Danno

Better to walk away and start over than to try to live in a sick house . . . they tend to make their occupants sick, and it's a nasty sick! Good you discovered it before you owned it!!

So did I, G. It was much easier after they started issuing us the handy-talkies. Before that, it was kinda hard to get too far from the car with the mic clipped to your epaulet!

All's good. OMGNAGLT!!!

Steve's right. The bottom-line low HP 265 was delivered in chartreuse. No idea why.

x2 And, oh, yeah. What's up with the 4-lug wheels?

You're half right, Lee. 1. I don't hate either the Dukes or the General Lee. 2. However, I outgrew the DOH worship-hysteria when my kids did, 30 years ago. 3. My grandson likes the DOH and the General Lee. 4. My grandson is 7-years old. 5. He and I will be building the new Round2 snapper together when it comes out next month. 6. I just recently finished a special version of the General, myself. 7. So, I don't hate either the Dukes or the General Lee. 8. The notion that I did was an off-shoot and bastardization of a running joke a couple of years ago. 9. I don't hate the DOH or the General Lee. I just have other things to do with the rest of my life.

Naturally, that's why I'm nameless!

Thank you, Bryon.

I'm not offended by anything Hobby Lobby does. I'm way more offended by the perpetually-offended whiners who complain about things like Hobby Lobby's owner's private religious rights.

Speaking of hoods. There was one guy who posted (not necessarily here) all the time with frequent builds. He often tackled big bodywork projects and he always finished them in rapid order. His bodywork was usually somewhat lacking, but he ALWAYS got huge bundle of heaping praise . . . no matter how bad his model looked. But he had one bain. Hoods. Seemed like everything he built had a mal-fitting hood. It was kinda funny. It got to the point the badly gapped or warped hood was referred to as his "signature" feature! He finally built one model with a nicely fitting hood. One. Next model, back to the signature.

Our metro drug enforcement group had three Buick Grand Nationals (they were new then) for undercover vehicles. Everything else was much more mainstream, but heavy on the sportscar/ponycar/musclecar side. At the same time, the city's narcs drove hand-me-down detective cars (4-door sedans with dog dish hubcaps) that had been handed-down to the detectives from the patrol division. So, their cars looked exactly like what they were - surplus patrol cars. They wondered why we were so much more effective! Another agency I worked for had arrangements with a couple of large local car dealerships. They kept our undercover guys and gals supplied with all manner of surreptitious vehlcles, none of which looked anything like a police car. And, they rotated them on a pretty frequent basis, so we never 'looked' the same. These days, most agencies around here are heavily invested in SUVs, quad cab 4x4 pickups, and extended cab pickups. Modern technologies have totally eliminated visible antennas, etc. Since there are SO MANY pickups on the road in the first place, you just never know which one is full o' cops.

Back then, Honolulu Police Officers provided their own vehicles for work. The sheriff's department I worked for in Colorado in that same timeframe did the same. So, we had a wide and strange variety of patrol vehicles on the streets, each individually owned by the deputy driving it. It made for interesting times. I'm sure HPD was the same.

Stop it, Ira! Stop it! You just keep stretching, bending, and blowing my mind!!! My head hurts. Those engines are nothing short of fantastic!

Terrrrrrrific Trabby, Tommy!

Nice.

Beautiful cars, beautiful models. Well done!

Excellent!

Excellent.

Good start. he BMF will make your models look SO MUCH BETTER! This one needs the trim and some mirrors. And, you need to downsize the plug wires and alternator wiring. But otherwise, good start!

Kojak's Buick Century 4door.

You just did.

As long as we're dreaming . . . a '71 Plymouth Satellite 4-door (Adam-12) and a '72-'73 Matador 4-door (also Adam-12) !!!

Nice.