ChrisBcritter

Kindling can be replaced with dryer lint, which is better than leaving it in the vent where it can burn even more fiercely.

baskets for Grandma

My boss has two of them. Heaven knows why. This was when he bought them; they're out of the weather now in one of his warehouses. I also wrote a musical number about Yugo for my car club's '80s-themed awards show, to the tune of "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go". A couple excerpts that are relatively SFW: Well wake up – I bought a Yugo It’s a better value than a Peugeot Hit the gas – and drive our Yugo And get her screamin’ when you shift to high On the streets – that shiny Yugo Will be impressin’ everyone in WeHo They’ll say Wow – Is that a Yugo Let’s go cruisin’ tonight For $3995 (yeah, yeah) * * * Wait a minute, now what’s that sound Both front wheels are out of round Gearshift lever snapped off in my hand Door won’t stay closed – tie it with a rubber band (shut it off) Hop on out and push the Yugo Rear defogger warms your hands like cocoa Help me shove our poor sick Yugo Trade-in value won’t be very high Called Triple-A, to get our Yugo They just said to stick it up my (CENSORED) Let’s forget about the Yugo Let’s go walking tonight

Based on the 1956 short story "Fifty-two Miles to Terror" by Alex Gaby; available at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/52milestoterroro00carl/mode/2up The story makes the narrator more of a jerk who starts the trouble with the kids in the hot rod. By the way, I highly recommend this book. Great stories in it.

?? This '73 Monte Carlo was Bob's ride; don't remember an Olds:

"Little" is right - supposedly they used a Matchbox (or Corgi?) Capri for this shot:

Them Duke boys done run out of Chargers so now they reskin Ford Crown Victorias!

There's a seated woman figure in the Revell '59 Ford Skyliner; should be easy to find.

Something I forgot about with the '63 F-100; AMT continued producing the promos until at least 1965 - but the only ones I've seen were plated dealer awards. Looks like the only thing they changed was the year on the bumpers; the '63 grill wasn't updated: Looks like this one got the gold-plated wheelcovers off a '66 Galaxie award promo.

The '61 kit is kind of an oddball - it has a separate roof and separate chrome B-pillars which don't look or fit right, plus the rear wheel openings were carried over from the four-door sedan. It really looks like it was supposed to be a convertible but Chevrolet didn't build a Corvair vert until '62. I ended up building mine as a phantom droptop using a boot from the IMC '48 Ford (it fits perfect).

Body assembly breakdown looks like the original 1/25 kit. The '62 CA plates are wrong...

Lucky you!!! Back in 1982 or '83, the L.A. edition of Auto Trader advertised several damaged cars I recognized as being used in The Junkman; I was interested in two Chrysler Cordobas so I called the number and surprisingly, it was Halicki himself who answered. We talked about his films and the cars (one Cordoba had rolled and crushed the roof but the other was only nicked on a rear corner). He offered to show me his collection (for a $10 fee which I'd have gladly paid) down in Carson; never took him up on that and regret it to this day. I did go to his estate auction and bought one lot of model cars; of those I kept a brown metallic '79 El Camino promo.

Day made Pillow Talk with Hudson.

of the fittest

Hey Dave, I hunted through a lot of Young Ford ads from February 1975 on the Newspapers site but couldn't find your Mustang. I did find that they had a celebrity visitor at that time; did you go see her?

Many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

worse than thorns

Would be nice if AMT would engineer the kit so the '59 El Camino chassis would be a drop-in fit.

Here are the license plates for Eleanor; download and print to size.

Mind your peas

brown pearl lacquer

when called "Sir"

Mines Field was the original name of Los Angeles International Airport.

That and a '57 Buick Century! (And the request floodgates are gonna open wide now... )

My only request: A correct '46 grille! Even the one on this diecast '46 sedan delivery looks better: