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TS-14 for sure, make sure you lay down enough coats if you plan to color-sand it. The day that Earnhardt got killed at Daytona, I was helping a kid my kids knew, he had an Earnhardt car going and his mom asked me to paint it for him. I used of all things a Rustoleum spray can. I gave the kid 10 minutes of free body work... damn... that came out great and needed no polishing.

I have not had much luck bending 3D printed headers. I have busted off a couple of tubes trying. I did graft some styrene rod onto a set I'm doing for a modified stock car.

When I was growing up, the kid next door found one that must have fallen from a nest. He was about 10 (the kid...) and took good care of the critter. He had it in a bird cage in his room. Eventually he let it outside, but it came up to him whenever he went out. Some of my smaller ones will get close to me to pick up nuts I drop for them.

Try Daytona Racing Souvenirs on 92, just west of the Speedway on the same side of the highway. I always stopped in there when I was in the area. They had some aftermarket stock car items. I haven't been there since 2011.

I'm doing well... not starting anything new. I'll see how long I can hold out....

I've bee a hot mess since March, lower back issues, mainly muscle spasms. My pain doctor shot me up with cortisone in March and it helped. I had to walk around the house holding onto things, lol. Lately the other side has been really bad, plus my one knee since I have been walking funny. That has improved and I'm now pretty functional. I have been working on a '66 Belair I picked up. I had the front end apart, also did brakes all around despite terrible pain.

I get spatter screens at the dollar store, they are like 12" in diameter.

I gave up on enamels a long time ago. BUT... I was using Testors and home-center enamels. Lacquers and acrylic-lacquers I have very little problems with. The MCW stuff is probably a ton better. I'm also lazy and don't have a dedicated place to build, so no airbrush, although I own 4 of them.

Their primers are pretty good, also in big cans. I use some Transtar primers too, better than the SEM ones. But the nozzles have to be cleaned now and then.

I'm about 10 minutes from the old OBI lot on Ocean Parkway, that one fills up fast and you have to get there by 6:30 or come back after 9. They have a porta-potty and a coffee truck, sometimes 2. Captree Boat Basin is nice, but they start charging admission on weekends, so the herd moves to OBI after mid April. I can hear the cars heading down right now, I back up to the Causeway. I'm 2 stop signs from there.

I have a couple of complete kits, open box, plus some of just the backs I have gathered over the years. I have done a bunch of research and they are very accurate. I drove trucks with the 440 winches and some older Weldbilt ones. That company was local to me for many years.

My 2 cats were like oil and water. Chloe was about 8 when we got Ivan, the feral rescue kitten. She despised him, but he liked her. She beat the tar out of him until he got bigger.

I've been working on the Belair, I am getting the Ford ready to fly soon. The Tuesday show is pretty good, I try to go on cooler days. The afternoon sun is murder with no AC. My Sundays are a day of rest mostly. I generally avoid formal car shows, I don't care for the mentality that goes with them. I never raced on DPA, the cops were terrible even back in 1975-1976. It was 1982, the last time I "cruised" DPA. We were coming back from racing at Riverhead and had a stock car on the trailer, we had just come down from the LIE. My racing partner was a little bombed... he has me pull over by a group of guys with hot cars. He gets out and says , who wants to run right now for $500? He pulls money out of his pocket (nowhere close to $500...). They fell silent, "what is it"? They might have never seen a stock car before, especially one that was creased on all sides.

I started using this pro paint shop clear over Duplicolor, a 1K type in a big spray can, SEM #40903. It dries fast, goes on smooth. The cans spray very well. Another I like is the Extreme Lacquer clear. Like I have said, Duplicolor is not what it once was. I have had it blush even inside under the best of conditions.

Thanks, I appreciate it I dig your work too. I should be approved by now and will check in a bit. I quit FB back in 2019, family stuff I need to avoid.

I cleaned out everything after that event. I'm also on the NY State MM program, so I can't even smoke a little weed. I go the other way whenever I even smell it.

How about Angus Young?

His company name FRW appears on a Slixx decal sheet. He may have had some serious family issues going on a while back.

Nobody a Joe Walsh fan? He and Don Felder woke up the Eagles when they joined up.

Very nice, I saw decals for another version, the car was solid blue.

Iceman Collections may have grilles for this era truck. I did a '77 GMC truck recently and opened up the grille from the back, really changed the look of it. White bumpers for sure, maybe a step and hitch on the back bumper?

What happened to Fred? He was a good guy and came to the NNL East a couple of times, I still have some of his parts that I use.

Yup, sooner or later. I'm having back spasm issues so I'm laying a little low right now. I'm waiting on a Hagerty quote on my "new" Belair, then a trip to DMV. The seat upholstery is on order. Next up from there is getting the new springs in all around, sway bar links and front shocks. Also an alignment, my buddy has a shop in Deer Park and he will be helping.

I came close to getting busted at pain management... another pain medication showed up in my 6-month required whiz test. Just a trace amount of Tramadol as opposed to my regular Oxy. I had some older meds on top of my dresser and took one in the middle of the night with the lights out.