View Full Version : Suggestions for Tom Lowe pop culture release


sethndaddy
07-12-2006, 11:37 PM
Hi Tom, first thanks for the cars already released and for the ones to come.
I know we'll get alot of feedback and cool ideas for the pop culture release right here,
i'm starting off with what I would love to see, and I'm sure I'll miss some.

-Starsky and Hutch
-those 2 cars from the movie Grease (way cool)
-Happy Days (van or studabaker)
-Monkeemobile
-Mustersmobile and Dragula (hell I would do a whole frightning lightning series, Christine, the Car, ect.)
-remember Wheelie from Wheelie and the chopper bunch (70's cartoon)
-a whole Wacky Racers set (something to get the kids more into it)
-the cars from the Banana splits (aurora was working on these)
-Partridge family bus (my wifes pushing for a whole music release theme)
-the sand van already looks like a Hong Kong Phooey mobile
-Scooby Doo mystery machine
-and how about a tjet 57 Nomad.....please

dlw
07-13-2006, 10:56 AM
Ford LTD Station Wagon (Brady Bunch)

SwamperGene
07-13-2006, 11:23 AM
Car 54
Pretty much anything from American Graffitti
Vanishing Point Challenger
:)

AfxToo
07-13-2006, 12:44 PM
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noddaz
07-13-2006, 04:57 PM
Vanishing Point Challenger
:)

Ummm...
JL has done a white Challenger...
And without paying extra to some movie company either... :lol:
Round 2 maybe should explore doing the types of cars that are in movies
and let us use our imagination for the rest...
(Hey look! A red 58 Fury! Just like Christine! :devil: )

Scott

SwamperGene
07-13-2006, 06:17 PM
Agreed Scott, as my cars go in my race box not on a shelf, the paper in the cubes is thrown away, no trademarks needed :) .

I guess you could revise the list as:

a '61 Belvedere cop car
Anything from American Graffitti
a '70 Challenger RT hardtop in all white (specifically, for a T-Jet, and not a chase car)

Montoya1
07-14-2006, 01:47 PM
Nice ideas but I'd love to see more out-n-out racing cars even if that means less novalty items.

But getting into the spirit of this thread:

James Bond Lotus Espirit
James Bond Ferrari
Batman Tumbler camo version
Dick Tracy cars

Omega
07-14-2006, 02:22 PM
I would like to see TV and cartoon cars,

Scooby Doo Mystery Machine
Monkeemobile
Mustersmobile
Dragula
Wacky Racers

Marty
07-14-2006, 02:40 PM
The Simpsonmobile

My Mother the Car
Nash Bridges
Beverly Hillbillies
Dirty Larry/Crazy Mary

Marty

sethndaddy
07-14-2006, 06:26 PM
how bout chitty chitty bang bang

okracer
07-14-2006, 10:28 PM
how bout the beverly hillbillys truck lol or the starsky and hutch toreno i so wanted to get me one of those when i was a kid my grandmother had one it was blue and i wanted to take that car and paint it red and put the white stripe on it man were those the days or what

WesJY
07-14-2006, 10:45 PM
batmobiles (all versions from 60's to now)

Wes

AMX
07-15-2006, 01:00 AM
How bout a Route 66 Vette?

Oh wait..... :hat: :hat: :hat: :hat:

AfxToo
07-15-2006, 09:42 AM
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sethndaddy
07-15-2006, 10:07 AM
You hit a good one AFXTOO, the panel trucks is awesome.
another I forgot would be one of them "Buttermaker Cadillac convertables", from the movie Bad news bears. I would love to have a hardtop and convertable caddy to run against the 59 impalas.

AfxToo
07-15-2006, 11:26 AM
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mtyoder
07-16-2006, 08:16 AM
Nice ideas but I'd love to see more out-n-out racing cars even if that means less novalty items.

But getting into the spirit of this thread:

James Bond Lotus Espirit
James Bond Ferrari
Batman Tumbler camo version
Dick Tracy cars

If your gonna do James Bond stuff, ya gotta do that red AMC Hornet!!!!!!!!!!!

mtyoder
07-16-2006, 08:22 AM
How about some monster trucks? I'll help out with the designing. I could make up some drawings for a chassis on my cad program and email it to ya or something. I'll even send you one of mine you can use for ideas.

Grave Digger
Bigfoot
Maximum destruction
Avenger
Blue thunder

AMX
07-17-2006, 10:40 PM
I guess when you think about it, there really aren't that many pop culture vehicles......

Omega
07-18-2006, 02:10 PM
This would never happen, but I would love to see Tom Lowe get together with Tom Daniel and produce some of his designs as slot cars. Can you just picture setting up a drag strip and having the Red Baron and the Paddy Wagon go at it.


Dave :)

jack0fall
07-18-2006, 03:07 PM
This would never happen, but I would love to see Tom Lowe get together with Tom Daniel and produce some of his designs as slot cars. Can you just picture setting up a drag strip and having the Red Baron and the Paddy Wagon go at it.


Dave :)

It could happen... At lease I keep telling myself that. I for one would like to get a plastic or resin version of this.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/jack0fall/work%20in%20progress/BW3_1b.jpg

Yes I am still working on it... :)

Marty
07-18-2006, 07:43 PM
This would never happen, but I would love to see Tom Lowe get together with Tom Daniel and produce some of his designs as slot cars. Can you just picture setting up a drag strip and having the Red Baron and the Paddy Wagon go at it.


Dave :)

That would be totally awesome!!!!!

Marty

sethndaddy
07-18-2006, 10:25 PM
There has to be some connection because Johnny lightning/Playing Mantis did a bunch of Tom Daniels stuff already, Tom just needs to get midshipslotcar and his buddies working on the slot car end of it...........LOL

tjd241
07-19-2006, 08:15 AM
You could do a whole series based on pop culture cars of just the Spy and Private Eye shows/movies of the 1960's. There are tons of great 007 Bond cars for sure. But there were also many more from other shows/movies. Just from the 60's alone you could do an entire series. What about these?....

Get Smart - Sunbeams/Ferrari/Mustang/Opel

http://www.ilovegetsmart.com/cars.html

The Avengers - Lotus/Rolls Royce

http://members.tripod.com/~howbe/lotus_elans2.htm

Man From Uncle - AMT Piranha

http://c-we.com/piranha/

Mannix - Olds Tornado Roadster

http://www.jmannix.net/roadster.htm

The Saint - Volvo P1800

http://members.aol.com/cotsmm/cott3_4.html

micyou03
07-19-2006, 11:44 AM
I can't belive no one has said Herbie yet. There are a ton of other great cars in the original movie "Herbie, The Love Bug".

AMX
07-20-2006, 01:10 AM
ok I knew about Get Smart and the Tiger, I had one. I knew about the Saint and the Volvo, that wa common knowledge....

Mannix and the Tornado...you lost me there...and I always watched the show....

the Avengers had all sorts of cars....plus I loved Emma Peel. I did have an "Avenger" (FiberFab) in the 1970s though :hat: :hat: :freak: :hat: :hat: :cool:

The rest is kinda foggy.......

ParkRNDL
07-20-2006, 07:46 AM
Yeah, I never knew about the Mannix car either. So I Googled "mannix toronado" and I got half a dozen good links on the first page of results. Very cool-looking custom. Shame they only used the car in the first season.

--rick

AfxToo
07-20-2006, 06:31 PM
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2.8powerranger
07-20-2006, 10:36 PM
how bout some odd rods
72 gremlin x ,orange w/ black stripes
72 maverick grabber ,blue w/ black
76-77 chevy monza spyder or cosworth vega both black w/gold
72 ply duster,,any color
and the origional 2 cars that started the hot compacts,,,the dodge omni GLH tubo and the rabbit GTI
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