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I'm not sure you guys caught on to the race coverage, but when it came back on at 6:30 it was between 1-2 hours tape delayed. We left the track mid-afternoon and caught almost all of what we missed on TV. We watched the live feed on the internet until 6:30, then back to Speed. Then we saw eveything all over again...the race started at 11:15, and 10 hours later would have been 9:15, but the race ended at about 10:40 on Speed...we kept looking at the TV and the sun, and looking out the window and it was getting dark... Seems to have been a record crowd. The economy and last week's lack of gas didn't seem to make a dent in attendance; last weekend if you could find gas at all you were waiting in a long line...by midweek it was plentiful again...still ridiculously overpriced, but available. Great race, but way too much caution time. Something TV also minimized. I hope the driver of the Flying Lizard Porsche is okay after drilling the P2 car on that restart. The Peugeot and Audi were both amazingly fast and quiet. They had a Jetta TDI cup race this morning; you couldn't even hear them going around the track. The Aston Martin GT2 car looks better than the DB9R IMHO, the idiots driving the black Viper made it a dangerous roadblock all day...we saw some real stupid moves in the chicanes and corners when he would take the racing line right in front of faster traffic...which was every car in the field. I never saw the Mazda before it was wadded up. Fun day at the track!

Kevin takes so many pics I don't even bother to take my camera I'm just there for the fun. But honestly, it's best to watch/follow the race on the tube. We'll likely leave late afternoon, get home, get pizza, and watch the end of the race in true comfort

I live about 35 mins. from Road Atlanta, have been going there for 30 years. I'll be there tomorrow w/Kevin from Strada Sports and a couple other friends. They had a screwed up schedule today, they were running the Speed GT race at the same time they were having the autograph session in the pits w/the drivers. If you wanted autographs, you missed the race. And it was noisy as hell as a result...WTF were they thinking? Autograph time should be during quiet time. Is NASCAR running it now? Or the FIA?

It's not just 6" longer, it's also taller and thicker through the main body, that's going to definitely add a lot of weight (it does "wonders" making small SUV's and CUV's weigh so much more than their car-based brethren). I think the original design from '70 is a lot better looking than the new car which is rather massive and blocky looking. Basing the Challenger on the full-size LH platform locks the styling into the high-cowl/overly thick body proportions. The original Challenger was not based on a full-size platform. Add all the extra weight of safety equipment, stronger structure, more basic equipment, and there's your trunk full of bricks. Your basic V6 Challenger is a real dog; only 255 hp and only an ancient 4 speed automatic. The new Camaro V6 is gonna smoke it; less weight and a base 300HP direct-injected V6 and your choice of manual or automatic 6 speed transmissions.

Very classy classic! Nice work of a model rarely seen built

Mark, a simple "no, liberals ride bicycles, republicans push them" reply would more than have sufficed

Harry, if you popped out the windshield on the 09 Challenger you'd see more pillar behind the black masked edges of the windshield. If cars were to have thinner pillars and true hardtops, they'd not only give up safety, but they'd also give up that solid "carved from billet" feel that all new cars have. Instantaneously cars would become flexi-flyers again overnight. Personally I rather like how tight/solid new cars drive vs. vintage cars, but visibility does suck on almost everything these days. Much of the side/rear glass on vehicles hides structure behind the blacked-out edges. Want to see ridiculousness, stick your head inside a new Toyota Matrix/Pontiac Vibe, Toyota FJ Cruiser...huge pillars, ginormous blind spots, and some of the most useless windows known to mankind! When 90% of a piece of glass is blacked out to hide structure, we have a problem. I've ridden in a '70 Challenger. What a flippin' rattletrap! Beautiful car, but build quality not in the same galaxy as a new car. Nostalgia buffs seem to filter out that kind of stuff

Americans don't have a lock on thick pillars and idiotic blind spots. Just saw this blog update this morning: Bad Visibility

With all the O/T TMI going on here, I fully expect Jairus to arrive next...

Simple reissue of the snap kit MPC '50 Mercury police car, according to Stevens. Paddy Wagon simple reissue as well. Nothing else new showing up on Stevens. Wonder if AMT or Round2 will ever do anything more than reissues? Seems like the snap Merc is really scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as reissues. All three people who have been pining for that one will be very happy

The paint makes it look like a model. A really nice model.

Are you looking for an Aston or a Cougar?

Wow, I love it! Great idea and execution! Fantastico Models like this are the best, when you have a lot of fun and don't spend too much time worrying over details as if you're building a 1:1 car. It's a model, a piece of art...it's whatever you want it to be.

Revell's 1/24 1970 Roadrunner kit has some poverty caps that are pretty flat but don't have the vents, the steel wheels are vented like the later model police wheels. Not sure if anyone makes the exact caps you describe.

As a matter of fact I am He got a raw deal at Spa (much to some people's glee). One of the greatest races with so much excitement, something sadly lacking in most F1 races. And then the FIA goes and kills the buzz. Jackie Stewart and Niki Lauda have my back on that one, so I'm in good company I'm also a fan of Massa and Alonso, and for fair racing without artificial meddling by the FIA. So today's outcome was fine by me, and good to see a newer driver in his first podium finish. A heartbreaker for Massa, for sure. I'd love to see him claw his way back and give us a really exciting end to the season on the racetrack without FIA's clumsy and one-sided intervention.

Well now, that was a pretty cool race after all Karma reared it's ugly head... I feel really bad for Massa, his team really let him down. I'm sure the FIA will come to their rescue!

Gorgeous build, looks fantastic

Cool track, but so far a snorefest of a race Rain...please!!

All American Models did a corrected '65 2+2 in resin. Nice model, if you can find one. They're long out of production and business. Not sure of the production numbers, but I don't think I've ever seen one actually built. Shawn's 62 Grand Prix is gorgeous.

Looks great; when I saw that truck at the auto show I wanted to make a replica of it, but never got around to it. Nice work

Looks like fun! Hope to see some of the lizards built too! Maybe a little diorama of the Sebring front straight? Too bad S27 botched the wheels so badly. It's a shame that nobody makes a good set of resin BBS racing wheels like this car runs. The ones in the SMS C6R are nice but completely overdone/overpriced (metal is not necessary when the cars run painted wheels), the world needs some good affordable resin BBS wheels that have the correct spokes and the correct diameter.

Go to the "calendar" link above. Click on November 8; it says "2 events" because there are 2 events that day. It will open up to my posting of the information. Dunno why the calendar is set up like that, it is confusing This might work, you have to scroll to the second entry: ACME NNL Information

Looks great! Poverty caps look so right on the Nova

Yes, I noticed too. In the grand scheme of things, it ended up a non-issue to me because the finished models looks so good. Please let us know how you fixed yours! I have built two of the new Novas, the few minor design/detail goofs didn't spoil the model for me at all. Before building my Novas I too was bothered by the vertical taillight panel, after building them I wondered exactly why that didn't seem bother me anymore. I can't answer that, other than to say it just doesn't bother me. Perhaps the joy of building the kit coupled with the overall finished appearance makes that kind of stuff seem trivial. It's one of those details that you have to decide if it's worth it or not to fix. I can spend the time I didn't utilize fixing the Nova tail panel to obsess over something on another kit that might bother me more! Am I the only one that thinks AMT's Nova front end isn't right? I see a nice one built, and I can't help but notice the "face" of the car is off. It's too flat, it just doesn't look to me quite like a Nova. Revell nailed the face of their Nova. The AMT Nova has a better taillight panel. I wouldn't skip over the Revell kit just because of that!

He got much more than that. He ended up with over $10 million from Ford, and $18.7 million plus interest from Chrysler. And he may very well have been underpaid at those sums. He lost a similar suit with GM. Interesting story, will be cool to see how the movie portrays him and the industry...though if it's typical Hollyweird, I don't expect much, unless it's a documentary.