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Thanks, the way I see it, as if you couldn't tell, you can't have too many Porsches. :ph34r: I can see why these Italeri kits were not that popular though. . I like the kit overall, but It's gots some issues.

Yup. I actually saw a real one in person at the Cleveland auto and air museum.

Zeb's who knows. Yours is a Swiss Weber.

Was Ist Das?

I agree, one, if not thee best, car model site around. And they wonder why they loose participants, good posters, and excellent modelers hand over fist - too many clicks - mob rules attitude, overly heavy handed with policy, too involved in "how it should be and will not be" too many personal police, too many personal likes and dislikes - and far too many posts about completely OT subjects that only five people in the world remotely care about and eventually at least one gets their feelings hurt because someone doesn't agree or gets tired of a thread that gets very long in the tooth - and then it's the CLAN to the rescue to tell us how bad we are for stating an opinion and then all pat themselves on the back for being good Samaritans. It's been refreshing not to see those kinds of on goings week after week. At the very least here people can agree to disagree once and awhile without a witch hunt and inquisition.

Yeah, surprising little cars and motors. I have owned a couple rotarys if it had been an FD3S you probably would have been beat, as it had about another 120 bhp up from 135 in the 1st gen to nearly double at 255bhp or a Type A which has a whopping 280bhp. A worn out FD3S would still go sideways in a straightline in second and third gear and scratch fourth and fifth. That's with a 1.3 liter! and they were tiny, 300lbs and about the size of a milk crate. The whole car only weighted 2800 lbs. They didn't have much torque but RPM galore easily reving to 9000rpm until it just ran out of air volume. Only 2 moving parts in a rotary, no valve train, cams, or any of that useless junk The Rotary powered 787B is still the only Japanese car to win overall at Le Mans.

Stupid money and further Proof there is no shortage or morons in the world. $207.00 for an AMT Nova!

Nah, it's a lease with 2 payments left. I wasn't sure if I was going to keep it, but now I am pretty sure I will. It books for over 11k and I owe $7800 on it with less than 30,000 miles, 27777 to be exact. I am probably going to lower it now and do some wheels.

Well it was supposed to be this past spring (March), but that didn't happen because what they wanted, Jeremy Clarkson, turned the offer down, and then there were some other delays. The host Adam didn't officially get the offer until a few weeks ago, and are said to be shooting soon. The pilot is supposed to air in the fall. It has had kind of a rocky start already.

I've paid about $85 at a LHS for a Tamiya 1/12 Porsche 934. I have seen Pocher kits go for well in excess of $1000.00 and seen a Marushin Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 engine $9800.00

PVC works very well in my Vac U Form machine. Clear styrene not so much. This one still has the protective films on.

I personally have known several and worked for three owners. Generally, they have the, "Build it and they will come philosophy," and don’t put much stock in advertising, promoting and supporting clubs and shows…, Interestingly, every single one of them was also retired and this was to give them something to do for retirement. I wonder just how many other LHS are run the same way. I know franchises are not run that way. I also know a former Hobby Town owner, which at least back then (1990s) wasn’t such a good deal. He was in it for the money HAHAHA! And hadn’t a clue about the hobby industry until it was too late for him. Not a one, however, was interested in big endeavors like Internet sales, shipping, much less, supporting clubs and shows. Even at one point a group of us modelers got together and put an offer in on an ailing hobby shop, but the own wanted ridiculous money to sell out. – Like in the neighborhood of retail dollar on the dollar. It was pretty much run into the dirt by time he died and nobody wanted it then – too much debt, too much past dues, too much accounts closed and turned over to collection. Even with sufficient money to take care of the bad accounts the name is pretty well ruined and is hard even under different management to regain good standings. It is hard anymore, and I just don't think having a LHS is good business anymore. It's too hard to compete with mail order and Internet, and too complicated and work to be both, mail order and have a store front. Moreover, there isn't any mark up in the biggest drive of a LHS, Radio Control products - maybe 15% compared to 40-50% a typical retail mark up. And RC is the most amount of space and biggest headach, but if you try to do just plastics you just don't get the traffic. I know a owner of a just plastic shop, it is very small, but it is paid for and he lives above the store otherwise he couldn't stay open. To be honest I am not sure if he is still open even. It is just not the hobby industry though, all these ma and pa shops, hardware stores, art stores, you name it have been more or less run out of business by huge chains that buy 50,000 widgets for 25-45% of WS while ma and pa are paying WS for onesies and twosies. A very common comment was he11, superstore X is selling Y cheaper than I can buy Y for from the distributor. So the only thing ma and pa have left is customer service, which they don't always, sometimes do it themselves, but they hire cheap help that fails miserably at CS. Generally, however, not quite as bad as superstore's misguided, ill-conceived, warped concept of good customer service, which is about the most irritating thing for a great number or reasons. Worse, is they haven't a clue about good customer service and wouldn't know it if it bit them are the arse. .... rant off

Yeah, I see that now, but sure looks Japanese, doesn't it?

No I am telling ya it looks nearly that of a Mitzi GTO. Check it out, right down to the sail panel fins.

Yeah, it's a Izh, built by the same automatic weapons factory. Sumthing is just not right with that gal. Can't quite put my finger on it though. It's like her head is dislocated or something.

that is true too! Especailly in a Sport like mine with ground effects and a wing The Fusion is pretty squared off. I have been very happy with my 6 and wouldn't trade if for any other like sedan in it's class.

By god, man, I think you are correct. That's the most Japanese looking Audi I have ever seen.

See Which is basically same thing as my Mazda 6. 4 cyl 5 spd man.

The G-wiz is even more funny when it hits the table. There is nothing wrong with four-cyl engines other than they are hidiously out of balance and run rough than a V.

I also know of a modeling website that built a "Lounge" for OT BS, worked out very well, and has remained surprisingly civil.

That is absolutely 100% inaccurate and wrong. If Big Oil had that much influence in Washington we'd be self-sufficaint with our own oil. The truth of the matter is we are sitting on trillions of barrles of oil that is off-limits to exploration. And it's off-limits by Congress. If we had our own oil we could control pricing, but right now the Saudies are controlling pricing. Our weak dollar which also another big goverment mistake is compounding problems. And we have big big problems here. We don't make anything, our industrial base is virutally nonexistant. We're sell off our assets at an alarming rate for discount prices, and we barrow foreign money to keep going. Before long the wealthest nation on Earth is going to have all it's wealth everywhere else but here, and that is a huge problem. And whatever is left here will be owned by foreign countries. Some what getting off here, but Russia has bigger oil deposits than all of the Mid East. It's just not that accessable and the infrastructure isn't in place... yet.

I was just thinking about that too, "The Prius has no redeeming qualities, none." The G-wiz is another wonderful piece of ######. They also say that a Porsche Turbo is so efficiant that in some places like L.A. the exhaust is cleaner than the air going in. I too, have a car with a 4cly that also had a V6 option. The 4 is a HO and very good even at this altitude. Besides getting better mileage it is also like 350 lbs lighter in the front and will out handle the V6. You know I don't have the answers, if I did I would be a billionaire, but I know what doesn't work. I don't know why everybody falls for face value on these green hybirds. Even Ethanol is an illusion, if it were so good everyone would be doing it. What they don't tell you is it takes 4 gallons of diesel to make 1 gallon of ethanol. This is all very reminiscent of the early 1970s and the big three largley built junk for the next 30 years after. Moreover there is nothing wrong with small engines. Some of the most powerfull engines are the smallest. Look at a 70s F1 turbo, 1.2 liters 1000 bhp in race trim up to 1600 bhp in full qualifying trim. I believe the future is in some kind of fusion.

You're warm.... I think yours is a Mitsubishi Galant GTO or maybe a Lancer Celeste.

how about this rust bucket.