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The Westfalia camper will be coming soon from Revell.

We received more Vauxhalls up here than Opels, mainly because of preferential tariff rates on British cars. Pontiac kept selling them into the early '70s, when they introduced a dud known as the Firenza. These cars made the Chevy Vega look like a durable, rust-resistant automobile, believe it or not..

Deferred maintenance never works out well. Saw this on my way home from work.

As far as I remember, they are all the same kit, originally tooled by Imai. The best 1303 kit, in my opinion, is the 1:20 Bandai/Entex kit.

There is a chance Airfix will do this in time. They have been good at re-tooling their old standards, and a Harvard would definitely sell, as long as it's a Harvard 4. Academy does a fantastic AT-6 Texan, so I hope that would not be their choice.

The convertible has the corrected grille included, as well as the Northwind S/S kit.

No, it's talking about the grille. The original AMT issue (blue car on box, plus the Strckler and Proffitt S/S cars) came with a grille that almost looked like the old J.C. Whitney tube grilles. Newer releases havea corrected grille.

That's really neat that you can print out your Dad's flight logs. I will need to see if that can be done when my Grandfather's records become available for access. My grandmother tossed his logbooks out, so it will be interesting to find out everything he flew.

IIRC, thee interiors were available through Okey Spaulding, who owns the JoHan rights. I had one for a '59 Dodge at one point. I'm not certain if they are still available.

The Capri kit had the Mustang rear window, but IIRC, the Convex window was not introduced ubntil the 1983 model year.

The Revell '68 and '69 kits are nice to build, so are the AMT '70 and '72 kits. The Monogram '78 is less detailed and simpler than the others, but looks pretty good. Unless you want to go old school, stay away from the AMT/MPC '75 convertible or any of the vintage kits from that era.

It's sitting across the street from the local garage. There is rust in the quarters, but the bottom may be solid enough to get back on the road.

There are certain cars that were so ubiquitous that you couldn't help but see them every day. Then one day...POOF! They all disappeared from the roads. There were plenty of these A-Body sedans on the roads until the early 1990's, as winter beaters and little old lady cars, then they vanished from view. This '68 Valiant was parked down the street from my Dad's office.

You may want to check for a clock repair shop or similar in your area, and see if you can source some lighter valve springs for your build. Taking apart old ball-point pens for spring donors may be another way to solve the problem.

Great looking build of that kit. I have had one in the stash for a while to build a copy of my company demo ('01 ZX3 auto in Twilight Blue), but have put it on the sale pile after finding a 1:18 diecast at a thrift shop.

I used to have this kit, and always wanted to convert it back to the actual aircraft's last configuration prior to being returned to Britain for restoration. It had been flying in British Columbia as a bush plane for Pacific Western Airlines, powered by a pair of P&W radials. Whiskey Jack used to have the decals, but they're probably long OOP.

I picked up my copy last Saturday, and thought it was a good read. It's not enough to make me re-evaluate my views on the closure of Scale Auto, or have any desire to want to subscribe to FSM. The money wasted in mailing me renewal notices could have gone into providing some automotive related content in their current publication (soon to be merged into Model Railroader, I'm certain).

I found a '67 T-Bird radio at a sale decades ago, and used to keep it on my desk when I worked at a Ford dealer. I should bring it out of storage and see if it still works (removed the battery before storing!)

You can't really go wrong with any of your choices. The MPC '63 is a great looking kit, but so are the Monogram '65 and '67 kits. The '63 has the greatest parts count, while the 1/8 scale is almost like building a regular 1/24 Monogram kit, apart from the size.

Not as much time as I would like, unfortunately. I was getting in a few hours a week up until a month ago, but since then I have been extremely busy with teaching and grading. I need to get back to building for a couple of hours a week, just to get something finished.

I learned to drive in an '84 Toyota SR5 Supercab. Dad taught me how to drive a stick, but I was pretty clumsy back then. There was one time we were parked on a bit of an incline, and Dad told me to give it more gas and turn the wheel. It did make it up...then kept turning and crashed into the back bumper of the neighbour's new Chrysler 600 (rubbing compound fixed the other car). My driver's ed car was an '87-88 Pontiac Sunbird 4 door. Brake pedal in the passenger's side footwell, never felt comfortable driving it. Failed my first test with too many demerits. Interestingly, the driver's ed school had old promos that were used to demonstrate manouvers on the blackboard...a JoHan '70 Roadrunner and a couple of early MPC Dusters! I tried to convince them to let me trade for newer promos, but they wouldn't go for it! Finally got my licence in my Dad's brand new 1988 F150 XLT, regular cab with an 8' box. You can parallel park that, you can parallel park anything!

That '83 ragtop is a difficult kit to locate nowadays. I have one that I bought with a built interior and engine; the New Monkees kit came in handy for replacements that I don't have to prime and seal in order to paint in light colours!

Between the tweezers-style and the Tamiya side cutters, all my needs are covered. I have a pair of Tamiya cutters I bought 25 years ago (for $40!) and they still work great. I recently bought another pair, and they still cost $40! One of the few things which hasn't been affected by inflation.

Keep the swirly plastic, Adam. It's the main concept that differentiates this car from any other Mustang. Why the 'brains' behind the show would want a faux-marble effect on a car is another matter...

Really good looking build, wish Tamiya would do more vintage pieces.