Your Mom's Car

[Terry Jessee]

This is Revell's Caprice police car, done as a '91 with resin wheel covers from All-American Models. I had to fill a lot of mounting holes, including the spotlight mount in the left A-pillar. That one requires that you not only fill the hole, but recarve the chrome trim strip that's interrupted by the spotlight.

Otherwise, it's just out of the box.

Terry

[Guest]

Once again, beautiful work Terry. Is this a recent build?

[george 53]

Terry, if ya'd have bult it as an SS, then it woulda been MY car!( My Mom usedta drive Lincolns ) Looks good though.

[Eshaver]

Is that why you dislike Ford Cars George ? Ed Shaver

Terry , nice job on a REAL CAR !

[Custom Hearse]

Can't be my mom's car... She never got a drivers license... EVER!!!

Car looks great Terry! Did the wheel covers come with the kit? Nice work!!!

[cruz]

Very cool but, where are the rest of the pictures???

[george 53]

No Ed, Lincoln's and Mercury's ARE nice cars, it just FORDS that I dislike. Cheep IS as CHEEP does!!!!

[Terry Jessee]

Terry, if ya'd have bult it as an SS, then it woulda been MY car!( My Mom usedta drive Lincolns ) Looks good though.

Well, there's an SS, too.

And in answer to the other questions, this is probably about six or seven years old. The wheelcovers are resin, from the now-defunct All-American Models.

Terry

[george 53]

OOOO Terry, GREAT BUILD!!! This is your BEST one yet!!! Thanks for postin it!!!

[Zoom Zoom]

T'aint my Mom's car...she's 85 and still loves driving her BMW Z3 I guess I need to build the model of it that I've always threatened to...though I did do up a Matchbox just like hers for an Xmas tree ornament.

Great model, I have one of Art's in the same color.

[James W]

Looks like a Q-ship to me.

I bet you didn't downgrade the engine did you.

[Chuck Most]

And in answer to the other questions, this is probably about six or seven years old. The wheelcovers are resin, from the now-defunct All-American Models.

Terry

Now I know where those wheel covers in my spares stash came from! Thanks, Terry!

[Scott H.]

Nice builds! I like the way you took it to a base vehicle.

Nope, not my mother's car either... She drives one of these:

Unfortunately, it's MY car since her Caddy is broke and has been for a couple of years now. I'm beginning to believe it's never coming home again...

-Scott H.

[beefheart22]

Jomama drives a Caprice

Lookin good.

[oldscool]

Nice builds of the ugliest of all Impalas IMHO. That SS kit has to be one of the best snap kits ever.

oldscool

Edited November 25, 2009 by oldscool

[charlie8575]

This is Revell's Caprice police car, done as a '91 with resin wheel covers from All-American Models. I had to fill a lot of mounting holes, including the spotlight mount in the left A-pillar. That one requires that you not only fill the hole, but recarve the chrome trim strip that's interrupted by the spotlight.

Otherwise, it's just out of the box.

Terry

That build reminds me of the car in the brochure. Nice job, Terry.

Charlie Larkin

[MyBradKeselowski]

Fantastic!!!

Awesome!!!

I am glad to see that you built a stock Caprice with the Revell kit.

These kits have so much potential that can be done with them...

[Terry Jessee]

That build reminds me of the car in the brochure. Nice job, Terry.

Charlie Larkin

It was inspired by the car in the '91 Caprice introductory brochure. Unfortunately, that's too big for me to scan. But you're right.

Terry

[bsoder]

Great lookin' Caprice!..nice to see one built this way

[Rob Hall]

Sharp build...when that kit first came out, I built one in a similar color w/ red interior and used the kit hubcaps.

Alas, there aren't any kits out there that I could use to replicate my Mom's current cars ('96 Lincoln Town Car, '05 Navigator). Though I've built a kit like one of her older cars ('67 Cougar).

[carchub]

No Ed, Lincoln's and Mercury's ARE nice cars, it just FORDS that I dislike. Cheep IS as CHEEP does!!!!

Well now, aren't they all fords? Just like from the movie "Postman", there was a, Ford-Lincoln-Mercury, dealership in that movie haha

[charlie8575]

It was inspired by the car in the '91 Caprice introductory brochure. Unfortunately, that's too big for me to scan. But you're right.

Terry

Very cool, and I haven't looked at mine in years, but I remember that picture. What paint did you use to make the maroon interior, it looks absolutely dead-on when thinking of the maroon interior in my mother's Cutlass and a few Caprices I saw new.

Charlie Larkin

[Terry Jessee]

Very cool, and I haven't looked at mine in years, but I remember that picture. What paint did you use to make the maroon interior, it looks absolutely dead-on when thinking of the maroon interior in my mother's Cutlass and a few Caprices I saw new.

Charlie Larkin

Floquil Erie-Lackawanna Maroon--it's a model railroad paint.

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[Chuck Most]

Unfortunately, it's MY car since her Caddy is broke and has been for a couple of years now. I'm beginning to believe it's never coming home again...

-Scott H.

Doesn't happen to be a Catera, by any chance...?

Well now, aren't they all fords? Just like from the movie "Postman", there was a, Ford-Lincoln-Mercury, dealership in that movie haha

They're Ford products but a Mercury or Lincoln is not a Ford. That's why they have entirely different names! There are Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep dealers, and Pontiac-Buick-GMC dealers, but nobody confuses, say, a Pontiac G6 with a GMC C4500!

Terry- is there a link to your pictures anywhere? I've scanned Fotki and Photobucket endlessly and have found zilch!

Edited November 30, 2009 by Chuck Most

[Terry Jessee]

Terry- is there a link to your pictures anywhere? I've scanned Fotki and Photobucket endlessly and have found zilch!

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Yep. Try this.

http://public.fotki.com/TerryJessee/

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