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Raiders’ move to Las Vegas approved Posted by Michael David Smith on March 27, 2017, 2:10 PM EDT Getty ImagesThe Raiders are moving to Las Vegas. NFL owners today approved the move of the team from Oakland (where they’re playing in a rickety old stadium) to Las Vegas (where taxpayers will foot a large portion of the bill for a shiny new stadium). According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the vote was 31-1, with only the Dolphins objecting. They won’t become the Las Vegas Raiders immediately, as the team plans to continue playing in Oakland at least for the 2017 season and probably for 2018 as well, while the new stadium is built. That will create an awkward situation where the home fans are cheering for a team that is about to pack up and leave. But that has happened before in the NFL, and it will now happen again, and the reason is always the same: money. Raiders owner Mark Davis can make more green in Vegas than he could in Oakland, and so the Silver and Black is moving. The NFL's greed knows no bounds (or morals).

I would too-absolutely.

Nice work Steve.

Why make it into a truck??

What are your plans for your masters? Are you pursuing another distributor to make them available again?

Nice work Ron. Are those Plastic Performance Products (PPP) wheels & tires?

I paint the inner fender panels aluminum and the whole body inside and out the same color.

Thank you for your comments gentlemen. Getting very close to paint.

Great race - I won't spoil it for you in case you haven't seen it yet.

Between kits and builds I have 25-30.

I like it.

Welcome Jason and thank you for your service.

Very nice.

FP2 - Hamilton maintains early advantage Mercedes continued to enjoy the upper hand in Friday afternoon's second practice session in Australia, as Lewis Hamilton lapped more than half a second faster than Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to top the timesheet once more.PRACTICE TWO RESULTSPOS.DRIVERTIMEGAPLAPS1LEWIS HAMILTON1:23.620 342SEBASTIAN VETTEL1:24.167+0.547s353VALTTERI BOTTAS1:24.176+0.556s344KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN1:24.525+0.905s305DANIEL RICCIARDO1:24.650+1.030s276MAX VERSTAPPEN1:25.013+1.393s87CARLOS SAINZ1:25.084+1.464s348ROMAIN GROSJEAN1:25.436+1.816s299NICO HULKENBERG1:25.478+1.858s3610DANIIL KVYAT1:25.493+1.873s39See full standingsHaving looked mighty quick on the soft tyres, Hamilton slashed 0.6s off his FP1 best when the field switched to ultrasofts, smashing his 2016 pole position time in the process. Vettel couldn't match the Mercedes driver in dipping below 1m 24s, but managed to split the Silver Arrows after edging Valtteri Bottas by 0.009s. Kimi Raikkonen looked a little scruffier than his team mate in the second SF70H, but was the only other driver to get within a second of Hamilton’s marker. Red Bull lost ground from FP1 as they slipped to fifth and sixth. Home favourite Daniel Ricciardo finished just ahead of Max Verstappen, the Dutchman one of several drivers to survive an off-track moment when he ran very wide over the grass and gravel at Turn 12 but kept his RB13 out of the barriers. Renault’s Jolyon Palmer was less lucky, losing the rear of his Renault at the final corner just before the end of the first half hour and bringing out the red flags as hit the wall and rebounded back onto the track. When running resumed, Felipe Massa’s Williams soon ground to a halt at Turn 10 with gear selection problems, the Brazilian having earlier shown impressive pace on the supersofts. Kevin Magnussen also hit technical trouble with his Haas developing an apparent water pressure issue, while Marcus Ericsson’s session came to a premature end when he oversteered off the road and into the gravel at Turn 6 in the latter stages. Behind the expected front three teams, the upper midfield was as close as predicted, with Carlos Sainz an excellent seventh for Toro Rosso, ahead of Haas’s Romain Grosjean, Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg and Sainz’s team mate Daniil Kvyat. Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon struggled a little in their newly liveried Force Indias, sandwiching Fernando Alonso’s McLaren, which ran reliably to P12 and was not as bad as the pessimists had expected. Williams rookie Lance Stroll kept out of trouble and amassed mileage in the wake of his team mate’s demise, while Stoffel Vandoorne bagged a similarly valuable haul of laps in the second McLaren. Right now the advantage appears to lie with Mercedes - or at least with Hamilton - but it remains to be seen whether Ferrari have anything left in their locker as far as qualifying is concerned.

You truly are cobraman Ray!

Nice work Matt.

Is #714 the racing number or the number in your Cobra collection?

If you ever want to sell your transporter my ever expanding Cobra team would love to have it.

Very nice Pat.

I like the color Eric-nice work.

That's a beautiful Ace Billy. Wish I could find some nice narrow wire wheels and tires for this build. I like the wheels/tires I am using but they are really too wide for the period.

I prefer good old Testors myself.

The Aceca is a beautiful car Frank too bad your dad didn't hang onto it. Would love to have a model subject of it.

The GT rules required a speedometer be installed as they would be on a production car. Speedometers provide no meaningful information to a race car driver so they were installed well out of the line of sight.

Fabricated the header tank.