OldTrucker

Just got rid of the big gas bubble that was nagging me all morning. Now the wife is irked!

We have the same issue. You can tell which cats are house cats mainly because most have collars or at least a flea collar. While the park here has had cats trapped and the older ones spayed or neutered most of the house cats aren't fixed and they are the ones that are having the kittens that become the new crop of feral cats! It's a vicious cycle.

What irked me today I packed up in it's box and my work station is empty! Trying to build this Indy car for 3 weeks and it has been a nightmare! Wanted to take a hammer to it but the wife won't let me! The only thing on the bench right now is a Louis L'Amour novel!

X2 all over our yard and our ramp/porch smell like cat urine from them spraying. My son can't mow his lawn without walking in cat BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH due to the neighbor feeding the feral cats that are running rampant here!

I have tried several times to replicate a model I built long long ago that met it's demise, was stolen or given away. Only one came out close. The main problem is if you didn't build it straight out of the box it is almost impossible to find the same parts you used to make it your own so when you are done it just does not have that same feel to it. For sure you cannot replicate the pride you had in that original build, just cannot capture that excitement that came with the planning and execution of the project. That is why while I will build some of the same kits that were lost years ago because I really liked them, I don't try to replicate the past.

Just completed a trade with HotRod 97 (Tyler Gontz)! Definitely would trade with him again any time! Thanks Ty!

Since I have been building for over 50 years I don't even want to think about the number!

Beautiful! One fine looking wagon you created! Thanks for sharing it!

Where!!!!!

Just got my end of a trade with Oldcarfan27! Trade went without a hitch just as a trade should! I'd trade again with this guy any time! Thanks Patrick!

My son's 55 Plymouth has 2 bolt covers and a valley cover. The car is 100% original!

That is correct!

Oxblood (dark red) with black accent.

Ron, when I was in Jr High a friend of mine collected pennies (still does today) and he had one that was worth about 150 bucks back then. Went to his house one day after school and he was going to show it to me and it along with some others he had in a metal bandaid tin were gone! He yelled for his little sister who told him she had went across the street and bough bubble gum with it out of the gumball machine in the lobby of a store in the shopping center. We took her over and she showed us which machine it was so he went in to see the store manager who told him the machines belonged to a vendor and the phone number was on the machine! He called and told the guy what happened and the guy said "any money put in a machine became HIS property and that he would not come and find his collector coins for him. We took the machine and ran across the road to his house and hid it in the garage. His dad came home and he called the local police who came out and called the vendor to come and open the thing and let the kid get his pennies back. At first he refused but the Chief of Police was one of them and he informed him that with one phone call he would be collecting all his machines in town because they would revoke his permit! He relented and after about 2 hours (with the help of his dad and two Police Officers) we had recovered his valuable penny and the other half dozen that were with it! I have a couple of the old steel pennies but they are not worth much.

Some of the early poly engines could be turned into a hemi with a crank, rod and piston change as they shared the same block! We were concidering doing that on my son'r 55 Plymouth. So maybe using the poly heads shown and an early hemi block would get you somewhere close!

Oh but they can! Had one drill a hole through the siding on one of our houses some years back! They can be very destructive! I hate the dumb ones that try and peck holes in metal downspouts!

A whopping 1 Horsepower and all hoof drive!

It's not a myth. but rather a natural phenomenon that has went on since the beginning of time! Warming and cooling!!

I found Mario Andretti's head! It was inside my shoe!

I lost Mario Andretti's head!

Our Grandson was here to visit on leave from Ft Leonard Wood where he is awaiting reassignment! He is a Combat Engineer!

I think being irked is a good thing as it tends to bring about change for the better in the end!

I used to go on ebay almost every other day searching for a deal on something I wanted and was at Hobby Lobby almost weekly! But here of late I haven't even looked on ebay for anything and the last 6 months I have only bought at Hobby lobby once as opposed to having to grab a kit every time I set foot inside their door!

Just completed a trade with DPNM (Jim Sullivan) He is one great guy to trade with! Thanks Jim!