OldTrucker

Glad to hear that! I've learned in my 60+ years not to sweat the little things in life. Life is too short as it is and friends get fewer as we get older.

Great job on one of my favorite trucks! Was an old one deserted on a gravel lot by the old rail yard in town when I was a kid and we spent many hours "driving" it all over the country! (until bumble bees took it over) LOL Now that I see how one turns out I will have to get one! Thanks for posting!

Jimmy Hoffa Where Are You?

A flashback for me to earlier days trucking! Great job! Might add a little wear to the step under the door, the paint on the edge never seemed to stay very long on them! Love the weathering on the wheel rings on the steers. What tires did you use on this one? They look great!

Yeah, the body looks like it has been through a few too many races and had lots of rough body work done just to keep it race ready! A real shame they did this to so many great kits.

We haven't watched a game in two years now but the kid called and said it was 3 - 3 late in the 4th so I switched it on in time to see the three penalty's result in the Rams punting it away and shut it off. As far as some saying the Rams should not have even been there, neither should New England have been there. The NFL got what they wanted but unfortunately it wasn't what the fans wanted.

Beautiful T Bird Randy ! Thanks for the tip on the interior !

Gunna put Monfort Of Colorado on it? I hauled a few loads for them around 1990.

Be vewy vewy cafewl

If you think it is bad in a house try a mobile home! Thought the bedroom wall was falling off last night and the kitchen early this morning! Then when the sun came out the siding tries to expand sound like someone rapping on the walls!

Hope you remembered because they will freeze their balls off tonight!

Pastime Puzzles cut by Parker Brothers, Inc., Salem MA (1908 to 1958) Parker Brothers, a large game manufacturer in Salem, MA from the 19th century, didn't get started in the puzzle business until late in 1908. Almost immediately, its sales of puzzles, especially its top line, Pastime, took off and the Company ceased making games entirely in 1909, shifting all its facilities to the production of handcut wood puzzles. During much of that year, the Company had 225 puzzle cutters turning out 15,000 puzzles per week! Over the next 3 years they adopted several techniques which made their puzzles into the best of the commercially cut puzzles for the next 50 years. They adopted the prevailing style of color line cutting, mainly for the larger color areas. Within color areas, they incorporated numerous pieces shaped like recognizable objects such as silhouettes of animals, flowers, letters, numbers and geometric shapes which we call "figure pieces". Their standard was 12 figure pieces per 100 puzzle pieces. Although figure pieces had been employed before in puzzles, the Company was able to patent the idea in 1917 (they never tried to enforce it) and supplied the cutters with patterns of standard figure pieces. Between the figure pieces they cut enough loops and locks to supply clues to the assembler as well as make the puzzle more interlocking. To support these cutting techniques they used sturdy 3-ply wood rather than solid wood of that era. While most of their puzzles were commercially cut for stores and for their extensive sales catalogs, they did accept special orders from individuals. In the 1920s the Company made a 10,000 piece puzzle from a 5' by 7' poster of West Point for New York's Oneida Colony, still on display at the Mansion House in Oneida, NY. The Company hired only women to cut puzzles; the common rationale being men lacked the manual dexterity needed to cut small pieces, and most women already knew how to use sewing machines. But probably the real reason was that they could pay the women (called "the Pastime girls") much lower wages than men in the Salem area. They probably were able to "get away with this" because they ran the department like a craft shop in which each worker had autonomy and control. The best cutters would make their own designs and were able to cut some of the best puzzles made during the first half of the 20th century. All cutters were expected to cut at least 1400 pieces per day. The Company distributed its Pastime puzzles nationwide by mail order direct to the customer and through department and stationary stores, as well as through branches in London and Paris. By 1958 the Company had closed down its Pastime line. For pictures of more Pastime puzzle, see: Ludovici's Dickens Coaching Puzzles and Opera Scenes Puzzles sections. Also, most of the other special collections display some Pastime puzzles. For more information on Parker Brothers and Pastime puzzles, see ch. 3 of Anne Williams' book which is the source of the above information: "The Jigsaw Puzzle: Piecing Together a History", Berkley Books, div. of Penquin Books, New York, (2004).

I have seen lots of different puzzle piece shapes over my 60+ years on this earth but I have never seen that cut before!!!

I think the real driving force behind it (which the car companies seen not to understand) is to make owning a car impractical for most people whether through price of that vehicle or the fuel and high maintenance cost to operate it that we are mostly all eventually pushed into public transportation. I know they clean air people and environmentalist that help drive these issues also believe that all people need to live close into urban areas near their places of work negating the need for personal vehicles.

I'd love to see that kitted again!

I'm sitting here looking at one on the shelf in a case that I built back when the kit was first released. The first model I ever tried two tone paint on! I didn't put the decals on for something like 10 years after building it and they were coming apart so had to touch them up with as close match paint as I could mix. I remember building a Rambler kit before that one with an open trunk and it had luggage for the trunk. Was that the 66 Rambler maybe?

That would be it! I also chose to bare metal foil the trim. My kid gave the kit to me because it didn't interest him. It sat in my closet for a few years before I decided to build it. Was going to repaint it black like one a friend had years ago but then decided to just polish the red and paint the roof! I was surprised at how well it went together and looked other than the shallow grill detail but a black wash helped it quite a bit.(after three tries LOL) I'd probably build another if I ran into another kit priced right.

Back in the day we would have deemed that a "sleeper"! Looks sort of like grandma's car but would blow the other guy away at the light!

I have never seen this kit done better than this!

That would be a great thing to have!!! I have one on my "Honey Do" list for the wife. That is her favorite TV program!

X3! Bio Freeze works great!

I built the red one stock. The only changes were I painted the top black, the interior two tone red and went with part box tires. (Good Year Polyglass)

The truck would be the best choice when it comes to getting parts!

DVR the show and then fast forward through the commercials! We never watch anything on TV unless we give it 20 minutes lead time so we can! Will be cutting the cord come spring! Grandkids will be all in school full time next year and when we watch them in the summer we are outside most of the time!

I haven't seen one of those in a car in over 30 years! Had one in my 66 Pontiac Lemans!