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aYH yeah Arrow... I knew it I just couldn't put my finger on it.

well lets see here, pretty much all British makers colapesed 1975 and were effectively OB: Layland, Triumph, Jaguar, MG, and Itialian De Tomaso.

I have had spans like that. Lots of work going on, but nothing to the shelf. However, this year five made it to the shelf in one of my most productive years, in years. That's more that made the shelf than had in the past five years.

As far as I know BMW started life as a engine supplier. I don't know that it was strictly aircraft engines. Basically when BMW was starting Germany was banned from making aircraft, therefore no need for aircraft engines. So they made motorcycles.

I know but it doesn't make sense. BMW didn't get into aircraft long after the roundel was already designed. But here is at least one expert. BMW logo; Fact or Fiction By Dr Florian Triebel. http://jeff.dean.home.att.net/roundel-myth.pdf

It is rumored that it was the blades of a prop cutting through the blue sky, but BMW experts say that isn't the case at all. The BMW roundel was created some twelve years before BMW had anything to do with aircraft. It was dirived from an earlier Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH, from which BMW came from. The colors, blue and white actually come from the Baviarian flag colors.

Mitzi GTO/FTO

looks good, I will get one. It's not bad over all. One of AMT's better kits.

That's a good question I have no answer for. I like cars. I like building stuff. It's an escape, therapy, relaxation, no particular reason.

If they have em. None of the five stores here had any and only two stores had any model kits at all. Both of those stores only had some 94 Impala Donks and 65 Wagon kits. Since, even those kits have disapeared.

I have one, but I have not built it yet. From what I read there was some fitment problems under the hood, but it was minor. I am sure it's ok... like other ROG kits. It's not going to be a Tamiya kit, and probably a little south of Italeri kits. HTH

my god man, the nerve of some people.

For someone who knows but you'd be surprised how many haven't clue that the rings even mean something.

Yes. It usually is associated with imagined finished product and the reality of skill level that are unequal due lack of expereicne. The only cure is to build.

They should have made that first one harder like what do the four rings represent?

Pontiac builds excitement Bad Boys, Corvette Not your father's Oldsmobile.

I'd say technically it is. They sold 21+ M Beetles that essentially was an unchanged design. Toyota sold 30+M Corolla lables but there is nothing in common between a 1966 and a 86, 96 or 2006 Corolla.

That is exactly correct. The shape of todays car is largely dictated by the fliud dynamics.

16/20 I got screwed up on the slogans too.

There is a real good article at Italianhorses.com on how to do panel lines.

I got mine from HJL for $30, the LHS has one for $59. I built new hinges for my Protar so I cannot say how the kit panels are. However they all fit tight.

Apples and Oranges. The new Fujimi kit is awsome, I haven't built it yet but looks good. I am, however, 80% through a Revell, Protar rebox. It can be built into a pretty nice 250, but it's WORK and it does have some shortcommings.

Komrade!

I can tell you why, all you have to do is read the two Toyota Management books to know why and what the differences are. It's a similar problem in many industry. And to a degree Toyota, albeit, a slightly different angle on it, they do have car passion as well as foresight. They could have been on the diesel wagon with 50mpg that could negotiate a mountain pass without effort for 20K and in some cases much less... Polo TD, 205 TD and so forth, but chose not to. CHOSE NOT TO! GM is good for putting all their eggs in one basket... I guess nobody told them it had a hole in it.

However, he is wrong on some points, and once again is looking at what happened five minutes ago and will happen in the next five minutes. He failed to look close and hard at what happened, or chooses not to, what has happened over the past thirty years and what may happen in the long term future. While there may be some truth in what he said, there are also fallacies in his argument. What happened on Wall Street is end result of policies going back 10+ years. Don’t get me wrong, Wall Street isn’t completely innocent either. Clear, Wall Street took advantage of the situation. However, you have to look further than that. It wasn’t Wall Street that created the mortgage crisis, the banking crisis, the foreclosure rate, or the credit crisis. Wall Street by and large is playing the cards they are dealt to the their best hand. While his argument is heart-swelled, compassionate, and seemingly sincere, it doen't seem to warrant the action that is being requested. The biggest problem with GM, and I believe someone else nailed it, is there is no car passion at GM.