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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.

You can get the Fujimi Enthusiast Daytonas for far less than $100 if you buy them from Japan directly. The Spyder is about to be reissued in October, and you can get the coupe delivered to your door for about $38.00. Hobbylink Japan, Hobby Search, Rainbowten...all good places to deal with. Fujimi Daytona Fujimi Daytona Spyder Paying more than $25 for an Italeri Daytona would be crazy.

99.999% sure it's an Italeri kit. Testors didn't rebox R/M kits. If it's not Italeri it's the Fujimi. Google, find on Feebay, and look at picture real hard. It's not the kit car.

Amen brother! He just never ceases to amaze me; I've seen the pictures and I've seen a few in person. They're not models so much as they are real miniature replicas. Wingrove and others work in large scale, Juha works in "our" scale. Whether replica stock or custom, his work is so perfect and fascinating to study. A level of depth to the detailing that goes well beyond where I'll ever go, the scale fidelity is amazing. And where in the world he gets the research material for so many of these very esoteric subjects...mind blowing. Okay...what do we think he started with for this Opel? My first guess is a 1970 Hornet 2 door coupe (promo body). I would love to see more photos of the Cadillac.

Lookin' good there Dave; with a good dose of TLC it can result in a great model. Glad to see you ditched the offroad tires! Someone on another board just did a really nice build of the Protar but they left the tires as-is, and the wheels stuck out too far. Thin out the upper door frame, get the stance right, and the rest should take care of itself. I have the Protar, Gunze, Italeri and Fujimi GTO's. Just got the Fujimi today; it's a real sweetheart that will get built long before the others. They pretty much nailed it. Fujimi is kicking butt lately.

There's already a lot of C/F on the glass top's frame; if you C/F the hood you might think also about doing the w/s frame to tie the front end of the car w/the roof. Maybe even the part of the decklid area. Interior in black w/the orange for contrast (and some C/F too) would look good; just think "Lamborghini" kind of color schemes and it should work out. Ferrari will do almost anything custom, so your model isn't quite as outrageous as you might think Looks great so far, I loved building mine. Just watch out for the front ride height, easy to lower it by just whittling down the axle stubs so you can glue the wheels in a lowered position.

Great Fauxrarri! Those wheels do look great on it. Hmmmm...wire wheels on a C3 'Vette...hmmmmm....