Junkman

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry

Nah. Kazakhstan.

Well, I'm paying for one or two Jags, despite they are neither parked in my driveway, nor could I actually afford one. This is one of the nice handdowns of the Stalinist Regime I had to endure under Tony Bliar, that measly crook.

Plus a one-week-ticket for the ski lifts in a big ski resort, plus the hotel, plus the travelling there and back, plus the apres-ski...

You have to see this in perspective. If one looks at the quality of modern 1:18 scale diecasts in relation to their retail prices, one can't but wonder why plastic kits don't cost a lot less of what they cost 15 years ago. This is especially true for reissues.

I'd say a Duesenberg, Stutz, or Miller racer would qualify a lot more for that. Those ca. 1970 American Muscle Cars have no real counterparts anywhere in the world. I find them still way overrated.

If it does, it must be very long. I recently used a spray can my grandfather had bought for his 1968 Simca.

+1

Mold. There is lots of mold in my stash, sniff, sniff. Hence I now got me one of those Dehydratatotatoo... one them things that dry the air.

What reasons do the Foose detractors cite to detract Foose? I met Chip Foose over 20 years ago and we are still in contact. I find him quite agreeable. We are Also, Rob, I don't find that "Chris fella" creepy at all. I find this Duane Mayer of Boyd's fame creepy - and frankly quite irritating. Now, that dizzy blonde they could have left in what she crept out of...

How do you mean "what to get rid of"??? Important is what others decide to get rid off, so it can be added to your collection.

Thanks! I hope so too. It's going in for an MOT on Monday.

Those kits are absolutely atrocius. To make them into anything presentable would be bordering scratchbuilding. They were last made by Aurora Holland, so you have better chances to find them on European Ebay sites. Etzel Speed Classics would be a good source for decent multimedia kits.

Of course it's all a matter or personal opinion and taste. But the expressing of exactly that is what I think Dr. Cranky invited.

Terrible, terrible, terrible. I have to say that I had my share of shunts in 25 years of motorsport, I have seen people die, I recently had my first big crash with a car on public roads which left four people injured (albeit slightly, but still), I had a towing service for several years, and I've been an undertaker for almost 10 years now. Even with this track record, I'm not hardened enough that fatal accidents, or accidnets that leave people seriously injured, leave me untouched. But - knock on wood - I never had even the slightest mishap on a motorbike, race, or road. I have lost a few of my biker friends, and I have collected a larger number of unknown (to me) bikers over the years, than I would have liked. In short, I know exactly how you feel. And what my parents must have felt like when I bought my first motorcycle. Be glad that your son lives to tell the story, and I hope his friend will recover quickly.

Hollywood just follows society, which in general is running low on any original thoughts... or plots.

This would be easy. You could use the Revell snapper body almost unmodified.

I am a European modeller and I can subscribe to this. I also asked around on several European modelling forums and I got pretty much the same answer everywhere. US-Cars are traditionally 1:25 and should remain in that scale, because all 1:24 scale US-Cars look woefully out of scale when mixed with the 1:25 ones. European modellers do not want their US Cars in 1:24 scale. It does not matter to mix in 1:24 scale European or Japanese models, because they are still dwarfed by 1:25 American models.

You are lucky. I don't need that voice, all I have to do is look at my paint jobs. There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. (Salvador Dali)

+1 Show us what you have. Oh, and Vodka.

You are, of course, correct. I always admired how tight Ed Roth got the "gaps" on his Little Jewel.

It's an ACCEL 150250 Ballast Resistor. What set of wheels will go around it?

Wahey!

One. If I'd lose one single customer, it'd be too many for me. They go out of business on a regular basis without such doing anyway.