Snake45

Took my faithful old Badger 350 (using it nearly 40 years) apart and gave it a good cleaning. Haven't had it apart for probably a couple years, so it was overdue. I think the poor old thing is just about worn out. But I can't complain, have certainly gotten my $30 worth out of it. Couple years ago at Hobby Lobby I bought a cheap Paasche-labeled airbrush that looks to be a Chinese copy of the Badger 350. Might be time to break that thing out and break it in.

My router died without warning this morning. Took me a while to figger out what the problem was. Went to Best Buy for a new one, they're "by appointment only" and of course I didn't have one. Drove across the street and bought one at Walmart. If you are reading this post, it means I got it hooked up right.

Proof of life: First color coat on the AWB Mustang, after dust-sanding.

Yes. Run away! Run like the wind!

You are confusing the ZL-1 COPO 9560 Camaros (of which 69 were built) and the L72 COPO 9561 Camaros, of which hundreds were built (including the Yenkos). Two of the 9560s were in fact Rally Sports--IIRC, one in Cortez Silver and the other in LeMans Blue.

Good for him! He and my Dad and G. Gordon Liddy were all roughly the same age (within a year). My Dad didn't quite make it, but he got pretty close (87).

That's another possibility. I have at least one Elky glue bomb body. But I also have several of the Revells, which I now have little interest in building.

Oh yah, he'll be 3 in October, pretty big for his age.

I always thought his personal '66 Riv daily driver was one of his more tasteful efforts. I tried to build this as a kid but kind of botched it. I might try to have another go at it.

Scored (cheap!) a junkyard of TWO apparently restorable JoHan '70 Superbirds. At least one seems to be 100% complete. The other is missing wheels and tires, and if the wing is in the box of parts (all the leftovers from both models), I couldn't see it (I'm assuming it's NOT there), but all the important stuff is here--body, glass, nose, hood, interior tub, dash, rear bumper. Looks like I can get one clean factory stocker out of the lot, and can make an "interesting project" of some sort out of what's left. Hmmmmmm, a number of intriguing possibilities are already coming to mind.... Bueller? Anyone?

My son drives these. I'll have to get and build one for him as a gag gift sometime!

My daughter sent me a nice pic of The Lovely Mrs. Snake and our grandson, taken last weekend.

One of the big magazines--HOT ROD?--had a big feature story on this car in the last year. Drive on!

OUTSTANDING!

IIRC, it's not leaf springs, it's a coil-over arrangement.

You can have all mine.

Very nice! Especially good finish! I think you have your wheels reversed front to back, though. The ones with the center hubs go on the front, and the one with the flat centers go on the rear. Model on!

Most of them are also delivered to us on big-ass container ships, but I have exactly zero interest in building a model of one.

And just realized, it wouldn't have to be a Nomad. They could easily tool up either 2 or 4 door wagons or sedan deliveries on the '57 OR the '55 Chevy basic platforms.

Wow! Good luck with that!

Got the first coats of color on my street freak '66 Mustang--something I've been putting off for at least 3 weeks.

Very cool, thanks again!

Yeah, I read a couple whole books about it back in the '70s. Once you learned about it, you could spot it all the time. Comedienne Elaine Boosler used to do a hilarious comedy bit about it. She talked about a car commercial with a busty blonde bikini model, "And then a guy wakes up in the middle of the night and says, 'I'm gonna buy that car. In fact, I'm gonna buy TWO of those cars, and stick my head between them!'"

That poor Firebird deserves a better fate than to be made into something that looks like a Hot Wheels that was played with in a gravel pit and then left outside all winter.

Two found things: 1. Thought I was gonna have to go to Hobby Lobby just to buy some paint I want to use on a model this weekend. Decided to make a last minute check of my stash and found a brand-new bottle of the exact stuff I needed! Even better, I found it BEFORE I went to the trouble of putting on my pants! (The USUAL ending to this story is that I would have found it about a week AFTER I bought another one.) 2. Found my coronavirus "stimulus" check. Got it a few weeks ago, was gonna deposit it last week and then it wasn't where it was supposed to be! Unfortunately, I did a bunch of cleaning up and reorganizing last weekend and was afraid I'd accidentally thrown it out with a bunch of other old mail. DOH! Today I went looking for it again and found it--in a stack of "important new" mail that I'd already searched at least twice. WTF? Oh well, I found it, and found it BEFORE I accused The Lovely Mrs. Snake of picking it up and hiding it as a joke (or to teach me a lesson), which was going to be my next step. Whew! BTW, for those who don't know them, here are Snake's Surefire Ways to Find Lost Things: 1. Go buy another one. The one you were looking for will reappear within a week, exactly where it should have been. (This is why I own two and three of so many things, such as tools.) 2. Forget it and go on with your life. The NEXT time you're looking for something you can't find, you'll find the thing you needed THIS time. 3. Accuse someone else of stealing or moving it. The item will appear shortly after your accusation and you will never hear the end of it.