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Beautiful. I love the color.

Nice.

Stunning! ?

Notice the license plate. It's not just any peanut car. It's MR PNUT1. The main peanut car! Does that mean there are others? If you have an accident in the car, is that called a crack up? Also I'd be careful not to park it near a group of elephants. That could be trouble!

???? Red '36 Ford pickup truck. Who sent a '36 Ford pickup into space? I'm assuming this is a pop culture reference I know nothing about. Or maybe I knew, but have forgotten about?

Wow! Impressive.

Very kool. A classic early 60's style kustom.

It looks nice. I like it.

I like the display on Starman's GPS screen in the middle of the dash. It states, "DO'NT PANIC!." The Space X folks have a great sense of humor in my opinion. As I noted, I turned 60 yesterday. And I had been feeling a little Blue about that. Two things I loved as kid were cars and space program. I knew the first time I saw 2001: A Space Oddessy back in 1968, I would be piloting that cool Moon Bus someday. Things changed quickly, most for the better. But not for cars or the space program at that time in my eyes. Cars became boring, efficient Toyota Corolla toaster clones. Doing their jobs well and safely. With kids the strapped down, and immobile in special pods in the back seats. The space shuttle? Basically a truck for bring cargo up into low earth orbit. No really adventure there. Musk is bringing the excitement back. We're running out of oil? How about an electric cars. But, for their first one, he gave us a fairly quick roadster. Not some bland and boring, resource saving, soulless, compact sedan. And when he did gave us a sedan, it was as sexy as anything Jaguar ever put out. They may not be perfect. But, they were, and are, heading in the right direction. And at the rate NASA and their government bureaucracy is going, do you think we'll see them put humans on Mars, and spread farther out into the universe before I'm dead? No 2001 Moon Buses coming from them. But, with Musk and Space X it's looking more hopeful. It's time for humans to leave this planet, and start exploring the unknown, in a hands on way again. We are smart creatures. God has given us the brains, and the resources to figure these things out. And we now know that there are places out there for us to explore. Maybe colonize. And find resources to continue bettering our lives. Thank you Elon Musk for the wonderful birthday gift you gave me yesterday. And thank you for having fun while doing so. The more I see of both Tesla and Space Xs projects, the more excited I become. Rather looking at what limits us. Your stretching out, reaching for a brighter future. It may not effect my life directly. I doubt that I will personally ever drive a Moon Bus. Or the even see the surface of the Moon personally. And that's okay. Elon Musk is at least giving me hope. We need more people out there like Mr. Musk.

By the way, the car was exposed to space once it got there. I think it's pretty cool that a private company can put a car and dummy in space. And land major peices of it's rocket back near were they started from. This to me miraculous. The future is getting closer. I turned 60 years old yesterday, when this was all happening. Maybe I'll get to see humans on Mars before I die. Thank you Elon Musk.

Inside. I'm amazed the boosters back come to the cape for a landing, and upright. Just like the sci-fi rockets in the 1950's!

Wow! Very nice looking truck. And trailer. Hope see the Cobra soon.

Cool. Very nicely done.

You know, that's not a bad idea. They would look more correct used in that application. I like that idea. Thanks.

When? Any photos of anything with the kit and the Lindberg logo together? Box art, or something like that? I don't remember ever seeing anything like that from Lindberg.

That's sound like good news. I hope it happens. Thanks Tim.

Wow! Not one single comment on this one. That's okay. They're nicely designed kits. But very boring, and again not really a good match for my layout. I'll be sticking with the very nice Atlas switching tower. Don't know what I'm going to do with these two.

Is the seal needed in vehicles like Dune Buggys, where they'd be of little use? Do these engines run hot under those applications? And do the Volkswagen engines run hot under similar circumstances for the same reasons?

I'm with you on the Catalina and El Camino. Those two are the two I'm most likely to pickup. Sorry to say, as others have noted here, Rob missed it on the Commando kit set up. The real vehicle went to AMC engines, along with the other Jeeps for '72. The Commando also got the new front end at the same time. As noted, MPC updated the looks of their Commando kit. But not the engine. The kit still has the Dauntless (Buick) V6 in it. It maybe wrong. But it's okay with me. That's the way kits were done back then. Most kids would have never known it was wrong.

I like it. Very nice.

Lindberg kit? Lindberg offered a kit of this generation Ford?

A great job of building a turd. I'm impressed.

If done right, this could be good.

Okay!? No offense, but kind of a lame bit of humor. (I'm assuming you were going for humor?) A little funny the more I think about it. But.....

I'm sorry. I don't get this? What does an Type 2 VW bus have to do with "ham"? I'm missing something here.