ChrisBcritter

Fishing for compliments can result in catching snarky remarks.

If you want to build the AMT Sunbeam Tiger as the #45 shown, the little four-lug Halibrands can be found in the Metalflake version of the Revell '62 Valiant. Happy hunting.

So now the unboxing. Let's lay 'em out on the old leopard skin and see what I got: '61 Imperial, Continental and Falcon. Good builders. Monogram '32 Ford Hot Rod (plus extra decals), complete. '61 Impala builder with parts from the '61 Imperial Aw rats. Strombecker Austin-Healey. '59 Buick with some fixable roof problems, plus '61 Impala parts And the Impala, with Imperial bits Score! '61 Starliner, nice clean builder, and some '61 Caddy leftovers plus a big red nose '61 Caddy, fins damaged but repairable, and Continental parts Parts, parts, parts, some '61 Pontiac stuff on top, but the Pontiac itself went AWOL '61 Comet with some custom parts, savable; Ranchero stuff in the box The Ranchero and some Corvair remains in the box And finally, a complete unbuilt un-messed-with '64 Continental - no tire damage, thankfully. So I guess it was a decent haul for the money.

And very nice kits they are. C'mon, Round2 - pleeeeeze can we get the '40 Ford?

"Thumb Drive" is an actual street name in Desert Hot Springs.

"Supply and demand" is probably what everybody expects the next sentence would begin with, so let's end it with turnips.

None whatsoever. Only one of Felsen's books became a movie (Fever Heat).

Moron this story as it develops, but first here's Len Maxwell with the weather.

"Post Cereals make breakfast (clip, clop) a little bit better!"

Tomorrows are not guaranteed to anyone, but just in case, eat your vegetables.

So let's try again. "You're gonna love this - you know this car cost a hundred and fifty-five thousand bucks?" "So what?" "So my house didn't cost a hundred and fifty-five thousand bucks!" Hints: B-movie ripoff of a very successful movie series. The lead actor was a Chicagoan, better known for a TV series, nearing the end of his film career; his co-star was born in the USA but raised in Canada, and was better known for a role that required a lot of prosthetic makeup. The lead villain was once a villain in another long running movie series.

Forrest Gump.

Gotcha covered. Christmas 1961; it fit over Mom's card table.

Them is fightin' words, you consarned varmint!

Yes, Blue Hawaii, playing his mother!

"Days like these..." sang Matt Monro just before the Lamborghini Miura was shoved off a cliff in the opening of The Italian Job.

One of my briefest but most-cherished celebrity encounters: Some friends and I were driving through West L.A. and one of them pointed out her house on Bonhill Road. As we neared, we saw the garage door was open, and there she was in a light blue velour jogging suit. We waved, and she waved back with that sweet smile - didn’t have the nerve to stop and say hi, but it felt like we could have. R.I.P. Ms. Lansbury!

I took the chromed originals, made molds of them, then cast them in clear and red-tinted UV-cured resin.

Per severance, it's usually two weeks' wages.

Trees can hold apples, acorns, bird nests, model car parts, and Charlie Brown's kite.

It doesn't mean a thing if, indeed, it doesn't have that swing; do what do what do what do what do what.

And now in Extra Max Strength!

Everything bagels are delicious, but the everythings get stuck in my teeth.

"Out you two pixies go, troo da door or out da window!"

Beef-beef, beef-beef, went the cattle truck's horn.