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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 23 2012, 06:49 PM (1,276 Views) | |
| 427 Yenko | Jan 23 2012, 06:49 PM Post #1 |
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| juantoo3 | Jan 23 2012, 06:54 PM Post #2 |
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I like Pinky's Tbird and Laverne and Shirley's Holden Panel from that series. |
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| pjedsel | Jan 23 2012, 08:19 PM Post #3 |
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The Stars Cars were a nice concept from Matchbox. It is to bad they didn't use models that actually reflected vehicles from many of the shows like JL did with their Hollywood series. Somehow the Brady Bunch with a Mercury wagon just doesn't work. |
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| Swifty | Jan 24 2012, 03:13 AM Post #4 |
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I know the Cougar Villager would have been wrong too (the series was over long before 1977, and they stuck to Chrysler for the most part) but at least it would have been close enough in spirit. And I think the movie did use a Ford or Mercury of that vintage so it wouldn't have been much of a stretch at all. Too bad that tooling got shipped to Bulgaria and hence was unable to be used. http://imcdb.org/vehicle_181829-Mercury-Montego-Villager-1972.html |
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| Dean-o-mite | Jan 24 2012, 09:37 PM Post #5 |
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Brady who?? This is another scenario where being a DLM'er is beneficial. The Sable was only ever released in white as a regular release. No 5-pack version, no re-color...just white. Years later, this one came out. Throw away the packaging, and wipe the tampo from the hood, and you've finally got a second color on the Sable. I bought a few copies when the Stars Cars were on sale, and wiped just the hood tampo from one, and all tampos from another. Although faux wood paneling was never a factory option, there were/are aftermarket kits to make a Sable/Taurus look just like the Griswold vacation car. I love the Sable casting, so I am quite happy they decided to use it as a Brady-mobile so I could build upon my Sable collection. ![]()
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| James | Jan 24 2012, 09:39 PM Post #6 |
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I wish some one would of done up the Taurus wagon.... |
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| Dragnet_Supporter | Jan 24 2012, 09:59 PM Post #7 |
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I never even thought about detampoed cars when that series came out. I still have a couple, mission impossible, and miami vice comes to mind. But the tampoes really killed the realism for me back them, not to mention some of the offbeat selections, kind of put me off this series. I also have a pretty bad version of the adam 12 car MB put out. |
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| Billy Kingsley | Jan 24 2012, 11:10 PM Post #8 |
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I was very dissapointed when these came out, due to the tampoing of logos all over the place- it would be almost a decade before I learned they could be removed. (Thinking these came out in 1997, I didn't learn how to properly strip a car until 2005) |
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| juantoo3 | Jan 24 2012, 11:22 PM Post #9 |
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I found the L&S Holden in a Dollar Tree (along with a few others, looked at the Miami Vice Ferrari and thought WTF??? and put it back). What I liked about the Holden, was the first time I saw mud splatter on a car by MBX (or anybody), and that added a touch of realism. That, and the rear had "clean me" scribbled in the splatter. That got me, so I bought. Nice touch I don't see often enough by any maker. |
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| Swifty | Jan 25 2012, 03:09 AM Post #10 |
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I wish I had known about detampoing when the Brady wagons were available- I'd have done it too. I know what I'll be doing if I ever find some cheap ones.
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| Sak | Jan 26 2012, 10:07 AM Post #11 |
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I always see Bradys now and again at Columbus. I'm intrigued, now... |
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