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  1. USPS Rates are based on the distance the item travels in addition to its dimensions and weight though. Shipping a single kit in the Zones near me on the Eastern Seaboard will cost under $7 (using wholesale rates), but that same kit will cost nearly $12 to ship into the Rockies, and nearly $14 to go the whole way to the West Coast. Using Ground might knock $2-3 off a full-on West Coast shipment, but that's still around $11.97 for one U.S. shoebox sized model kit. Those are the wholesale discount rates, if you walked into your local Post Office and shipped it OTC (Over the Counter) you're going to pay an additional on top, so that West Coast box will cost $18.05!
  2. Come on Dan, you live in Arizona...so you know it snows quite a bit up North, ergo the need for ski resorts. You wouldn't take a Charger off-road - albeit don't tell that to the Arkansas State Police - regardless of the drivetrain configuration, but AWD Chargers are for winter weather, not running around in OHV Pursuits. It would make sense for DPS to have AWD Chargers as a standard fleet order so you wouldn't have to worry about where you're assigning them out of fleet maintenance. Georgia tried to run a split fleet and keep the AWD units North of Atlanta where it snows regularly, and it's been somewhat of a mess trying to keep AWD spares available. There has always been a limited number of the AWD specific transmissions available per year, and if you didn't order your new cars early enough you didn't get AWD Chargers that year. Also, earlier AWD Chargers on the older (Pre-2015 facelift) cars didn't have a specific AWD rim. It was the 2015+ cars that got bigger brakes that necessitated a different rim package than the RWD cars which continued to use the same brake size (and rims) from the 2006+ cars.
  3. You'd have to do a printing of the hood decals all by themselves included as a separate sheet from the rest of the decals. There's no technical way to "spray" a decal sheet with two different types of clear coat when its screen printed like you're suggesting.
  4. The wheels in the picture you took are the AWD specific steel wheels, they're the second wheel option to the AWD dress hubcaps are supposed to be in the box too. The kit itself is still RWD...not a total deal breaker for me as nobody is going to flip the model over and demand to examine the front drivetrain. Steve mentioned here in the past that they might consider doing a 2nd release that would have the RWD steel wheels & dress hubcaps.
  5. I believe that stems mostly from the fact that the last time the kit tooling had been run it was done as the Flareside and so when they loaded it up on the machine and pressed play it spit out exactly what was loaded into the inserts from the last time. The only difference in the short-bed accessory insert (between the Flareside & Lightning beds) is the width of the tail gate. Nobody in China would necessarily know one tail gate from another in an American Truck that was 30+ years old.
  6. I'd presume it's a reissue of the one-time only Street Machine version of the 90s tool 1960 Fleetside. Don't believe this has ever been offered again after the 1999 release.
  7. Another couple of items received I forgot to add. Several of the new S.K. Decals sheets for the NuNu BMW 320i (2008) kit.
  8. The Cannuck one to the North. I was watching one at one of my usual suspects once Alpha themselves run out and of course someone bought it out from under me over the weekend when I went to grab it on a Monday.
  9. Also arriving in today's mail. This required a cross border international incident to acquire, as once the run of 100 pcs sells out they become instant unobtanoum.
  10. Few more things trickled into my dungeon from HLJ. The J. Ferie can be built as a LHD Infiniti J30.
  11. But the mold "stealing" the employees did when they weren't paid took place back in the mid-late 70s when John Handley still ran the company. It's the reason all the subsequent Golden Oldies kits came out missing all of the "flat box" additional parts and often times the wrong later interiors in earlier versions of the same car.
  12. Makes sense, the only stock part the BTTF kit doesn't seem to carry is the rear window/hatch area. Otherwise everything else that makes it the time machine is molded separately in the new BTTF kit which should be released in April.
  13. It's the same kit, pretty sure Doyusha wound up with all (or almost all) of the old LS molds. They reissue the stuff on a very irregular basis, but they're still in business.
  14. HL has 1,001 stores. Also not every Wal*Mart carried models, only the locations that have a proven track record of moving units in past years. Every time Wally tries to expand the selection to a broader base of stores they wind up supplying Ollie's with a truckload of "unsaleable" product - as seen earlier this year when the 2023 Christmas Displays were liquidated.
  15. Seems reasonable to ban that stuff to me. I thought the point of Cars & Coffee was to show off unique high end stuff and eclectic classic cars? At least locally that was always what was allowed to park at the actual venue. Kinda loses it's point when any 25 yr old redneck with a Shelby Mustang his daddy bought him can be part of the show. There's enough of that sort of thing at the local county parks on summer weeknights.
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