Rob Hall

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.

Looking forward to the Revell Lambo..they are doing a new McLaren also, IIRC.. does any kit maker have a Ferrari license?

I don't think so... haven't seen it.

When I go to Home Depot and buy pavers or other stone blocks (did a bunch this year), I take a photo of the bar code and price on the shelf...inevitably the clerk doesn't know the price, so I show them the photo.. and as always, I get an email and text message from HD asking about my experience...I keep it simple...'went looking for blocks and rocks, found good blocks and rocks'....