OldTrucker

I actually find myself at stores and on line looking at kits and have been able to walk away without buying a kit even though I see some I would like to have. Come to the realization that the world will come to an end before I ever finish what I have in the closet!

Watching our 4 year old Granddaughter playing in her second baseball game today! She hit every time at bat without using the tee!

I worked on and off for a VW ( foreign car) repair shop over 20 years and the owner was in love with these cars! Always had several parts cars around and a couple running. Had one all original with a little over 30,000 miles on it but his favorite was one that he bought missing the engine that he shoehorned an aluminum block 215 ci buick nail head engine into backed by a Borg warner T-10! Ran Chevrolet station wagon rims with baby moon caps. I don't remember how those were adapted to the car all I know is it was a quick little car!

Built last year. Never dreamed it would come out this good! Took a lot of time and patience to get everything to fit.

Thanks Matt! Love this stuff!!!

Nick, it is a given that they would not "give" the molds away. By have I was thinking more in line of one of the other casters getting them from Don and Carol so that what they started could continue on! I was in no way suggesting anything different.

California was a failed experiment. They went after a new group of "younger" fans. Good idea in theory but wrong group as they don't seem to have the attention span to become long time fans of anything it seems and after two good seasons the new had worn off and attendance dropped drastically! If someone buys Nascar the first thing is to drop California and Vegas and Kansas and go back to the short tracks in the southeast! I would even drop the Indy race. That track was not intended for stock cars to run on. Also they need to shorten the races. 500 milers just do not make sense anymore. The idea was "endurance" as when they came up with that idea they were running factory built cars so they were actually testing the durability of a production car with the long races! That is no longer true so no need for a 4+ hour race. Maybe a shift to sedan class racing like you see in the land down under would be the way to go!

Great build!!! Love the old steam engines! Had a great uncle that railroaded in that era and loved his stories about it!

Honey do time around the house and everything I did fought me all the way! An hour tops job took 3 because of having the wrong (not enough) tools! I'll never get talked into replacing the drain baskets in a sink ever again!!!

That is one beautiful car! I remember the first time I saw one at a show in the lat 70's, I thought it was a customized Chevelle! I owned a 69 Chevelle at the time so it was pretty cool comparing the two! Nice mix of Chevy and Ponco parts to make a great looking car!

Love it !

All I can say is COOL!!!

Who would have thought of Cragars on a 52 Hudson? Looks really cool Chuck! Chuck is the King oh Hudson hands down!

Great job! There we're so many changes to the truck over the years, it is hard to remember just how it looked! I saw it 4 Times in the sixties and it was different every time!

Wasn't sure just where this one fit! I remember seeing things like this at the race track pulling race cars back in the 60's! My son had a 55 Nomad with a crashed body he was going to toss out so I held on to it forever! Then I had the camper from the AMT 65 Elcamino kit laying around and decided to merge the two and see what happens! No detail inside the camper so used printing paper to make curtains.

Ankle burners!!!LOL

I like it!!! First car I ever took down the drag strip was a 67 Corvette convertible! But it was far from stock! Belonged to my bands older brother. 427 with a tunnel ram , teardrop hood scoop, 4:56 gears out back. Car dealer repossessed it while he was in Vietnam so before his girl friend took it back to the dealer all of us in the band took all the goodies off and replaced them with stock parts that he had most of in the garage attic. Car sure ran bad with that huge cam and a stock intake and carb on it!LOL We even changed the rear end to the stock one! 4 steel wheels with bald tires too! The dealer was mad because he thought he was getting the car they way it was raced!LOL he wasn't supposed to be repossessing the car from a guy overseas anyway!

Skipped spring and went to summer!

Rich, you need to get out and talk to those on the front lines about this thing you call procedural and they will tell you how much of what they show is BS! They take a stab at the generality of procedure and then embellish it to absurd degrees!

Wayne, we lived next door to a retired NYC Detective about 6 years ago. He said that Barney Miller WAS his precinct to a T! Said that I would not believe how diverse the department really is! He made a point that on these "police dramas" they see more action n 60 minutes that real defectives see in a year! Said in his 35 years his gun was only out of it's holster maybe half a dozen times! He put 30 years in the NYC department them retired and moved yo IL. and took a job as a Police Chief for a mid sized town.. He said he saw more "excitement" in those four years as a Police Chief than he did in his 35 in NYC, 20 of it as a detective!

All I have been having for the last 6 months is a little knee pain occasionally. This caught me totally off guard! Like it just would not bend at all without serious pain. Walking to after that. Got better after keeping it elevated for a while and working it on and off.. Almost back to normal tonight but I know it will do it again! The wife is scheduled to have her other knee done in August. She had her right knee replaced just days before Christmas last year. After that I will be seeing what the doctor says with mine. Hope he can do some cleanup and buy me some time!

Got this from my son this morning. Think I will paint 1/2 of it and leave the other half clear!

Had both hips replaced and feeling good until this morning when a knee decided to lockup between the bedroom and bathroom!

Dan! You build kit guitars???