Joe Handley

Honestly, I think the first pic has the stance nailed and feel the wheels and tires work too, although I’d paint the barrel part of the rims aluminum with the centers painted a light gunmetal color. That must be one of the few body styles that looks completely wrong sitting at anything other than at level, no matter the altitude........maybe it’s the horizontal fins combined with the hump-ish roof and deck lid. If you want to try a more period type wheel, I’d probably use the Pegasus Chrome Reverse style wheels with the shorter narrow whites with the same stance, maybe even the same altitude as the first pic. Just please don’t go with a “Stink Bug” or worse, “Carolina Squat” stance!

Had one of these show up today, as well as the bearing kit and servos yesterday? Since my club project this year is cars built the same years Gen Xers were born, think I should bring this to the meeting, it’s solidly a 70’s era Tradesman?

I was wrong about going back to the office, still working O/T from home.

Could be like the Ida '39 Merc, where the skirts move in and out while turning.

We’re back in the office Monday, first time back since mid March.

To start with, I’ve wanted a Clod Buster for decades now, ever since I saw my first one in ‘87, and had the chance to buy the current Super Clod Buster Black Edition a couple weeks back and started building it on Memorial Day, only mid to start with will be the full ball bearing kit, since bushings suck, plastic ones in particular? My little “workstation”, at the recliner. Aaaand on to the build! Here’s where I started, which is in the middle of the instructions, supposedly there is conversion to swap those nuts and screws out for 6/32 hardware, I’ll just buy the screws and a tap Myself..... And on through the rest of the build...: At this point, I was done for the night, axles completed and ready for install. Next night, I prepped the chassis for then mounted the axles. I then mounted the wheels and tires and fit the ABS plastic shell to see how it looked. also figured a couple other R/Cs to give a sense of scale might not hurt, the Clod and black Javelin bodied 4-Tec 2.0 Are “1/10 scale” while the little green Scout-looking rig is supposed to be 1/24, but scales out to be more Like it’s 1/20 like the Lindburg truck kits were. Started the body prep tonight, should be ready for primer, then hopefully paint, this weekend! Did a bit more beyond this too, just never took the pics tonight. Got everything for the paint but the clear and I’m planning on using spray bed liner In the bed too, so I’m not as worried about those sink marks in the rollbar stand offs.

Yup, my Sister and her husband have been on emergency paid leave since all this started, so they've dedicated lots of time to her the last couple months, at least!

Got a text from my Sister not long after I was done working.........My little Niece started crawling today, plus she stood up on her own Monday night by pulling her self up with my Sister’s pant leg!

I had one of those in the early 80's as well, wonder what ever happened to that...........................

I read that, kinda wondered about that rant and what set Torch off on that since a number of his articles make me think a certain leafy green substance might be involved in writing them........that was kinda the polar opposite for him. Honestly, he'd still question the point of a model like that and it's pricepoint, especially THAT Rolls, since it doesn't seem to be fitting of the brand.

Those are good?

Finally got to start building my Clod Buster yesterday, axles and suspension are done, chassis will be next, followed by body as the finale.......hope the weather holds out for this weekend! I’ll be honest, when I bought the laptop I’m currently working from home on after Christmas 2018, if somebody had told me of all the things that have happened since January 1st of this year just in my family such as being an uncle, Mom dying, scraping my Jeep, etc, using that laptop to work from home due to a pandemic would have been the one thing I would have called bull on!

That sucks, condolences to his family too.

I am now officially hairy enough to start a pony tail??

He was eleven working with Jimmy Fallon after Leno moved on. I’ll be honest, never realized he was well into his 80’s.

Not sure if it's just me, but the quarters on the Canadian one look better to me, not as busy without the fins and tail light bulges.

Yeah, I have to agree here, the first car looks more olive green than Frost Green or citrus green like the Model Master color. I’ll be honest, not sure I’d trust that color chart, looks like it sat in the showroom window from the fall of ‘68 through about the fall of ‘69.

Yeah, I had heard that as well, but it was during an interview with him and he was laughing it off.

Got the bearings for my Clod Buster and Stampede in from A-Main today then Dad was able to get a screen protector for my iPhone while He and my Sister were at Sam’s Club today. Just waiting on the Cricut Maker I ordered to give my Sister for Mother’s Day to show up, which will hopefully be on Thursday!

Had a former customer from my HTU days texted me that he ordered one of these and it arrived on Monday......aaaaand I couldn’t help myself, ordering one that day. Well, it and the extra batteries for the SCX24s both arrived today.? Now we just need to get the Cricut Maker Dad and I ordered for my Sister’s Mother’s Day gift to arrive?

I wouldn’t say it was all Covid related, Norman-Marcus was already hurting from much of what took out Toys “R” Us on top that kind of store dying off as it is. It’s not like their sales can’t be done on line either. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/business/neiman-marcus-bankruptcy.html I really hate to mention this, but I’m kinda curious if any of the companies you lost were already not doing well, only to have the Saudis and Russians have their little oil war as this was starting, just to put a nail in those coffins sooner rather than later.

They’re currently running at over 3100 deaths at a population of 10 million, around 31 deaths per 100,00 people. Their neighbors are closer to 7-8 per 100,000....... https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/coronavirus-takes-toll-swedens-immigrant-community-70593594

Might be that it carries a lot of Chrysler’s design aesthetic, of the period, but is ”different” at the same time. I’ve noticed that with the Holdens and Fords of the era as well as what Holden products that were sold here by Pontiac and Chevy in the last 15+ years.

Well, Dad found that broken fence post isn’t broken, just pushed over a little bit so he’s going to try and pull it straight with his tractor and put up the last panel! I found out that the next 2 weeks at work will be even more overtime, an added 4 hours a week from what we had already been getting! Now the not so good news, my Sister got a call from the doctor she took her daughter to, apparently they had a patient come in on the same day they did that had COVID-19, so now they have to self-quarantine for the next couple weeks......and of course, she finds this out a couple hours after getting back from the HyVee run she, her hubby, and our 78 y/o Dad went on, which is 45 minute drive each way?

Here's his IMDb page, mentions it in here, one time role on in '66 as a "crewman". https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0326091/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1