop owner the other day that between my stash (350+ kits), his stash (800+ kits) and another member's stash (500+ kits) that we could open a franchise of his shop in my city (he's 1.5 hours away); he argued that none of us would want to sell anything from our stash!

MPC Datsun won't do as they have the round headlights. You need the later style Monogram or Aoshima kits with the square lights.

I know that for 60-66 crew cab bodies were coach built for construction and railroad companies, so its not too much of a stretch to see that extending back to 55. Those would, however, be strictly work trucks and would come with the standard bed only. I believe the Cameos were special trucks and only came in white/red (someone correct me if I'm wrong!).

I'm hoping that someone on here that buys the RoG issue can scan in the instructions. I'm hoping that RoG made up a proper instruction sheet instead of the vague instructions of the Moebius version...

I actually have 2 unused '69 442 bodies if you want one of those.

This car was apparently based off a British car, so the resemblance isn't that surprising.

One of these was raffled off at my club's last show. The winner was an armour guy and had no interest in the kit at all. He was trying to sell it for full price!

Yes, of course, but the Datsun grille is close to that pictured.

The roof on both the GTO and the Chevelle isn't a uniform line when viewed from the side; they both have a dip in them. The Cutlass's roof is a uniform curve from the roof all the way down to the tail lights. I think, at the time, each GM division had its own fastback roof and they were all slightly different from each other.

You might have have some luck modifying the Monogram or Aoshima Datsun 720 grilles to suit; they look pretty close. Not sure where you'd source wheels like that as anything that would be close would have 5 lugs instead of 6.

Yeah, the Pussy Wagon is actually an 88-98 version:

I love John Payne's work. He's come up with some really good ships.

I would love it if Pegasus came out with some new styles. I already have at least one of every style they currently have that I like.

Where's the NSX?

Mail run today! The built kits are from Danny aka 85gt4bbl302 great guy to deal with!

I'm already 'subscribed' through my LHS so I can't really go out and do this... Which is a shame as there's a magazine-only shop in town that would probably carry it if I asked...

The Pegasus wheels are designed to use metal axles, so unless the kit you're building has them (or metal pins), you'll have to either find a way to insert pins or drill out the mounting stud on the wheels big enough so that they slide on the kits's axle.

This is awesome. Never heard of that song before but I'm going to have to go check it out now!

Are we talking 1:1 vehicles here? In that case, my '00 F-150 has a 4.2L V6 with a 5-speed...

Today I traded for an AMT 1956 Ford Victoria. Oh and picked up issue 165.

Here's the Cutlass hardtop, convertible, and fastback. Looks like the quarters are pretty darn close (if not the same) for the hardtop and convertible. And here's a comparison of the 72 Cutlass with the 70-72 Monte Carlo. The roofline is very close, differing only in slope and then only a slight amount. The quarter windows are also different shapes, but when using the Monte Carlo roof on the Cutlass body you'll get that shape. When I get a hold of a Monte Carlo I'll start cutting and maybe do a writeup.

Did all three of these new tools have test shots displayed at the iHobby show? They went that far and need to recover that investment somehow. They'll be released, eventually... With AMT, didn't they plan to tool up something but never did? I can't imagine one of these companies tooling up a kit and never producing it.

The earliest they can be here is June. Neither the 57 Ford nor the 50 Olds is on the schedule up to and including May.