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And, I believe the Car Craft Dream Rod/MPC Tiger Shark is based on a Cobra chassis with a VW front end.

I ran the same combination on my first '69 Camaro. They were Michelin Radials and ran great.

Started last night; second episode will be tonight. We finally got to see the new cars of Ryan Martin, Jeff Lutz, Doc, Birdman, and a couple others. Looks like a VERY competitive year. Right now it looks like Ryan Martin and Kye Kelly will be the ones to beat but Lutz is looking stronger than he has since he started on the show.

Got the chassis of the '64 Dodge set up to take the new rear wheels and tires (turned out to be a bigger deal than I was expecting), got all four tires sanded, got the spokes of the rear wheels painted. Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise, I should be able to kick the thing through the goalposts tomorrow. Would have finished it today but I had to mow the lawn (first time in over a week the grass has been dry enough to mow) and do a couple other annoying household chores.

I haven't shot my CZ yet either--TLMS hasn't gone to work so far this week. And I haven't even been able to get the Thompson out of the box and look at it! I'm using only the Umarex BBs in my Umarex guns. Several of the reviews I read suggested that they work best in function, and very well as regards accuracy. You might see if you can find those locally if whatever you have on hand doesn't function well for you.

Sad to hear. I always enjoyed his insights.

I like where you're going with this, and I see a noticeable improvement already. Drive on and please keep us posted on your project!

Okay thanks. I'll prolly just vacform a bubble off a '66 Galaxie hood and make one myself. That's how I did it in 1969 and it should work as well today.

Those would be great if you need 'em in 1/20 scale.

I really like where you're going with this. Looks like it would fit in with my imaginary late '70s-early '80s car club, "The Retrobates." Drive on!

No experience with that gun, but I have an OLD Crosman 150 CO2 gun I haven't shot in years. I even forget whether it's .177 or .22. It's a single shot and I seem to remember it as being pretty accurate. I've been getting consistently 60 shots per cartridge out of my replica 1911 and P.38, and 45 shots per cartridge out of the M1 carbine. I'm happy with that. I figure my shooting costs at about 1c per shot, more or less.

Looking good, Wrenchr! Drive on! As for me, I: 1. Did the final, minor corrective bodywork to the junk/glue bomb El Camino, and shot its second coat of primer. 2. Went through my junk/spare/leftover parts box and found the following parts I need to complete the Elky: Hood, grille/front bumper, headlights, rear bumper, radiator, wheels. Couldn't find a firewall, but I can make that out of sheet styrene. The windshield has a nasty glue mark on it I'm gonna try to polish out; if that doesn't work, I'll steal the spare blue glass out of a recent reissue "Gear Hauler." Next thing I need to do is start rounding up engine parts. Will be using the BBC from either the AMT '63 Corvette or '72 Nova, whichever fits the Elky chassis best; I have plenty of spares of each. 3. Got the wheels and tires off the assjacked '64 Dodge builtup I'm Snake-Fu-ing, and found replacement rear wheels and tires for the comically oversized items on there now. Looks like I should be able to get that one back on the shelf in the next couple of days.

Welcome to the wonderful world of airgunning! You should have it in just a couple days. While you wait, go to Walmart and pick up some CO2 cartridges and BBs. And eye protection, if you don't already have some. Very important with BBs, as they can and will bounce. I'm interested to hear how the trigger pull is on yours. The DA on mine is quite stiff--reminds me of my Walther PP and PPK. SA on the other hand...well, there's a little takeup, and then you can just barely feel the engagement, and then very shortly after it starts moving, it lets go, with not much more than 2 pounds of pressure. I'd be willing to bet your real CZ trigger pull isn't like that. Only trigger like that I've ever used is on an old ERMA/Iver Johnson .22 M1 carbine. It's not unpleasant to shoot, it's just...different. Umarex is all over the place with their triggers. Their M1 carbine and 1911 have triggers almost exactly like my real guns--very useful for practice/training--while their P.38's trigger is nothing like the real thing. They're all still fun to shoot, though. Hoping to shoot the CZ very soon.

Sweet! You always seem to come up with the COOLEST stuff! Model on!

Very nice! If this one had the sit and stance of yours, I'd probably be leaving it alone.

Hmmmmmm, this can be taken two different ways. You're saying you have definitive knowledge of what IS going to be released?

What a clean, sharp build! VERY well done and model on!

Yeah, there ya go!

Time for a new pair. Before paying "hobby prices," see what's available in the nail care sections of your local Walmart, drugstores, even Dollar Generals. You might be surprised.

I know exactly the gun you mean. I had one as a kid, not sure what happened to it but it's long gone. In my early days of the internet I just happened to run into a guy who had one and managed to buy it from him. I still have that one, but have never shot it. It takes the old original type small CO2 cartridges and I wouldn't know where to get those in my town anymore (only the larger Crosman type, which seems to be the standard, now). I suppose I could find them on the internet somewhere. Trust me, Cobraman, today's breed of CO2 BB guns are SO superior to this old relic in every way that it isn't even funny. No comparison at all.

I was a huge Hogfat fan back in the day, right up through at least the Fool for the City album. I need to dig those out and listen to them.

Believe it or not, I'd never heard this song before John B. Wells played it as bumper music on his Ark Midnight program last night. Good stuff! (Jump to about 1:40 to get right to the song.)

I've actually done that before, on a set of wheels from the AMT '68 Shelby, and then ended up not using them on the project I planned them for. I think on this one I'll use the deep TTs I took off a Cobra I rescued a few months back, and save these deep ones for use on a Pro Street '66 Nova. The fronts on the Dodge I'll leave alone except for painting the spokes.

I don't have any experience with airsoft, all mine are .177 or .22 pellets, or BBs. I might be wrong but I'm of the impression that airsoft doesn't have the power to punch holes in paper at 10 yards, or the accuracy to make them useful training tools. The BB guns will do both. They're not as accurate as good firearms, of course, but they're "combat accurate" at basement range. For example, my BB 1911 will put most of its shots into an inch or so at 10 yards. It's not too difficult to chew a nice "rathole" in a paper plate at 10 yards with the 60 shots I get from one CO2 cartridge. You probably won't find the good stuff locally. I can recommend both pyramydair.com and airgundepot.com as vendors. They have the same prices and both have great shipping speed and customer service. Couple tips if you're interested in getting into this: Always check the weight in the specs. The good guns are all-metal and weigh around 2 pounds or a bit more. If it weighs much less, it's probably plastic. The good guns start at around $100 and go up. If it's much less than that, it'll probably be disappointing. Look for "blowback" action. This means the slide functions with every shot just like a real gun. Very satisfying! Plus, if a gun doesn't have the blowback action, it doesn't cock itself between shots and every shot has to be double action. I have an older cheap 1911 like that and it's not much fun. Umarex is the king of these guns. They're made in Taiwan. (I suggest getting anything you want from them as soon as possible.) Some of these are sold under other names (including Walther and Colt) but if you see it's made in Taiwan, it's almost certainly Umarex and the good stuff. (Umarex also makes airsoft and some lower-line guns; see my advice above about weight and price.) The Pyramydair site has customer reviews on nearly every gun they sell. Sometimes a lot of them. Read these on anything you're interested in. You can learn a lot from user reviews (even if sometimes it's just that the users are idiots). I like your friend's idea of an UNCLE P.38! I have the Umarex P.38 and I'm thinking of getting another one just to make it into an UNCLE gun. The barrel is removable and if Umarex would sell me a separate barrel, I'd just go ahead and do it on this one, and make another set of grips. I'm kind of surprised Umarex hasn't already brought out their own UNCLE Special based on this gun. Good luck if you get into these and let me know if there's anything else I can help you with.

I watched The Many Saints of Newark, the Sopranos prequel, on HBO/MAX. It's also in theaters now. I watched every episode of The Sopranos, but haven't seen it again since the last episode first aired some years ago. I thought the new movie was a bit confusing. It's difficult keeping straight who everybody is as relates to the original show. Young Tony and his sister are easy enough; others not so much. Some of the characters are the fathers or uncles of original show characters. Others might be the same character just shown younger. I THINK the "Silvio" character (portrayed in the series by Little Steven Van Zandt) is the same character. I wasn't so sure about others. It doesn't help that at least one actor plays two different characters. Trying to imagine seeing this movie without having watched The Sopranos at all, I'm not sure it would be very entertaining. It begs comparison to Goodfellas and standing on its own, I don't think it would be considered as good. On the positive side, it's a treasure trove for car guys. The movie opens in the summer of 1967 and goes into sometime in the '70s, so there are lots of cool '50s, '60s, and '70s cars. One of the star cars is a white '66 Impala convertible (although it's riding on '68+ Rally Wheels), and a very clean blue '67 GTO makes several prominent appearances as well.