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Danno

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  1. Very nice.
  2. Nice. (Still Rice.)
  3. Builder's Block? Naw. Never happened to me . . . more than once or twice every model.
  4. Danno

    1967 Mustang

    Nice.
  5. Yep. It needs the windshield.
  6. Nice color. Me, I wouldn't have run the white stripe decal over the top of the windshield wiper, and a little wash on the cowl vents would make it look much better. But, it's your model . . . and, it looks way better than the common, over-done Eleanors.
  7. Danno

    1941 Ford

    Very green.
  8. Nice.
  9. Most excellent!!
  10. Danno

    T Time

    Most excellent, Mr. P!
  11. I drink Kolorado Kool Aid. The Silver Bullet. When the mountains are blue.
  12. Wow. I'm trying to think of something more profound to say . . . but the only thing that comes to mind is . . . wow!
  13. Oh, yeah. Big fan! But it's obvious you got all the creativity in the clan. He's just a great cat chef.
  14. Awesome job, Mike. I agree with Ron's comments!! Looking forward to the next installment . . .
  15. I read your post and laughed so hard I snorted none kool aide out my nose!! Not a pretty picture.
  16. Yes, Very nice build! Interesting arrangement you folks have at work. Contests you can set up to win yourself! Bottle that. It'll sell millions.
  17. They do (MissingLinks offering the Plymouth conversion). Get the wheels from the Monogram/Revell 1/24 1970 Plymouth Road Runner kit. Cop wheels. Best you can do from a kit. Some resin casters supposedly did the wheels, but I don't know who.
  18. Really? The coveted "Completely Irrelevant Post of the Week" award? I appreciate it! First time I've ever won an award for a post. Now I can claim to be an "Award Winning Poster" too! "I'd like to thank the academy and all the Harrys who voted for me!" PS: It's okay, Harry. I know what a burden it is to have a sense of humor!!
  19. The BEST vehicle I ever owned (and I've had my share or more) was a 1964 GMC Heavy-Half pickup that I bought for $600 in 1976. I put 100,000 miles on that baby hauling everything. Multiple trips to the mountains for self-cut firewood, several trips for self-cut Christmas trees, too many trips to the material dealer for tons of landscape rock*, many-many-many trips to the lumber yard for tons and tons of sheetrock, lumber, concrete, and other building materials, and of course - countless trips hauling engines, car parts, chassis parts, and huge AA Ford wheels/tires to and from the tire dealer, etc., etc. She moved me, my growing family, and a player piano 5 times over the years. She was a hauling beast ~ carried far more than I ever expected from a $600 truck. All I ever put into her (besides fuel and fluids & insurance) was one set of new Firestone truck tires and two tune-ups. She had a 4-speed with stump-pulling low gear (yep, I KNOW that from experience, too). She ran forever with that little V-6! And, she carried me to and from work for a considerable period of time, too. Saved some mileage on the Z-28. One afternoon, she was taking me across town when I spotted my stolen motorcycle being operated by a blanket-blank perp. She even held her own in a little 'pursuit' driving!!!! Saddest day in our history was the day I had to part with her. Just no room nor justification for bringing her to Arizona and I knew she'd be happier hauling firewood in the Rockies than living down here in the heat. Sold her to a friend who was eager to give her an appreciative home . . . for $600! That was 20 years after I bought her. *Funny story about the landscape rock. She was a 1/2-ton. They called it a "Heavy Half." I wasn't sure why. I did notice she had 6-lug wheels that were bigger and more substantial than most of the 1/2-tons her age, and she stood up a little taller than those. One Saturday not long after she came to be with me, I was working in the yard and I was ready for a load of landscape rock. The material yard was only open 'til 2pm but the bank was already closed. The material yard didn't take credit cards or checks. I had only enough cash to buy exactly one-half ton. So, I took my 1/2-ton (okay, Heavy Half) pickup to the material yard with just enough money to buy 1/2 ton of rock. I said, "Fill 'er up!" They did. When she started to settle on the springs, I cut them off as she was at her load capacity. Went to the scales and found out I had 1-1/4 tons of rock!! Not enough cash, but fortunately my employment as a law enforcement officer convinced them to take a chance on my check. That's when I found out what "Heavy Half" really meant to GMC ... back in those days!
  20. Very nice!!
  21. Very nice job, Dave!
  22. Most of them, particularly the most famous of them, are on display at the International Model Builders Museum in Salt Lake City, UT.
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