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'54 Cadillac on the interstate at 6am this morning.

Nice Jewel Blue '61 Corvette. Naturally my Nikon was in the trunk!

Haven't seen this posted yet. I've never been but plan on attending.

Yet another month of disappointing car kit releases in both subject and number of kits. I wonder if this is going to continue?

Here's a few from the past couple days. The unibody Ford Pickup was a pleasant surprise!

Minibus stuck in traffic on my way home this evening. You don't see many of those Corolla wagons either!

I plan on being there as a buyer. Scored some great deals there back in November!

Nice clean car! It's known around 700 '68's were painted black or Tuxedo Black in GM parlance, it's code 900 on the trim tag. The exact number of black '69's isn't known but I'd guess around the same as '68. In all my years of messing with early Corvettes I've only seen a handful of black 68 or 69 cars. Here is a '68 still wearing it's original black paint, I almost bought this car when I saw it!

Jim, it was just certain numbers of the Evergreen & K&S. The styrene sheet for instance wasn't marked down. If I had to guess they are either shrinking those lines or adding new inventory. I'd suspect the former as they also had all the Alumilite and some other misc tools on the pegs marked down as well. The 2 local HL's are shrinking the car/aircraft kits and adding more of the gundam type stuff.

Late 60s Chevy Van at a garage. They had some other interesting stuff that I need to stop in and check out one day....

Stopped by Hobby Lobby to see if any of the Evergreen and K&S stuff was on clearance. The tubing benders and Plasti-weld were on clearance too. I still have a pretty good stock of K&S from the last time it went on clearance, but it's always good to have it around when you need it!

Here is the email for those interested....

Good to see I'm not the only one who thinks R2 is getting a little obscene on their prices, be it MSRP or wholesale. As I said in another thread, it's just about to the point I can't justify spending $30+ for a kit that was tooled 40+ years ago. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'll wait and find an older issue at a swap for $10-15 on average. (Altho I did buy the new Nova wagon and '64 Olds convert.) I was in my LHS the other day, AMT/MPC kits prices got brought up in the conversation. He said the casual builder will almost always pick a Moebius or Revell kit over an AMT kit since they are priced lower than the AMT kits. Take that for what you will.

Those are some good looking berries! I live right in the middle of Florida's Strawberry growing area. Here flats are around $20-25 depending on where you go. For now- the way they are building on every square inch of land they can get. Don't even get me started on Florida's Citrus Industry.

Golden hour & Sunset photos are among my favorites, so I try to capture them when I can. Here's a few of mine. The sunset is Redington Beach, FL, the bridge shot is Ormond Beach, FL just north of Daytona and the other one is from the driver's seat of my '56 Ford.

These are the only ones I have on the computer, and I'll add a couple C-17 pics I snapped while they were doing touch & go's at Patrick AFB/SFB in Cocoa Beach. I'll look on a thumb drive as I'm sure I still have the photos of the Skyraider somewhere!

C-17's are amazing aircraft. Near my weekend place they do touch & go's at the AFB fairly often. Here's a couple of my photos of C-17s

'41 Packard. The 120 was what was considered a 'junior series" as opposed to the senior cars which were the 160 & 180. The 120s had a 282 CID straight eight, the senior cars had a 356 CID straight eight. Great cars, which don't bring a lot of money compared to earlier Packards. I've worked on a few late 30s/early 40s Packard and they are well built and ride like a dream.

That's a great price! These are listed between $60-70 now. Like Hien said, I'd be hiding the others as they won't last at that price.

Doing some work on a '66 Corvette for a customer. Ordered new rear spindles and this is what I pull out of the box. One is not like the other.

Saw this nice Cougar in traffic on the way home this afternoon......

Looks like everyone's wallet is safe this month- no car or truck kits at all!

One more- Halloween parade 1983. I meet the Burger King. My grandfather's Model A Roadster & my Dad's '55 Sunliner along with a family friend's '55 Thunderbird.

Great thread! Here's a few of mine. One is me & my dad looking at a mid 30s International Pickup at the old Ormond Beach, FL car show in 1984. The shot with several Model A Fords is another Ormond Beach show pic from the mid 1970s, the brown Coupe & Tudor Sedans belonged to my dad & grandfather. I rode in all of these quite a bit as a kid. The Southgate shopping center one is one of my '56 Fords at a local shopping center that kept it's original sign from the 1950s. The yellow & black '55 Ford Sunliner was my dad's car. He traded a '41 Lincoln Continental for it-which I think he got the better end of the deal! The last photo is of a family friend's '31 Ford A400, he saw the one we were restoring and wanted one of his own! I'll post more in the next day or two, I just happened to have these on the computer.