ChrisBcritter

And yet some folks still gotta have the original:

I asked Ed Sexton that very question several years ago at NNL Milwaukee - according to him, it's not going to happen. Too bad, those T-bird wire wheels alone were little jewels.

plated Kohler throne

Meanings are what words sometimes have two of in "Stairway to Heaven". OR Verb conjugation in Spanish was tough to learn, but when I got an A it, yo pense que murio y fui al cielo (thought I'd died and gone to heaven).

He's just saying he can't believe how Smiler Grogan went "sailing out there..."

with Prudential Insurance

No, the box!

Almost forgot - I used the fan belt/accessory drive from a '65 Riviera and a set of Monogram Buick GS valve covers to make the 430 look more 455-ish. Also used the '69 chassis because it has no screw holes and is 1/8" longer at the rear. Hope I can get back at these projects soon!

Domino's driver ticketed

Yes, although the '69 Buick Wildcat was full detail. The '69 engine, firewall and radiator wall will fit the '70 but the hood will need to be cut out.

ch-ch-changes in t-t-temperature made me p-p-put on a heavier c-c-c... coat.

P-47 Thunderbolt fighter

Called the witch doctor, he said to take two shrunken heads and call him in the morning.

hit spike strip

Point taken on the mufflers, although on some kits I've seen the exhaust pipes molded in shallow enough relief that they're not a hassle to remove. I'll probably get a second chassis to separate the frame and detail it out.

Just a thought - any chance the chassis can be molded flat on top so that we can grind off the stock exhaust system and driveshaft and not have to fill in holes? And can the openings behind the grille bars be molded deeper so we can open them from the back?

Would be nice to get the taillight bezels and stock lenses back, finally, but I'm not holding my breath. Not to mention having the hood be level where it meets the cowl...

Since I last posted, I've read James Ellroy's two most recent novels, This Storm (sequel to Perfidia) and Widespread Panic (a "from-beyond-the-grave autobiography" of famous L.A. private eye Fred Otash). Also hunted around and found a first-edition copy of Henry Gregor Felsen's Cup of Fury (the sequel to Street Rod); I'd heard its ending was changed when it was re-released under the better known title Rag Top. Sure enough, the ending was more bleak than the later version, which had a happier ending tacked on.

and dear to

Cousin Itt was put under a hair dryer and wrecked the whole beauty parlor.

Donkey Kong made Nintendo a whole lot of quarters.

One thing about hanging on to the off-air VHS/Beta tapes: A LOT of stuff recorded 40-some years ago would otherwise not exist if someone hadn't saved their home tape, as the masters are now lost. Case in point (albeit kinda risque): the complete "paint dance" sequence from the Ann-Margret movie The Swinger apparently only survives today from a couple tapes recorded from WGN-TV late-night airings in 1979-1980; the print WGN aired (apparently a longer European version) hasn't been found. Same thing with an early Robert Altman TV movie, Nightmare in Chicago - the only complete version available was apparently recorded on VHS from a late-'70s airing on WLS-TV (there's also a movie print existing but it's badly faded).

Kool-Aid with no hyphen?

in her Mustang

Grape is two letters short of grapple.