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Very cool!

A lot of nice Caddies here. Wow!

Nice.

I hope these don't get recalled for emission issues. ?

A couple of guys talked about two tests. What and where is this second test? As far 50's British cars, I'd love to try a test of my knowledge on that subject. I'm not sure how would fair? Probably not too good. Then again. You never know. I hope someone does it.

A Skoda? Cool. I hope you post photos when you get it.

I'm with Harry on this one. My favorite year for cars, styling wise, has always been 1967. In my opinion there was not a bad looking car offered by any American manufacturer that year. Other favorite years in order of ranking for me are 1972, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1959, 1957, 1958, and 1941. It doesn't make any sense. But, that's way I've felt for years now.

I'm enjoying the astronomy pictures. It's been fairly cloudy around here lately. That and living in major city, I don't get to see sites like that too often. Thank you.

Just checked it. Still working for me. A site I visit several times a week. Love looking at old box art and instructions.

Aced it. 100%

Very nice '55 Ford, Tom.

Back in the early 90's. I threw myself a birthday party. Now I'm not a big fan of cake, so I didn't plan on having one. Well, a friend who is not a good cook at all, knew this and brought a cake to the party. Great. A cake. And made by somebody who can't cook very well. Well I was a gracious host and decided enjoy the cake the best I could. Time comes sing happy birthday and blow out the candles. Then I go to cut the cake. It will not cut! No matter how hard I try. Finally I stabbed the cake. Right away I could tell something was not quite right, and my buddy was concerned that I may have damaged what it really was. It turns out he taken an '89 Batmobile model kit, wrapped in an extra layer of plastic. Then put frosting over that. Well I was lucky. The knife penetrated the box, but did no damage to the kit itself. Sad to say, but somewhere along the line I've lost the box. But I still have the Batmobile sitting on a shelf in my living room today. Needless to say, it was the best birthday cake anybody has ever given me!

Charlie, part of the reasons I work as substitute rather go full time, is politics. Working as much as I do, I hear about it in every school I work. For some reason I have not seen any with my direct employer, Kelly Services. And for that I'm greatfull. Politics is one of what I call the 3Ps that makes me glad I'm not in someplace permanently. The other two Ps are parents and political correctness. It seems like a good percentage of the time you meet a kid who's problem is behavioral, you'll find dysfunction parents and/or family behind it. Show the kid that you care about them. That you know they're really not a bad kid. That there is more going on than what we're seeing directly. And it's amazing how well the kid will respond to you. Political correctness. I'm not even going to touch that one here. It would take too much time. There are other reasons I continue working as a sub. But, no question. Working with kids is by far the must rewarding thing I've ever done in my life. I love the little poops (sometimes I say worst things than that about them).

Oh, another cute work story from Friday. Art class with a group of 2nd graders (including my one-on-one pain). They were finishing up projects that will be put on walls and shown to parents at up coming conferences. The art teacher wanted to have them make little place cards to go with their painting. On them they were to say the following: Their name Name of their painting 2nd grade, 2015 Well, some of them weren't really getting idea. So I made one for myself to show them how I do it if I had a painting to show. Mine said the following: Mr. Aho Chaos 2nd grade, 2015 My art skills being what they are, I was making a little joke about the name for my imaginary painting. A joke none of the 2nd grades got, of course. My card showed the kids what to do, and most of them then got it. But... Near the end of class I see that one young man filled out his card with the top line okay. And he filled the third line about grade level okay. But, the second. Guess what he had for the name of his painting? "Chaos"! I had a good laugh with the art teacher over that one. I wonder what his and other parents will think when they see title of his painting? There I go. Corrupting the youth again. I'm amazed sometimes that they let me keep my job!

Great story Tom. Inspiring kids, getting them interested in something healthy, and getting them indirectly to do better in general. What more can you ask for? Sometimes the little things we think are not important, are the things that help put a kid on the right course. Never discount doing things like helping kids learn stamp collecting. It may have been more important than you know. Thank you for doing it Tom.

Built my first model cars with the help of my mother on the kitchen table back in 1964 or '65. First built Aurora's Frankenstein's Fliver and Dracula's Dragster, plus a small model of a Me-262. In retrospect I'm a little surprised by the Me-262. My mother grew up in Nazi occupied Norway, and for obvious reasons didn't like anything dealing with Germany's war history. And yet we built an Me-262 as my first airplane model? By the way, I basically filled up one of the Me-262 engines with glue. I was 6 or 7 at the time. That engine got soft and mushy. And stayed that way for a long time from what I remember. From playing with and handling the model, that engine ended up looking like it had severe battle damage. And I learned right away not to use too much model glue.

Work pleased me today. I work as a substitute para in the education field. And this fall I've had work one-on-one with one particular 2nd grader (autistic), a lot. Who is a royal pain in the you know what! I again had to work with him today. Though he still will not cooperate with me 99.9% of the time. We noticed he seems to readily come to me if he's having a problem. He may act like he doesn't like me. But, he seems to trust me. And that is a nice little brake through. It just goes to show. You sometimes never know the impact you maybe having on a kid. And you can never give up on a kid. No matter how hopeless it seems at the time. At the same time, I'm glad I will not have work with him a least on Monday or Tuesday of next week. Both days I'll be working with high schoolers. An age group I love working with. And with the amount of time I've been in the business, have seen several kids make big changes over the years. Mostly for better. Yet when I'm needed, I will not turn down an assignment to work with my pain in the you know what, 2nd grader. It maybe hard. But, I do want see what's best for the kid. One other work related thing. And this was slightly humorous. This last Wedensday I was at a high school working with several kids I've been working with for many years now. The question came up, when did I start working with some of them? One kid who is in 9th grade now, I knew for sure I've been working with him since he was in 3rd grade. But, there was a girl in that class, who insisted that I've worked with her longer than with any of the others. She might be right. I can not remember. I kind of doubt it. But, that doesn't matter. She insists that I've known her longest of any of her classmates, and that's that! Okay....? Maybe she is right. I could have worked with her as early as her being in the 1st grade. I have been working as a para that long now!

Beside model cars. I collect books, magazines, and original sales literature on cars. I'm also a big fan of Star Trek. Mainly the original series. But, I like the later stuff too. I'm into Silver Age comic books. Mainly Batman and other DCs. I love old movies. Especially early science fiction. I'm also into just about anything dealing with James Bond or Sherlock Holmes. I'm big fan of the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers. So I have just about every Bond, Stooges, and Marx Bros. movie there is in my collection. I also love toys and TV shows from mainly the 1960's. I have tons of books and DVDs, mainly on the above subjects. I'm also into trains. I especially love the streamline passenger trains of the post-war period, through the 1950's. I have a small collection of N-scale stuff. I have two full consists for the Great Northern Empire Builder. One Kato. One Con-Cor. The trouble is, I have no place to set up a layout. Especially one that will work well with passenger trains. But, still I collect the stuff. I love history, especially automotive. Enough to build my own Bachelor degree in it. But, I'm interested all forms of history. If were younger and still in school, I would go on for my teaching license. Then hopefully go into teaching in the area of high school Humanties. Though I could do high school English Literature too. I've written for a few magazines over the years. Mainly for club publications on automobiles. I had a regular monthly column in the Minnesota Street Rod Association's magazine, the LineChaser for just over twenty years. I may go back to it again someday. So do I have any hobbies beyond model car building and collecting? I guess I do.

Turned out great Ray. Looks exactly like the one I remember my neighbors across the street having at the time. Man I wanted that bike. Now that I have model, I can kind of have one. The only thing is I love the color blue. Does anybody have a good idea of paint that comes in spray can, that would be very close to the blue that Honda offered on those early Trail 70s? Also Ray, can we see more pictures of yours. Maybe with the seat up? Or some closeup shots. I'm still confused on two things with this kit. What and where does the one end of the spark plug attach? And where exactly is one suppose to put the decal that goes on the front post? I don't see it on yours. It maybe blocked from view by the front forks?

I remember building that kit when it first came out in the 80's. I built it stock. The only real problem I remember having was that hood would not sit down flat with stock air cleaner in place. And yet everything else lined up fine. The engine was mounted as shown in the instructions. Overall, I was not as impressed with this kit as other's were at the time. I do not have my original one anymore. I do have an unbuilt one I picked up maybe 20 years ago. But, because of the initial impression with my first one, I've not been in a rush to build my second.

Other 1/16th scale kits I'd like see Round 2 bring back, are AMT's '55 and '57 Thunderbirds. Especially the '55. Since that's only '55 Thunderbird plastic kit that has been offered in my lifetime that I know of. Another one I'd like see of a larger scale, is Monogram's Mean Maverick Funny Car. I don't remember the exact scale of that one. And I'm not a huge funny car fan. But I have very fond memories of that kit. So, despite of storage problems, there are four larger scale kits I would not hesitate on buying. 1. MPC's 1/16th 1963 Corvette Sting Ray (but, only if it could built stock). 2. AMT's 1/16th 1955 Thunderbird. 3. AMT's 1/16th 1957 Tunderbird. 4. Mongram's Mean Maverick Funny Car. And I probably would buy AMT's large scale 1937 Cord 812 if that reappeared too. Though that one I'm a little more iffy on that one.

I want the one that can be built stock. A great kit that's not been seen in a long time.

For the most part I don't have room for the large scale stuff. I really don't have room for my 1/25th scale stuff for that matter.

Looks great!

You know. The more I look at MPC's '60. The better I like AMT's old '59.