Joe Handley

Where's the jerk in the Judge?

Sure does, and it looks like Jungle Pam approves!

Looks good, I'd bet I have one somewhere around here that looks alot like what you started with. For a minute there, I thought you were talking about the real car there

http://chrysb.fliggo.com/video/iTiG77hT

That's odd, I was thinking post '68 Mustang Frank Bullett Can't wait to see it done!

That is utterly pointless......I love it!

I hear you, but wasn't fortunate enough to have old kits handed down. I'm 32 and when I'd bought those kits I either knew from reading in SAE or figured out on my own that those kits were around in many cases back when subject was showroom fresh. One thing I've noticed in both current publications is that the reviewer doesn't always mention the age of the kit like was done in years past, and that can probably allow younger folk think that these are new kits, and then the whiney tantrums start

Real

Is that the same kit as the GoodGuys T-Bucket?

The bumpers are plastic anyway, loosing what ever aero bou might get could be a pretty good reason not to, especially with a front driver

Model

I found this on another forum ]I couldn't have said this any better myself. MITCH ALBOM Hey, you senators: Thanks for nothing A few parting words for the senators who squashed the auto rescue By MITCH ALBOM • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST • December 13, 2008 Do you want to watch us drown? Is that it? Do want to see the last gurgle of economic air spit from our lips? If so, senators, know this: You’ll go down with us. America isn’t America without an auto industry. You can argue whether $14 billion would have saved it, but you surely tried to kill it. We have grease on our hands. You have blood. Kill the car, kill the country. History will show that when America was on its knees, a handful of lawmakers tried to cut off its feet. And blame the workers. How suddenly did the workers — a small percentage of a car’s cost — become justification for crushing an industry? And when did Detroit become the symbol of economic dysfunction? Are you kidding? Have you looked in the mirror lately, Washington? In a world where banks hemorrhaged trillions in a high-priced gamble called credit derivative swaps that YOU failed to regulate, how on earth do WE need to be punished? In a bailout era where you shoveled billions, with no demands, to banks and financial firms, why do WE need to be schooled on how to run a business? Who is more dysfunctional in business than YOU? Who blows more money? Who wastes more trillions on favors, payback and pork? At least in the auto industry, if folks don’t like what you make, they don’t have to buy it. In government, even your worst mistakes, we have to live with. And now Detroit should die with this? In bed with the foreign automakers Kill the car, kill the country. Sen. Richard Shelby, Sen. Bob Corker, Sen. Mitch McConnell, your names will not be forgotten. It’s amazing how you pretend to speak for America when you are only watching out for your political party, which would love to cripple unions, and your states, which house foreign auto plants. Corker, you’ve got Nissan there and Volkswagen coming. Shelby, you’ve got Hyundai, Honda, Mercedes-Benz and — like McConnell — Toyota. Oh, don’t kid yourself. They didn’t come because you earned their business, a subject on which you enjoy lecturing the Detroit Three. No, they came because you threw billions in state tax breaks to lure them. And now you want those foreign companies, which you lured, and which get help from their governments, to dictate to American workers how much they should be paid? Tell you what. You’re so fond of the foreign model, why don’t you do what Japanese ministers do when they screw up the country’s finances? They cut their salaries. Or they resign in shame. When was the last time a U.S. senator resigned over a failed policy? Yet you want to fire Rick Wagoner? Who are you people? More money for the lords of Wall Street There ought to be a law — against the hypocrisy our government has demonstrated. The speed with which wheelbarrows of money were dumped on Wall Street versus the slow noose hung on the auto companies’ necks is reprehensible. Some of those same banks we bailed out are now saying they won’t extend credit to auto dealers. Wasn’t that why we gave them the money? To loosen credit? Where’s your tight grip on those funds, senators? Where’s your micromanaging of the wages in banking? Or do you just enjoy having your hands around blue-collared throats? No matter what the president does, history will not forget this: At our nation’s most uncertain hour, you senators stood ready to plunge hundreds of thousands of American families into oblivion. Leave them unemployed, with no health care, on public assistance. And you were willing to put our nation’s security at risk — by squashing the manufacturing base we must have in times of war. And why? So you could stand on some phony principle? Crush a union? Play to your base? How is our nation better off today now that you kept $14 billion in the treasury? Are you going to balance the budget with that? Don’t make us laugh. Kill the car, kill the country. You tried to slam a stake into our chest; you don’t realize how close you are to the nation’s heart. Shame on your pettiness. Shame on your hypocrisy. This is how lawmakers behave two weeks before Christmas? Honestly. What has become of this country? Contact MITCH ALBOM at 313-223-4581 or malbom@freepress.com. Catch “The Mitch Albom Show†5-7 p.m. weekdays on WJR-AM (760).[

They all look great, I hope those get reissued!

Looks good, but I was expecting a Goth Thug build with it

Actually, a Pro Beater (late model rat rod) style build called Salmonella would be pretty sweet!

WTF?

Don't mean to rile you back up Scott, but it's probably a "not my neighborhood, so it's not my problem" deal.

I've read that one, I'm not too sure what was funnier though, that one or guy on a Camaro forum that while drunk thought it was a good idea to brand (yes, like as in a cattle brand!!!) the numbers 6 and 9 on one of his rump cheeks I seem to remember another where a drunk guy used a disposable bleach soaked bathroom wipe to wipe himself in his girlfriend's bathroom...then there's the guy (this one was sober) who ate an entire can of Diet Pringles in one day...then had to post about the experiance on Craigslist

http://www.wranglerforum.com/attachment.ph...mp;d=1228763842 http://www.wranglerforum.com/attachment.ph...mp;d=1228763789 http://www.wranglerforum.com/attachment.ph...mp;d=1228763825 http://www.wranglerforum.com/f6/i-have-a-shimmy-23834.html

I honestly don't know, it could be an old pic of the real or a replica 1:1, but IIRC the 1/18 was made by a company that does some of the best diecasts out there.

Are they mixing parts from teh two then? The pictures of the parts trees on the bottom of the box show the newer AMT Cornet.

Check out the RC paints next time you're at your LHS;)

The HTU I work for got one of the 500KR kits in, but haven't seen the '51 Chevy Convertable just yet. I also was looking at the box for the "MRC" '70 Cornet at the I-Hobby show and if you look at the pictures of what's included in the kit, that is the 90's era AMT B-Body '70 Cornet in a box with "period style" box art.

Filled up my CHerokee today, only paid $25 for 14 gallons of gas.......seem strange to pay so little to do so

The Marathon and Phillips 66 in West CHicago (a city in Dupage Co, not West Side of Chicago) were both $1.69 a gallon and the P66 had $1.46 for a fillup and car wash