Rob Hall

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'....

My mail carrier is a gem. Since I have a long driveway, she brings the paper mail and packages down the driveway and leaves them at the side kitchen door, and if I can catch her, she will take outbound mail packages and scan them. The local post office counter staff are surly and rude, so I go to the next suburb over (only a mile further) to their post office which has much more pleasant staff.

I have both. For the Zephyr, I'm looking at the AMT '40 Ford coupe, and for the Cadillac, planning to use the Revell Eldorod Cadillac for the chassis...to do something more stockfish, I might use the Revell '50 Olds 88.

Yes, I have thought about that...I'm 55, have probably north of 2500 kits I've accumulated over the years...unless I become immortal, I'll never be able to build all of them...

Neat..I seem to recall that Moebius was planning an AWB '65 Dodge Coronet 2dr sedan in addition to the AWB ht that came out a while back..