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gregg it took you a full 5 minutes to read my post! i am impressed! but again, if that goof is the worst someone can say about you, take it as a compliment! thanks for keeping the mag going and putting in all the hard work. we all appreciate it every month, if i may speak for "all" of us on that. and keeping a sense of humor about it, thats the good (and hardest) part. anyway back to building, finally. this moving house business will kill ya. now its foggy and cold and more like my kinda buildin' weather!

" The Darryl Starbird's Pick Award went to Rich Newberry from Lee's Summit, MO. His '32 Ford rat rod add really cool caption text here." Gregg, could you share the "really cool caption text" with us? The people want to know! Seriously I've kidded you about this before and I do know how easy it is to mess something up in the production of a magazine full time. This one was kinda funny though! Maybe doing that "add" part could be in red type to make it stand out more and catch attention at prepress?

i just re-built it, does that count? and i guess its a phaeton not a roadster eh?

thats totally wicked!

when i saw that first photo, of the rear tyre, i thought "hey that looks like a pretty good technique for modelling tyre carcasses. and the opposite tyre is OK, worn but OK. so the concensus is that peanuts don't cause problems, old tyres cause problems. or look weathered.

sorry to hear about your loss, what a waste... but heres something to consider: worth of built models: $0 worth of unbuilt kits: $5 each worth of being able to kick punk kids azz: priceless!

doesnt seem to be a lot of california presence here but i just wanted to let any interested parties know there are a number of events coming up in the next few weeks. unfortunately i have only shaky details on at least one. so this weekend, oct 3 - 5, friday through saturday, at cal expo in sacramento, there is a model show in conjunction with the street rod nationals. awards will be given, on sunday around 3 pm or so. i believe if you come in with a model and report to the contest area, you will be given a ticket to come back in on sunday to pick up your model (and hopefully your award!) and of course youre free to view the entire show again if you like. next weekend, on saturday oct 11, at the towe museum in sacramento, the sacramento vintage auto modelers (whom i am afraid ive never met) are holding an NNL style show along with swap meet. the towe museum is located at 2200 front street, sacramento, and can be reached at 916 442-6802. admission is 7$ for adults with various discounts available and that includes admission to the museum which is something to see as well. then the following day, sunday oct 12, there is another NNL style show in stockton somewhere but i am not sure where...the fairgrounds seems like a likely bet. it might even be at someones home? if anyone knows, please post it, otherwise i might be able to find out more but unfortunately i have to miss both these events that weekend due to prior commitments. finally, couple of weekends ago was billetproof in antioch and the model show/contest put on by bashrs was well attended and the event itself continues to be the coolest event this side of survival research laboratory street demolition exhibitions, so mark it on your calendars for next year. though...in all fairness, some billet ###### IS sneaking in! one love jah bill

milt i guess thats the same principle as warming up your spray cans in hot water before using...if you dont do that you should try it. well i guess its not the same in some ways: your idea would make the paint flow smoother maybe; warming a spray can increases the pressure thus the atomization, and the paint being warmer makes it flow smoother, so that part at least sounds like the same concept.

looks to me like "SAE" ditched their "E", enthusiasm that is.

i believe you were right on the borgward isabella, if it matters. on the 'treon i was gonna guess an SM.

im not sure of your point but people were always cheating back in the good old days as well; anything to get an advantage on your competitor. many time after a race motors were impounded and torn down only to discover, wow imagine that, illegal parts or out of spec parts in them. and the very term "sandbagging"...came from putting sandbags in the trunk so to slow your car down to get in a lower bracket in eliminations and then, out come the sandbags! one of the reasons they went to pure bracket racing and if you break out of your bracket, youre disqualified as defacto proof of sandbagging, whether literal or figurative. but at least back then, when caught, cheaters would confess and mea culpa but now... what bothers me more today is this general lack of what we used to call sportsmanship. the one i most look to for getting famous for being an a$$ was the "intimidator"...until he got intimidated to a dirt nap. but it seems in everything from little league to major league, there is no more sportsmanship, just a bunch of jerks trying to best each other and then acting like jerks when things dont go their way. i was brought up different i guess.

nice job raul, as we have discussed salt flats cars are one of my interests. in fact, instead of some pizza parlor, we ought to think about having a meeting out on the salt flats! i try to go there every year in october for world of speed or one of those events, on my way up to yellowstone. its always a blast and ive got some cool photos from over the years. goodguys this coming weekend in pleasanton? i may try to make it. i need to go to berzerkley one day on the weekend to get some gardening supplies, so maybe i will pass through the GG show as well.

i would love to see a citreon DS and i wish that anglia came in a commercial panel van so i could recreate one of my first cars, that i stuck a cortina GT motor in. the saab 96 sounds like a winner too, also we need a sonnet type 1 including the mag wheels! great to hear a resin column is coming; its one thing we need more of: coverage of resin aftermarket. please dont be exclusively USA stuff though, as zoom zoom points out theres a lot more out there that many of us dont have a clue about.

kinda off topic but i know where pocatello is, i regularly go through there returning from yellowstone to a friends place in slc utah. very nice little town, great little regional park right uphill from there and some cool railroad scenes in the nice hills and valleys south of town and its on a major freeway that connects the north (eg: tetons, jackson wyo, yellowstone, glacier np, etc) with salt lake city and areas to the west, so i think its a fairly central location for a lot of people esp people on vacation. get a big billboard on the outskirts of town, include rail rolling stock and i think its a fairly ideal location. i even thought about moving there; may still do that in the future.

a scam??? so someone thinks what, that someone will get all of us to send him unneeded models for some kids and they will keep them instead of giving them to the kids and...then what? sell them on ebay? have you seen what the average built model sells for on ebay? not to mention any and everyone here would call that one the second any one of the models showed up on the bay. anyone with "scam" in mind is going to be out bilking little old ladies of their life savings or something, you know, PROFITABLE, with little chance of getting caught. and probably not giving out their mailing address. scam...thats the funniest thing ive heard in a long time. c'mon people a little reality check would be good for you. big up milt, you da man. and youre doing a good thing. i mean a little skepticism is healthy i guess but get real...scammers go where the money is, they dont get people to send them essentially worthless (monetarily that is) stuff to collect dust on their shelves. not typically anyway. or maybe im missing something here? got my flame suit on so gwan with ya bad self.

perhaps a better way is to host them yourself at any number of free hosting sites, i use imageshack. upload them to whatever one you choose and then cut and paste the url here and surround it with image html tags ([ i m g ] <url> [ / i m g ]...take out the spaces they are here only to make the front end NOT think its an image im posting). like this: code it like this: [ i m g ] http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/5320/fi...rontleftrk4.gif [ / i m g ] (again, remove the spaces) to achieve this: using this technique i have never ran into problems with size though you should probably resize your photos to 640 X 480 which you can do before you upload them via photoshop or similar or with imageshack you can specify to convert to a specific size as it is uploaded. hope that helps

it will probably draw at least as many people as the "museum of two headed sheep and a bunch of scary reptiles" in new mexico does so i say go on with it!

and the best part is: they dont have to work! just look purty. thats a real plus for anything from radio shack because in my experience they have about a 50% rejection rate on electronics components. nice one mike! like your sig too!

that is one goofy looking thang there. i can see it in a lsr car trying for a certain class record but on the street or in a show i would be rolling on the ground laughing my a$$ off as they say. i mean, whats the point? four less pistons and connecting rods saving weight? maybe some crank weight too? but then supercharge it? sometimes this stuff just flat amazes me. the only thing i can say is:

thanks for the insight andy; i kinda had a gut feeling it was something like that. also such a huge pre-release schedule makes me curious too...and in a, dare i say it, recession, i would think it difficult to sell off 5k diecasts with multiple (though largely redundant to my mind) versions of each; i have to think buying expensive diecasts is among the number one thing to go when finances get tight. anyway it always struck me they had a very ambitious release schedule that they often managed to more or less meet...up until a couple years ago anyway. so at this point i assume they are more or less dead in the water though im going to keep an eye on them particularly to see if the maserati makes it out...but its gonna be hard to compete now with the CMC masterpiece and their rolling chassis. one thing about exoto though: i always loved those bare metal finishes, i have a cobra daytona and a chaparrel in bare metal and they are pretty much my favorites amongst my top drawer die casts.

no one knows? no one cares?

might seem kind of obvious but i would start by doing a google search on the car and seeing what on-line documentation you can find such as a photo of the engine bay.

over the years i have bought a good number of exoto diecasts and they would regularly send me catalogues and new release sheets. last few years though, that seems to have dried up, and announced "upcoming releases" (a number of which i have preordered) have failed to materialize. this was brought to mind by a recent post on this board somewhere so i went to their site, seems they have had virtually no new releases in years from what i can tell and certainly the cars im most interested in (eg: maserati typo 60/61 birdcage, jaguar d-type etc) seem to be dead in the water (not to mention theyve been largely usurped by CMC and AutoArt). anyone have any idea whats up there? are they in fact dead in the water or are they still actively working on and releasing new products? they were close to what i would consider the leaders in the industry but that was then and this is now...

i agree on the 1/32, there is a lot of brand new beautiful stock to choose from from a variety of companies. most respond well to some tuning (truing tires, gluing bearings into chassis, taping or gluing motor to chassis, lowering and lightening etc) and there are also a lot of vintage cars and parts available via ebay (my favorite thing to do is build vintage cars). HO is too small and not much of a challenge actually, and 1/24 is mostly for "wing" cars that go superfast but resemble blobs. i prefer cars that look, and more or less run, like a real car so 1/32 fits that to a T...small enough to put together a track in the dining room but big enough to see from across the room.

seen in someones sig: >Please do NO business with itimemarketing.net or itimemarketing.com >Feel free to ask me about this! ok that sounds like a challenge: consider yourself asked.