Ace-Garageguy

The 275 GTB in Love Hate Love was real. It shows dents like a metal body (replicas are almost always fiberglass), and in several shots where the car shows damage, you can see very obvious scarred bare metal under the paint. The windshield is also convincing evidence it's real. A giveaway on replicas is usually the windshield...stock Z-car on the Vanilla Sky car. In '71, when the film was made, the values hadn't skyrocketed on Ferrari 275s yet. It was just an old sports car. Still pretty expensive, but well within a movie budget to trash one without entirely destroying it.

Nope. The car in Vanilla Sky was a 250 GTO replica based on a Datsun Z-car.

Very nice. All your effort paid off handsomely.

Awesomeness indeed.

A little more Beethoven...and you really need good speakers with room-shaking base to get the full effect.

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

1/24 scale Italeri Ferrari 275 GTB; kinda hard to come by over here these days, and one of my favorite iterations of the marque. Hiding behind it is an Italeri 365 Daytona race car, also kinda hard to get stateside.

I encountered this all across the country back in July when I ran my first big truckload of stuff out West. Could have been a real PITA at 6MPG, but I carry multiple cards.

Looks like it may be the accessories (alternator, power steering pump, AC compressor) that are interfering...perhaps not so much the engine itself. On a real car, we'd relocate the accessories, maybe move the engine rearward in the chassis, possibly swap in one of the tubular Mustang II IFS setups, and / or build custom headers to make everything fit. On a model, there are some kit IFS setups that will swap in fairly easily. First one that comes to mind is from the AMT Phantom Vickie kit. It comes complete with its own crossmember the control arms mount to (purple), below. It's a sorta Mustang II unit. The Revell Willys street rod kit is another possible donor, as is the Revellogram '37 Ford with IFS.

Assuming you mean Monogram Bugatti ... https://scalemodelingmania.com/2021/12/03/bugatti-type-35f-monogram-build-1-parts-layout-and-getting-started/ https://scalemodelingmania.com/2021/12/19/bugatti-type-35b-monogram-build-2-with-no-particular-build-order-i-wander-all-over-the-place-and-then-really-give-myself-something-to-do/ https://scalemodelingmania.com/2022/01/21/bugatti-type-35b-monogram-build-3-working-with-really-small-details-and-then-really-give-myself-something-to-do-again/

Just to make 100% double-dog certain, last evening I dug out the Monogram '59 and fitted up the up-top to an AMT '60 Pontiac. Almost like it's made for it, easy adaptation. Other in-period AMT GM cars should be similar.

So all the boxes are printed wrong?

I still work full time (though I'm well past "retirement age"), but usually have a look in at breakfast and lunch to see who I've offended.

My boxes all say the Monogram (& Revell) kit is 1/25. scalemates.com appears to agree. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/monogram-2437-59-chevrolet-impala-convertible--1093956

Beautiful car, definitely worth the effort you're putting to get such fine looking results.

Yup. Building somebody else's vision is what most professional real-car builders do most of the time. Like the man says, quality is quality, whether you're personally on fire about the project or not.

Very nice. Not over the top, but aggressive in a subtle, confident sort of way.

Figger one with screwed electronics ought to be easy to find too. Gut it, put in stone-age stuff that lasts forever. LS fits well, but it's been done already. I have a little 302 Ford looking for a new home though.

It's kinda coldish here for the end of March, so I made a pot of sweet-hot Middle Eastern-inspired potato, tomato, apple, and bean stew. Had to use up the last of the fall apples, and a big potato that wanted planting more than eating. Kinda like chili, but not. Heavy with cinnamon, cardamom, turmeric, and nutmeg. Coconut-ginger basmati rice and hot butter-smeared pita bread for accompaniment. Washed down with a cheap but remarkably decent California Merlot. Excellent.

Did he elaborate as to why he's quitting?

Monogram '59 Impala up-top should do for all of them. EDIT: The shape of the front bow may need work to fit the '58 windshield frame.

I missed this one. NICE !!

Testors 1/24 Chrysler Crossfire. Kinda surprised to even find one in a scale I wanted, and it's a pretty decent model to boot. Though it seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it design, I like it. A lot. I'll be looking for a real one with a blown engine soon as I get moved entirely.

9.5 points. They are indeed aviation locking nutplates, 10-32 to be exact (stainless, with silver-plated threads to prevent galling seizure) but are a generic MS/NAS number, similar to the proprietary Boeing parts.