Brian Austin

Some musicians from Please in turn formed T2 and recorded enough material for two albums. These songs now have more of a heavier progressive rock feel. In this album "No More White Horses" is a standout. This was an older song, originally recorded under the PLEASE band name. The T2 version is twice as long and has a harder edge. Album: T2 -It'll Work Out In Boomland (1970).

More from Please: Album: Please - Seeing Stars (1969)

Some of the band members from Neon Pearl also formed PLEASE for another short-lived project. Track #6, "Strange Ways" is a standout. Edit: the above link appears to have failed over time. Hopefully this one will work Please -Strange Ways (1968/69).

Short-lived 1960s British project NEON PEARL Link failed over time. Let's try this one. Album: Neon Pearl -1967 Recordings Mostly unreleased material

I am in the middle of the Boston indie music scene, and have some very talented friends playing at and/or hosting open mikes. My good friend Dan has a few albums to check out. Here's a track from is most recent album which has a post-apocalyptic storyline: https://dancloutier.bandcamp.com/track/the-battle-of-greenland-contra This track is from 2011: https://dancloutier.bandcamp.com/track/dark-is-the-night I was in the audience when he and his band recorded his live album. I'm still shocked that was over a decade ago already. https://dancloutier.bandcamp.com/track/the-shepherd-and-the-wolf For more... https://dancloutier.bandcamp.com/

Yeah, so? The car was built to suit its owner. There are still plenty of stock ones running around. Just acknowledge it's one of a kind and move on. This thread is kind of like mocking the one kid in class that had his own unique fashion sense. ?

Keep in mind, though, that digital content is not itself guarranteed to last forever online. I belonged to one hobby forum that suffered a catastrophic failure and disappeared without a trace.

What's interesting about the Ranchero is that type of conversion can be found in Argentina.

If you want to broaden your search, there were numerous plastic toys between 1:25 and 1:20 scale made in Hong Kong. I have a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow in good shape until it fell to the (carpeted) floor and now I think it's missing a turn signal or such. Speaking of Rolls-Royces has, Hubley's own Silver Cloud been mentioned already? There were numerous four-door Jaguar plastic toys made in Hong Kong in 1:25-1:20, and then there's Tamiya's Mk2 kits in 1:24. Much smaller, but I'll just mention the nifty little F&F plastic cereal premium line included some sedans and wagons.

This old Ebay listing claims the milk truck promo toy was made by the Anthony E. Roberts, Corp. of Chicago in 1956. https://www.ebay.ie/itm/1956-IRA-WILSON-DAIRY-Milk-Delivery-TRUCK-TOY-BANK-Detroit-NOS-Plastic-Rubber-/183047688137

Marble racing videos also started making the rounds a few weeks ago, and are pretty fun as well.

Perhaps this drawing from Special Interest Autos might be of some additional help.

FWIW, Bantrhico made a diecast metal bank of a '53 Pontiac Chieftain, in the vicinity of 1:25 scale. https://www.liveauctioneers.com/en-gb/item/62082121_banthrico-1953-pontiac-chieftain-autobank-promo

(Courtesy November, 1973 issue of Hot Rod.)

That Gremlin reminds me of a short track racer. It's also not far in spirit from the wild show rods of decades past.

How much is a builder's time worth?

I tried for a few years to get my club to try gravity racing at our show, to no avail. It would be similar to Pinewood Derby, only with plastic models.

There have been a number of operable half-scale tractor-trailers built. I have seen the work of Fred Heim. He's built a Peterbilt tractor. a dump trailer and a low-bed trailer on which he carries his half scale CAT end-loader or excavator. Busy guy!

You guys could look at it this way... There was a lot of "Get a horse!" grumbling during the development of the horseless carriage, and the automobile turned out OK, didn't it?

Mark Gustavson has a bunch of detail pictures of the car in unrestored condition. https://public.fotki.com/Mark-Gustavson/thunderbird-italien/

Well you could always draw it in on the boxtop with a Molitow marker if it bothers you enough. :-P

What happened to that poor Dodge? Rusted frame?

Kenworth experimented with turbines: https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2011/05/09/turbine-powered-oddities-no-466-the-see-through-kenworth-boeing/

As I posted in an earlier thread regarding grass, faux fur can be used (with a little work): http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/fur_grass/article/index.html http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/mink_grass/

The funny thing is, car writers have been saying this exact thing for decades. I have come across writings in the '50s stating the "all cars today look alike" sentiment. The other thing about the "all cars look alike today" line is that it forgets those that have dared to stand out and then get slammed for being "ugly", such as the much-maligned Cybertruck. Also, note that trucks can look similar since they often shared components such as cabs across divisions or even among competitors. There's even badge-engineering with trucks as with automobiles. A given truck can be offered under a number of different nameplates (such as the Sprinter vans and those cute little Japanese-sourced COEs marketed as Chevys, etc.), and this has been going on for decades. And then truck manufacturers themselves have been bought and sold over the years, and merged in with others around the globe.