Brian Austin

People have been complaining about the weather in my area, but we've only just broken a drought. My town lifted its water restrictions only a week or so ago. We didn't get much snow last season.

It's been raining every Saturday here in MA for the past 12 or 13 weeks. We broke a record. Yay.

Oddly enough Google wasn't helping me come up with specific examples.

IIRC there was a fad of painting one's car in corporate logos, such as McDonald's. Big ugly wheels complete the look.

One other issue is they often supplied wrong-year chassis in their kits. The '60s Olds kits carried over their '59-'60 chassis for example. Oddly enough some Olds promos had a more accurate chassis, though simplified.

As good as thier bodies can be, they left out an important detail from their '61 Olds. The fender-top crease should continue through the doors creating a neat trough effect that JoHan seems to have missed. Easily enough fixed by the modeler.

I always heard it in the context of recording a folk music album. Along with, "It'll be a million seller. There will be a million units in your cellar you will be stuck with."

Okey isn't keeping the JoHan name alive?

Example of the background vehicles used: https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/442/lot/160103/31-Four-Cars-and-One-Truck-THOMAS-FRIENDS-TV-SERIES-1984-2008?url=%2Fauctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F442%3Fpage%3D2

https://propstoreauction.com/auctions/catalog/id/442 Several pages of listings. Most auctions are over at this point. From what I could see, the prices were going sky high. Several familiar train models, along with a bunch of vehicles among other things. The vehicles seem to be around 1:32-1:24, and some were larger, depending on the episode series.

I've seen plaster styling mdels in museums such as the Henry Ford with the 2-door/4-door arrangement. Since you can't see both sides at once it .makes sense.

Well, I wasn't even aware there was progress on the Powell kit. Interesting to note. And, yes, we have a few unrelated entities bearing the JoHan name, leading to confusion. Someone should revive the Palmer trademark. 😄

Technically that's a truck camper. 🙂

There are AA diecast trucks with those wheels. Also, I recently got a bunch of old O Scale train parts that happened to randomly include a pair of black plastic truck wheels of that type that are awfully close to 1:25 or 1:24. I have no idea where they may have come from. They look and feel old.