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I wouldn't be surprised if we see them included with one of the recent vw campers at some point. They have their 75th anniversary coming up so there is nearly bound to be a special set of them released (if revell have any sense)

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thats just how rover were, slightly outdated even when brand new

how about stock grilles for the amt 33 willys and the revell 50 austin. It would open up a lot of new hot rod possibilities

travel by steam train through the alps is on my bucket list

except it wasn't done naturally. the oil industry pushed for internal combustion over ev. in the earliest days electric cars were just as popular as ic. and most power stations then were coal, and close to population centres so there was a lot of illness produced by the smog. internal combustion was sold as the cleaner power for cars because there was less visable smog initially, and by the time we realised there was jst as much smog the choice was made and it was too late. If you look back at early photos of cities with cars, more than half are electric

times new roman is a pretty dull font when you could be using wingdings

The cops aren't going to stick with lumbering suvs when everyone else is in fast evs. They are going to use whatever can catch other vehicles and right now to catch an ev, you need an ev. an internal combustion engine to keep pace with an ev would not make sense to buy or run simply due to mpg, we've seen teslas keeping up with some street outlaws cars and look at the engines they have, fine if you plan to catch them in 500 yards but after that the teslas gone when the engine in the other car pops. the same thing happened when the car became common, cops transitioned from horse to car cos the horse couldn't keep up. Dont worry about what the cops will be driving, they will keep up with the technology because otherwise they just cant do their jobs. I would expect the cop evs to have bigger batteries though or some form of fast battery swap between vehicles. And how will taxis manage? taxis make money by being on the road 24hrs a day, and 350 miles range just doesn't happen in a city with all the stop start traffic. A taxi will be lucky to get 4 hrs before it needs charged. has anyone developed a recovery plan for evs? some of them cannot be towed and have to be lifted or the motors get destroyed. will taxi companies be doubling the number of cars they own? or will they just close down cos they cant afford it?

Completely crazy and i love it

Cool dio, reinds me of how some parks look when there a fair on

well wouldn't ya know, the very next of my daily car feed was this-and i was totally wrong with my guess https://silodrome.com/bell-aurens-longnose/

My first guess was photoshop but I'm not certain due to some details. There was a jeep with a similar rear treatment and it wouldn't surprise me if land rover built one since they, along with rolls royce built some pretty wild vehicles for the shahs and kings in the middle east. the what looks to be arabic writing on the rear fender would also suggest it may be a one off for one of those very wealthy customers. the colour makes me think its more likelly to be india as white was more common in the arabian penninsula and the tan/beige more common in india/pakistan. I kinda like it, it looks to be inspired by 30s french cars which would also lean into it being for india as that was the style the maharaja and shahs seemed to choose while arabia was more modern styled. Again the above is just guesses based on land rover history in the former british empire

I dunno, some of the trains are pretty ggod too

It could be argued that eldon opened up the japanese model companies to the american market possibilities. It seems eldon were the first to market japanese kits in the usa as most of their toy line was repackaged japanese toys. Didn't slot cars from usa manufacturers make a lot of improvements about this time?

they're only hard tae kaitch cos yon legs on tither side i'r shorter yon tae idder tae run across yon glens but iv ye mind yer chettlings hids nae say flid

unfortunately, if the person is smart they stay as far away from power as they can. the smart people have been telling us for more than 40 years what the problems were but were shot down. look how people viewed science during the pandemic, its no wonder smart people stay away from power if they can. much as oil companies are the root of the problem, they are also probably best placed to do whats needed to promote hydrogen. They have the basic infrastructure in place already that can be modified for hydrogen storage and the sites are already suitable for windmills to make the hydrogen either on site or nearby. Onsite would probably be easier and better for the enviroment as the sites are already industrial. The safety systems needed are nearly the same but they will need to redesign tanks as leakage could be a problem since they lose so much methane already at fracking sites. The way I see it electric was chosen, not for the envoromental benefits but because there is mush more profit to be made from electric vehicles than hydrogen cells. all those minerals are making someone somewhere a lot of money and that kind of money owns the story. but again its the old story, all people really hear when you say hydrogen is hindenburg or h-bomb, because that its 2 most famous things and a lot of people just cant see past that line.

Since its august we are getting a fair amount of fog due to being on the coast and the ground being warm. Most mornings when i'm getting off the boat I've been telling tourists that the fog will clear between half past eight and half past nine when the council remebner to turn the windmills backs on. 9 times out of 10 they seem to believe it, but what they dont know is theres a regular breeze that blows in the mornings. I'd love to hear what they tell their friends when they get home. Another thing I tell them is to do with a local tradition for brides and grooms which we call a blackening and is derived from an old viking tradition that involves the bride and grooms friends covering them in sticky foodstuffs such as mollasses and treacle along with feathers and stuff to get them in a complete mess tied to the market cross for a time. This is done as part of the stag and hen night these days and part of it is being paraded around the shopping area on the back of a pick up. For this I've been telling tourists that its a punishment from the court for petty crimes like tickling goldfish on a sunday, or wearing a blue hat on a sunny day and other nonsense laws i tend to make up on the spot. I've also being thinkig about setting up hunts for the fictional animal haggis on a local peat hill but that might get me arrested for fraud, lol

I read or saw somewhere the hire car scene really happened. I just cant remember who the drivers were. It was either on dales race track show or one of the more recent racing documentaries. For some reason I'm thinking it was the black driver from the mid to late 80s that entered the indy 500 with a untested outdated car that kept blowing the buick engine and was hated by rousch for switching teams in imsa. I'm terrible with names but think it was him and his team mate at a previous team. I think the red roof inn hotel guy might have been one of the racers sponsors.

heres the contents of an original 50 convertible kit. All the gray parts are from the 50, the white parts are from the similar age 57 chevy

Adding the black to the windows is a big improvement on all yellow. Looks great slammed too

finish him screams yoshimitsu in the tekken games at the end of a match

Also there been some very promising leaps forward in possibly even being able to suck some pretty big quantities of carbon out of the air by seeding certain types of plankton with iron oxide. I'm not sure the breed of plankton but they found one that turns out to filter the carbon out of sea water which then solidifies after the plankton is filter fed by corals. They think that if they can stimulate these plankton to grow more, it will allow the sea to absorb more carbon from the atmosphere. Already in certain conditions this plankton blooms can be seen from space but since its a recent discovery there more research to be done just in case there are any problems it may cause. The big hope is that since the iron oxide is naturaly occuring and the plankton that it could be done nearly everywhere. They've also found a plankton that eats oil that could be used for spills.there is hope, its not all bad news however change has to happen unfortunately but before we spend trillions somebody has to promote the alternatives that are available. and rural areas are always the last to get infrastructure upgrades, so what happens when you get sick but you live 350 miles from the hospital? your range wont be as high as someone that drives on pavement and i'm pretty sure the vehicles wont hold together nealry as long either. there more flaws than benefits in my opinion with evs if you live outside a decent size town

There's an even bigger problem with the ev switchover that seems to have been forgotten. Farmers use their tractors every possible hour, and the same tractor powers the machines they are pulling around. At the moment a tractors can easily run for 12 hours or more on a tank of fuel. What happens when they go ev? its not like they can afford to buy all new independantly powered machines and multiple tractors to do the same jobs they do now. that cost will go into our food bills and it sure wont be the farmers pocketing the cash. and how much will it cost just to get the massive amount of new power cables into farming communities to charge them? The much better option is hydrogen fuel. Stick a few hundred thousnd windmills in the southern ocean, where there are very few shipping lanes, to power making the hydrogen from the constant predicable winds along with multiple wave generators in the bases and you have a pretty powerful power source thats not likelly to run out (there a good reason theres not many shipping lanes down there). And its where nobody goes. There your cleaner fuel for electricity generating and the infrastructure to transport it already exists for oil and can be modified for much less cost than new power lines everywhere. it can fuel cars trucks tractors and be made with the same electricity it generates in slack times. It a pity most people get scared of hydrogen because of the hindenberg but that was 80 years ago and technology is much improved since then. ev have their place but how many acres have to be strip mined for the battery meterials? it not being green if you cut down a rain forest to do it, and its not being green if you just create new problems when the batteries are done. how much toxic waste does manufacuring those batteries make? Dont get me wrong, I love internal combustion engines from the old put put single cylinders my grandparents powered their house with (lister) to the ridiculous v16 in the bugattis, but their time has really passed for new cars if we want to save the planet. but dont get rid of your big v8 classics, keep your flathead rods and your sky high trucks for special occasions but maybe have something a little kinder to the enviroment for daily driving. I dont want to lose the cars I love but at the same time I know something has to change. There was a forest fire in the artic circle last year, and thats something that should be impossible. it seems like most of the south of europe is in drought or on fire, and the same is happening right around the world. remember exxon has been lieing to us since 1979, and they knew then what was going to happen. did they warn us? did they nothing, they bought up so called independant experts to lie to us and spin the story for their profits. They spun the story to be people being crazy, paid off politicians and lied some more. when they got caight in their lies they lied some more and because they spent so many years paying people off, people believed them before the real scientists. sorry to rant, give the bbc series big oil vs the world a watch, its eye opening what exxon knew and when

It looks like the paint may have still been soft. Did you use primer? and are they enamel paints? they sometimes take a while to fully cure so I use low tack tape for enamels if i'm using them. I've also had that happen when the thinners from the paint leaches into the tape so even with the low tack tape it has to come off as soon as the second colour has set enough, even before it is touch dry so its a careful job sometimes. I mostly use acrylics now for these reasons but some colours i can only get in enamels so i wont fully swap over

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