Tom Geiger

At the end of NNL East every year as we do the final comments, I have had the thought that someone in the room will not be with us the next year. It seems the very old guys just soldier on and we see them every year. The guys who pass are often a shock, some of them are younger and looked perfectly fine the last time we saw them. That's why we need to be good to each other. This past year I had one of those moments. I am 65 and was anticipating retiring at the 67 3/4 for full social security or even 70 since I liked my work and feel good. We were at our club meeting and talking about what we were going to do when we retired. Al Raab spoke about working another year to wind down his business and then was going to retire and spend his time resin casting the masters he had been saving up. He looked good at 66 and had just had Lasik surgery so he was without glasses for the first time in the 30 years I knew him. Within a month he was dead. Stepped out of the shower one morning, had a major heart attack and died on the spot. That changed everything for me. I retired on my 65th birthday. I know I have some time now, but maybe not 2 years from now. Today I work on growing my little eBay stamp business and play with hobbies. I spend time with my family. I babysit! Time much better spent than working for an ungrateful company!

Age is just a number, ask Willy Nelson!

Congrats! Funny thing, my daughter's friend just named her son "Maverick"... I told my daughter that it was a 1970s low cost car! I forgot the name was put on the new pickup. I see a lot of these and new Broncos around town.😂

Lives spent sleeping are wasted lives, as Ben Franklin said, "There will be enough sleep in the grave!"

Boring people have no hobbies or interests and spend their time sleeping on the couch

Popular sentiment seems to be that adult modelers are old men playing with kids toys.

as fighting begins

Month after month there are model car shows across the country, but NNL East was last month on Saturday April 27th in Wayne, NJ and that never stopped people from calling me the morning of the show from Parsippany, NJ asking "where is everyone?" even though we haven't been at that hall in over 15 years, nor do the idjits who call me on Sunday with the same question and then argue with me that NNL East is always on a Sunday, um... Nope never!

Don't buy anything advertised on Facebook! I saw a shelving system that held shoes. From the video on the ad, and the company's website this was the perfect size for the shoe boxes I use for my stamp store. I ordered, and got bogus tracking information that showed the item delivered to Washington State. I live in Pennsylvania. Then the ads stopped, the website is down and the customer service email comes back bad. Then suddenly the ads are back with a completely new company name. Same video! I complained to Facebook and got back a message that they reviewed my request and the ad doesn't violate their community standards! Same with all the ads for Forever Stamps at $20 a roll of 100! Those are counterfeit stamps produced in China. Facebook allows the ads.

Um no... the Danbury Mint cars were designed by Rick Hanmore and Doug Whyte, both very knowledgeable car guys, and esteemed members of the model car community. I saw both of them at NNL East this past weekend.

Back when my family owned the service station, I was working there one morning and my brother-in-law asked me to move an RX-7 into the service bay. He was so big he couldn't get into it! I used to bust his chops that if he won a new car it would be an RX-7

Wow! So sad. I haven't been on the board as of late as I was busy with preparations for NNL East. So sorry to hear he is gone! RIF Snake!

New Jardiance commercial

I started this for the 24 Hour build In January, but engaged in overcomplicatous and it hasn’t been completed yet. I decided to go the six cylinder route and got hung up on fit and details to make it all fit. I also chose the wrong paint. I thought I had Tamiya yellow but found I had a near empty can. So I found another brand that never dried during the 24 hours. It is dry now and plenty shiny!

Concept cars are either very cool or way off the mark