TarheelRick

If it is anything like the local A. C. Moore they're model selection will be slim and very few if any of the new releases. However they do have a 55% coupon on their telephone app and if you are a veteran there is another 10% on top of that. I have bought a couple of kits there for just over $10.

Wow, a Shelby Maverick. Now I think I have seen it all.

Way cool truck, nice detail work. With no front fenders it would be an "altered" not a "gasser".

I haven't seen a kit in WalMart for at least 8 or more years. Big Lots used to get them around Christmas time, but I haven't seen any there in at least 6 years. Right now the only 'big-box store' that carries any models around here is Ollie's, and then only sporadically. Now I have seen some fairly nice 1/43, 1/18, and a few 1/24 diecasts is WalMart, but I am into plastic so they don't appeal to me that much.

There are some similarities, but also quite a few differences. Wheels, grille, headlamps, windshield wipers, vent windows, front edge of front fender, front door window, appears to have a more rounded rear roof line, and fender parking lights to name a few.

Very beautiful build. Really like the color combination and the overall cleanness of the build. Those are some "loud" looking exhaust pipes.

Really tough looking truck, especially like the bed. The only thing I see missing is painting that beautiful welder blue and putting a Miller decal on it - I used Miller welders during my stint in the USAF and really loved them.

My all-time favorite car that if I won the lottery I would go out and find. - '65 Chevelle SS. Mine was a 283 4-speed car in Tahitian Turquoise.

Our local TV station's Chief Meteorologist (ROFL) drives me nuts. She is so giggly it is almost sickening. Anyway, we have just come through a very heavy rain system, here at the house we had over 7.5" in four days. The temperatures averaged high 80's every day. The rains have somewhat subsided and the temps are climbing back up into the low 90's with almost matching humidity. Last night when she was doing the forecast, she made the comment "it is almost feeling summer-like again". What the dickens is in her mind other than air? Before the rains it was in the mid 90's and dry for over three weeks. To me anything over 80 degrees is summer-like.

Beautiful sort-track racer, one of my favorite types of build. Not really familiar with the old ASA, is this a phantom build or a replica? Either way it is sweet.

Very well done Torino. Nice shine to the paint, not over glossy; more factory than show-car. I like it.

As most have said I learned to drive in a stick-shift. My father was a rural mail-carrier and swore by 6-cylinder, three speed Chevrolets. Now my Dad was only 5'9" but he could sit in the middle of the seat and drive those cars with ease. I used to drive his cars around the yard and the fields around our house. My driver's training was in a '64 three-speed Ford Galaxie. First car a 6 cylinder three speed '56 Chevrolet, followed by a 283 3 speed '65 Chevelle, and that one was replaced by a 283 4 speed '65 Chevelle SS. Nowadays it is much easier on my knee joints to drive an automatic, although I really miss shifting gears.

Very interesting build. Even in 1/20 I would imagine some very small parts. I have an older Honda tiller 1:1, it is a center-time model and is not wheel driven, but it will sling some dirt in my garden.

Welcome aboard from one old phhfft to another. You have me by a year, but at our age numbers are relative. Looking forward to seeing some of your builds. I have been back in the hobby for a while now after a few years hiatus. This site is a wealth of information.

That is some excellent creative bodywork. Not trying to be a rivet-counter or an art critic, and this build is a work of art, but that Mustang nose just appears to be a bit high for my taste. Maybe a bit more slope in the hood area would have brought it down some. Adding late model design elements to a traditional body style takes a deft eye and you definitely have that. Also like the stripe, but then I am a FORD freak and love Mustangs.

$30 for shipping eight kits is not really too bad. I have shipped kits in trades on this board and the price has ranged from $7.50 to $12.50 for one kit, and if that kit leaves the US borders the prices become astronomical. One part of this price equation some seem to ignore is the continual price increases of the USPS.

For a couple of weeks I was having trouble with shower water backing up into my basement sink. Finally broke down and called the "grocery recycling" people to come pump out the tank. At the time it was in the mid 90's with high humidity and very dry. They quoted me $250 but when they did the job it was $500. When I called them I told them I thought the tank was fairly shallow and they did not bring any excavation equipment other than a shovel, it was actually over 5 feet deep and they had to shovel it out by hand. They then did a check and discovered the drain line from the tank was not working properly. For $1100 they would dig out the old line back to some good line and repair it. Of course they dug back almost 50 feet and all they found was collapsed concrete tiles. Change of plan, I will need a complete replacement of the septic drain field at an estimated cost of $3100. I am now sitting here with a three foot deep by 50 feet long, rather aromatic trench in my back yard . After visiting the county Building Permits office and spending $125 for a permit I got to wait from Tuesday until late Thursday for an inspector to come out and lay off the new lines. The septic people were busy, but said they would be back on this past Tuesday to do the work. They called me on Sunday and told me they would be here on Monday (this past) because there was supposed to be rain beginning Tuesday through the rest of the week. It was finished late Monday afternoon and the rains began sometime Monday evening. Since Tuesday we have got just short of 6.5 inches of rain. Here is a picture of my backyard from this morning. Of course now I have the pleasure of raking up the gravel from the old line, smoothing out the whole mess, and resowing some grass in the fall. Not bad for $4825.

If television could just figure some way to fill the time between the Pro turn -arounds I believe NHRA drag-racing could possibly overshadow NASCAR. Of course if the TV people were to also include some of the Sportsman races as filler, I believe their ratings for drag-racing would sky-rocket. Occasionally they will throw in some SS, Super Comp, Super Gas, and Factory Stock races. But if they were to schedule a four-hour block the way they do for NASCAR, do away with some of the talking heads filler between Pro runs, and replace it with lower class racing it would sell to advertisers. Just my opinion, and yes, I know about opinions.

Really sweet gasser. Reminds me of some of the local ones from years past. Just one comment and not being at all critical, in your first picture the flat black front end looks to be a "mile long". I know it is all in the angle and perspective of the picture, it just caught my attention. Thanks for sharing this build.

Agree with the others, super nice Maverick. Not too sure about that picnic table front bumper though, I didn't realize they stuck out that far.

Very sweet Vette. That color fits it to a "T", makes it look fast just sitting there. Also like the small flairs over the slicks. Is the windshield frame kit chrome or did you redo it?

Excellent build. Very clean and simple. Really like your choice of colors.

Oh man, bright pink and gaudy. Very clean restoration.

Hmmm, I missed that. Guess we are on the same page.

I have owned two 65 Chevelles the first was a straight 283, 3 on the tree, bench seat version. After I got goofy on a wet road and backed it into a dirt bank I traded it for an SS, same color Tahitian Turquoise, 283 4-speed, chrome reversed wheels. I have three of these kits in my stash, two of the original and one of the later "Street Machine" versions. I have the PE set and a parts pack small block, so one will be built to represent the one I owned. I am think another will be built as "What I would have liked to have" and the third is going to either be a B/SS, C/MP. C/G or maybe a short track terror. These pictures were made when I was home on leave from Thailand and planned on taking it to the strip for a fun Sunday afternoon, unfortunately it rained and the races were canceled.