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Are the seats incorrect? True they do have headrests, but headrests were optional on the '67 Pontiacs. Including the GTOs.

And your point here is? The sides of the wagon were wood. The tailgate was normally painted to look like wood.

Oh, I forgot to mention who lutefisk was invented. Back in the Viking days, the Irish got tired of these rude northern neighbors coming to visit from time to time. So to get rid of them, they decided to start serving them cod poisoned with lye. Instead of killing the Vikings off. They kept coming back for second and third helpings. ?

Okay, I had to save the image above. That pretty good humour.

Oh, good! So I'm not going senile after all. ? I thought I remembered the cafe scene. After all it was pretty dramatic, and I thought helped move the story farther along.

Ah, your all a bunch of wimps. Complaining about a little snow. Got to be tough (or is that stupid?) like us up here in the ice box of the lower 48. (Where again is that gun?) ?

I went with friends to a lutefisk dinner last night at a local church. I've haven't had lutefisk since my mother passed away almost ten years ago now. For those who don't know, lutefisk is Scandinavian delicacy normally served around Christmas time. It is cod fish that has been preserved in lye. The lye is then soaked out of the fish. It is when cooked and consumed. It sounds awful, and amongst Scandinavians and non Scandinavians alike you'll hear a lot of jokes about how bad lutefisk is. Especially the smell. And the jello like texture. But, most of this is overly exaggerated. The smell is distinct. But, if it smells too strong and has a jello like appearance, it's been cooked wrong. Well cooked lutefisk should still be somewhat flaky, like normal fish. Normally lutefisk is not something I overly look forward to. I don't mind it. But, once a year around Christmas time has always been enough. And since not having it in last ten years, I was wondering if I was really going to like it at all now. I guess the Norwegian half of me still has a strong hold over me. I actually enjoyed it a lot! In fact I was surprised how much I liked it. I definitely plan on going back next year! Oh, and company I went with was great. One of the few high school friends I still keep in regular contact with, and his wife. He like me, is half Norwegian and half Fin. His wife is full Norwegian. (Not having any Finish blood in her, I feel sorry for her.) My buddy, who's also named Scott, sister is very active in the Lutheran church were this dinner takes place. I feel sorry for her poor husband, who has no Scandinavian background, raised Catholic, and has a allergy to eating fish. And yet every year he helps with severing this meal. Yet with his outgoing personality, don't feel too sorry for him. Between the Swedish meatballs and his active participation in the church, which he loves. I don't really feel sorry for him at all. I just think it was terrible of Scott's sister to take a nice Catholic boy like he was and corrupt him with the Lutheran ways and lutefisk. (Though in 25 or so years it hasn't seemed to harm him. And his Catholic parents and siblings, whom I also know, haven't rejected him. So I suspect he'll be okay.) One last thing. In case your wondering. There are a surprising number of people out there who like lutefisk. The church had at least three seatings, maybe more, with right around 200 people at each! And every year you have to get your tickets by November, because they sell out! So see. Lutefisk is maybe not that bad after all.

Was Chuck's Cafe were Weaver's character considers confronting the different drivers, trying to figure out which one was trying to run him down? You know, where he orders the cheese sandwich and gets into a fight with one. I would have swore that was in the made for TV version. I thought I remember him looking over at each guy at the lunch counter, wondering if that was the guy. And what he should say to him?

Nippy?! We'll have to nip you! California folk........ ?

The chopped up steering wheel in the real truck was from a '66 Toronado. It still has the Olds Rocket on the horn button!

Just went back to the Drastic Plastic model instruction site myself. And looked at all of the 1963 - 1967 AMT Corvette kits they had instructions for. All of the '63 - '67 AMT Corvette kits, except one, had the buckets seats molded into the interior bucket. Including the '63 and '64 convertibles. The one with seperate seats? The '65 AMT Corvette convertible. They do not have the instructions for the '66 or '67 convertible. But, I'm willing to bet that those more than likely have the seperate buckets seats too. Interesting that the coupes, from what I could see stayed with bucket seats molded into the interior bucket. I also find it interesting that when AMT brought back the '63 convertible, they went back to the interior with the seats molded in the interior bucket.

Sorry Snake, go to the Drastic Plastic web site and look at the instructions for AMT's '63 Corvettes. I can not find one with seperate seats. Now other years I don't know. But, we were talking about 1963, and from what I can see and have seen all of AMT's '63 Vettes have seats molded into the interior bucket.

The forecast for Sunday calls for a high temperature here of -7 degrees Fahrenheit! That's the high! Will the hell never end?

Why breed fish your not going to eat? Breed some Walleye or Northerns. ?

Now you tell me this Snake. I was wondering what I was doing wrong. ?

Both of AMT's 63's, the coupe and the convertible, have the seats molded into the interior bucket.

This explains why they've been ignoring their older website.

Read the other recent '63 Corvette reviews here. It will give you a idea about how the 1/25th scale AMT and Revell compare to each other. As note above there was never a 1/25th scale MPC '63 Corvette. They a very nice 1/16th scale one though.

How bad did they ruin the molds doing this? Is there enough there for Round 2 to easily restore this kit back to the Astro showcar?

Just ordered mine from a vender on eBay. I'm still hoping somebody will do a review of this kit.

Oh and Richard Matheson, the writer of Dual, is one of the greatest writers of all time. Famous for stories like I am Legend, and the Incredible Shrinking Man, amongst others. Wrote a lot of early the Twilight Zone episodes. By the way, do not judge I am Legend by Will Smith movie. Read the original story. It's much, much better. Or see the Vincent Price movie version, Last Man On Earth. A low budget film, but captures the feel of the original story pretty well.

The scene in Chuck's cafe? I saw the movie when it was originally on TV. And I thought the cafe science was in it? It's been 45 years, so I could be wrong on that one.

Ah... Cute.

I too think that's brilliant. ?

Good question!