TarheelRick

When they built the solar farm behind my house, they had to replace all the utility poles going down the road to the site with larger, more substantial poles which required more and larger guy wires. These guy wires are of course placed in my yard, which I have to mow around (with my gas-powered mower and weedeater). At a rezoning meeting prior to construction, we were all promised our electric bills would decrease because the power generated would be sold to the local power company - haven't noticed any decreases. As a matter of fact, the local power company has petitioned the state for a rate increase. I guess the price of sunlight has gone up.

Not a real fan of EV or alternative energy sources. I live in a very rural area and have a fairly large solar farm in my backyard, and it seems every country road I drive down there is another one popping up. One thought I have is this. I get home after a long day at work, plug in my all-new EV to my home charger, eat supper, watch a bit of TV and go to bed. Shortly after I get into bed and get into a deep sleep a major electrical storm blows through and knocks out power. When I wake up the next morning, power is still off in my neighborhood. I need to get to work but my new Whiz-bang 3000 is not charged, there is no bus service in my area, and Uber is extremely overloaded. Guess I'll have to drag out my Schwinn and get to pedaling.

Looking for information on any upcoming shows in the Roanoke, VA area, The Simpsonville/Spartanburg, SC areas, and if the CKM is back in work for a show in Clemmons, NC. Really enjoyed the CKM shows until Covid shut them down. Never had a chance to go to Richmond but did make a couple of shows in Spartanburg and Simpsonville, back about 10 years ago. Need to box up some "spare" kits and try to open up some shelf space.

Most excellent build. I am a Gasser freak and was lucky enough to spend two-wonderful days last summer watching SEGA run my local dragstrip. One rule you didn't mention was the use of four-speed transmissions only and nothing air-shifted, all must be hand thrown. Really like the color scheme you did on yours. One fine machine.

Preach on brother, unfortunately I am afraid you are preaching to the choir.

You might could consider an aircraft hangar, those are some big birds.

Excellent build of the D model Buff. Brings back many memories from my time at Carswell AFB, TX (now closed). The ones I worked were all mostly painted solid black. They may be called "BUFF", but to me they are beautiful birds. Most enjoyable watching those wing tips lift during takeoff, they lift an average 18 feet from taxi to full flight. While in Texas I lived five miles away from the base, however my house was under the flight path of these monsters. When they took-off, I could not hear my TV. What was really awesome was when we were in practice alert and launched flights of four at a time. I am now receiving 20% disability for hearing loss.

Forgive me, but I thought that was a standard MOPAR paint scheme after a couple of years - said the FORD worshipper. Really good-looking work, very well executed weathering job.

Went to local HF looked for them in the drill bit section, no luck. Associate offered to help me, couldn't find them so looked up on computer, still no luck. Anyway, I browsed the store to see if there was anything else I "really needed". Just happened to stumble across a couple sets hanging on the rack with Dremel bits; both are mine now. Looking forward to using them.

With that cavernous trunk space, if this one was cleaned up it would be great for wine tours (a rather new industry here in NC). Of course, you would probably want to have rubber floor covering; wine 'spew' can be messy on a carpet.

Just completed a great trade with Hi-Po, very pleased with the complete transaction.

That is one might fine looking Gasser. Nice work, just enough weathering to make it plausible.

#213 hit my mailbox today. After a quick glance, it looks pretty good. Two articles that will require more time is the VW Westphalia, I owned a '72. The interior layout was a bit different on mine; there was a rear facing seat behind the driver's seat, the table folded down between them, and my "kitchen" was just inside the sliding door behind the passenger seat. For some unknown reason, maybe a lunar brain freeze, I traded it for a '78 Rabbit. The other article was actually the kit review of the Drag Combo. I bought this kit a few months back and just last month I scored a mostly complete '64 Ford annual kit at an auction sale. Plans now are to use the annual custom pieces on the curbside from the drag combo kit. If I can get my hands on a "60 Starliner chassis I will use it to build the '64 annual into a superstock drag car, which would look really good on that trailer: maybe even drop in the SOHC with two fours and go B/FX.

Excellent work, especially in such a small scale. I think if I were driving that particular stretch of roadway I would prefer a sturdier guardrail. If you can accomplish such perfection as this diorama, than the weathering project should be simple.

Really am enjoying the work you are doing downgrading this old Chevy. My first pickup was an orange '72 C-10 Custom, longbed, 350, auto. I had kidney-bean mags (not Halibrand) and an aluminum shell on mine. Oh yeah, that is some really nice work on that camper shell. Harbor Freight usually carries a pretty good set of those riffler files.

A bit off topic but thank your Dad for his service. I started my second tour in the USAF in 1972.

Keep on Truckin'. Really like the direction you have taken with this build. Some excellent detail work.

I lucked into a new F-150 LT STX. It has all the bells and whistles that I wanted, plus many more that I don't really need or will ever use. Only problem it was not the color I wanted, looking for a nice medium or dark blue and this one is a bright "Race Red", but I will get used to it.

Not sure I really understand the microprocessor shortage. I have been shopping for a new F-150 for the past couple of months. One of the largest local dealers of fleet vehicles has 3 or 4 acres of white vehicles (F-150-450, Transits all sizes, Escapes, even some Mavericks), none for sale to the general public. All he had on the lot for general public sale was two $58K+ F-150's. So why is there not a shortage in microprocessors for these fleet vehicles?

The results you have achieved are very promising. I especially like how the letters are not filled with silver paint. But as mentioned by Peter and Charles what will be the results once the body is painted?

Now that is a good reason to "wait for it", beautiful job.

Very nice looking build. I think I have one in my stash, may have to dig it out. Just for kicks, what size motor does that represent?

Parts box builds are so much fun, sparks the creativity in all of us. You have done a masterful job on this one, also like that color.

Here is a copy of the instruction sheet. Those are the original custom pieces, even shows the use of an Olds F-85 grille.

Was just getting used to actually seeing the kids at the bus stop, then the time changed and they are all in the dark now. So I have to really look close to see if they are there, amazing how popular black clothing is with today's youth. If I had my druthers I would druther have standard time.