RadRidesByDan

With all this talk going on about NASCAR ans Revell......Its Friday and I need a DRINK And Im serving it up in one of my CUPS If you think bowls are bigger than cups....you havent seen my wifes coffee cup....it holds close to 3 quarts of liquid..... ....AND THATS THE CUP IM MAKING MY DRINK IN BWAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAA

You (as the UAW) have got to have had the biggest brain fart to reject restructuring thier costs to build to ensure that they can get financial help to save thier careers. But I guess being at the top of the totem pole doesnt nessessarily make you the smartest. I guess you once everything is done and they have no more jobs, we'll have to buy a lot of cheese to go with the whine. Its a bloody shame you have to have people that stupid at the top and too naive to even think tht things are not going to go thier way if they dont make changes and sacrifices to help get the companies back on track. With the amount of workers that are going to be let go....I wont be surprised to hear in the news one of these days that some one(union rep) gets killed(murdered) Unbeleivable

I just edited the ad to conform...totally forgot about the ad language MY BAD

Maybe no Bowls, but sure have won a few Cups

Go Montreal Alouettes

A friend of mine from the states sent this to me......... Sorry I forgot about the language in the pic....Pic has been edited for language.

A friend of mine from the states sent this to me.........

This build looks like it belongs right with the best of them in Fords Concept department. Amazing build Bear

Your Idea is as original as it gets.....this was the first time I ever seen a OHV straight 8 used in a ratrod, custom, hotrod or any other build in matter of fact. When I saw your build i had remembered a long time ago seeing a real engine and I had to find it last night. It was with no intention of taking anything away from your originality Excellent build

You know what bugs the hell out of me.....This tread is supposed to be about REVELL DROPPING THE NASCAR KITS BECAUSE OF LICENSING ISSUES.....Not geting your shorts up in a pinch about people's opinions to why they began to dislike what NASCAR has become. If they choose to drop the line....Well like I had said in earlier posts, I FEEL FOR THOSE WHO BUILD NASCAR because it would be like taking HotRods away from me. This tread has NOTHING to do about bashing any ones style of building, posting builds, posting replies, or how much or how little recognition any one gets. I have been in numorous magazines but I know that I cant please everyones styles and I appreciate the comments I get weather its 0 or 1,000,000 As for NASCAR I have one opinion to what they have become(And to make this clear so that I dont get misunderstood) THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MODEL CAR BUILDERS.....I dropped watching NASCAR back in the late 70's when it started to change from an automotive industry sport to a common car chassis with a shell on its back like a turtle. They took a sport that I used to love to watch when an actual Dodge product would win a race, or a Chevy, or a Ford.... NOT A SHELL. As for NASCAR kit sales....they have been selling for decades without losing a beat.....but now it becomes the almighty dollar that takes first prioity....not the image, not the consumer, and certainly not the futur of a great hobby.I f the two companies could not come to a financial agreement.....we cant do anything about it but hope that AMT can continue the line. Stop bickering at each other and get building and post. This is what I thought this site was for...... TO HAVE FUN

Thank You. Its time to make and example of these greedy CEO's by turfin them and ADVISE the next ones that would take over to be very careful how they manage the businesses.

Excellent clean and beautifully painted Miss Deal Funny Car. The paint and decal work is gorgeous

I git that kit in me collection to build....Now you gave me the itch.....just got to figure out what Im gonna do with mine....all i hope that it turns out just as great. Beautiful build.

Wheres the WHISKY!!!!!!! Need a run...are ya up to it?....... Wild build my friend.

WOW!!!!!! Psycodelic ride man.....COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!

I agree with the setting and the old brownished picture effect realy make the build stand out to reality Great build and great pic effect. Bear

Excellent build, the detail is era perfect. right down to the scallops

That paint job looks a mile deep....WOW!!!!!!!!

Thats gotta be the NASTIEST RatRod Ive ever seen....I LOVE IT....THAT CAR IS SOOOOOO COOOOOOL!!!!!!!! As for the motor.....it does resemble something like this straight 8 plue the turbo http://bowlertransmissions.com/itemdetails.aspx?iid=432

Im not saying that Im not sorry....if NASCAR want more money for the same product that has been around for decades....and the 2 corporations couldnt come to an agreement.....neither one of them is the loser.......the consumer again pays for it. I see it this way....for some hard core NASCAR fans and builders, Revell stopping the production of those NASCAR kits, is like Revell stopping production on Muscle cars and HotRods for me. I would be angry if that I would be forced to stop building a style to my liking because of the almighty dollar at work again....and worst off, not being my choice. I feel bad for those who love to build NASCAR. Lets hope AMT keep some of their NASCAR kits available even though they are not quite to the same level as the Revells

One piece of advice....if you plan on packing up and moving....dont come up here, cause if you think that your government is a joke....you're in for a real shocker of a treat in Canada. We have placed #1 as the world's laughing stock of a country, because of our justice system, our imigration system, our lifestyle, our lack of back one and most of all, a big group of complete bafoons that call them selves a government. We have by far the most retarded group of politicians assembled in one room. So dont even get me started on this subject

Sorry to all NASCAR FANS.... Its ashame that stuff like this boils down to the almighty dollar ITS GOOD OL' GREED AT WORK AGAIN

I never said I hated detroit.....but read this and tell me that the executives dont have a lot of balls asking for a handout after giving themselves $30,000,000 of retention bonuses to keep their @$$es safe, where each bonus never mind the salary, most people will never see in a life time. How do you see justice when a CEO says....."Oh ok, next year I'll work for a buck($1 dollar) if you give me the hand out" ....Ide work for free too if I had just handed myself a 1.9 million dollar retention bonus for 2009. Dont make me laugh.....find me news articles that says the factory workers recieved any kind of retention bonuses that come remotely near what the lowest executive got. GOOD LUCK. I've said it all along....the company's executives got themselves in this mess and the workers are going to pay the ultimate price. Hers the link for Chrsler http://audos.blogspot.com/2008/11/chrysler...ld-receive.html Chrysler Executives Could Receive Bonuses, Report Says Nov 14, 2008 · Tags: Car News, Chrysler cars The revelation that Chrysler is paying millions of bonuses to keep top executives at the automaker while it cuts thousands of jobs ought to really help the Detroit Three get government bailout funds that already look like they are doomed. The lead story in Friday's edition of the Detroit Free Press says Chrysler is paying about $30 million in retention bonuses to keep top executives on the job. Chrysler owes the bonuses under its contracts with about 50 executives, based on a retention incentive plan crafted early last year by former German parent DaimlerChrysler, when it was preparing to sell Chrysler, the paper reported. Documents obtained by the Free Press show bonuses ranged from a high of $1.89 million to $200,000. At least six Chrysler executives are due to receive bonuses of more than $1 million apiece to stay through August 2009, the two-year anniversary Cerberus Capital Management buying 80 percent of Chrysler. The agreements called for 25 percent of the bonuses to be paid February 2008, which they were and the remainder in August 2009. It's not clear what happens to those bonuses if Chrysler, if it exists at all, is sold. Those promised the largest retention bonuses, according to the newspaper, are: Frank Ewasyshyn, executive vice president, manufacturing, $1.89 million; Frank Klegon, executive vice president, product development, $1.8 million; Nancy Rae, Chrysler executive vice president for human resources and communications, $1.66 million; Simon Boag, president, Mopar/global service and parts, $1.65 million; Steven Landry, executive vice president, North American sales, $1.63 million; and Michael Manley, executive vice president, international sales, marketing and business development, $1.53 million. Chrysler's current top three leaders were not included in the $30-million retention bonus plan. They presumably have separate contracts. Chrysler Chairman Bob Nardelli as well as President and Chairman Jim Press joined the company after Cerberus Capital Management took over last August. Former Chrysler CEO Tom LaSorda, now co-president and vice chairman, received a $15.7-million bonus from Daimler for helping with the sale of Chrysler to Cerberus. Reported earlier, LaSorda received a total of $20.7 million in total 2007 compensation. The top executives of Chrysler, General Motors and Ford are scheduled to testify next week before a House committee on a proposal for $25 billion in bridge loans to keep them afloat. Executive compensation is expected to be a hot topic during those discussions. Heres the link for GM so you dont think I made this up too http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN2534738420080426 DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) Chief Executive Rick Wagoner's salary and other compensation rose 64 percent in 2007 to about $15.7 million, mainly due to option grants, according to a proxy filed on Friday. The GM compensation committee cited significant progress over the past few years in reducing the automaker's health care cost burden, increasing growth internationally and improvements in its cars and trucks in the 2007 awards to executives. Wagoner's compensation rose from about $9.57 million in 2006. The figure was arrived at based on Wagoner's salary, all other compensation and the basis of annual grants. GM paid Wagoner a salary of $1.6 million in 2007, along with $1.8 million in non-equity incentive compensation and nearly $700,000 for other compensation that includes insurance benefits, security, aircraft expenses and other factors. GM, which reported a record $39 billion net loss in 2007, released the figures in a proxy statement on Friday afternoon that was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The automaker, which has been restructuring, reached a contract in 2007 with the United Auto Workers that has permitted buyouts for its UAW hourly workers, a second-tier wage for new hires and a plan that will push billions of health care obligations into a union-aligned trust. Wagoner had accepted a reduced base salary in 2006 and 2007 and only about 16 percent of his compensation is guaranteed. In March, GM granted Wagoner a raise to $2.2 million per year, restoring his salary to 2006 levels. Fritz Henderson, who was promoted to president and chief operating officer in March, received compensation of about $9.3 million in 2007, up from about $5.1 million in 2006. Henderson's salary was raised to $1.8 million from $1.3 million in March with his appointment as president and COO, the No. 2 position to Wagoner. Vice Chairman Bob Lutz's compensation rose to about $9 million in 2007, from about $5.1 million in 2006. The product chief's salary was raised to $1.75 million, from $1.3 million. The issue of executive compensation in the struggling U.S. auto industry has become something of a hot-button issue because of the United Auto Workers union. A report earlier in April that Ford Motor Co (F.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) Chief Executive Alan Mulally had earned more than $22 million in 2007, drew a sharp rebuke from the UAW as excessive, given concessions UAW members had agreed to in the 2007 contract. Ford, which posted a $2.7 billion loss in 2007, reported a first quarter profit on Thursday that surprised analysts. GM and other major automakers have been hit by a slowing in the U.S. economy and rising fuel costs that have driven a major shift in consumer preferences toward cars and crossovers and away from large sport-utility vehicles and pickup trucks.

Excellent build on the stoggie. Looks wild. If only Charles Ingals had these wagons to get to town? ....would of saved him tons of time MIne is scratch built. I started with the chassis of the 32 Ford Pheaton, grill of a 29 ford, wheels off the 39 wagon rod kit, custom built the exhaust, and scratchbuilt the rest. I used balsa wood for the body, piano wire and an old T-shirt for the cloth. Once the body and canopy was together...I clear coated the whole thing in one piece. The clearcoat made the cotton shrink a bit and harden......this was strictly a fun relaxing build.