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22/12/2018 4:25 am
[PICS] Neo '59 Olds - Trying to make amends?
Interested to see that Neo have re-issued their notorious Bent Banana '59 Olds in a new colour, and lo and behold I bring you Tidings of Great Joy, it appears to be dead straight! Can they actually have re-done the mould to correct the fault?
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It still suffers from that awful and unncessary black border around the windscreen/windshield but otherwise seems to be dramatically improved, with the fins clearly rising all the way to the rear rather than drooping down.
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Too late for those who got burned with the original version, of course.
I see they have also done a '58 Plymouth Fury and have ignored the fact that the real car only came from the factory in Ivory over Buckskin Beige, although to be fair so many people have resprayed them in "Christine Red" that you could be forgiven for thinking it was an authentic colour. I wonder why Neo didn't go the whole hog and call it a Christine car? The side flash looks a little too deep and heavy, espacially towards the rear, but otherwise it looks OK (apart from the colour upsetting Plymouth purists).
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Anyway, the red and white is suitably festive, so Merry Christmas Everyone. Yours sincerely, Christine.
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
22/12/2018 5:16 am
Thanks, Graeme. I have no way of being certain but I heard...
that the banana shape may be due to pulling the resin from the molds too early. That might explain why some models have the bowed shape and others don't. It may be a manufacturing process issue. If so, what surprises me is that it isn't caught and corrected before the models are packaged.
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
22/12/2018 5:45 am
That explanation makes a lot of sense, John.
Until the plastic is pretty cool, thermally induced internal stresses can relieve themselves by getting the plastic to move. If one model has a greater variation in thicknesses than another, it will be more prone to warping. But time is money...
22/12/2018 5:52 am
I tend to think you just got lucky this time Graeme.
I have the red/white HT and the white conv. The HT is great and the other is a banana. Same went for the '58 Mercurys.
22/12/2018 5:55 am
Their QC must be sadly lacking; can't think of any other reason.
22/12/2018 6:01 am
I'd like to have that Olds but the black band on and around the w/s is a deal-killer for me.
22/12/2018 6:41 am
The Olds looks great in that color. I have the lighter beige hardtop.
Barry Levittan
Long Island, NY
23/12/2018 2:09 am
Same here.