Joe Handley

Must be how I'm seeing the front 3/4 views of the car then. That view seems to give the car a slight "Gasser" or maybe more like a "full throttle" nose higher than the rear stance to me.

I've always been a fan of George Thorogood's cover, personally. Although I do like Steve Earle's take on it too. Turns out Tom Petty even did a version with Mudclutch!

I've got one of the AMT '67 GT350 kits that I'm planning on starting soon and while researching colors, I keep seeing 1/1 GT350 and GT500 pics where the cars seem to sitting a bit nose high. Is that just how these cars look even if they aren't, do they all sit nose high normally, and does the kit have that appearance as well?

No, those usually look like cheese puffs without the cheese powder......................actually, I think they are just cheese puff without the cheese powder, they look about the same.

Got a FitBit, ROKU TV and some cash.

Check this out, thought the NADA lists original selling price of $3831.00 was interesting! https://www.nadaguides.com/Cars/1959/Desoto/Fireflite/2-Door-Hardtop-Sportsman/Values

Looks great! Who did you get the wheels and tires from?

I thing it was $600 for a real '68 Coronet, not an unassembled model of one

I saw this and thought "$600 sounds pretty cheap for a '68 Coronet..................until I saw the link.

Baby clothes, I'm trying to find fun, brightly colored clothes to give my niece and all I seem to find it clothing that manufacturers seem to have to have used the same survey groups that seemed to think that beige, gold, and 50 shades of grey are good automotive color choices Most of the choices I keep finding are all dull and, quite frankly, ugly......

Too bad you couldn't, we had Freddy show up as did Umberto, Bibianna, and one of their Daughters!

No pics yet, but the model club had their yearly Christmas party tonight, ended up coming home with the recent reissue of the 90's era AMT '67 GT-350 and Lindberg '64 Plymouth (with the 426 Street Wedge and /6 in the box!), and one of the "Uptown" Caddy STS-V sedan kits. Already planning on de-blinging the Caddy and may use the Pegasus 17" sleeves with tires on the Shelby for a Pro-Touring-ish build.......now sure how I want to approach that Plymouth kit yet though, maybe something that's a cross between a period Stock Car and a "Street Fighter" type Pro-Touring car........although it just dawned one that it might also have a slight resemblence to a moonshine car if I do it how I would like

Same for the St Charles, IL store.

I agree on lack of market, although the Rams could be made by rebodying the D100 kits and adding small blocks if they aren't already there, thats all Chrysler did at first. I do wish somebody would make a 4.0l XJ Cherokee, I do think those would have more of a market than the above trucks.

I talked (ok Texted) with her about this and will likely buy it to keep on the back burner, but she did mention wanting to get her a Cozy Coupe to paint up and give to her when she gets older (maybe around her first birthday) and I happened to find this! https://www.littletikes.com/item/652950/d.i.y.-cozy-coupe/1.html Considering that these tend to come in colors like red and yellow, pink and grey, ect, we all know this will probably be the best model to get if there is going to be any custom paintwork to be done on it next year!

I was looking at this wagon since it is a John Deere licensed product as well as it being a bit on the girly side (it would be for a little girl after all), plus the Harbor Freight one has the Radio Flier type steering, which can be a bit tippy. To be honest, that reason alone would get me to spend the extra to buy this one vs the Radio Flier or it's Harbor Freight ripoff, John Deere licensing or not.

Apparently John Deere is getting into Radio Fliers territory and selling these little and not so red wagons. Other than rolling stock and paint on the basic one, it looks pretty much the same until you get to the steering, which insread of having the front axle shaft on a pivot, each wheel has it's own pivot point and steers kinda like the 2wd Traxxas Stampedes and Tamiya FWD M-Chassis cars and their MF-01x R/C's! I suddently want to get this one for my Niece once they're back in stock too! https://www.johndeerestore.com/jdb2cstorefront/JohnDeereStore/en/John-Deere-products/Toys/Toy-Vehicles/Ride-Ons-%26-Wagons/Pink-Stakebed-Wagon/p/LP53339

It was, I had been around diesels in that lot before, Dad spent time working there when he worked for C&NW, and a big as those looked to me as a kid, the BigBoy took me right back to that since it to me now, as an adult, as it is so much larger than the diesels that I had that same feeling looking at it as I did at diesels all those years ago.

I had wondered about that too, now the hospital does have an assistance program. After having to get a sore on my leg taken care of in 2017 (about the same time Mom nearly died the last time) and put in for that after getting a $1200-$1800 bill for what my insurance at the time didn't cover (at that time, I had my lost last job, got this job and been on unemployment between jobs and on layoff prior to that, still had a car payment, was doing a bunch of running around to visit Mom where she was at, and making less at the time!) and was turned down at the time. I didn't even bother trying to apply for it this time, even though I got it and I'm not sure if they based this on what info I turned in 2 years ago or they looked deeper into things now, maybe just trying to get me off the books since we're nearing the end of the year (may be be somewhat of a tax advantage to them for doing so too), although I did joke with Dad that maybe they saw the last name and address matched Mom's and decided to comp me after all the money that has been spent there keeping Mom alive. All that said, if they are, I do appreciate it....greatly as it has been weighing on me since June when the amount first showed up on the acct.

Thanks guys! I was really worried the the balance fell off my account and was surprised my the assistance since I never bothered to ask for it. It is a massive relief though and I've knocked out a quarter of the $400 that was left as of last night. Now I've got money to spend on my niece, 200 (it's nearing 100k and will need maintenence and get upgrades if I can too), and my R/C stuff!

As mentioned elsewhere, I went to pay down on the part of the hospital bill I was to take care of and found it missing from the account. Talked to somebody in billing then somebody else at the Dr's office (had an appointment today) and was told the hospital "Gave me 100% financial aid" on what was left from my hospital stay. In other words they comp'd or wrote off what I had still left on the books!

From what I've found, Matt is about right, they're basically the Rods and Customs of the Porsche world.

That could possibly be built from the Police Van, Fire Van, Dirty Donny Van, A-Team Van kits, scratch build the nose, maybe source the wheels from the '53 Vette kit, ect.

I think spinners are still out there, only to a lesser degree, as well as floating wheels (center stays stationary while rolling down the road).......I think the LED wheels are dead, where they belong....

That's my hope, although I'm begining to think he's starting to go a little "Howard Hughes" now..........kinda waiting for him to "catch something" and burn somebody's posessions on his lawn to get rid of what ever he caught was at this point. Well, FSJ and XJ A-Pillars are kinda spindly compared to modern pillars