Rob Hall

I did a lot of RVing as a kid in the 70s-80s. My folks had a series of motorhomes and we went all over. Their last motorhome was an ‘85 Winnebago Chieftain 33 ft. (The style the spaceship in ‘Spaceballs’ was based on). Lots of great memories of camping in KOA Kampgrounds all over the country.

Yes...and that was almost 30 years ago. I can't imagine new construction today is any better. It was about $1000/month for 950 sq feet IIRC. Checked their website, a similar until today is over $2k/month.

I had another similar story when I moved to Colorado Springs in 1997. In June, I moved into a brand new apartment complex--I was the first resident. It was kinda fancy--2 bedroom with a heated garage, a patio with an unobstructed view of Pike's Peak. My first apartment after grad school.. 3 months later, on a rather warm Labor Day weekend, my folks flew in from Ohio to visit. The air conditioning failed. Couldn't get it fixed until after Labor Day. Then winter came, and the first really cold night I no running water in the bathroom. Turns out, there were pipes running on the outside of the building with no insulation.

One thing that really irritated me is the company that installed it wouldn't do warranty work on weekends..it failed on a Saturday, didn't get it fixed until Monday...GRRR.. The company that installed my current house furnaces and AC units does do warranty work on weekends, I verified that when I replaced the units in 2024.

That happened to me about 6 years ago with my previous house. I replaced the furnace, the blower failed a year later..on a cold, snowy weekend.

Watched my favorite Thanksgiving movie 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' last night. Cooking a nice little meal for my sister and I. Having a snowy day here in NE Ohio.

I'd think the forum runners would want to avoid confusion with the unrelated Model Car Builder magazine, though.

Neat..I don't think I have any AMT or MPC 1/32nd snap kits, but I built a bunch of Revell, Monogram and Lindberg ones as a kid in the late 70s-early 80s.

Well, the 90s were 26-35 years ago.... in most states, 25 years old is enough to get a historic plate. And I don't think historic plates necessarily have any correlation to emissions testing. I do know 15 years ago my sister had to get her '84 and '91 Mercedes tested every 2 years in Phoenix.

I remember the service station bells from Sohio stations as a kid in the 70s...I recall seeing curb feelers in JCWhitney catalogs..I don't recall my Dad every having any on his cars, and he drove huge cars w/ big overhangs ('70s Mercury Grand Marquis and Lincoln Continentals, then the downsized '80s-90s Town Cars, my Mom usually had Cougars and Thunderbirds)..

I really don't remember seeing many pre '73 GM trucks around in the late 70s and 80s in NE Ohio..maybe many had rusted away by then. Sort of had a few Rounded Line pickups in my family. After my Dad retired from school administration in 1978, he went to manage a community agency that winterized homes (put in new windows, insulation, etc) for low income people. He had a couple C10 company trucks--both dark green long beds w/ white bumpers--a '78 and then later an '81 IIRC. I remember riding in them as a kid...I think they were both 2wd w/ 6 cyl and automatics. Then in the late 90s-mid oughts when I lived 2000 miles away, my older brother owned for a few years a bright yellow '77 shortbed step side with a tube grille, rake, Cragar SS wheels, big rear tires. I don't recall what engine it had, but I recall him complaining about poor gas mileage. He later traded it on a clean black '99 BMW 740iL..(I think the only 'foreign' car he owned out of 50+ vehicles in over 50 years of driving).

Good question. I haven't checked any of the ones near me. Closest to me would be Eastlake or South Euclid.

Nothing is plated, and the bumpers/etc are molded in. These are very simple one piece shells, but nicely rendered.

The Rounded Line generation had such a long run in 1:1, they were what I remember growing up a a kid in the 70s-80s. Good looking trucks.

None that I'm aware of...it was an MPC stock car kit that came out in the same era as the Jo-Han promo based stock car kit.