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Yes. Dead on. That would be great!

There were an awful of of guys like my maternal grandfather. He went through the depression and then found a good paying job on the railroad. After starting work on the railroad, he purchased a new car ever few years. Every car he owned was taken care of like it was the last he'd ever own. They were washed, waxed, and polished on a regular basis. I can recall seeing him outside, in the dead of winter, with a garden hose in his hand washing salt off the car after driving it in the weather. Not everyone was like that, but I can recall other men his age treating their vehicles like that.

Picked this up off evilbay today. All parts are in original, sealed packaging. Only hitch was that somebody had brush painted some black enamel on the top of the body. I figured it was time for me to try stripping anyway. And for $11 delivered to the door, I couldn't pass it up. The shipping is almost half the eleven bucks. I might use this as my first build. I'm getting close to actually starting a build. I keep putting it off for various reasons, primarily because we still have more to do with the remodel of the new house. Kind of makes me feel guilty to mess around with modeling when I should be painting the bathroom or something else.

I finished watching the Stephen King movie, "11.22.63". Anyone that enjoys King movies should watch. It's a winner in my book. For you that don't like King movies because they are usually horror movies, not this time. Yes, it's still Stephen King. No doubt. Anyone familiar with the date should have a good idea what event the movie is centered around. But whether you like, or dislike, King movies, this one is worth watching just to see that cars! I had to stop and backup a few times to see what kind of fantastic automobile was in the background of certain scenes. Keep in mind this is an 8 part mini series so there are LOADS of classic cars & trucks to see. The link below is just a sample of the cars that are seen in this flick. In photos where multiple cars are shown, move your mouse cursor over the photo and a small box will appear over the car listed. The '58 Ford Fairlane 500 Sunliner, '58 Ford Thunderbird Convertible, and '58 Plymouth Belvedere are seen multiple times in the show and are super sharp! Some nice reference photos. http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=2879552 ENJOY!

I've got the Motor-City Muscle AAR 'Cuda in my stash, but that's one of those cars I could easily build 2 or 3 of. So if popular vote counts, add 1 to the list of guys that would like to see a new release.

Ditto.

Might I suggest Fotki? $24 a year for 100GB of storage. Simple to use and no problems. Here is a link to a comparison of the different "membership" packages, as they call them. https://secure.fotki.com/payment/view/

Very nicely done! Looks really great.

That really caught my eye too. I remember that from 'back in the day'. Saw an awful lot of those numbers on the glass. Brings back loads of memories.

You are dead on, Bill. I had a discussion with a buddy of mine about a year ago and we both agreed that's exactly what has happened to both the weather and the news. They even go so far as to use all sorts of "catch phrase" terminology in an attempt to grab your attention. I no longer watch the national news at all. Too much overstating and drama for me. And I usually only watch the weather on the local news. Even they have gone overboard on their news reporting. Sad, exaggerating news and weather to make a buck. Give me Walter Cronkite!

Thanks for the heads up, Ray! I'm a Stephen King fan myself. I don't usually go to the theater to see a movie, but I might have made an exception for this. It is one of my favorite King movies, as evidenced by my Avatar. I would have been totally irked, myself!

If only there had been an adult there that said, "No." Would probably have helped me in the long run.

Really nice job! Fantastic detail job under the hood. Another great MOPAR.

Watching the coverage of Irma on TV and different websites is bringing up something that a few of my old storm chasing buddies and I just never figured out. Why is it that news reporters and meteorologists think they have to get out in the storm, stand in the flood water, stand in a foot of snow, etc, etc? I just saw a report on weather.com where some dingbat was standing on the seawall getting blasted by the 100+ mph winds. Why? Do they all think that we, as viewers, are so stupid we wouldn't be capable of looking at the palm trees bent over and the rain seemingly blowing horizontally and figuring out how bad the winds are? In my area we suffer from river flooding and every local TV station reporter has to don knee boots, and sometimes even hip boots, then walk out into the flood waters to report the flooding. Gee, I guess we're too stupid to realize there is significant flooding if we only see houses with flood waters up to the windows. As a storm chaser I reported live information to the meteorologists at the NWS to aid in their decision making about storm warnings. I stayed in the truck unless I was on the outskirts of the storm where it was safe to exit the vehicle. Yes, I screwed up twice and got myself on a road where I was trapped by a tornado and ended up driving through it, but that sure was never by choice! The whole idea behind storm chasing is to follow, or parallel, the storm and make observations that help the NWS in warning residents in the path of the storm.

Yep. Point well taken. It still hurts though.

I was just doing some general 1:1 car research for possible future use. For whatever reason I decided to look up a car I bought new back in the '70s. I bought a brand new, 1977 Olds Omega F85 Coupe with a 350 in it. The car generally gets slammed for being a stripper and a mistake by GM at the time. You could purchase a '77 Chevy Nova Concours coupe for a few bucks less. But who knew that at the time? The jet black F85 with a 350 in it and some extra trim looked awfully sharp to me. Anyway, while looking at all the data I turned up, I discovered that the production numbers for the '77 F85 were only 2241 TOTAL. And with a 350 and upgraded trim package there were only a couple hundred. If only I'd known. And to make matters worse, in late 1978 I traded the F85 in on a '78 AMC Gremlin X, with a 258 6 cyl in it. Yeah, the Gremlin was fun and funky, but sure not the car that F85 was. Being stateside military meant that all you had to do to buy a new car was sign an allotment and BANG, the car was yours. I owned a stable of cars while serving. Wish now that I had saved the $$$.

A '70 Dart Swinger? Heck yes! Count me in for that one.

I might be one of the few, but I'd like to see a small block for new release MOPARs. The 318 was available on '70 Chargers. Of course, so was the 6 cyl, but I'd pass on that. Yeah, big block MOPARs are impressive all right, but a good 318 or 340 provided plenty of scoot too.

I have absolutely NO experience or first hand knowledge of a hurricane. I do have similar experience as I was a storm chaser in Southern Illinois and Indiana. I drove right through 2 different tornadoes during my chasing years. The stronger of the two was an EF2 with winds of approximately 120 mph. A tornado only briefly hits one specific area, where hurricanes or so large they dish out punishment for considerably longer periods of time. 150 mph winds for sustained periods of time just scares the BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH out of me! You guys that are down there follow the warnings and get the heck out. If you're forced to stay for some reason, find yourself an extremely well built storm shelter to ride it out. Best of luck to any and all in Florida. Our thoughts are with you!

Yeah, but it keeps getting harder and harder to find that other guy.

I've got 26 diecast cars/trucks in 1/32 scale that I've been trying to trade or sale. I advertised them on a local Facebook garage sale page. I figure I've got just under $500 in the cars and I know I'll never get that much out of them. I have them advertised on that page at $225 or best offer. That's less than $9 each and that's a fair price. So this guy sends a message asking what brand they are. I replied that most of them are Signature Models, but there are a few other brands in there too. So he replies that he sells Signature Models cars for five bucks each. I fired right back and asked if those were mint condition Signatures and if so how many did he have because I knew a whole lot of guys on forums that would take every one he had at that price. No response. So I sent another message asking how many he had and indicated that I'd take every one he had for five bucks each. No response. MAN! That really jerks my string! We all know he probably doesn't have a single one for sale, and if he does he's not going to let them go for five bucks. All he had to do was say that my asking price was too high, or maybe make an offer less than I was asking. Why go to the trouble to "create" a lie? What purpose did it serve? Whatever happened to good, honest, dealing between two guys? And if he really did sell Signature Models, why didn't he know that mine were Signatures? There pretty easy to recognize. By the way, for the guys that know that I don't, and won't, do Facebook, my wife does so I use her account to post stuff for sale.

Looks pretty darned good to me! I like the colors, for sure. An eye catcher.

Spreadsheets have been emailed. LMK if you didn't get the email.

Well, Snake, I guess the Mustang is a '65. I tried researching for quite a while and I found a LOT more info on the Daddy Warbucks Falcon than on the Mustang. I found one mention that "in 1965, Bonner would move on to an A/FX-legal Mustang" so have to assume that it was a '65. Thanks to you for that one, and thanks to everybody for the help on the rest. I now have 100% complete data in my spreadsheet!

I took a look at Scalemates. There is a LOT of info available there. Maybe too much for me. It's pretty complex for a simple inventory of my stash. I'll probably just stick with my LibreOffice spreadsheet. By the way, if anybody would like a sample copy of the spreadsheet I use, either in LibreOffice or Excel format, holler. I'd be happy to email a copy to anybody that wants it. I can ship it empty or with a couple lines of my inventory included that you can delete.