Mark

I don't know about you, but I'll take an engine block WITHOUT a huge hole in it, over one with a hole. Every day of the week, and twice on Sundays.

There was also a Premier Renault Dauphine kit. It's not as good as the Record one, but can probably be found more easily. I have a rebuildable/complete Record Renault Floride, I really should do something with it. I have heard (in the distant past) that Heller was going to tool a Dauphine. It's hard to understand why they never got around to that car. People here forget that briefly Renault was giving VW serious competition over here.

Of the plastic car kits, the Ford station wagons are the rarest, particularly the 1962. The Ford sedans would be next, then the Renault. The Rolls Royce, Triumph, and Mercedes-Benz have been reissued many times by other companies, but the earlier Hubley kits will be in better condition with cleaner details. Of the metal car kits, the '32 Ford (really a '27) and Indy racer are the most sought after. The other cars were available for many years, but again the early production kits are probably more desirable if you intend to build them as the parts will probably have sharper detail.

One other thing...shake that can the day before you intend to use it. When you think you are done shaking, the agitator ball/marble should roll freely around the base of the can. Once it does, give the can another good shake. On spray day, give it the normal shake, nothing more. This should be done with sprays that have been sitting a while, especially primers.

You should have asked him, "what if there's a kink in the wire that won't let the electric through?"

I was told that, if you want a real choice as far as hot dogs are concerned, try Save-A-Lot. Prices and quality are arranged from high to low, as in: "All Beef Wieners", "All Meat Wieners", ...and finally... "Weiners"...

I'd definitely say the "meat" being used is the lesser quality stuff. Some of the commercials go overboard: "we only use the choicest cuts of meat!" I can picture a chef walking into a butcher shop saying "I would like to see your finest filet mignon", and the butcher saying "oh no, we're saving that for the hot dogs!". If they can get away with a few hooves or snouts in there, they'll try it, especially if nobody is looking...

I do recall reading and hearing stories about people in generations past who were not aware that water froze. When they did put two and two together, it was because the straight water in their car's cooling system froze...

A relative of mine used to swear up and down that the packaged chocolate milk was re-pasteurized from regular milk that had reached expiration and couldn't be sold. One of his in-laws did work at a dairy long ago, I'm not sure if he got the info from the in-law or not. I don't buy the stuff, but I can't remember ever hearing about health concerns with spoiled chocolate milk...

What kind of milk does the purple cow in the Experian commercial give?

The Econoline pickups had a 160 pound counterweight attached under the bed floor, near the rear bumper, to prevent that. Not sure about the Dodge A-100 pickup, but it probably had a similar arrangement.

Did a Snowcat come with a 302/C6 powertrain? If not, then it is "intact" from when it was swapped in, as neither existed in 1964...

Well, the OP apparently passed a few years ago, his Fotki account must have lapsed taking away the photos. I've never seen the 1/16 scale Fujimi Maverick kit, but apparently the body in it is better than average for a foreign kit from that period.

Mickey Thompson ran a Maverick for a short time. Al Van der Woude (Flying Dutchman) replaced the Charger III body on one of his cars with a Maverick also. The Maverick got overlooked in 1970 in favor of the Mustang (guys not building new cars for 1970 could bodywork a '69 Mustang into a '70), 1971-on favored the new Mustang and the Pinto.

During my last job search, one agency gave me a link to an article on how not to speak during an interview. The "how not to" example was a person from a famous family, that's all I'll say (though this particular one keeps a low profile). During a five minute or so TV interview, she dropped over a hundred "er"s, "um"s, and "you knows". Sometimes the problem is accentuated on TV or radio, as the interviewee might be afraid of dead air.

Some resins can be stripped, others can't. I used to cast parts to sell, some of them got sent out for plating. The resin I used got rubbery when soaked in anything I tried. It ended up being more trouble than it was worth, I just tossed the ones with bad plating and cast new ones.

Probably a bad mix...sanding exposed uncured resin.

Beforr I dumped my land line earlier this year, I was getting pestered with calls from real estate agents. Some of them would make the argument that I should sell now because home prices were higher than ever before. When I replied "wouldn't that mean that any home I would try to buy would also be more expensive than ever before?" they didn't have an answer for that...

The majority of those sellers who "don't know about" model cars sure sell a lot of them when you check their past sales. If anything, they should pick up at least some basic knowledge through sheer repetition. When I see the disclaimer "I haven't checked this, so I don't know if it is complete", ninety-nine times out of a hundred I can give their pictures a cursory examination and find something missing that would be obvious to most people. Sometimes they can position everything just right for the pictures so as to hide it, but if you look closely enough you can find it.

Monogram kit from (I think) early Eighties. Not snap together, does have engine detail, plated parts, and clear parts. Revell didn't have a late Sixties Nova in 1/32 scale, but I believe they did have a mid-Seventies snap together Nova kit.

Someone from Round 2 has stated publicly that they did not get the farm tractor kit tooling in their deal with Tomy for acquisition of the AMT/MPC/Ertl plastic kit tools.

My boss ordered a new Impala just prior to Covid. A couple of weeks later, the assembly plant shut down. When it reopened, the car got built but was one of about 50 cars totalled in a train derailment in transit. By then, the model year had ended, so he ended up getting a year-newer car for the same price as agreed to initially.

Some sellers absolutely do NOT answer any questions, particularly if they think the potential bidder is on to their scam. Their rationale is that you might get anxious about losing a chance at the item, and will bid anyway in spite of not having the information that you sought. By not answering the question, they can't get caught in a lie.

Only that coupe had the dip, all other models had smooth trunk lids. MPC's convertible kit was essentially a hardtop without a roof, its trunk lid had the dip and the upper quarter panels (different on 1:1 convertibles) were the same as the coupe. AMT's convertible promo had the smooth trunk lid, but still had the coupe quarter panels.

Your first mistake! Ever try the takeout pizza at Walmart? One word...DON'T.