[Closed] I Always Liked The Skylark, Now I Love It!

And here it is in 1:43! (pic)

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In near bankruptcy at the end of the Great Depression and lacking adequate production facilities, Hupmobile worked out a deal with the ailing Graham-Paige Motor Co. to share the Cord dies, which would be built at Graham's facilities.

The Graham edition of the same body, called the Hollywood, differed from the Skylark in only a few minor details.

In 1939 the Hupmobile Skylark finally began delivery. Unfortunately, it had taken too many years to produce and most of the orders had been canceled. Production lasted only a couple of months, and only 319 Skylarks were produced. Huppmobile ceased production in late summer. Graham-Paige suspended production shortly after the last Huppmobile rolled off the line.

*Spelling? The company was the Hupp Motor Company, founded in 1909 by brothers Robert and Louis Hupp. Their product was sometimes called the Hupp automobile and also, more commonly, the Hupmobile. The company dropped the second "p" when adding "mobile."

My congratulations to Terence for his correct spelling.

WOW! is right. That is very impressive.

Beautiful. Now there is one for 1/18 .

Absolutely beautiful 1:1 car. The 43 looks like a typica SMALL model; no real details with no sharps lines, looks like it was dipped in a bucket of paint like a lot of the 43s and most of 64s.

And people complain about 1/43 hobbyists being unable to keep needless criticisms to themselves.

Imagine...

Imagine if you could do a "back to the future" & wake up in 1941 with this bad boy? OMG! What would people think?

Bruce - for my likely only Lounge posting...as a dedicated 1/43 collector, that was mean spirited and completely uncalled for. You leave an initial impression as a vindictive bully with an uneducated view of the merits of the various scales.

Whew! Touchy! I don't see where expressing an opinion about a model on a model car Forum ...

... constitutes an act of war. C'mon, can we relax a bit. Bruce's opinion doesn't detract from anyone's enjoyment over a favorite scale.

Well, this is the Lounge--if he can have his pointless say, why can't we respond?

Actually, it does detract and disses the efforts of a notable 1/43 collector and Forum participant.

Enough, gents. Let's move on.

In what way? All I see is a benign opinion being expressed. Nothing more. Is our skin...

... so fragile and thin that only sugar sweet things should be stated about models here? It's only an opinion about a model car and not a personal attack. I just think we need to lighten up.

I'm going to ask, nicely, again, to end this thread.