RSchnell

Looks like y'all better bring a jacket in addition to an empty bag for the sale! I'm looking forward to this show.

The two walmarts by me never have any kits, but if they did it's a good chance I already have it or don't want it. LOL I'm really surprised Ollie's didn't have any kits for the Christmas season. I never even saw any of the Atlantis stuff in my local Ollie's aside from the few kits that have been growing roots.

What year are you looking for? 1932 used 18" wheels 1933 & 1934 used 17" wheels. These are the only decent '32 wheels I know of. I've got a few sets and they look good. They also carry the '33-34 style. https://www.3dscaleparts.com/product-page/1-25-stock-32-ford-18-wire-wheel-on-skinny-white-walls

I parted out a rough as a cob '56 Merc Montclair that had the automatic chassis lubricator on it. You hit a button on the dash & it shot grease into the suspension from a central point where a can of grease was screwed into a manifold. I sold that setup in the primitive days of ebay for what I thought was an ungodly amount. While not quite related to the car, Ford sold Charcoal & small Charcoal grills. I've been looking for one of these for my collection for a while! I have the brochure, but not the box of charcoal or grill. Ford also sold Portland Cement, Fertilizer, Potassium Nitrate, all available at your local Ford dealer's Parts Counter.

A good portion of Youtube is a wasteland, including some modeling channels. I don't watch any automotive related modeling channels & only a couple aircraft related primarily for unboxing. I've learned more from this site (and Britmodeller for the aircraft I build) than I have any facebook group or youtube video. I will say & have said in the past that the criticism of HPI Guy is warranted. If I was a manufacturer giving him kits & he continuously slapped kits together with shoddy paintwork, gluing functioning tailgates closed & parts put together wrong not only does it make my product look bad but the consumer is bound to think "couldn't they find someone who knows what they're doing?" It just comes across as halfa**, rushed & lazy. My family was in the grove equipment manufacturing business. Before we set our equipment at an expo (back when Florida still had more citrus than subdivisions) we gave the demonstrators a good cleaning & wipe down same as when I delivered a car when my restoration shop was done with it. I realize that's not a perfect example of comparison, but it's close. Now that my work desk is located next to my build desk so at the end of the day all I have to do is move my drink cup & glasses from one desk to the other, I'll actually have some time to build and maybe post a few here. Steve, how did you get a picture of the chili I made last week?

There was a Dodge in 1955 called the La Femme. It was geared towards women and came with a purse & raingear that matched the interior of the car. A friend of mine had one in his collection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_La_Femme

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It's kinda exciting to see your paintwork on the launchpad. I'm sure there's not many people that can say they've painted everything from Brass era cars to rockets. LOL

Every Christmas Eve Cocoa Beach holds the Surfing Santa deal. Even though it was cloudy and cool I walked down there to check it out. Not having to worry about parking, etc sure made it easy. Not my pics but ones to give you an idea of the size of the shindig. I don't do large crowds(unless it's a model or 1:1 show/swap) so I didn't stick around long. A burger & a beer at a local dive on the walk back home was the part that pleased me the most.

Never been a Springsteen fan, I always say "If Springsteen is the boss, consider me a disgruntled employee." With the exception of the Grateful Dead & a few others, bands I listened to even 10 years ago I seldom listen to now. Getting old is interesting.

I've noticed as I get older things that were once unappealing are now quite appealing and this holds true for cars. What are some cars that you once never cared for but find an appreciation for them now? Mine are in no particular order- '53-54 Chevrolet, late 70s/early 80's El Camino's, 4 door sedans- I used to consider these parts cars and still call them that sometimes. 1961-62 Mercs. Thought the 61-62 Fords looked better but I wouldn't kick a '62 Merc out of the garage now.

Postwar-

Hard to pin down just one, so I'll break it down first is prewar. -

Mine would be "build more than I buy" But I suspect we all have that issue!

I grew up right smack between Tampa & Orlando. They are just about connected to each other by development now. Moved to the east coast to fulfill one of my bucket list jobs(I can now say my paint work is going to space!), but now that I'm working remote I keep thinking the move is going to happen sooner than later. It's time to find a place where there's no snowbirds, tourists, etc. They get more rude & entitled every year.

As funny as it is true! My little 1.4 4cyl VW beat a friend's malaise era C3 not only off the line but on top end.

That's part of my retirement plan is to relocate like some of y'all have done. I'm 8th generation Florida native and this constant influx of people has ruined what used to make Florida so nice. You don't smell the orange blossoms in the summer & you don't smell the packing houses in the winter because there is no citrus left. My family owned numerous groves & as a kid we used to ride horses all day through the groves, even hog hunting on horseback(they will destroy a grove if you let them). Come back to the barn for a supper of smoked mullet. I felt lucky to have been part of "Old Florida". Everything is getting plowed over for subdivisions. The roads are crowded and the people have gotten more rude. Been looking at southern Georgia or Alabama. Some little small town where I can drive a Model A as a daily driver if I wanted to. Like I did down here 30 yrs ago before the place got to crowded!

I did that so it'd be easy to see what's there and makes things easy for everyone. Used to irritate me to no end when I'd go look at a car for either a job or for purchase and there'd be 20 years of junk on & around the car. Like I told one guy "10 grand to do XXXXX and $2500 to remove everything around & on the car. I can't give you a good estimate if I can't see what I'm looking at"

That was my bread & butter when I had the shop- guys that owned done cars but the only thing they did was put gas in it. Most tire shops around here wouldn't touch tubed tires like 20s & 30s cars because they couldn't throw the wheel on a tire machine. Clincher rims on brass era stuff got an equally blank look. I got real good at changing clincher tires but I also had the equipment to do it. Same with rim spreaders, etc. I'm at the point now that I won't work on other people's stuff, I turned down painting a '59 Corvette a few weeks ago just because I didn't want the hassle and he wouldn't let me do it my way. I've got a '32 Ford Cabriolet project that will probably be the last car I build & I may not even get that done being that's it's missing so many pieces. What's missing is unobtanium & I'm not setup yet to do any fabrication. Once I get my shop setup that may change.

I build pretty much only stock so I wind up with a lot of unused parts. I sorted everything by category, wheels in one bag tires in another etc. Had 3 shoeboxes of stuff that I traded to a guy that sells parts at the local shows for kits. Wound up with 3 kits I needed and we were both happy.

I have pictures to add once I find the right thumb drive they're on. But an incident last night reminded me of this thread. Coming back from the grocery store I saw one of those bedside medical crappers sitting on the sidewalk down the street from me. Nothing earth shattering about that as Cocoa Beach is a big retirement town and has a large elderly population. Fast forward 3 hours and I'm standing outside having a beer with my neighbor. She looks over towards the street & says "what is he carrying?" I see this dude carrying the medical crapper & running like he was in the Olympics. I'm not sure what was so urgent about running with a used bedside commode at 11.30pm, but there you go.

Since I now work remote, I converted the spare room into an office. I dug out some built kits and put them on display. Nothing fancy & no rhyme or reason- these were just in the first couple boxes I grabbed. LOL The unbuilt kits are on my "short list" not to be confused with the stash in another room. I also collect Ford memorabilia decided to display some of that too.

I've noticed that too. You'd think they'd have worked a deal with everyone's favorite bargain store to offload a bunch of dead stock. I know the last go round with the AMT & Monogram kits- they sat on the shelves for months compared to in the past where the scalpers would clean them out in 2 days. My personal opinion is they've saturated the market with kits that should have been retired not to mention you've got an ancient AMT kit priced at $35('65 Galaxie hardtop) sitting next to a new/newer tool Revell for $25('66 Impala hardtop) and is light years ahead of the AMT in terms of fit & finish.

Agree 100%. It's really interesting how Revell can put out new tool kits that are vastly superior to anything Round 2 has in their catalog and retail around $23-26. Round 2 is pumping out stuff that should've been retired or retooled with a selling price that far exceeds the quality. Aside from the '60 & '63 Ford pickups, I haven't bought anything put out by Round 2 in the past year or so. It's easier to go to a model show/swap and find an older issue of said kit for a third of the price & usually not as many problems with warpage, flash etc.

Nice variety! That '56 Merc Phaeton is seldom seen in the lower trim lines.