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I sort of like it.

Finally, got one I've been trying to get for awhile: Heller Citroën Type H. You guys have your Charger's and Camaro's, customs and hot rods, etc.; but some of us build to a different drumbeat (or an entire band as some people have accused me since my favorite one is The Residents). Still trying to find a Mehari.

Guess no one's going to step up, so I will. Last I heard anything about Rich Morgan was that Mark Gustavson was in contact with him 8-10 years ago. Robert Schleicher has a bunch of books out mainly on model railroading and slot cars. He lives in Colorado now and does Model Car Racing magazine. Haven't talked to Dale King in a couple of years now. He's retired from his illustrator business; living happily in Laguna Beach, CA; building Porsche models and playing with the grandkids. He was on the Grand Prix Modelers Association website some if they're still functioning. Tony, unfortunately, passed away many years ago. I think it was around 1978-79, but so many people and water under the bridge I don't remember exactly now. He was a really enjoyable guy to be around and great modeler. Oh man, I'm getting old.

You're right about that. Doesn't this fit under the religion and politics umbrella.

One of my old best friends from California lives in Suharita now. He scratchbuilds 1/32 fire apparatus. Douglas is right on the Mexican border about 50 miles from the AZ-NM border

Thanks for all the additional info. Neat little chart, never seen that before. Would agree with you that its starting to approach a pentroof chamber. Just don't keep up with this stuff like I used to.

Are the new hemi's a true hemispherical combustion chamber motor or they somewhere between a BBC and a Boss 429 setup?

Primarily a stock builder and yes the various French and Italian cars have been keeping the budget pretty depleted over the last year. Thrown in the Ferguson and the upcoming Porsche tractors. Then the other for me is I've been doing a lot with the cardstock models also over the last couple of years. For the active pile right now: Ebbro Citroën DS 19, Heller Renault 4CV, Modelik Ursus C45 tractor (cardstock), Stalinetz S65 Crawler (cardstock), Italeri Lamborghini Miura. Of course that means Round 2 and Revell-Monogram, and even Mobius, aren't getting much of my modeling budget.

That was a really cool museum, if a bit dark. Just wish I'd had at least another couple of hours. The last building I just got a quick run around the outside row to grab a few photos as they were chasing me out the door.

Nice museum right off the Columbia River in Eastern Oregon. https://whulsey.smugmug.com/Airplanes/2014-07-29-Western-Antique/i-pgFdp9t Yeah, got one to upload. Guess I pushed my luck. Anyway there's the link above,

In defense of the younger crowd, how many of us grew up with helicopter parents and over-protective, imagine conscious mothers that escorts the kids everywhere. These are the same mothers that won't let the kid have a model if they have to use glue, or paint it. Its dangerous and messes up the house. I was seeing the beginnings of that when I worked in a hobby shop in the early 70's. Heard similar things from friends who were teachers, that it had got to the point were they couldn't make an assignment were the kids might have to use tools or materials other then maybe markers. Look how few schools have shop and mechanics classes. After years of lawsuits and parent complaints, its cheaper and easier not to have it. The classes we had when I was in HS (mid-60s) were fun and you learned something. Plus it was a head start for the people who were blue collar bound. To get it back to electric vehicles, just heard on the local news show on NPR that there is starting to be some shortages and cost increases on lithium. Would imagine mining it, isn't much cleaner then mining coal.

Will agree some on the 2 way communications. Had the Denny McLain car, got it for 98 cents since it had a nice 289 Ford in it. Was told it was the Surf Woodie (IIRC) underneath. Sold the box to a baseball collection for 5 bucks. There's probably a lot of the old tooling that's been scrapped, lost, or in really bad shape. A friend of mine that worked for Entex years ago, told me the company had talked to AMT about leasing some of the old tools. He said their engineers checked some tools that had just been stored on pallets with tarps over them outside in Michigan. Their opinion was that they would cost so much to make useable if they could find the complete set that it wasn't worth it...and that was in around 75 or 6. Figure they've had a lot of age and 2 or 3 moves since then if they're still around. So will give props to Round 2 that they have probably had to do a lot of work to make some of the things production ready that they do have. Just in my case, I'm wasn' interested in a lot of it then; probably less so now.

Now that I would pay for.

Whoa, I'm well into 68 now and still don't think twice about jumping in the car and doing the Phoenix to LA non-stop. The primary thing for going to Central Coast or Bay Area is I don't have anybody to check on my cats, so 3 days is the max I like to leave them. Yes they pretty much run the show, I just pay the mortgage so they have a place to sleep.

Driving a city bus, wasn't dealing with that many people with a lot of money. The express routes tended to get more of the Park-n-Ride and government workers that had more money, they weren't dangerous, just PITAs.

I was talking about the Can Am engines being aluminum. At that time there wasn't an aluminum block available for the hemi that I'm aware of. I used to hang out with Skip Hess and the Revell Kit AA/GS Mustang some in the early 70's. Other then plug changes that engine was a bear for between round maintenance and for running on nitro the bottom end didn't hold up that well. That probably could have been solved, but not enough of them around and end of factory money kept that from happening. In case you don't know that car it was a SOHC similar to Ohio George's. Actually was build before his, but Revell dinked around and MPC beat them to do a kit of Ohio George's car.

That was a good movie. I grew up in Oklahoma before moving to Southern Cal so around oil most of my life. One of my great aunt's had a pump jack right outside one of the bedroom windows. Her comment was went it got noisy was 'I just think every squeak is another 50 cents on the check'...and this was in the late 50's when that would buy you lots of different things for a half dollar. 3 squeaks and my jerk cousin had a new AMT kit. And it hasn't been that good the last couple of years, but especially being retired now that little check that shows up at least every other month from the family land is 'pennies from heaven'. Now with that will say that getting oil out of the ground, transporting and refining is a dangerous and pretty dirty industry and has got us into some not real good political alliances. But haven't seen enough being done on what it takes to get the materials needed for those high tech batteries out of the ground and how do you handle them when their life cycle is up. And what about when a couple of the electric cars crashes and scatters batteries, etc. down a couple lanes of the highway?

Dang Dan, after retiring from 14 years of driving a city bus, I think that description only fits maybe 1 out of a 100...and that's on a good day.

Oh man, thought we were going to talk about the movie and the sequel. Hadn't read a good James Cameron bashing in at least a week and that was just some of the same old about Titanic. Not to spoil it, but the boat sinks.

Excellent, looks like we've got that all squared away. So looks like best solution for the T-bolt is to use reference (see photos above) and reverse the modifications. Never worked on them much myself, but do remember our front end guys hated working on the 64-65 Fairlanes. The irony of that was our Auto Center manager had a 64 Fairlane Sports Coupe for a couple of years. Thanks Steve for the tip on the Falcon pieces for early Mustang/Falcon.

My bad, wasn't reading the post correctly. Thought you meant you had compared the kit to the Italeri and they were the same. Now I see you mean you have the Italeri (which I've got and yes its a good one) so you weren't interested in the 300SL. Yes Hubley did one and its a curbside that doesn't come close to the Italeri. Now if they do come out with a Renault Dauphine or Metropolitan, I will take a couple more of both of those. The Ford 4 dr sedan wouldn't be bad either. But after this many years, pretty sure those have went to that great scrap heap in the sky.

Think we're sort of getting apples and oranges (or at least different kinds of apples) mixed up. So we can eliminate the 65 Fairlane Modified Stocker as a source since it and the 64 (both the T-bolt and the original) are incorrect. The 66 Fairlane is a different beastie. But the Falcon modified stocker (which I think is actually a 69 IIRC) has accurate Falcon/Mustang shock towers. Are they accurate for a 64 Fairlane? So does that get us all on the same page?

Can I safely guess they're all in 1/35th scale?

Forgot about that one, don't think I ever picked one up.

The Grant King car is one I've been wondering about for awhile. It's one I'd buy. Also the Agajanian car even if it is completely accurate and the Gurney Lotus.