Tag Archives: ’70s Custom Car
Spring: When a Modeller’s Fancy Turns to LUV!
What do you do when your competition is beating you and you have nothing to use against them? Easy: Use captives! No, I’m not talking about taking hostages, but rather “captive imports”. This is precisely what the Big Three had to do in the early ’70s to fight back against the waves of light pickups […]
I’ve got Sunset… on a Cloudy Day
Not much screams “lame ’70s performance package” like trying to cover up a lack of power and refinement with stripes and graphics. A common theme in this era was the “Sunset Stripe”, a combination of many small stripes in the colours of a sunset, often found in some rather inappropriate places! Even the mainstream manufacturers […]
The Sprue Lagoon 