Delmo Kitsalp

I've been victimized in the opposite direction. I occasionally shed some kits on auction to manage the herd. I once completed a sale for a sealed Tamiya kit, only to have the buyer report me to the site when he opened the shrink wrap to "find" that there was no body shell in the box. Obviously Tamiya quality control has never let a kit go out the door with every part but the body, clearly I was being scammed, but the auction site will instantly believe the buyer who claims to be a victim and I was required to issue a full refund (plus shipping). I lost the kit and I even lost additional money on the transaction fees. I will still auction off kits on occasion to cull the herd, but I will never again sell one with the contents sealed, it's trivially easy for an unethical buyer to basically steal it from you, since you have no way of proving that the contents of what you are selling are full and complete. And "no refund" or even "as is" declarations don't work if the buyer claims the product was misrepresented. (I am aware that Tamiya does not typically shrink wrap their kits, but these were sourced brand new from HLJ, an extremely reputable retailer, so if they were not shrink wrapped at the factory they were sealed in the retail chain, not by another consumer. No difference to me either way - if there was no body in the box then I paid for junk from HLJ (doubtful), if there was I got scammed out of it at auction. Being sealed prevented me from knowing either way.)

This car was run by Bob Grossman at the 1967 Lime Rock Park Trans-Am. I'm trying to ID the logo on the rear panel next to the left taillight. It also looks like there's a copy of the same logo on the right door just under the quarter glass. I've stared at it and I feel like there might be the word "enterprises" in the text under the logo and the logo looks like some kind of orange animal but beyond that...not enough pixels to help. I recognize a lot of contingency sponsors from that era but not this one... (I'm also curious about the script text on the top of the front fender but I can do without that ID, I'm mostly curious about the sponsor logo.) Thanks for any help! -DK

I have two Gaahleri airbrushes including the GHAC-98D with the original style chucking guide. It was a problem immediately because the two parts of that chucking guide are not mechanically fastened together so the lever that the trigger pushes against would very easily fall off its mounting post, especially while cleaning. But it seems like chucking guides are pretty common parts, I swapped the Gaahleri one with one out of a different brand of airbrush, and bought an Iwata chucking guide off a major online retailer for under $10 shipped once I knew that worked (and that was long before Gaahleri apparently redesigned the part). Obviously that's not free but if Gaahleri doesn't replace the part out of customer goodwill at least it's not an exotic fix.