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Lindberg has a couple. 38 custom ford van.
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2 hours ago, TarheelRick said:
I have sent some parts to another member, USPS receipt shows estimated delivery date "Sat 10/03/2020". Just checked the tracking number and it shows "Delayed, late delivery". When I went to the tracking history I see it left my home post office and went to the Greensboro, NC distribution center and that seems to be as far as it has got. What really irks me about this, other than the late delivery of the parts, is that I did a trade just a couple weeks ago and the package got held up at the Greensboro, NC distribution center. I live less than 50 miles from that facility, yet it took five days for the package to make it to my post office. My part of the trade went out and made it a day earlier than the due date. Seems to me someone needs to do some rectal-kicking at the Greensboro facility.
Wanna hear bad ? I traded with Dale gribble and sent him a 1/12 scale model. A big one. It was "lost" in new jersey for like 2 weeks and literally took a month to make it there.
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25 minutes ago, Ensis Ferrae said:
One of many things that irks me almost daily, at least at work is just how terrible GM is.
I know the above statement is likely to draw fire from the life-long GM vehicle owners, but its true. . . Since I've worked at a GM dealership, I've been astounded on an almost routine basis for how terrible the company is once you've signed your name on a contract to purchase a vehicle. Constant parade of parts on back order, many of which, in my view (and with my education) should never, ever in a million years EVER be back-ordered. I mean, we're talking about air filters, transmission filters, fuel filters, at various points have all become unavailable to us. . . Things that are fairly routine, like fuel injectors, regularly out and unavailable.
The supply chain issue leads me to another routine "irk" : certain customers that get all pissy with us in the parts department, as if its our fault that they made the mistake of buying the vehicle they did. . . The worst are Denali owners. . . Number 1 issue, they don't drive a Sierra, Tahoe, Canyon, or Acadia, which is moderately useful in looking things up, no, they drive a Denali. . . which is BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH well useless. It would be like me walking in to a Ford dealership and saying, "I need X for my Limited". . . Number 2 issue, is these idiots who think the statement "I bought an $80,000 truck, blah blah blah". . . Yeah, I'm not sorry you overpaid for a pile of junk vehicle that is constantly in my shop. You don't want to be complaining to me all the time? Buy a Toyota. And, with the Denali owners, holy mother of god are they some of the CHEAPEST a-holes on the planet. . . A clip which costs 10 bucks at my parts counter to do solve a problem they can fix themselves, and they want to negotiate prices!! Sorry, if you want to haggle, the sales floor is upstairs. My prices are set.
Sorry. . . . its just that in this business, and in this company, its a nonstop barrage of BS, and it kinda builds up overtime.
You should seriously go work for a Toyota dealer then !!
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4 hours ago, Super28 said:
Hear, Hear! I can vouche for that!!!
Lol
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54 minutes ago, NOBLNG said:
If you have a battery powered mixer you can put an empty TP tube over the bottle while mixing. That way, when you lift the mixer out you don’t spray little paint droplets everywhere. Using a mixer also keeps paint off the lids as opposed to shaking them, so the lids remain easy to remove months or years later.?
Just shut the mixer off before taking it out and paint won't go spraying everywhere too
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Everybody sees things in their own ways. What one says is ok may not be to another. To each his own as they say
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There's a ton of 60s cars drag custom stock you name it! You're gonna love it
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Covids poppin off where I work. Out of maybe 30 or so people , 3 positive tests this week. None before this
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3 hours ago, Accordionman said:
Apparently some stores in the UK are doing this also, but not all are telling you that they are doing so !
Coin shortage ? I mean like where did all the coins go ?? People will believe anything you tell them
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My fav album Boston self titled album Boston . A masterpiece front to back ?
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3 hours ago, NYLIBUD said:
Oops I misunderstood the definition,sorry.But Ozzy definitely fits the definition.
No it doesn't but ok if you say so ?
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Anyone one else in ct or nearby ?! Represent
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Lol that is pretty cool !
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I just download my favorite youtube videos onto my phone with an app
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9 minutes ago, Straightliner59 said:
Perhaps to you, it is. For some of us, it's not pointless, at all. I guess all of us should just build, as you do.
Yes sounds good !
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Good looking truck. You've really been turning the models out lately !
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One word : badass
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27 minutes ago, Can-Con said:
Well, I guess the OP cares or he wouldn't have asked the question.?
Yeah I understand that, just saying that's it's really pointless ?
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On 9/14/2020 at 8:21 PM, Snake45 said:
Bought this cool custom Vette roadster as part of an incredibly cheap “two-fer” deal on eBay, but I can't figger out what it is. Chassis is a typical AMT one-piece. The fender vents are puttlied up and all emblems and gas cap are gone, so no hint as to what year it might be. It does carry a chrome “1967” rear license plate frame, but I've never seen any of the custom parts in an AMT '67 Vette kit, or any other year Vette kit. Most interesting/unusual/noteworthy is the cut-back rear fenders. The shape is vaguely familiar but I can't nail it down. Then there's the winshield, which I first thought was something else laid down but fits so well I now think it might have been made for this kit. Haven't seen that “roll bar” before, either—very different from the one in the '66. And then there's the extra instrument panel on the passenger side of the dashboard. The final mystery is the hood. It's sorta like a '65-'66 big block hood, with some cut-down '67 Camaro vents on top (they seem to be molded in, not added on). Engine has an odd blower (?) on it, too, and the headers don't seem to be for a SBC. Maybe some questions will be answered after I strip the paint. Meanwhile, anyone have any idea where any of the odd stuff came from? Mark? Tim? Buehler? Anyone?
The other half of the two-fer deal is this built survivor Car Craft Dream Rod, which seems to be missing only its bizzare double headlight pod (not a great loss IMHO). If I were a huge fan of the original, I'd strip it down to parts and rebuild it as the original, but the truth is I'm not. I can see some custom potential in the shape but to build it “my way” I'd be better off starting with a new, common reissue Tiger Shark kit. I guess I'll clean up what's here, see if I can get the wheels back on straight, maybe try to polish the paint (although there's a nasty tire mark on the hood), and display it as the proud old survivor that it is. Any other ideas?
That dream rod is a nice pickup man !! Rare
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Here's my question. .. who cares what they are ?? They look good and that's that
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19 minutes ago, Sam I Am said:
I am building that same kit, only I am using an original issue...or two. lol
Yes, it has chrome trees. Everything in the box art that is chromed comes that way.
Have not opened it to check , but thanks to this forum I'm.betting no lol
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I like how it's stock not custom. Nice work homey
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That was honestly kind of rude how you said it.