Brooklin 1960 Cadillac question

I wouldn't want to encourage you to damage a prize  purchase, but if it is super-glue, this can be brittle and therefore, can 'break' if tweaked, gently (perhaps persuading Henry to leave - at the point of a fine blade - might prove a better option?) That said, there are super-glues available today that are designed for all kinds of industrial uses so again, if it were me. I would use the number 11 blade withe determination but also, great care.

...and never underestimate "Dremel Power!"   Anything that can't be broken free can be ground away!    - just say'n  😏 😏 

Posted by: @bob-jackman

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@moe-parr I think the figure adds a lot to the model.

Actually, it does! It adds a bit of "whimsy" to be the oddball one in my collection on display of 300+ cars. It's like a hidden "easter-egg" waiting to be discovered.

@moe-parr I like all my models to be uniform, but had to buy a Zil 110 with an open door and I have come to like it for this very reason. It adds a 'touch' to the line-up.

Ahh, ZIS or ZIL automobiles ! I wonder who might be appropriately SuperGlued into the back seat along with their driver ?

@michaeldetorrice An excellent image. Funnily enough, the reason my Zil has it's door open is because there is a little Stalin about to get in.  Sadly no photo' of him to hand.

Lol, I have another picture of the Russian dictator Stalin lying in a glass coffin next to his pal Lenin in the Kremlin's Red Square.

Yikes, very macabre....but at least they are not laying state inside a ZIL/ZIZ limousine driving around Moscow !

@michaeldetorrice

You have a picture of Stalin lying in a glass coffin next to Lenin? Is that real, and if yes, when was that taken? In 1987 I went on vacation to the Soviet Union and went to Lenin’s tomb. Lenin was the only one in a glass case.

I believe this picture was in a book of photographs from the early-mid 1950's. Up until Premier Kruchschev criticized Stalin before a Communist Party congress in 1956 or so, Stalin was revered and honored as nearly a god and an equal to Lenin and both glass coffins were open to viewing. I believe they were "maintained" and displayed under ideal and controlled conditions.  

This macabre "tradition" was eventually stopped but both are buried in the Kremlin wall, I believe. There have been recent attempts to bring back "Uncle Joe", at least as a "revered dictator".  

But at least such people may have liked copying and mimicking neat automobiles like Packards, Buicks and Cadillacs !  

I am reminded of the book  Santa Evita  by Tomás Eloy Martínez.

Wikipedia says it is a 'novel' but in fact it details folklore accounts surrounding Eva Peron's life, recounted alongside historic events in the corpse's journey and how the two tie-up, adding to her almost saintly status. The book is estimated to have sold over 10 million copies worldwide, which makes it one of the best-selling books of all time, and for macabre reading it cannot be bettered.

I believe she lay in state, too. At least most automobiles and models still look great (and the same) many years later !

@michaeldetorrice The thing with Eva, is she had the best embalming possible, giving her an iridescent 'glow' that apparently added to her existing beauty and arousing all manner of unhealthy desires in those who viewed her.  She spent two years hidden away in Peron's CGT party headquarters  (General Confederation of Labour) until the coup that ousted him and from there, the military junta did not want the public to get a hold of her, as she was a figurehead - even dead - and at the same time they were afraid of destroying her. And thus began her mysterious journey, from 1955 until her return in 1974.

Posted by: @michaeldetorrice

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I believe this picture was in a book of photographs from the early-mid 1950's. Up until Premier Kruchschev criticized Stalin before a Communist Party congress in 1956 or so, Stalin was revered and honored as nearly a god and an equal to Lenin and both glass coffins were open to viewing. I believe they were "maintained" and displayed under ideal and controlled conditions.  

This macabre "tradition" was eventually stopped but both are buried in the Kremlin wall, I believe. There have been recent attempts to bring back "Uncle Joe", at least as a "revered dictator".  

But at least such people may have liked copying and mimicking neat automobiles like Packards, Buicks and Cadillacs !  

Found this on the internet:

Even if not a real photograph, then it is pretty much an exact recreation of their appearance  in their dual appearance at the Kremlin mausoleum.

Neither of them was able to take a 1960 Cadillac hearse to a final resting place. Of that I am pretty sure !  

Well this is certainly the right time of year for all this