ChrisBcritter

The engines, props and cowls from the Airfix Lockheed Hudson are what you'll need for the Canadian Stranraer. I had one too, plus the Hudson, but never built it - wish I had.

That's another thread - titled "Ghost Kits - Shown But Never Released".

Parkay or Chiffon?

Quite well indeed! I saw the "Belinda bakes a cake" toon the other day for the first time in 40 or 50 years and I had the song down nearly word for word. Many years ago I had the chance to meet Larry Harmon, the voice and creator of the modern Bozo, when a friend of mine went to make an offer on his Continental MkV: We spent an afternoon with him discussing the car and hearing him tell some great stories, like the time his car got stuck in snow while traveling through the Alps and the driver who came to his rescue turned out to have been General Erwin Rommel's chauffeur! A month or so after the visit we got a phone message from Larry saying that he was ready to sell the car - but he passed away two days later. As to Bozo in Chicago - the late, great Bob Bell was the Bozo I grew up with; and when he retired, Joey d'Auria was a worthy successor. Because of Bob, I never had a fear of clowns; he was just too funny a performer for that. "Give me that pie!"

I've built three of these so far - one was the Revell B-17F clone, backdated to a B-17E - and it goes together very well. The fourth will be a bit different - as it belonged to my dad's Boy Scout troop. He used to tell me about how in June 1946, the BSA had a group called the Air Scouts, and the troop leader had a surplus B-17 flown to a little airport in Paducah, KY - then this photo turned up with my aunt: I was determined to find the serial number and history of this plane. At first online searches revealed no info, but a trip to the Paducah library yielded this: That gave me the first three of the tail number. With the help of some online forums, I found this plane didn't go overseas - the "H" on the tail showed it was a trainer last based at Hobbs, NM. Then the son-in-law of the troop leader contacted me and said he didn't have pictures, but he had the plane's paperwork - which revealed the serial and field ID numbers. So this is my dad's plane: As far as what happened to the plane - after the novelty wore off and the plane was stripped out by local souvenir hunters, it was scrapped around 1948-1950. I met the gentleman with the paperwork a couple years later, and he had the last remains of it - a few instruments, the radio, and three headsets. Jerry, if you want to try something different, here's a trainer for you, based from Rapid City, SD - it ended up being used for the scenes in The Best Years Of Our Lives at the aircraft scrapyard where Dana Andrews crawls inside it to get the war out of his system: The Round ? Trip name and bombing mission symbols were added by the studio - the plane spent its career as a trainer.

Or, in one case...

He did the voices of Tank and Dexter on Hot Wheels - along with Albert Brooks, surprisingly, as Kip.

Radiator running dry

Pierce Arrow - I know you said "minimal detailing" but I hope you could make it look a bit less toy-like. Good luck!

like donut holes

Long-running project; when I started it was a current-style street machine - now it's a nostalgic late-'70s street machine.

Well, I must be popular because ewetwo sent me some fan mail: An evening's work and now it looks a bit more like the one from the '70 Wildcat: Thanks David! Also scored a couple cans of Testor's Metalizer Aluminum and a can of Fabric Tan on $1.67 clearance from the Deerfield Hobby Lobby. Was hoping they'd have the GTO Super Stocker, but not yet.

Fingers crossed - Moebius did improve the C-pillar/quarter panel joint on the '61 Pontiac body when it was pointed out to them.

And Revell has Plenty O'Tooleing to do on this kit. I'll see myself out.

Yeah, I've seen it since the prototype, but didn't want to be "that guy". Looks to me like it's the same height as a hardtop.

Dug up my '77 GBS yearbook and found shots of the B210 and Monte Carlo; I had Mr. Baker: From '78, a better shot of the Datsun: And the '69 Olds, toward the end of its career. In its better days I had my first 100 MPH experience in it on an empty stretch of I-24 with my dad driving (thanks Dad!):

I see he has a factory sealed Stutz ($175) and Mercer ($250) as well; no bidders. I wonder who has the rights to these designs at the moment? The Exner cars would be great subjects for an outfit like BOS to create in resin in 1/18; they could really make them match the proportions of that beautiful box art, especially with photoetched or hand-laced wire wheels. The folks who collect BOS seem to have no qualms about the price. For that matter, too bad Franklin or Danbury never tackled them either.

Yep - it's the old Craftsman kit; I had one as a kid and still have a Blueprinter reissue I built in the late '80s.

The Niles, IL store has MM cans marked down to $1.67 and bottles down to 99¢. I only picked up three cans (Plum Crazy, AMC Silver, and Italian Red) so there's plenty more.

Use belt dressing!

On the '70 Wildcat, cleaned up and pinned the drive belts from the GSX engine to fit the '69 430 (now 455) engine and made a mold of the one valve cover to get a second one - and made molds of the '65 Chevelle SS wheel covers and '66 Corvair 13-inch steelies while I was at it.

Before Driver's Ed my dad let me guide our '69 Olds Delta 88 around the high school parking lot; it took several tries before I figured out how to stop smoothly. In high school we mostly had a few cars from the local Chevy dealer - brown '76 Chevelle sedan and an ivory '76 Monte Carlo with no vinyl roof. The one I'm still trying to forget was an ugly brown Datsun B210 four-door - the stick shift car; I've never been good at driving manuals and the instructor just happened to pick me to take it onto the Dan Ryan Expressway. I guess the driving gods were with me that day and we got home in one piece, but I'm glad that trip was a one-and-done. We didn't have simulators at Glenbrook South, other than a brake pedal reflex tester; too bad because I always wanted to try one out...

with MacPherson struts

The Road Tester

...happily ever after.