ChrisBcritter

The HL website says all the stores in my area are still closed. Of course, the website also says their Deerfield store is 6,109.5 miles from my current location, which is only off by about 6,105 miles .

Great job they did on that dash, too - look real close at the instrument cluster and you can see the numbers (000000) in the odometer!

Has anyone tried chalkboard paint for a different sheen of flat black?

Those Corvair trucks are great! Just looking them up now... 1/43. Oh well. Still great.

And as the man said, $50 bucks never killed anybody.

Oh, that's right - and the real-life Bonnie and Clyde photographed themselves with a stolen '32 B-400, so again close enough.

Note the '34 Ford sedan in the background - I recall a car like that was displayed in the mid-1970s at the Antique Auto Museum in Highland Park, IL as the "Bonnie and Clyde AMT Movie Car". Never understood the "AMT" connection until now. This is the only ad I have for it, but the description leaves out AMT:

I've done that with an electric toothbrush; only drawback on mine (Oral-B) is you can't press very hard before it stops. This little sander looks more effective, although I wouldn't need it often enough to justify the price. I see one user added an - ahem - interesting photo, which I captioned:

with praise for

Your SWINGIN' balls!

of the NBA

extra Pepto Bismol

And if it gets reissued, maybe the rest of the chrome tree can be fully reopened (which is all that's left of the stock parts).

^^^ Breakin' my heart - bet it didn't win either, right?

sandwiches after Thanksgiving

Jan and Dean with Papa Doo Run Run, Mill Run Theatre in Niles, IL, August 1980. It was tough for Jan with the brain injury, but he made it through. They closed with, of all things, "Brown Sugar"!

Took a guess, then checked eBay. Surely it couldn't be that one... It was. And don't call me Shirley.

Just snagged another '62 Newport shell; better than body of the gluebomb builder I picked up recently: At least it has 90% of the windshield frame this time, and no glue or tire marks. Maybe I'll even open the doors and trunk leave well enough alone.

Did so; ended up having to relieve the joints a bit at the bottom so the sides wouldn't pull in too much. Got the interior bucket fitted after that - had to sand the top edge where it meets the firewall flange. Started removing the chrome blobs in the taillight buckets to accept the Acme Resins clear red lenses.

^^^ Nice going! What brand of resin did you use?

And just to complicate things, Ford changed Silver Mocha mid-year to a much lighter shade, which became the Edsel Charcoal Brown. The original dark Silver Mocha was code K; the lighter version was code D. I found this out because my uncle's Silver Mocha and Doeskin Tan '57 Fairlane 500 was the darker color and I had to find paint for the model. Code K Silver Mocha is also the color the original Revell '57 Country Squire was molded in.

That's the custom version as reissued in the 1970s with skinny vinyl tires. The chopped version had the stock bumper/grille. Redoing it is a crapshoot with the multipiece body; they do show up on eBay unbuilt now and then if you want to give it your own interpretation. Good luck with it!

Or put it in the freezer overnight so the screw shrinks a bit, and you may be able to lift it out with tweezers.

Poured a test shot of the '70 Caprice/Monte Carlo wheelcover in Tom P.'s mold, along with a few more T-bird knockoffs and a pair of '66 Vette open wheel backs. Fingers crossed.