Harold

I took the test (I know I scored well) but I'm not giving them my email so I can be flooded with spam. Doesn't everyone drive the posted limit in a blizzard?

My Grand Prix is a coupe. It has the aircraft style doors that cut into the roof.

Nope, its a coupe. I forgot to mention that coupes and sedans (4- doors) have a fixed b- post and framing around the door glass. Hardtops originated at GM in '48. It was a fixed 'hard top' that gave the illusion of a convertible with its top up.

Maybe I'm a bit picky, but I feel that a Mazda Miata (or any other two seater with a proper top and all- weather protection) is a convertible, not a roadster. The first Corvettes and the first- gen Viper are proper roadsters- no side glass, and a top that will barely keep you dry in the rain. That is also the difference between a '32 Ford roadster and a '32 Ford convertible. As for the difference between coupes and hardtops a coupe has a fixed b- post and a hardtop doesn't. A '66 Falcon 2- door is a coupe, whereas a '66 Mustang notchback is a hardtop. That is all...

I remember a Dr. Seuss book when I was a kid- I think it was called Green Eggs And Spam.

Maybe the Cavalier would be the better starting point, especially if you're swapping in parts from the Beretta. Since the Celebrity was longer, the starting point for the chassis would be the '89- '92 Revell Grand Prix (normally aspirated 3.4 on the '89), as you're starting with the correct wheelbase. Since all of these kits are 1:25 (the Citation is 1:24), there would be no scale issues. BTW, the entire line of X- cars (Citation, Omega, Pheonix and Skylark) were the most recalled cars ever.

And it is painted burgandy ...John North Willys was a car dealer who sold Pope- Toledo automobiles. When the company couldn't supply any cars, he went to Toledo and essentially bought the place lock, stock and barrel and hung his name on the door.

Thanks, guys. Since I bought a Nesco food dehydrator at Whale- Mart for 40 clams, I'm able to eliminate the logjam that always holds me up- drying the paint. I also use it for drying washed parts prior to painting.

Real clean. I'm kinda jaded (no pun referring to the color ) on tri- five Chevys, but I do like this, right down to the Stovebolt. Sweet.

I'm tired of all my unfinished builds lying around, and I wanted to see if I could still bang one out in less than a week straight out of the box. This is from the Mustang Cobra Combo I scored at Dean's a few months back. Here were my parameters for this build- no wiring, flocking, posable steering or anything else. The color is Dupli- Color Victory Red (a GM color, and the same that my 1:1 Grand Prix wears) with Dupli- Color Clear. There were a few issues with this kit- the rear suspension was a bit of a pain, the body was tweaked (though I couldn't fully correct it, its a lot less tweaked then when I started )and the front suspension put the car at nosebleed height. So, OK, I did modify it, albeit slightly, by lopping off the mounting pegs for the front wheels. I propped up the front with 3 quarters and an air cleaner to get the front where I wanted and epoxied the wheels in place. There's a few flaws (I haven't done a push like this in years), so I present it to you, warts and all (most of all, I had fun building it). Enjoy.

Lately, I've been really trying to get back in the swing of things, so I'm making myself put in around 20 hours a week (and I have two finished in less than a month, and another should be done tomorrow).

Bullit The original 'Gone In 60 Seconds' Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World The Blues Brothers Ronin

What we'll end up with is a bunch of wheeled wiffle balls that the average moron can crash into a solid object while texting a message to his insurance agent. Cars that can parallel park? Rear view video cameras? C'mon, how hard is it to look over your right shoulder and out the back window while backing up a car? The fact that parallel parking requires depth perception and a small dose of abstract thought (back up to this point, turn the wheel now, the back of my car is there) doesn't bode well for the intelligence level of the average American.

How the heck are those headers supposed to work with a 90 degree kink?

While the buiild itself may not be what I'd do. but you can always learn new techniques. I love articles like the Fordson (having grown up in the sticks).

Sweet build (and the lawyers are gonna enjoy chasing it ).

woof woof.

The originals were weather- checked, rotted and flat when it was found in the barn, so he had to drive into town to buy 4 used tires. I love the weathering on this beast.

Now that's thinking outside the (pickup) box.

Yessiree Bob, that is one killer build. Love the paint.

Great job on one of the prettiest (and one of my favorite) Fords of all time. Sweet.

Nice work, Bruce (how does he manage to bang out these conversions?).

I've had this cold for the past week and a half that was beating me like a gong. I worked the polls Tuesday, and slogged through from 5:30 AM to when we got everything knocked down and secured at 8:30 PM with a horrendous fever. I thought, well, tomorrow I can foil the '69 Olds, clear coat it and drop it in the dehydrator. Yeah, right. I managed to foil the rear window, and that was it. That's how sick I was. Yesterday, after a three- hour nap (on top of eight hours the night before, my fever finally broke, my nose stopped running and my body no longer felt like candle wax. Before my nap, I washed my car and found myself gasping for breath after twenty minutes. But now I can breathe again. So today, it's out to North Branch to for Mother's Day and some birthday cake (today is my Seventeenth Annual 39th Birthday. And, like Jack Benny, I own a car that's no longer made).

I found this at Rider's the other day...

I've also come up with a cure for depression. Eat nothing but Happy Meals.