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Falcon Ranchero

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  1. Lucky me I never get any of that cr ap on the radio because both my parents vehicles has the same stations: Ozzy's Boneyard, Hair Nation, 80s on 8, Classic Vinyl, Classic Rewind, and The Bridge. Nothing later than 1990, or sooner than 1965, just all the good in between.
  2. UPdate the school's actually closed so that's pleasing.
  3. I like the snow but this was overkill. The college is in fact still open though instead of 8:30 it's 9:30 I gotta be there because they have the big parking lot they have to plow. So it was good I have an extra hour to get there. Truck's ready to go now. I have a fish test in class today so that's why i'm going, otherwise id've stayed here.
  4. I haven't much of one; I display my latest three builds at a time on my build table; when the next one is built, the kit displayed at the front end gets booted out and put away in the box, and I shift the cars down the line with the newest one bringing up the rear. BUT because my 1958 Thunerbird wouldn't fit back in the box because it was too shallow for the assembled kit, I picked up a case and displayed it on my desk. I can imagine some of you guys got some big glass cases with hundreds of builds. Curious to see what you got goin' on for your builds.
  5. Those were extremely rare; holy smokes. Got my "Monarch Meteor" book and glanced over the Meteor Rancheros; can't remember exact numbers, but I know the '58 was even rarer. As crusty as that '57 looks, it's actually pretty cool because I can imagine it's all original. What a sight.
  6. This is my most pristine die-cast. There was this store called "The Rad Zone" and it was in our local Wellington Square Mall and at that time I was real young but I remembered a shelf displayed with all these beautiful '50s cars but they were always way too expensive and my parents wouldn't have wanted me to be playing with one of those like a toy car. So then when the Wellington Square was renovated the Rad Zone moved downtown and unfortunately most of the cars were gone. But this Buick; was up on a very high shelf under the same display case surrounded by other miscellanious stuff. At this point it was Fall 2020 and so I was old enough to have a display piece car. It was 60 bucks altogether but we got it for a partial trade of CD's and books my dad brought in so it was probably more like 30 or 40 bucks.
  7. Numbers 123456789- there you go
  8. Yo guys I remember this one time back in the early fall of 2020, back when my grandfather still had the veg garden growin', there was a mama deer with two fawns out in the field coming closer, and at that time the apples were ready so I took a seat on the bench and had some apples on the ground like a meter in front of me and the two fawns timidly came up to me and ate the apples within petting distance but I didn't see the mom deer but then I felt something breathing down my neck so I froze 'cause I knew who that was. Then outta the corner of my eye I see my granfather come out the garage a little ways away and I think he said holy sh or something and then my dad pulled in with the truck and they were off. No photos but I remember it well.
  9. That's 10x better than mine; awesome detail. I built this same kit, though I put on different wheels and a white interior
  10. I've seen a '51 Monarch, too. Though it's not as nice as that one.
  11. It’s mainly because, one, it’s one hell of a nice piece of property, two, been in the family since 1965, and three I basically grew up there; it’s a pretty special place to me anyway
  12. The guy who does my grandma's driveway. Pays him around $40 I think. That's 40 bucks to plow the damn driveway, not tear up the lawn and shove piles of gravel (itsa gravel driveway) onto the lawn. Does a half @$$ job of the plowing, too. Uses a little tractor that does have a blower on the rear. Barely uses it; just plows. Last year I was raking PILES of gravel back onto the driveway from the lawn; if I didn't have school in the morning I sware to Gad I'd be here at like 5:30 in the morning to properly snow blow the driveway. It's a long one but still, I'd do it right and for free. Just gets under my grill when I come here and see the F mess made. I literally pour my heart and soul into keeping that place ship shape; picking up where my grandfather left off; but winter is a little trickier to maintain than the other 3 seasons.
  13. If December 2024 is anything like December 1964 around here it’s gonna be a good one
  14. Wow that’s atrociously bedazzled
  15. Same reason my Great Uncle doesn't take the 'bird to those cruise nights because it'll do the same thing
  16. I usually have a horrible time deciding how to build a kit; especially when said kit comes with custom extra bits, which leads me to changing something right before I build it, or during, or in the case of my 1966 Wildcat; like a year after I decided to change the full custom front end to stock. Even my latest build; the Street Rod '60 Impala; it was originally going to be stock and light blue with a white top, but if you've seen it it's totally not grandma's church transportation. That being said; not knowing exactly how to build a kit may be a relatively good thing for the mind as you're always wondering "how would it look like this" or "this colour would look real nice, or maybe this colour" and so you're visualizing multiple versions of the same car in your head. It's good to have options. And it's ok to change something after the fact.
  17. What i'd like to do one day is find a 1970 Mercury Marquis like the one my grandfather had and drive up through the Ontario parks in the summer with a Jim Croce 8-track playin' as he was my grandfather's favourite '70s singer.
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