Ace-Garageguy

OK...I measured all the kits, side by side. Drum-roll please... The Coddington / MPC switchers (including the phaeton AND sedan-delivery versions as well) dimension between the bottom of the character line and the sill (at the front edge of the cowl) is halfway between the same dimension on the Revell '32 kits and the "sectioned" AMT kits. I'll measure a real original '32 Ford tomorrow at the shop and let you know which one of the 3 scales out correctly for 1:25.

Ah yes, but if you look at the character line on the hood relative to the body, it's up too high. Looks like the hood was aligned improperly due to the decal being placed wrong, and rather than fix it, they just kinda fudged. That's why I was gonna actually measure...once I find the Coddy body shell.

And if bigger is better...

The Lincoln Zephyr version...V-12...

Great looking save.

Dang. I read on the internet that he actually said "the reports of my death have been wildly exaggerated", in about 1944, just before the start of the revolutionary war. And then he invented pants.

Yeah, seein' as how it's me doin' the "fix", I'm kinda aware of that. Like the man said...

Well get busy buying more man !! What do you think an income is for, anyway? Too bad about the one that got away at work, too.

Please be careful when posting stuff like this. Like i said, I tested it BEFORE I posted it, and it worked fine, zero issues. Can't be much more careful than that, right? I wouldn't have posted some cyber-attack redirect BS knowingly. But I took the links down. Everybody happy now? Oh...some of the pix posted in 2014 were in fact from 2009, and if you check the current Google Earth shots of some of the areas pictured, the cars're gone. Elvis bought them all.

Because to the majority of people, old cars are unreliable, impossible to fix, dangerous gas hogs. And to many folks in the scrap-metal business, an old machine isn't a worthwhile thing of beauty with a history and character, but just another few easy bucks...that's why.

Works fine for me, tested it before posting, no virus alerts and no ads (I'm running ad-blocker on chrome).

Hmmm... thanks. I've looked at about a bazillion of them, but nothing seems to match exactly. Do the tuner guys shoot the entire lens with candy red to get that look?

Radome = radar dome. It's a non-reflective paint that radar waves pass through easily. Sometimes called out for aircraft models. My best guess on your Mini model is that it's supposed to represent a specific undercoating...

I've never done an Asian-based car before, and I don't recognize most of them yet. I'm starting a conversion of a Nissan 240SX (while the 20th coat of primer on the '28 lakes car dries) to the recent Rocket Bunny design, and I need a tail-lamp assembly like this (if it even exists in kit form). Anybody have any ideas? I've looked on some of the tuner forums, but haven't found solid info yet. I'm finding things similar, but nothing exact. Maybe a JDM part?

Got one of these... ...and one of these... ...and one of these...

Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die

Ah yes...and that, in a nutshell, pretty well defines all of today's business shortcomings. When a business (or a consumer's choice) is driven by nothing other than lowest possible cost, things like "service" and "quality" tend to fall by the wayside...yet those who only shop price complain and complain and lament their passing. Totally irrational. Mr. Ford was a strong, highly motivated leader and innovator....unlike many of today's CEOs, who pride themselves on being effective delegators. Being good at delegating is NOT the same thing as being a leader. The widely-held belief in business today that executive management doesn't really need to know much about the particular industry it's managing, so long as it's capable of getting capable underlings to do the real work (and that a good upper manager is interchangeable into any business or industry) is a fallacy. A CEO or upper manager who doesn't understand the nuts and bolts of what his company does, just isn't in a position to know whether those people he's delegating to are competent, and whether they're giving him good information. So, when a company is essentially run by the legions of middle-management MBAs who specialize in nothing so much as cost-containment, without strong ethical and rational leadership from the top, we get what we're seeing a lot of now.

Fine looking model. Love the varied colors on the seat leather too. Looks real. Is that a very fine pearl blue, or a solid color? It looks like it could be either...different in some photos.

And I sincerely thank you for putting this information in front of all of us. It really is a doorway into a new world.

This man understands...

Ebay, one kit at a time...if you have the time for all that. Or sell 'em in lots of 5 or ten. Or find a local consignment store or hobby shop that will help you off them. Or send 'em all to me. I feel the need to hoard more.

Exactly. And all the landscaping companies around here (apparently the fastest-growing business type, if the number of trucks carrying mowers is anything to go by...just ahead of house painters) hire as many illegals as they can, pay them next to nothing...because they can't complain...and one such company I know of even owns rental properties (verging on slums) that they rent to the illegal workers for top dollar. Is this capitalism at its profit-minded best, or uninhibited greed run amok? Depends on who you talk to, I guess.

Yeah, I agree on the "car-guy" term being misleading and overused sometimes...and I don't really like it myself. But...I started using it to differentiate, in my own mind, the basic difference between those who understand why there's oil in an engine, and what a 4-stroke is as opposed to a two-stroke, etc., and those who don't...not the ones who read all the car mags but have no clue as to how an engine actually operates, or what to do if it doesn't. I guess I'm kind of a "traditional" "car-guy".

Look at the box-art photo...that's why I posted it. I know it's not based on the same tooling as the rest of the AMT '32 kits, but it still appears short at the cowl. Probably why, as you say, the AMT Victoria fits it pretty easily. But I COULD be wrong about the cowl height on the Coddington version. I'll pull them all out and measure later today.

I don't get it. It's just a frigging word. Just about EVERYONE in the real-car-building community uses the term "traditional" to mean pretty much the same thing. Just exactly what is the issue here? Call 'em frangipannifabolumarkeets if you want to, but if you call em' "traditional", most actual car-guys...today... will know what you mean. Language is fluid, ever-changing, and as alluded to earlier, what's defined by "traditional" in another 50 years or so may very well not be the same as it is now.