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Whenever I saw the ribbed rubber tires in junk collections... it took me right back to 1962 when I built mine. I true flashback to age 7. It was a cool kit then. I should do another one. But I would have to dig up those OG tires first.

Mine are very used to seeing me outside. If I go out to shoot some primer, they stay on the deck rail and keep eating. I know where they live, nests in the trees. I see them coming in for breakfast. Then there's the bluejays. I must have at least 15 of them. They sound the dinner-bell cry when I step outside. There is a couple of real fat ones. This is the bird that was all but eradicated by pesticides. By 1970, they were simply not around. It was around 1996 when I heard a familiar racket and saw an easy dozen of them outside in a tree. Then, not a one until I noticed them in large groups around 2016. My girlfriend got me feeding them every morning.

I have one of his older '34 coupe bodies, excellent quality. I'll have to compare it to his new one.

How about toluene? That I'd prefer over MEK. I worked in a machine shop and the owner practically swam in MEK. He would leave the gallon can open in the shop and I could detect it right away.

I saw a 2018 with a 5.0 at a dealer last year. Otherwise the same car as mine. They offered me an even swap, but that car had 48k miles on it.

One of my cars, a 2020 Mustang Ecoboost with a 6 speed Manual. Bought it in 2021 with 400 miles on it. Loaded to the gills with a leather interior.

This is what I brought to sell at a recent show. I had hoped to sell more. But other shows are coming up.

A nice feature to have. Glass has to be right on the money.

Very nice, I have one that has gone back into the box a few times. I built it as a stock car version, the latest issue with it is that I probably polished it with something containing silicone... cannot get the decals to stay on....

I know of a few "modelers" whose collections are staggering, one is around 1000 kits, another is over 5000... and they don't build. One guy I know for 25 years, I never saw him build anything, yet he constantly buys. I went to a show last year as a vendor. I brought 120 kits to sell. Came home with around 80 of them. But the good deals did sell. I would have to take a count, I'll estimate that I have 250 unbuilts and 25 projects, some stalled for close to 20 years. I would like to get the herd thinned to around 100.

If you mean the ends being canted up, look at some pictures. I thought mine was whacked until I did some research. Seems off, but that is how they were made. https://www.hemmings.com/stories/1962-pontiac-catalina/

With military wiring we did at work, it is easier to lose an inch of excess wire than to gain an extra inch of wire. It was almost always easier to lose the excess in the routing/dressing process.

I worked in the defense industry for almost 40 years. We had some old-ish product that needed to be fixed, many a vendor had gone out of business over a 15 year span. It became known as "vanishing vendors". I took care of cables and connectors and had to hunt down vendors we thought were gone, only to find that some were bought up by bigger companies. The past NNL East was the only time that I actually went home with money in my pocket. I had always planned to spend every dime I brought with me.

I posted this elsewhere here. Michael's Crafts is in a decline throughout the store. The model section is sparse, lots of vacant floor space, self pay checkouts. Very few customers any time I'm there. I buy a lot of model stuff on eBay, Mega Hobby and other online sellers. I find some good recommendations here. Definitely a sign of the times. I see less vendors at even big model shows. Covid even took out some great modelers I became close to.

I should be back on it this week. I have more of the chassis completed.

The Michaels by me in NY used to be good for kits, now they are down to a very small selection. The display keeps on getting shuffled around, the entire store looks like a sparse garage sale lately. I feel that they might be on the way out. I see large gaps of nothing but floor space and very few shoppers. The kiss of death is seeing their self-checkouts. I advised one person at a manned register to start looking for a new job.

I have a large hobby shop (100% renovated in 2022) and a Hobby Lobby almost next to each other that are closest to me. The hobby shop has Tamiya paints galore, lots of glue and putty. Good array of Evergreen stock, zero model car detail parts. Hobby Lobby, great when the 40% off days are there. They have Model Master paints, a good amount of Mr. Hobby glues, some K&S stock, some Evergreen stock. Either place, I see no shortages especially of $30-40 kits. The next 2 big shops are 25 miles each way, again, zero aftermarket stuff for model cars. Just about all the smaller shops that were around 10 years ago are gone.

I had a bunch of them back in the day. IIRC they were in chrome only. This is something we need. I had always said they should make some 1/25 scale small airplanes.

I've been stealing engines from NASCAR kits for a long time now. They look good in almost anything. A guy in my club does slot cars and sells parts he doesn't use. I grab up any 427 Chevy I see, also 409 Chevies and 427 Fords. The ones in the '65 & '66 Ford kits are nice.

One more. Caught napping.

She was listed by the shelter as a calico. She's tough stuff for a small package. She weighed 4.1 lbs, Bleu at 4.8 lbs.

The big box had a real glue bomb ? in it.

This is a 3D printed distributor, source is unknown. It came with a spindly shaft, so I chopped that off, pinned the rest to a piece of 1/16" aluminum tubing. Wire is Radio Shack wire wrap wire. Boots are from a bundle of scrap wire I got somewhere.

Best, Neil Young at the Nassau Coliseum in 1978, the Rust Never Sleeps tour. It was LOUD. We had great seats. Other notables, Jerry Garcia at the Suffolk Arena. March on 1978. With NRPS and Robert Hunter. Garcia came on after midnight, I had to leave at 5 am since I had to work. The Ramones around 1979 at Hammerheads on Long Island. I have seen Hot Tuna around 7 times, from college campus shows, acoustic shows and lastly in 2012 at the Westbury Music Fair.

I still have one speed shop I can spend some time in. The cool guys with stock cars in their garages are gone. I used to be one of them. When I'm working on my old Ford, I still see kids circling in the street on bikes trying to get a better look.