Spotlight Hobbies


Lots of little stuff mostly, sometimes you don't realize it until you see the parts in their "home setting"...

The '63 Buick hardtop has an Advanced Custom front pan with a '61-'62 Chrysler grille, and I believe the regular custom includes a '56 Buick grille bar. A couple of annual kits used cut-down '60 Mercury grilles. Mostly it's wheel covers: '63 Mercury hardtop kits had '50 Mercury caps while the convertible (and both '64 kits) used the Cadillac covers that were better than what Jo-Han put in the Cadillac kit.
Some are fudged to the point of not being recognizable, like the cut-down '62 Dodge grille in the '63 Corvette annuals. For the '63 annual kits, look for the four-page color ad spread in some period magazines; that lists the features in those kits in detail.
Another neat kit is the '32 Ford sedan from the double kit. I believe the wheels are described as Continental Mark II wheel covers, and I'm pretty sure the steering wheel is a second-gen Kaiser piece. Lots of neat stuff, once you find out what the parts actually are--
--Mark

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