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  1. 2 hours ago, Brudda said:

     

    I have a friend who worked at Boeing. He said ever since Lockheed Martin was part of Boeing things went down hill. Boeing had three inspections per assembly, then it went down to 2. Then one. That’s when he quit. I’ll never forget his quote ( it will be amazing if the doors do not blow off this thing)  that was awhile ago and here it happened.  Bean counters are not always a good thing. 

     

    Lockheed Martin was never "Part of Boeing".  They are two separate companies.  

  2. 11 hours ago, Mark said:

    Ford was often shortsighted in the matter of eventual V8 installations/options.  After the Falcon deal, they did the same thing again with the Maverick, the Mustang II, and the late Eighties Thunderbird.  Talk about banging your head against the wall.

    And they enlarged the engine compartment of the Pinto in 1974.  I had a 73 wagon that I swapped a 2300 engine into.  It was not a bolt-in.  The 2300 is physically larger than the 2000 that came out of the car, the compartment is smaller front-to back and the engine mounts are completely different.  That being said, the swap worked really well.

  3. Burbank's House of Hobbies has been getting some cool old kits in so I indulged and picked up a couple more.  Yesterday I picked up a 74 AMT Mustang II kit and a Hawk Monte Carlo.  I wanted to get one of these since I was about ten.

    They also had the Moebius (formerly Galaxie) 40's Chevy kits so I picked up a Coupe kit.

    We had our club meeting last night and some guys brought some kits to sell.  I acquired a Revell 67 GTX (Sox & Martin), Fujimi Ferrari Daytona, Moebius Golden Commandos AWB car and a couple other things.

     

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  4. 9 hours ago, WillyBilly said:

    I would say mine is the 1984 Corvette. I spent all of 82, and a bit of 83 waiting on the 30th anniversary 1983 Corvette to debut. I even purchased a magazine in early 1983 devoted to the all-new 1983 Corvette. Unfortunately, GM had enough setbacks to push the release date too close to the 1984 order window, the 1983 Corvette would not be a thing. This also gave GM a chance to decide to scratch the base 15" wheel before the all-new Corvette hit showrooms. 40ish cars were built for 1983 but never sold to the public. Only one 1983 Corvette still exists and is on display at the Corvette Museum. 1984 marked the only year Cross Fire Injection would exist in a C4 Corvette. It was a lousy system that needed to die a horrible death, but the air intake on the C4 was well engineered. It took fresh air from duct work molded into the clamshell hood.  

    Today I have a few 84-85 C4 model kits in various sizes, and the same magazine devoted to the all-new 1983 Corvette. I have owned many fast American and Australian cars, but never a C4 Corvette. I test drove one once and hated how low the seating position and the entering and exiting thing was a pain. But I still love the cars for what they were.

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    I have a 1984 Corvette brochure. picked up (I had to pay for it!) at the local Chevy dealer when the C4 first came out.

     

  5. 8 hours ago, Falcon Ranchero said:

    Saw quite a bit; a gorgeous tan 1974 Cadillac Eldorado convertible on a flat bed, a silver 1970 Olds 98 convertible, a 1955 or '56 Mercury, a mid-80s Dodge Power Ram, a 1967 Chrysler Newport (seen before) and a black and white 1972 Chevy truck though only got photos of three of the vehicles.

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    The mercury is a 55.

     

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  6. 23 hours ago, Rodent said:

    It was missing link and they were a repop of the JoHan Maverick. I have a couple of them and they are kind of narrow and too short to fit 67-up engine bays at all.

     

    Pretty sure Kevin used the MPC 73 Cougar engine compartment as it was a separate part and easy to duplicate.  It had its roots in the 69 "Super Cat" and 70 Cougar kits.

  7. A wrecking yard near Gooding, Idaho that had a LOT of interesting cars and trucks.  A lot of Cadillacs 40s-60s.  This place covers a lot of acreage.

    Between Ephraim and Manti, Utah, a house with several rusty 50s-60s Mopars.  In the front yard was a 2-door 62-63 Imperial with a For Sale sign in the window.

    There were banners all over Manti for the Ed Roth Reunion, which will be held next weekend.  We drove past Roth's house/museum.

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