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Sinister.

WAIT A MINUTE!!! Who's going to pay for it if they swallow the Nerf ball and choke to death?? Who has the indemnity? Who has the insurance? Where are the deep pockets??

Beautiful build, Dave. Another home run kit!

I, too, have had the opportunity of seeing this creation in person . . . and the privilege of being able to really scrutinize it up close. It is beyond belief! So spectacular it defies adjectives.

Excellent!

Most excellent!!!

The 396 was too heavy for road racing and was not legal (cubic inch displacement exceeded the rules cap) for Trans Am. I'm betting the follow-up release will be a righteous Trans Am-legal Z/28 with the proper 302.

Looking good! I really like the idea of selling the decal sheets ala carte. I hope that idea spreads.

I didn't say the crash was staged, I said he staged the 'theft.' He was drunk and street racing, crashed the Beemer, ran from the scene before police arrived. His driver's license was suspended and he had a couple of prior DUIs. He didn't want to be tied to the steering wheel. He called a friend who picked him up and took him home. He staged the "theft" claim by waiting until later and calling in that his car was missing from where he parked it the night before. He showed both keys and claimed they were in his pocket and dresser drawer all night. Asked how he thought the car was stolen, he said he guessed somebody hot-wired it, like they do on TV. (That can't happen anywhere but on TV, but most people dumb enough to try this stuff aren't smart enough to know we know better.) He surrendered the keys. I obtained his call records for his cell phone. Forensic exam of the car confirmed its anti-theft systems were not defeated, compromised or tampered with. There's other info, but no need to go into that here. He surrendered the keys. I had them interrogated and found the one he said was in his pants pocket all night was the last key to start and run the car. It started the car a short time before the accident and the odo mileage matched the distance from where he said he was partying earlier in the evening to the crash site. And, his cell phone records showed he made a series of calls to and from his friend starting right after the crash, and the first calls hit the cell tower closest to the crash site. There's more about this, too, but you get the idea.

I think it's one model with different graphics treatments on each side. Pretty cool deal.

" . . . wind turbines would be spaced at least 2,066 feet apart to enable shipping vessels, fishing boats, and birds to navigate between them . . . " It makes perfect sense that Ted Kennedy and his neighbors would be opposed to wind turbines. I guess they have a lot of flying fishing boats around there. After all, they used to have submarining Oldsmobiles at Chappaquiddick, didn't they?

Nice, regardless of what they're made of.

All selfish, man-made contrivances to assuage our insatiable craving for dastardly convenience. All enemies of the exalted, man-less perfect planet. Re: the bugs. Please don't give the wackos any ideas. Typical. Was algore involved?

They've been indoctrinated their entire lifetimes into the 'blame man first' mantra. It's part of the narcissistic 'there can be no supreme entity greater than I, man' theorem. There is also a subgroup that has been emerging the past couple of decades; the 'blame America first' doctrine. They all drink similar power Kool-Aid.

Since you mention this, Harry, it brings to mind one of my favorite amusements: Watching the wackos go at each other at cross-purposes. There are now, according to news reports I've seen the last few days, two different and brand new eco/enviro-wacko groups germinating. One group is vehemently anti-turbine wind generator. And the other is just as over-zealously anti-solar panel farm. How can anybody be against those alternative energy sources? Well, the anti-turbine gang is all a-flutter because the evil wind generators seek out and chop up the occasional innocent bird who flies too close to the rotating guillotines. The wackos want them ALL banned before they slice and dice the entire winged population of the planet!!! And, not to be outdone, the anti-solar panel gang is incensed because the solar panel farms have been incinerating hapless birdies who fly over the reflective surfaces of the solar panel arrays (much like the eco-wackos probably did to ants with magnifying glasses when they were kids). The wackos want them ALL banned before they torch whatever airborne creatures are left after avoiding the turbines!!! So those two groups are squaring off against those who support alternative energy sources. Like we've said before, there are wacko extremists on every side of every issue. Long live moderation!

AMEN! That's one of those guys I was talking about., too. Amazing how much damage those types can do without blinking an eye . . . while they are lining their own pockets.

That's pretty much my point, as well. A grain of sand won't change the beach or the dune, one way or the other.

I agree with that, too, Bill. By and large, I think we do - overall. There just isn't any real justification or need for the over-the-top, irrationally panicky, hand-wringing and insidious fear-mongering that the radical eco-terroristas shove at everyone all the time. And, unfortunately, 'global warming' is their favorite mantra. Thus, the reality (whatever it really proves out to be someday) gets blown way out of proportion in the here-and-now, and the fact gets overshadowed by the sensationalist fiction. Like the end of the world in December 2012.

That's why the phrase "valid only at participating locations" was invented by the coupon gods.

I think Frank is right: that was marketed by Marx. It was a toy rather than a 'model.' If it's the one I'm thinking of ~ and if I'm not mistaken ~ the tools and jack in the trunk were part of the 'play factor' of that toy. Any of the wheels/tires could be removed and the 'spare' could be mounted in the place of whatever wheel/tire was imagined to be "flat."

Hear, hear, Harry! I agree with your assessment completely. That's why I don't let my knickers get in an uproar about all the pseudo-experts peddling 'global warming' panic. Pretty arrogant to actually think mankind (or, to be more politically correct perhaps, womankind) could have enough impact on nature to really change the planet or the universe.

Wow. Gems. Oh, if only we could have new re-issues of some of these beauties from that wonderful era.

Very nice.

I've seen some amazing things! I've worked a few cases involving really young guys working for car dealerships (top brand, new car dealerships, not sleazy used car joints). Kids just out of high school with little or no life experience, yet just old enough to sign contracts. All of them were "Finance Managers" or "Fleet Managers" or "Internet Sales Managers." All of them were enamored with expensive, luxury cars, and all of them were flipping from one luxo trade-in to another more expensive luxo trade-in. They'd start out with a couple of good months of commissions and buy more Corvette or BMW or Mercedes than they could afford when the commissions dropped. They got in way over their heads with big $$ payments, and sooner rather than later defaulted on their payments. Next thing you know, they were reporting their current ride 'stolen' or 'burned' or both, with lame stories. One 22-year-old had bought then "traded up" through 8 luxury cars in little over two years. Anything exotic and expensive looking that came in was fair game to him. He would glom onto the car and leverage his position to get financing. He kept "rolling over" the unpaid balances into the next car, over and over. He ended up with a sweet BMW trade-in that was only worth a touch over $25,000 but he owed $38,000 on it due to the accumulated negative equities from his series of 'trade-ups.' Then, then the car was found wrapped around a pole in the middle of the night . . . abandoned. The obvious result of some straight-line high speed driving on a curved boulevard. Next day, Junior Finance Manager reported it stolen. With an $18,000 repair estimate, the Beemer was a dead-bang total. Our investigation established that the "theft" was staged and his claim was false. It was denied, and he was left with a fancy paperweight that needed $18,000 worth of repairs . . . plus $38,000 debt to the lender for a 'car' he couldn't drive. His original rationale? 'It's Scottsdale, I had to have an impressive ride!' Just a side note: Although he never saw anything wrong with what he was doing, I also blame the dealership management that turned a blind eye to his shenanigans and the lenders who enabled him by approving really bad loans that they would never approve for anyone else (anyone other than a rain-making 'finance manager').

Nice.