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    Question aboaut Bill Cushenbery's Silhouette

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

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    On 10/11/2022 at 5:48 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

    To the best of my knowledge (from personal experience), there's no statute of limitations on a stolen vehicle. It's hot forever, until it's recovered by the police or insurance company, and given a "clean" identity.

    If an insurance company paid a claim on the car and it resurfaces, the insurance company owns it, and can take it...even if it's been entirely restored, rebuilt, or heavily modified.

    This sticky little fact stopped me from doing anything with an expensive car abandoned at my shop in the 1980s, and reported stolen (without my knowledge) so the owners could collect money for it, rather than paying me to repair damage from an engine compartment fire.

    Absolutely correct, Bill.  If an insurance company paid a claim to the "owner," the insurance company owns the car no matter where or when it turns up. At least in Arizona, any subsequent "purchaser" is completely out of luck and out of any money spent on buying, restoring, or customizing it - no recovery for buying stolen property. That's why they always say, "Let the buyer beware!"

     

     

    What do you drive?

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

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    4 hours ago, iamsuperdan said:

     

    Nope. The Super Duty trucks with the base headlights like you posted have four low/high beam bulbs. So all four are on when you have low beams, and all four are on with the high beams. And the low beams are the DRL. Then let's add the foglghts on as well. And use them all the time. I get what you're saying. 

    They're better now, as they did a redesign in 2023. I find the new design trucks a little less blinding.

    I see.  Thanks for the reply - now I know.  Very interesting.

    Obviously some designer thought, 'Hey, this might be cool!'

    What model years were like that - the mobile surgery suite lighting?

     

    What do you drive?

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

    Posted · Edited by Danno

    Hey, Dan,

    Question for you, since you're an F fan and you're in the business. Recent years' F-trucks have these double stacked headlamps. My question is:  Do they (the trucks) come with "off" or "dim" switches, or are they only sold with unextinguishable all-lights-on-all-the-time super high beams suitable for docking space stations in deep black hole space? 

    It seems like 90% or more around here are always on 'stadium-lighting' mode everywhere they go -- day or night. Can they be operated with only two lamps on so the rest of us can see?  Or are they only sold to blind people who need all the light they can get?

    [BTW- I may have expressed it humorously, but I'm serious. It's damn hard for anyone else to see when one of these is around . . . especially if they jack it up or put more than four bricks and a cinder block in the bed.] 

    And, more than half of them run around with the extra in-the-bumper driving lights on, too!

     

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    '60 Ford Starliner

    in WIP: Model Cars

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    Just now, Danno said:

    The paint for lexan bodies is more flexible to handle all those crashes and tumbles on the slot track without scattering tiny paint flakes everywhere.

    Oops. Sorry. Didn't notice that you didn't want to know.  So, just pretend you didn't read the above. 😎

     

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    '60 Ford Starliner

    in WIP: Model Cars

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    31 minutes ago, customline said:

    I wondered what's different about that stuff. Why is Lexan any different? It's still a paintable surface. And why not regular paint on Lexan....it's over my head. 😕 forget it, I don't wanna know.

    More flexible to handle all those crashes and tumbles on the slot track without scattering tiny paint flakes everywhere.

    Oops. Sorry. Didn't notice that you didn't want to know.  So, just pretend you didn't read the above. 😎

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    Fire investigation unit

    in WIP: Model Trucks: Big Rigs and Heavy Equipment

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    5 hours ago, Chariots of Fire said:

    Whose Seagrave casting is that in the background?  I built two from the original Eisbrenner castings and still have one of the real early ones that had no window trim.  Looks like brown bakelite.

    Hey, Charlie!  I also have one of the original Eisbrenner fiberglass "bucks" - as I recall the story, he fabbed up 8 or 10 of the windowless, featureless fiberglass bodies then built one -- the one that was featured in Scale Auto Enthusiast (Issue 21, Sept/Oct 1982).

    I also scored two of the Uptown Auto resin castings - one is a work in progress. 

    I love the Seagrave Anniversary Series trucks - especially the Sedan Pumpers - which the Eisbrenner fiberglass units and the subsequent Uptown resin castings represent. 

    If you have pics of the two you've built, I for one would love to see them!

     

    Anyone going to the So Cal Open Model Car Show?

    in Contests and Shows

    Posted

    Excellent show!  Great swap meet! ALL the model car magazines were on hand, including the brand, new soon-to-be-published Auto Modeler Magazine!! 

    Art and his crew did a great job of producing a super fun event! 

    Glad I made the trip and it was good to see many builders from the Phoenix area as well as all the Cali modelers.

    Congrats to Chris Sobak for his Best of Show win!

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