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Excellent! - ( )

Very clean!! - { }

Yeah, buddy. Remember the sleepless nights when "baby" was 15-17.9??? Small children, small problems. Big children, BIG problems. Just sayin.'

Don't you ever sleep?

Doing my world famous Dave Lindsay impression ... {... with sincerest apologies to Dave Lindsay}. Selling certificates of authenticity at the last COPPERSTATE MODEL CAR CHAMPIONSHIP.

Most excellent! Very good blend of the design elements. Thanks for bringing it back around for another lap, Jim.

Ouch! Those are gonna leave marks! Good job.

Phun!!!!

Nice! - { }

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Nice! - [ ]

Roger Christian, Gary Usher, and Terry Melcher collaborated with Brian Wilson on various songs in the early to mid '60s, particularly the "car" songs. all were car guys, while Brian was not. Brian was the musical genius and relied on his brother, Dennis (another car guy) and Christian, Usher, and Melcher to provide car-guy appropriate lyrics. Brian occasionally took artistic license with the words to make more lyrical phrases, which resulted in occasionally awkward passages in an automotively-technical sense. But to say the Beach Boys "didn't know a thing about cars" is inaccurate. "Shut Down" was written loosely around the brand new Sting Ray that Dennis rewarded himself with when the records money started flowing (1962). "409" was written about the new Impala SS Brian Wilson bought upon signing with Capitol Records. Usher helped him pick it out. Regarding the '32 on the Little Deuce Coupe album, Harry has it right. The original owner built it independently of the writing of the song. The deuce was built by Clarence "Chili" Catallo. He bought the car when he was 15 years old; he installed an Oldsmobile V-8 and built it into the iconic rod. Chili moved to California and took a job at a hot-rod shop that did work for Capitol Records, having "built a run of 20 candy-striped dune buggies" for the label (used in a Beach Boys promotion). Noticing Chili’s car, Capitol’s promo people wanted it to represent the "Little Deuce Coupe" of song, but ended up using a previously published photo from Hot Rod Magazine's July 1961. That's Chili on the album cover with his head cropped out of the Hot Rod picture. Chili sold the car a couple of years later, but bought it back shortly before he died in 1998. It has since been restored by his son.

Address for the show: Postal Workers Social Hall, 3720 W. Greenway Road, Phoenix, AZ 85053. Glad you're coming over ... looking forward to seeing your work in person ... and oh, yeah, meeting you! Plan to stay for the cattle scorching (barbeque) afterward. It's like a big, 5-state model club meeting and bench-racing session! Burgers & Bullshirts.

You're on! Don't forget ... Hollywood Jim lives here now and he'll be trying to match you ... burger for burger!! LOL.

That's too funny, John! Just goes to show how prolific you are! Okay, we'll send you pre-registration forms. You've got a month to fill 'em out. Enough time? LOL. Looking forward to seeing you again, my friend. And, I'm saving a couple of extra burgers for you!!!!!

Wrong, Grasshopper! At least in my opinion. I've driven both and the Mustang was way too small and tight. Uncomfortable as all get-out and almost impossible to get in & out unless you were an olympic gymnast with a pit crew to assist! And, it rode like a Yugo with bad shocks. As if Yugo shocks could go 'worse.' The Camaro was everything. Comfortable, more spacious, faster, smoother (an attribute that becomes important with maturity), and still with the GOTCHA attitude in capital letters. Mrs. G's right. If you're not 17 ~ or think you're 17, or, if you're not a Ford-man to a fault, the Camaro has it hands-down over the Muttang. G - Go for it! = Too kewl for skewl, Jim!

Uh, I'm guessing ... hoping ... you meant driver's side mirror. = That's a friendly poke, Jim. Just in fun.

Looking good! = That's a smile, Jim. Try it.

Not Jim, but the panels look like the kit's decals. Correct? Nice, good looking build, by the way!

Beautiful! Nice build. = Approval, Jim.

I'm hoping John will bring (at least) everything he has built since he was here in 2010. That would still be a poopoo-load! How 'bout it, John?

Beautiful build, Art! Is that not just the best kit!?!?!?! Love it. B) = Mucho approval, Jim.

Beautiful! Well executed. = Approval, Jim.

LOL. Okay. Hey, the thing to remember is ... it's your model! You got the look you were aiming for ~ ~ ~ and it looks great. The rest of us monday-morning-quarterbacks can get off our duffs and build our own ... our own way. More power to ya, Adam. I didn't mean to sound critical at all. It looks GREAT!! = That's pleased approval, Jim.

No! No, Geoff, no! Get TWO. You won't regret it! = My second good deed for the day, Jim.