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I'm disappointed. I thought the Automotive Acronyms would have gotten a better response. And we would see more added to the list. I know there are more out there.

Joe you must remember nothing really happens out side NYC. We live a very basic existence out here. Its pretty primitive. I too have never heard Violets candy or gum.

What was the car Auto World's Oscar Koveleski use to race in the early 70's? Wasn't that a Can-Am car? And was that ever offered as a model kit?

As I noted in my last posting here, I went a head and bought a 1/24 Monogram '65 off eBay just now. It's morning, and my pay check is in the bank.

If I do it Snake, I'll buy the '65 with the big block hood, and the big block under the hood. I already looked on eBay. I think I'll be buying one tomarrow morning after my pay check hits the bank. By the way, and I don't know why, but I really do not like the idea of putting a big block hood on a small block car. The small block cars are cool in there own right. And I like the smooth, small block hood, of '65, '66, and '67 on the small block cars. A good reason to buy Mongram's 1/8 scale Corvette if it's rereleased. That and it has the standard wheel covers. (Again, I like the aluminum wheels better. But, I like the wheel covers too.) For me it's a bit of heresy to put a big block hood on a small block car.

In general, most every kit I buy, I buy with the intent to build. There are three though, I bought without the thought of ever building them. One is Revell's '67 Corvette roadster that came in the tin collectors box. Two, Round 2s 1/32 '66 Batmobile, also in a tin collectors box. I've have both of these kits in other forms. So I bought then just to always have them. The third kit is an odd one. I bought it strictly because of the box art. I have almost no interest in ever building the kit. And that is Minicraft's 1/200 scale Spruce Goose, with Pan American markings. The Pan Am Hercules Clipper Universe. The box art looks like a Pan Am travel poster from the late 40's. It shows the famous beach at Oahu, Hawaii. Diamond Head in the background. A beautiful Hawaiian girl in the foreground offering you a lai. And above it, passing in front of the sun, a huge Hughes' Hercules flying boat in Pan Am colors. I'm ready to go right now..... Well, for sure in Febuary. And in photos I've found on line of the model built? It looks great built! I've built a plane or two over the years. I've have other craft/vehicles in Pan Am markings. For its still my favorite airline. I also have other Pan Am stuff waiting to be built. But, for what ever reason, I just have no interest in building this one. I can not tell you why?

The Revell '67s are by far the nicest of the C2 kits in 1/25 IMO. The Revell '63s are wonderful too. The old AMT kits are still look good overall. Since I've never had, or even seen the Monogram '65, in either scale, I have to wait to pass judgement on it. Other than Snake's fixed version, the roof of the 1/24 does look odd on the box art. I still may buy one. I like the '65/'66 big block hood. Not as much as the 67's. But I still like it. That is one vendor's website indicating Mongram's big 1/8 scale '65 is suppose to be coming back on in 2016? I've found no one else confirming this. I hope it's true. I may buy one. I like what I've seen of it in others builds, and in the instructions over at Drastic Plastic's site. If they bring it back, I'd like them to do a Round 2 style packaging. Bring it back to what you got with the original back in '65. Blue plastic, the instructions, the catalog. The whole bit. Again, I've never seen Monogram's 1/12 scale '67. I am surprised to see that Monogram has done 3 C2s in 3 different scales. As noted, I love the '67 in big block roadster form. Don't know why, but the coupe doesn't work for me as well. Though I do have the Revell '67 coupe in waiting. At the same time, I curious about Monogram's 1/12 scale kit. I really wish Round 2 would reissue AMT's 1/32 scale '63 split window. (That and the '60 T-bird.) Again, after the '67 big block roadster, I love the '63 coupe in pecking order of my favorite Corvettes. C2 or any other generation. I will build just about any '63 coupe kit out there. I love the split window. I hope Round 2 did well enough with the AMT 1/32 scale Avanti and Ranchero to justify bring back the Vette and Bird. Speaking of C2 Vettes in model form. As a kid I had a '65 Cox gas power one. 1/16 scale I beleive. My dad put it together. Using no paint. Just assembling it for me. Still, it looked great in its red molded plastic. We never got around to firing it up a running it. It just sat a shelve in my bedroom with a small can of Cox fuel, next to my other finished models for years. Where it disappeared to when I left home? Who knows? A few years back, a friend gave me a '67 Cox Vette as a gift. Because he knew how much I loved that first Cox Vette I had. Also, the first three models I built with my mother's help back in 1964 or '65, were Aurora's Frankenstein's Fliver and Dracula's Dragster, and a ME-262 jet. The fourth kit I remember working on with my dad. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it may have been MPC's '65 Sting Ray coupe. The box art looks right. But that was so long ago, and would have been about seven years old at the time. One last C2 story. I still remember the first '63 Sting Ray I ever saw. One morning after watching Romper Room on TV, the next show was a game show. I remember almost nothing about that show. Other than at one point they showed the new Corvette Sting Ray. Even as a young kid I loved cars. But this car was more special than anything I had seen before. It was very sleek looking. And it had no headlights! Then they turned the headlights on. The buckets rolled over exposing the headlamps! They shut them off. The headlamps rolled back, disappearing! I was blown out of my 5 year old stockings. This was amazing! Plus the car had that weird rear window. I fell in love. And 53 years later, I'm still in love.

And more from Car Crazy. Excu-u-u-u-u-se Me Actual excuses for auto accidents, taken from insurance-company records: "Coming home I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don't have." "The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions." "I thought the window was down, but I found out it was up, when I put my head through it." "I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way." "A truck backed through my windshield into my wife's face." "A pedestrian hit me and went under my car." "The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve several times before I hit him." "I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law, and headed over the embankment." "In an attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole." "As I reached an intersection, a hedge sprang up, obscuring my vision, and I did not see the other car." "I had been driving for 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident." "I was on my way to the doctor with rear-end trouble when my universal joint gave way causing me to have an accident." "As I approached the intersection, a sign suddenly appeared in a place where no stop sign had ever appeared before." "To avoid hitting the bumper of the car in front, I struck the pedestrian." "The indirect cause of the accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth." "I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the road when I struck him." "I was thrown from my car as it left the road. I was later found in the ditch by some stray cows." "The telephone pole was approaching. I was attempting to swerve out of its way, when it struck the front end." "I saw a slow-moving, sad-faced old gentleman as be bounced off the roof of my car."

Beautiful!

Nice to see. The first one I ever seen built.

I use maybe a half dozen different glues. Depending on the need. Sometimes the good old Testors glue in the tube is still the best one to use. But, I use Testors Model Master liquid glue more than any other.

More from the book Car Crazy. Some Bumper Stickers We Like As long as there are tests there will be prayer in school. Ask first if the animal wants to be killed. Bad spellers of the world untie. Hang up and drive! Happiness is the ball in the fairway. Honk once if you're Jesus, twice if you're Elvis. Honk if you're Jesus, otherwise shut up! I fear no weevil. I like cats, they taste just like chicken. I brake for hallucinations. I'd rather be right than P.C. If you do own the road, I'd like to talk to you about these potholes. If you've got a problem ask a teenager while they're still young enough to know it all. Life is like a box of chocolates: full of nuts. Mean people suck. My other car is a Zamboni. My karma just ran over your dogma. My other bumper sticker is funny. My reality check bounced. To err is human; to really screw up you need a computer. Visualize whirled peas. Who needs Santa? I've got Grandma. Wow! I could've had a V8! You can't hug your kids with nuclear arms. Okay, some were not that funny. Some seem a little dated. But, that makes sense since the book was published in 1996. As noted twenty years ago now. Here is one I have on the bumper of my Buick: "Let me get this straight, your Honda has 1.8 liters. And my Mountain Dew has 2?"

Whoops. I should have read the link Snake posted before I asked the question about painting the Sting Ray red for the movie. It states right in there, that's why it was done.

Okay, that makes sense. Plus I knew that the Sting Ray was painted red at some point. Was the movie the reason for that, I wonder? I know that was the reason for painting the Lincoln Futura red. So it showed up better on film, in the the movie It Started With a Kiss.

Again, thanks Snake. You always seem to provide good information. Now you've got me thinking. Despite the problems you describe with the 1/24 scale Monogram '65, I may have to pick one up, just to have it. Now, who has had their hands on the big 1/8 scale '65?

Come on guys! With all of bad news out there this summer, we can use more humour to lighten up the mood and help keep our sanity. Give us more joke. Even if they need to be explained to me. Or they are just plain bad. All I ask is keep them clean and don't be gross or truly mean. Speaking of mean. Mean Automotive Acronyms Audi - Accelerates Under Demonic Influence BMW - Big Money Waster; Bought My Wife; Bumbling Mechanical Wretch Buick - Big Ugly Import Car Killer Chevrolet - Can Hear Every Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips; Cracked Heads, Every Valve's Rotten, Oil Leaks Every Time Dodge - Dead On Day Guarantee Expires; Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere Edsel - Every Day Something Else Leaks Fiat - Failure In Automotive Technology; Fix It Again, Tony Ford - Fix Or Repair Daily; Found On Road Dead; Fast Only Rolling Downhill GM - General Maintenance GMC - Generaly Mediocre Cars Honda - Had One Never Did Again Hyundai - How You Understand Nothing's Drivable And Inexpensive Jeep - Just Eats Every Part MG - Money Guzzler Pinto - Put In Nickel To Operate Saab - Swedish Automobile-Always Broken VW - Virtually Worthless The above list comes from a book called Car Crazy, by Dean Danphinnis and Peter Gareffu. Published twenty years ago now. It has some other humous and interesting I'll share more of in the near future. And their are more Automotive Acronyms out there. So of which are appropriate to share here. But, if you know of some more, I hope you'll share them.

Has anybody ran across really good chili out there? In my earlier posts here, I mention 3. Steak and Shake's, which is my favorite. Skyline out of the Cincinnati, Ohio area. Again, very good. And Wendy's. Who's chili is okay. From what I can tell, the Cincinnati, Ohio area is one of few places in the country where they really understand, appreciate, and know how to serve good chili. There are several chains in the area that specialize in chili. And this isn't the "macho" spicy hot chili like they like to brag about in places like Texas. It's tasty chili that one can truly enjoy. Sad to say, in Minnesota were stuck basically with canned chili, like Hormel's, other than Wendy's. Like I said, I done mind Wendy's chili. And I even like Hormel's out of a can. But, they're nothing compared to Steak and Shake, Skyline, or other Cincinnati chain. When it comes to interesting and/or truly tasty food, Minnesota in many ways is a vast wasteland.

What Elvis movie did the Mako Shark appear in, painted red?

Let's not open that can of worms again. ?

Sorry to drag another one up. But I like these Renwal Revival series cars. And again, Alan did a great job on them.

Had too look at this one again. I like it! And again Alan, you did a great job on it.

One I forgot to mention above, is a nice 1957 Chevrolet Nomad. I keep wondering when somebody is going to get around to doing one right? That is a kit I beleive would sell big time. Where is it?

Looking at the instructions for MPC's 1/25 scale Vettes over at the Drastic Plastic site, it's amazing to see that they did not do as you suggested with their 1/16 scale version. There is quite a bit of differences in both the engine and chassis in each kit. More than I would have expected. At the Drastic Plastic site, I also looked at the instructions for Monogram's 1/8 scale '65 Corvette. Interesting. I've always wondered how hard or easy it is to build that kit? And I've always wondered how well they looked when finished? And how do they compare to Monogram's 1/24 scale '65 Vette designed years later? The big one, the 1/8 scale car, represents a fuel injected car. Their 1/24 scale, a big block, 396 car. I've never built a Monogram C2 Sting Ray, particaly because of the scale. I have plenty of 1/24 scale Monogram kits. But mainly of stuff that is not offered in 1/25 scale. And I've just never had the opertunity buy or receive as a gift, the 1/8 scale kit. I don't even know if I've even seen either of the Monogram C2 kits built or unbuilt. Ever.

This did not happen today, but still pleases me several days later. I belong to a group of pirates. We show up at mainly parties and parades, and other things like that. Sometimes we're paid. Other times we do charity events for free. Our star attraction is our captain, who looks just like Johnny Depp out of costume, and exactly like Jack Sparrow in. Me? I'm Dudley the Deckhand. A low ranking, but playful pirate that kids seem to love. My costume is much simpler, and my personality much more open, that I can play with people much more freely than Captain Jack can. This last Saturday we got invited to work the Pope county fair in Glenwood, Minnesota. A very nice little county fair out in a rural part of the state. The type of nice old fashion fair that I love going to, to this day. There was a little rain when we first got there. Limiting the activity at the fair somewhat at first. So we had to wander around in the different buildings harassing people. Soon the sun came out. The grounds started to dry. Wet or dry, like at most of our pirate actives, I ended up getting into many different "battles", mainly with kids. I have a vary lame plastic pirate sword, and a plastic pirate style squirt gun. I must admit, I am not a very good pirate. I lose just about every battle I'm in. Dying many times at the many events we go to in the many of duals. Sometimes being killed, like in this last event, by something as simple as balloon swords! One thing they had that was fun, was the turtle races. For $2 a kid could rent a turtle (a local painted turtle) and put them in a small center circle, hoping their turtle will be the first to cross over the line of another larger circle, maybe ten feet out. Well, our quartermaster, "Hemi" came up with a great idea. He wanted to enter me as his turtle, in the turtle race. So I was put in the center circle with the other turtles, then let go. Needless to say, I did not do to well in the race. Hemi had some kids on the side lines trying coaxing me with to come out with some gold coins. But I kept on getting destracted by rocks, other turtles, and things like that. So, some other turtle won! (I personally think it was rigged. I should have easily beaten that turtle. But, this was my first turtle race. And I think they got a professional turtle as ringer. I wonder where I can file an official protest? As you can tell we have a lot of fun. And the crowd seen to enjoy us enough, that there is talk about having us come back next year. On the way home, we stopped at a fairly well know restuant called Charlie's in Freeport, Minnesota. To say the least, we cause a little bit of a stir showing up there, as we were still in our costumes. But, the other guests and staff seem to enjoy us being there and several pictures with us were taken. This was my first time at Charlie's. I've been meaning stop for years. It was worth the stop. Their food, and the prices they charged for it, were very good. I was also impressed with my old 2000 Buick LeSabre on the trip. There were four of us in car. Adults in body size at least. The trunk was loaded to the gills with our prirate accouterments. Including a tent we didn't use and serveral heavy sand bags to hold that tent in place if needed. Putting the car's auto leveling to a little more work than its normally use to. At just under 130,000 miles, the car still runs fine. We rode in air conditioned comfort. And at the end of the trip still got 28 mpg. Not as good as the 30 mpg I've gotten on the highway in the past. But, considering the weight we were hauling, mainly in the trunk, I can't complain. By the way, if your interested, I'm sure you can find photos of us this last Saturday on Facebook by looking up "Twin Cities Captain Jack." There are other Captain Jack impersonators in the area. So you have to again look for "Twin Cities Captain Jack" if you wish to see us.

There is only one thing I can predict for 2017. And that is, I'll buy more kits than I'll ever be able to get around to building. Which is cool with me. With that said, I'd like to see the following in 2017: 1. The Renwal Revival series mentioned above. I don't know if the dies still exist. Or if they would really sell that well or not. But, I'd love to own the whole set. 2. AMT's '34 Ford pickup truck. Since Round 2 picked up Lindberg a couple of years ago, I'm surprised this hasn't been been done yet. 3. Like Snake and a few others talked about early on in this thread, I love to see an early second generation Camaro without the RS front end. And as an SS rather than another Z-28. I do like the RS front end on the second gen Camaro better than the non RS. But, not by much. So a non RS Camaro would be welcome. 4. That basic non RS front end look also came on the early Vegas. Another car I'd loved to see come back. I'm afraid that with the updating done to the original tooling we would have to settle for the Monza version of the Vega hatchback body. I'm not a big fan of many of the smaller cars built with the bigger bumpers after 1972. Pre-73 Vegas, Pintos, Mavericks, and Comets would all be welcome. Pre-'73 Gremlins and Hornets (especially a '71 SC360) would be welcome too. 5. I would like to see Revell do a RS/SS convertible based on their new '67 Camaro tooling. 6. Revell should do a couple of Rancheros. One off their new '57 Ford tooling. And another based off of their '70 Torino GT kit. Even a '75/'76 based off of their Starsky and Hutch Torino would be okay. And number 7. Like many others, I'm still waiting for a Dodge Demon. I still don't understand why Round 2 did not follow through with this? Can I predict if any of the above will come true? No. But I hope so.