Polar lights '03 GTO

[blubaja]

Hey,

Have'nt seen the drifter kit, but I got the diecast one at toys'rus.

Frank X.

[73superduty]

Thanks Gasman! I know Art, you and I have probably chatted as well.

As far as price, our LHS sells them for $19.00. I don't know where you can get them chepaer unless you buy direct and by the case. At any rate I plan on getting all four colors. I really like the look of the car personally.
Gasman where did you get yours?
Chris

[blubaja]

So, somebody please make a conversion for the holden

Frank X.

[ata]

"Great American Rides"... And it's an Aussie car... Same thing with my ERTL "American Muscle" 1:18 diecast GTO. Looks nice next to the Auto Art Holden Monaro of the same scale.

I just hope I could get this kit also! Might be diffult here in Finland... I just have to love the car, European base (Opel Omega), American engine (Corvette) and Australian styling (the coupe version) and putting it together... This car is really one example of the global GM. Something from Europe, something from the USA and something from down under combined. It's the best of all parts in a modern car. (and they don't sell it in continental Europe...)

[Uninen]

Miten ois kimppatilaus Ata? Odottelen tässä sitä Drifter-versiota julkaistavaksi.

How's the detail on this kit? Does it have separate diskbrakes, or are they molded in the tires or does it have them at all? Is the body molded in plastic, not die-cast I hope? How's the interior.

[blubaja]

Hey,

The tires are no named kind. The disk breaks aer molded into the wheelbacks on the inside of the rims so you can see them, but no, not seperate. This is a plastic bodied kit. The interior is great.

Frank X.

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

I got a red one today. It's a strange kit in some respects. It's like 90% of the model is excellent, but 10% of it sucks royally .

The paint job is incredible...smooth and glossy, no orange peel nor dust nibs. The body shape seems dead-on. The parts count and assembly sequence give it a lot of promise as a full-detail kit.

But there are problems...the headlights are awful-the bezels have zero engraving, and feature prominent holes to accept two large mounting pins on the lenses. They then "compensated" for the three-lamp cluster styling by weakly engraving the separate lamps...on the OUTSIDE of the lenses . They printed a round orange blob on the corner that isn't prototypical either. Did they bother to include some funnycar/NASCAR-style headlight decals, with black surrounds? Hell no. But they did bother to print a silver cross-hatch pattern on the grille, which is totally inaccurate . The foglamps on the real car are deep-set, the perimeter of the cylinder is black...this thing has dumbed it down to a nearly-flush silver lamp area w/no engraving, a giant mounting hole in the middle, and no black perimeter. To top off the rest of the toylike front end, we are treated to two very large open holes to accept a license plate frame. You think Fujimi's license plate holes are big? These are gigantic. They could have easily flashed over them, and let the builder open the holes. Nope, it seems like Polar Lights did the entire front end of this car as an afterthought. Very disappointing, not so much for me (I can fix this stuff), but for those that they are trying to sell these models to...inexperienced builders...there's so much promised w/nice paint and emblems and detail, and then they completely blow it with the face of the car .

Looking forward to the drift car and the '05 version. I'll post photos of my fixes for the goof-ups. I want to mask/paint the interior in the red/black scheme to match the red exterior. The wheels in the kit look small; the stock rims are designed correctly, the custom rims are a joke...nobody owning a $35,000 GTO is going to put these incredibly lame 17" custom rims on it...rims that look like cheap plastic wheelcovers made for 15 year old minivans. My leftover stock Gallardo rims look magnificent on it .

[Uninen]

Thanx guys for the info! I'm waiting for the drifter-version to be released.

[Orion37170]

[73superduty]

I'll have to agree with Bob on a few points of the car. I just went through a mock up session and went through all my wheel kits to find something presentable. It appears that 18" Aoshima and Fujimi wheels are the ticket. It gives it the right look. 17 or 19" weels are either too small or too big.
I was lucky enough to buy all four colors today. Although red and yellow I am giving to some friends. I've got the black and silver.
Chris

[Fusionrr]

i might get one soon.
I wannna turn it back into a monaro!!