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Who'da thunk you was a Noo Yawka, Rob? We used to hit all the clubs like OBI, Rum Bottoms, Hammerheads, Speaks and My Father's Place in the late '70s.

Audie Murphy was a legend. But, Pool's amazing exploits took place in a period of less than three months. German Aces such as Kurt Knipsel, Michael Wittmann and Otto Carius never achieved such a record of success over a similar period of time. War Daddy was the Joe DiMaggio of tankers.

There's always someone waiting in the wings to take his place. A guy parting out a Johan '61 Fury, for example. Total for the body, glass, chassis, wheels, tires and bumpers............$305, give or take two to three bucks. The sum of the parts is always more than the whole.

I found something called GS27 Titanium Scratch Remover at R&S Strauss Auto Parts before the chain closed. It'll remove scratches but is gentle enough not to damage raised details like scripts.

Tape a piece of plastic bag over the stripes and use Testors Easy-Lift-Off applied with a Q-Tip. That Purple Pond business is for the birds. You'll have the paint off in about twenty minutes. Scrub the stripped areas with a toothbrush and Comet/Ajax and it'll be good to go. I stripped a built '62 Dodge Dart which was painted a hideous shade of metallic pink and the body is once again a sparkling, clean creamy white.

Since I've never had this kit, it'll be new to me.

As I pilfered those images from Worthpoint, I couldn't tell you. Check the Drastic Plastic instruction link in my original post.

Excellent! Two will do!

Check the link which explains skelzies. It was a fun game. We did the same thing with cards on the fork. We also used those long thin balloons, partially blown up. The balloon was squeezed so that the inflated part was in the middle of the two ends and the ends were tied to the fork with the balloon on the rear of the fork.When you started moving, the balloon would be pulled forward, and rubbed against, the spokes. It sounded like a minibike.

Everyone who has seen the film, "Fury" is familiar with Brad Pitt's character, tank commander SSgt. Don "Wardaddy" Collier. Most don't know that this character was based on SSgt. Lafayette G. Pool, nicknamed "War Daddy" by his crew. In just 81 days of combat, from 27 June to 15 September 1944, War Daddy and his crew destroyed 12 Panther tanks, destroyed 258 armored vehicles and guns, killed nearly 1000 enemy soldiers and captured 250. As the author of the linked article Michael Bennighof, Ph.D., wrote: "It's a record unequaled in World War II and unlikely ever to be matched." The Real War Daddy Armor, The Combat Arm of Decision

Manual transmissions in cars driven in a congested urban environment are as useful as lightbulbs with left-handed threads.They're simply not practical. I like driving stick; but, with the traffic conditions here in NYC, I'd be wearing the clutch out every six months.

I was the same way when it came to turning in weapons into my arms rooms. If I didn't think it was clean, it wasn't. Get off the line and clean it again.

It's great to see people who still enjoy the music from their younger days. I'm amazed at how many people in their late sixties to seventies turn into their parents and stop listening to music that they grew up with. Older people I know from the neighborhood are like that. I knew that they were hardcore rock 'n rollers/hippies from when I was a kid.Now, they think listening to Paul Anka, Wayne Newton or, UGH, "lite" music are the way to go. Must've been a residual effect from all that microdot acid they dropped. When I get my ticket punched, "Blitzkrieg Bop" will be played at my wake.

Ron Andrews, owner of RMR Resin, acquired all of the R&R masters last December. According to what was posted in FB, he plans to recast most of, if not the entire, line. Getting molds isn't a good move unless one has the masters. Molds are good for so many pulls before they begin to deteriorate.

AMT Y925-200 '69 Chevrolet Fleetside instructions and box art What's in the box:

Age is a state of mind. These two guys are still in their teens. Cool. Rock on, man!! Elderly men escape nursing home to go to Wacken metal festival

Pete, Wyborova vodka and spirytus bottle caps were great for making heavy duty skelzie caps, too. Thanks to the marynarzy who always came to The Point to visit friends and relatives when their ships were in port, there was always a large supply of them to be found. My dad was a master blender for Lane Limited and I always asked him to bring home metal cigar tubes which were used for the company's Medal of Honor brand of cigars. Being an evil genius kind of kid, I also used to make the saltpeter and sugar mixtures. I'd pour the wet mix into the cigar tubes and stick a pencil in the middle and set it aside to dry. When dried, I'd pull the pencil out, leaving a hollow cavity in the center. Then, I'd punch a hole in the center of the screw-on cap, stick a fuse taken from firecrackers into the hole and seal it with melted crayon or wax. Ta-da, instant rocket engine!! My friends and I would get long cardboard tubes from the plastic factory across the street and use them as launchers. Pretty primitive; but, those suckers would fly a pretty good distance when launched off the docks and over the East River.

Yeah, I noticed that. He's eligible for AARP membership now. How time flies, man.

I wanted to to meet John Zacherle, "The Cool Ghoul" one more time. I met and shot the bull with him a couple of times back in the mid and late '70s when he was a DJ at WPLJ-FM. I wish I still had the negative from when my friends and I took pics with him using a lame Kodak 110 camera. I loved watching him when he hosted cartoons and Chiller Theatre on WPIX Channel 11 and Disc-O-Teen on Channel 47 before it went all Spanish language programming.

Nah, just kidding. Good thing he didn't. Teens charged after manual transmission thwarts Nashville carjacking

Point taken, Mike. The B- and lower List celebrities charge for their autographs to make some extra money. There's a fan event which is held annually in NJ called "Chiller Theatre Toy, Model and Film Expo". Here's a guest list for this year. Pretty good bunch of celebs there. If you look at the upper right of the page, organizers added a disclaimer about guests charging for autographs. If a guest tells you that the expo is making them chrge for an autograph, let a staff member know and they will confront that person.

Bro, it's my thread and I haven't a problem if someone does digress. That's the way people talk. There's no such thing as going off-topic in the "Off-Topic" section. Saying otherwise would be oxymoronic and contrary to the spirit of the section. If there is, I'll quit this site immediately.

The thread in question was nowhere near to turning uncivil. It was about bad box art and everyone seemed to have fun commenting on the subject. It would have naturally run its course in due time, just as other topics have done without any assistance. This particular thread will face the same fate. My comment might be the last on the topic; or, there could be more. I might not necessarily agree with your, or others' sentiments; but, I respect your right to express them. That's what debate and discussion is about. Besides, I doubt that discussing something as quirky as bad model box art would erupt int verbal warfare since everyone is pretty much in agreement as to what bad box art is. If there were to be an additional 150 comments about it, great. Conversely, if nobody else replied, that's great too. The members would have made a decision either way without killing each other in the process. It doesn't require a mod to make a judgment call on something as mundane as this. Dig into the site and you'll find many more far less interesting or entertaining threads which live on and can be resurrected at any time by someone who does find, for whatever reason, the topic is still of interest to them. We know there are members who do pull up old discussions which others have lost interest in and brought them back to life by adding their new thoughts and insights. It doesn't mean that the topic was worth bring back; but, that one person felt it did. Why should this one be any different? It's one thing to exercise one's judgment; but, the threshold for determining when a thread should be locked has been lowered too far. A healthy debate that isn't turning nasty shouldn't be shut down based on the presumption that it might head in that direction. If the criteria used is that narrow and blanketly applied, then, just about every thread is liable to be preemptively locked. If it hasn't devolved to the point of personal attacks or impolite comments, don't blindly assume that it will. If it does, contact a mod to look into it.

LET THERE BE NEON! has been in business for over forty years in Tribeca. I'd always window shop whenever I passed by the place on White St. They have the most talented neon artists in the city.