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I'm not sure what to make of this one? How did he get it up on there? And look at the damage the front tire did to the box. Is this a good idea? Or even safe? I just don't know? - Scott

Your welcome Dave. But I wasn't the one who posted the link, or was even the first to mention the film. It is cool though. And yea, even if the factory put weights over the gas tank to counter this. I still can see problems driving one in the winter around here. - Scott

Oh darn, I thougt this was going to be about really pretty Polish girls. Am I disappointed. - Scott

The upper picture in Greg's last post is for sure Avanti. What the lower picture is, I don't know? - Scott

I think it was Revell. - Scott

Here's another of my favorites. The 1954 Chevrolet Corvette Corvair show car.

Your right, it is a dumb question. Just kidding. There really are no dumb questions as far as I'm concerned. Yes Fordor and Tudor were Ford only spellings for the most part. Other may have been others who used "Tudor" too. But, I've never seen it. - Scott

Here's a joke I like from the most famous Joker of them all. Batman's archenemy. This one comes from Alan Moore's great story, Batman: The Killing Joke. The Joker told it Batman after he was defeated by him. And it even made Batman laugh. So it must be a pretty good joke. "See, there were two guys in a in a lunatic asylum... And one night, one night they decide they don't like living in the asylum any more. They decide they're going to escape! So, like, they get up onto the roof, and there, just across this narrow gap, they see rooftops of the town, stretching away in the moonlight... Stretching away to freedom. Now, the first guy, he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend daredn't make the leap. Y'see... Y'see, he's afraid of falling. So then, the first guy has an idea... He says "Hey! I Have my flashlight with me! I'll shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk along the beam and join me!" B-but the second guy just shakes his head. He suh-says... He says "Wh-what do you think I am? Crazy?" "You'd turn it off when I was half way across!" - Scott

What is the worst vegetable to have on a boat? Leeks. What has four wheels and flies? A garbage truck. - Scott

Back to the "Boonedocker" decals. The decals replicate the dealer installed, factory authorized, "feathers" decal package for the real 1972 Blazers. From what I can tell by doing a little web searching, the real 1:1 decals did not come with decals for the rear side windows. And may have had a decal for tailgate not included on the AMT decal sheet. Other than that, it's right on. Chevrolet's ads from the time showed a white Blazer w/white top and the feathers decals. It had drawing of other package available for other Chevy. Plus there was folding brochure showing the available packages, shown below. All the photos I can find of the real decal package, show it on either an all white Blazer. Or very light yellow Blazer w/white top. Does anybody know if this package was authorized by Chevrolet to be used with other colors? Like the gold shown on the Boonedocker model kit. What other colors might this decal package look good with? Scott

Thanks, Skip - Scott

Very nice. Very clean. Scott

Now that is funny. Scott

Very nice. I did mine in purple to match my AMT Meyer's Manx. And I agree, Zingers are fun to build. For some reason I did not have the problems you had. My only question is, would air scoop work facing that direction they show. I built mine that way too. But, it just doesn't seem quite right to me. Scott

How about some photos guys! As they say, a picture speaks a 1000 words. Scott

I love the Rampside above. Someone from Europe posted a built up Premeir Rampside one time on YouTube I believe. I don't know if it's still there or not. But, I surprised how good the thing actually looked. I would love to see a model of a Rampside or Greenbriar van someday. But, this is another one I will not be holding my breather for. Scott

Oh, oh. That second IHOBBY picture in Gerry posting above, shows the '61 Pontiac! I hope this does start the complaining again! Remember. It just a test shot! Scott

I only have one argument with what you said above Gary. And that is your first sentance. Ralph Nader was not looking for publicity for himself or his career. I have met the man. I don't agree with his views on a lot of things. But, he seems to be an honest man trying to do right thing for the public. He did not seek the spot light that Corvair and GM gave him. He wrote a book on car safety that few people read at the time. GM didn't like what he had to say about their Corvair, so they hired private detectives to dig up dirt on the guy. Not only did they not find any dirt, they got caught by a Washington reporter trying to do it. Now if GM is worried about what this Nader guy is saying, there must be some truth behind it. And again, despite my liking the Corvair, there was some. So the Washington reporter looks into into it. And reports on it. This all blows up in GM's face. Nader is partially right. And GM is trying to invade Mr. Nader's private life for nefarious reasons. To top it off, Mr. Nader worked for at that time a powerful U.S. senator. Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. And he was interested in automobile safety. GM's chairman James Roche gets called into the senate and ends up publicly apologizing to Mr. Nader. Making him into a national figure to be listened to. In the meantime, other companies with swing arm axle vehicles kept their mouths shut. Avoiding the bad publicity. And in the case of Volkswagen selling more Beetles in this country then ever before. In the early 1970's Ralph Nader tried to get all Volkswagen buses, past and present, removed from the roads. He also would have liked to stop the sales of new Beetles. This information appeared in the press. Including a long article in Road & Track at the time. But, still Volkswagen kept their mouths shut. Giving story little to no traction or interest. Nader was not the problem. It was GM and its 1960's arrogance. GM's Goliath challenging Nader's David. And public likes to root for and believe in the little guy. The Davids. Whether the David's facts are 100% correct or not. Scott

Go to YouTube and search for Corvair pickup. When I did it, the second video it offered me was that film. Scary and fun, watching the Econoline pickup brake from only 45 mph! Why didn't we hear more about this? I'd feel a lot safer driving a Corvair. Scott

I wish I knew how to link things up, but I don't. And I'm not sure if Ive seen this video on line. My cousin-in-law Russel, first showed it to me on a video tape he has. But, it was a dealer film talking about the advantages of the Corvair 95 pickup truck over the Econoline pickup. I don't if the vans themselves were as tippy in the nose or not. I'm going to go on YouTube and see if I can find it. Scott

I like it Dave. But, what did we learn? Scott

Has anybody out there joined this club? How is it doing? I have no interest in it for the sames reasons others have stated above. Scott

By the way, it should be noted that Chevrolet built their last Corvair in May of 1969. Ford's big hit, the compact Falcon lasted only until December of 1969. Falcon sales too had been dropping over the second half of the 1960's. In the spring of '69 Ford had their next big hit. The Maverick. Between Maverick sales and the cost of converting Falcon to the locking steering column, required on all cars built starting on January 1, 1970. Ford decided to let Falcon go. They move the Falcon nameplate over to a cheaper version of the Fairlane/Torino mid-size line of cars. But even that was gone by the fall of '70. I find it interesting we look Corvair as failure, and Falcon as success. Yet they both left the market fairly close to each other. At least in The United States. Scott

Jeff, you mention the Chevy video showing the Econoline in a panic stop. That's a fun video. I wonder how many times that really happened on the road. It had to be pretty scary when it did! Before the Econoline vans, Jeep made the similar looking flat nose FC models. I've read that you had to be very careful in using those vehicles off road because of their front end and top heavy weight bias. Also good point on Corvair sales. Corvair was not failure. It just did not sell as well as Falcon, or what Chevrolet had hoped for. It sold well enough for Chevrolet to design a 2nd generation of the car. Sales really did not slump bad until 1967 and introduction of the Camaro. Though you can see some softening of sales on the '66s as the bad press was starting to mount. And your right about Chevelle taking sales from the Chevy II. Americans were not big (pardon the pun) into small cars in the long run. The compact boom was mainly brought about by people tiring of the too big and over styled cars being offered in the late 1950's. Again, Ford figured this out first. As Chevrolet brought out the Chevy II, Ford was introducing their new smaller Fairlane. This new mid-size Ford did not sell as well as either the Falcon or the Chevy II at first. Or even that year's Corvair. But, the product planers and marketers saw that it was what the American public really wanted. For 1964 Chevrolet got their new Chevelle based on the new mid-size A body platform share with the redesigned former BOP compacts. Buick Special/Skylark, Oldsmobile F-85/Cutlass, and Pontiac Tempest/LeMans. As these intermediate size cars started selling, you'll notice all the compact cars start pulling less and less market share. It took a couple of gas crisis in the 1970's to get us to think about smaller car again. And for government CAFE standards to regulate big cars out of existence. Since people can't buy big cars anymore, what do they do? Switch to bigger gas guzzling trucks. Ah, the government and its infinite wisdom. Scott

Interesting thing about the '50 Oldmobile my folks had. It was titled as a '51 Olds. And for years it was talked about as a '51 Olds. Here's where a problem comes in. As I grew older and got to know cars better, I noticed one day that Oldsmobile did not offer a model in 1951 like my folks Olds. Their '51 was an 88 two-door fastback. The last year Oldsmobile offer the 88 in any fastback body style was 1950. When discovered this I asked my dad about it. He said he bought the car from a guy who repaired wrecked cars. So the guy may have put a '51 front clip on a '50, and somehow got the state title the car as a '51. So my folks had a '51 Oldsmobile nobody else had (as far as we know). By the way, up until I asked my dad about it, he always assumed he had a true '51 Oldsmobile. Scott