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Coincidentally, I was just reading about this guy and his evil work in another book just this morning! Dunno if he never thought "that those ideas would be used by people like Josef Goebbels, to stir up chaos and conflict in society," but he was definitely on board with the idea that propaganda could and should be used by the "intelligent elite" to sway and steer the great unwashed masses, "for their own good."

Very, VERY nice! I'm sure Big Daddy would have approved. Model on!

Fabulous! Will send you an email ASAP.

My theory is that we will be on lockdown/restrictions until all those big companies think they've gotten their "money's worth" out of those commercials. Even as we speak, they are filming the next wave of commercials: "We're BACK! Come on in a get a GREAT DEAL!" As soon as all those commercials are ready to go, restrictions will be lifted. You watch!

And a little irritated about it, too!

I think I'm good for the moment, but I appreciate the offer and will keep you in mind. Thanks!

I get it completely. Have done a few survivor restorations of stuff I'd have never personally built that way, but I just want to preserve them as period time capsules.

I'm doing okay, and TP has even started to reappear at Walmart the last 2 weeks! Not a full aisle of the stuff like they used to have, but small quantities of two or three different kinds--better yet, no one snatching it all up or fighting over it! Just sitting there. I got some last week and decided to NOT resupply this week. We'll see what happens. I'm irritated that my magazines aren't coming through, though. I FINALLY got all the May issues I should have received back in April, but so far only one of the Junes (Hemmings Muscle Machines). By now I should have received four others.

Did they have that on Supernatural, too? I've never seen the show.

Those have become my go-to slicks in many cases. They can instantly class up almost anything, new or old. And you're welcome! Sometimes we all need a little "validation," somebody else saying something you want to do is perfectly okay. BTW, the kit model is NOTHING like a real 1969 funny car. Would be more like a gasser (although not really accurate for that, either). But MPC started that "funny car parts" shtick back in 1966 with the GTO and Bonneville and a few others, and was just driving on with it.

Ah, you're right! Now I see it! DOH! If I can't come up with the custom rear end, I think I'll make a simple rear pan out of whatever (I have a lot of old custom junk laying around), with the stock taillight shape mirrored BELOW the trunk/bumper line--i.e., like the stock taillights, just twice as tall and without the chrome trim, and maybe inset a bit. That might look even better than the kit parts. We'll see what happens. That project is down the road a bit.

I wouldn't worry about trying to find original MPCs. IIRC their stock car slicks of that day weren't especially good. Use whatever slicks you have that you think would look good on the thing. When I'm "restoring" an old model car, tires is the one area where I'll allow myself to deviate from kit-stock in some cases. The fact is that many/most of the kit tires of the '60s/'70s weren't really all that good.

Congratulation on persevering on this wretched backbirth of a kit and dragging it across the finish line. I had to give up and glue the nose on solid on mine. Model on!

Love that Falcon!

To be honest, I think this one would have actually worked better as a rat--or rat-ish--rod!

Thanks for the shout-out! I already have a couple of those Corvettes, both glue bombs I restored/rescued, although I don't have an original box for that one. Looks like it would be fun to try to "rescue" that yellow one. I also have a couple of those '64-'65 Mustang HT/convertibles, one I did a quickie resto on last year. Pretty sure I have another one to do, too. Again, your red one looks like a very rescue-able survivor.

I expect someone will have aftermarket resin and/or PE accessories available soon. Personally, I'm not gonna worry about that stuff.

Maybe the rare '68 429 Corvette was the source of the engine in Warren Zevon's song "Roll with the Punches": "Johnny had a '57 Chevy, four on the floor and a 429..." Or maybe he just added a couple cubes so the next line could rhyme: "We used to take it out on Wild Horse Pike, run it out to the end of the line." (Or maybe he was running Bruce Springsteen's "'69 Chevy with a 396, fuelie heads..." )

Something very similar recently happened in the election campaign. One candidate with unlimited funds bought so much ad time that he turned most of the electorate off completely. I've heard stories that he was so disliked that many of his own paid staffers and volunteers were actually spending their work time promoting other candidates.

I know it's not in the correct format. I do it that way to keep spambots from picking up my email, which they do. You have reformatted it correctly. I don't know what the problem is unless it's a temporary problem with AOL mail. I'll keep checking my inbox and spam folder. The PM system here doesn't work for me. Won't let me send, won't let me receive. Been that way for a while now. I have problems on another board, too; on a couple other boards the PM system works fine. First World Problems.

I have my Dad's Erector set from the 1940s, or perhaps the '30s. It's in a red metal box like that. In the '60s, my folks gave me a new set, and many of the parts in that one are aluminum, not steel. The ancient instruction/idea book is cool. Many of the machines shown therein are things I'd never seen before, and haven't since,

Pretty cool! Model on!

That works--I can see them there. Very interesting!

Yah, that's one way to do it. Another is to hack them out of the Revell Foose '65 kit I bought specifically for that purpose. (I think we've had this conversation before. ) Of course, if I'm going full custom, I can get creative with the wheel openings and make them whatever shape I want. Some racy flares, perhaps? I AM planning to do the sili-clone thing on the wheel openings of the '66 Skylark dirt tracker, though. I have a nice stocker body to use for that.

Huh. It should work. (You're not in my spam folder, either.) Try it again, and make sure there's no extra spaces. It COULD be an AOL problem. Yesterday it was unable to load my mail for several hours (happens from time to time), but at least then it was telling me it had a problem.