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Another blast from the past, this one representing my one and only 15 minutes of cover photo fame. It was seen with other GSL XV models on the cover of the August 1994 Model Car Journal. I started with a Fujimi 1988 Lamborghini Countach and combined it with a Jo-Han '62 Chrysler 300, back over the span of October 1992 to September '93. I had a bit of a mix 'n match thing going on back then, with my BMW Cadillac and my 911/CRX. The front wheels in the Fujimi kit were fine, but the rears had truly bad sink areas between the holes, so I commissioned my dad, a master machinist, to lathe-turn a new pair of wheels out of aluminum. Sliced up the lettering decals to read "lambo 300 on the back, and placed "Mopar" license plate borders on California plate decals. I forget which Fujimi kit had those plate decals, probably one of the Porsches. My pal who worked at an auto body place gave me a small quantity of Mercedes red along with some PPG Deltron clear for the finish. Don't breath that stuff. I left the nub on the backside of the upper set of headlight lenses since they looked like projector-style bulbs, and it gave more of a menacing appearance. The turn signals have just a thin layer of orange over the bulb area, and then quite a thick layer of Elmer's glue (covered with clear) to make the Jo-Han chrome lenses look more realistic. Gold tint Bare Metal foil for the Chrysler logos. Yep, it's a slammer. Carved the words "Acme Window Tinting - Guaranteed not to Rust" into the underside of the windshield. The rear axle makes it look like the car backed into a tar pit.