OldNYJim

Thank you! I never knew this kit existed - that’s really cool! I’ll be watching out for one for sure!

Oh wait, this is the “what irked you” thread, not Jim’s moving thread... Was hoping for a Chevy from Hertz for the cross-country, got the Ford ??

I hope that’s wrong - but I guess we’ll see! New Yorkers are pretty resilient, and proud of that...but I’m not so stubborn about living here that I won’t move my wife and I somewhere safer and with better prospects for a year or two and enjoy TEN TIMES the square footage for less rent ? I’m mostly excited about having an actual hobby room! Lots of positives!

Yeah, I feel bad for him too - he’s losing renters left and right in the building because of a few bad tenants, and then losing money with them too...tough deal for him. That said, they’re lucky he’s playing by the rules...a lot of landlords I’ve met would’ve shut their water off or changed the locks when they’re out or sent some people round to ‘persuade’ then to move.

I read that a million people left the city since this covid stuff happened. If our lease wasn’t coming up and we didn’t sit down and reevaluate what the next year of our life is going to look like we’d still be here sticking it out...but as timing would have it, we looked at how much we pay in rent for so little space here, what the job market’s like (poor - my wife lost her job and my work is steadily drying up) and whether it’s going to go back to normal anytime soon (probably not) it seemed like a good time to try somewhere else. Always kinda talked about living somewhere more rural - so maybe now’s a good time for an adventure! I HATE leaving though, so this is something we’re treating as year long vacation and then we’ll see how the city/country/world looks in 12 months. Hopefully, much better!

Not sure what year this is, my truck knowledge isn’t too hot, but this was nice and clean and caught my eye today!

We didn’t have enough stuff for full-service movers to be economical - almost every company we spoke to either didn’t want to move us at all or charged the same as if we were moving a house instead of a small apartment. It was looking at being $5-7k full service, versus $1300 if we did it the more complex way of having separate movers and a truck that consolidated loads travelling in the same direction. Now, obviously, when something goes wrong it’s our problem to fix rather than the one company’s, but on balance it was still well worth it for the saving! We’re in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn - about 15 minutes drive north of Coney Island. It’s a nice, old school neighborhood packed mostly with Italians who have been here for years. Lots of families - overall a nice little community (and a quick commute into Manhattan - one or two trains and 30 minutes or so to wherever). We LOVE it here! Unfortunately, our landlord rented an apartment in our no-kids building to a Moroccan couple who said they had no kids...until they remembered they did have kids as soon as they got the keys. There’s five people living in a 1 room studio right next door, the Mom is pregnant and the landlord daren’t evict them. We put up with their nonsense for 18 months (kids screaming and crying all day and night, the dad beating the Mom, the Mom beating the kids, the cops coming round all the time, mice and roaches coming through their walls into our kitchen, the kids urinating in the hallway, the rotten food smell, all our packages going missing) and decided when he asked for a rent raise this year that he can go talk a walk. Funny thing is, the neighbor on the other side of their wall walked out on his lease last month because of them (and he’s a cop! ?) and the super told me these jokers aren’t even paying rent - they stopped paying in March and set a Muslim rights lawyer on the building owner for trying to evict this poor hard-working family and their kids. Glad to let that be someone else’s problem now ??. Still very sad to go though - never lived anywhere further east than Jersey!

Haha! The sky WAS pretty whilst they were loading! IMG_6532.MOV

We get to blame the plastic for bad paint jobs? SWEET! Finally someone else to blame! Stupid weird plastic ?

Oh man, can we see what’s in the VRod box? I never saw one of those before! That thing’s COOL!!

Outstanding - beautiful work!

Booked a moving truck for our cross country move. We also hired a separate moving firm to load the truck. The moving guys arrived at 4pm, right on time. The moving truck (which was meant to arrive at 3.30pm) arrived at...wait for it...7.30pm. So, we paid 4 guys to stand around for 4 hours to do 30 minutes of work. Someone’s gonna need to cover the cost of paying those guys to sit around - and I don’t intend for it to be us. On the plus side, we weren’t short of space on the empty truck they sent us ?

That’s a gorgeous Deuce ⬆️

Me too! I’ll keep buying their releases (even the ones I don’t really want ??) to try and do my bit to get more showrods! The Unreal Roller and the Honest Engine would both be a real treat!

Nice flake! Love the color!

Really?? ??? I never knew that! GREAT tip!

I seem to remember that directions for that Duplicolor enamel clear say not to recoat unless it’s within an hour of the previous coat, or MORE THAN a week later...not in between Did you get it in between that window somewhere?

Dollar store googly eyes!

You won the prize! ?. Ive always hoped to get one of those Katch the Kat versions of the kits but never found one yet - they’re cool!

If you leave the keys in it someone could steal it...wise not to leave them in there Steve ? That engine looks outstanding, really impressive work ??

That color is outstanding! I really like it! Nice job!

This is coming together really nicely - outstanding work!

Thanks fellas! Tiny bit of progress today - getting ready to move next week so that’ll slow progress a bit now... Steering crank parts, fresh off the cutter: Add a little bar to connect the crank to the front... Make sure it clears the headers (and that the crank could turn without hitting anything, and ditto the linkage) I’ll detail this up some and clean it up properly after we move - but that’s another part ticked off the list! Next job will probably be the rest of the steering setup, and then a firewall. More soon (ish)!

He also had a fundraising page setup years ago so he could buy the actual car back, and then he held a fundraiser to move from Hawaii because that’s what was holding him up with the scale version and then he had a fundraiser because he needed to install a fan in his hobby room for the 3D printer... As far as I can tell he doesn’t own the actual car, still lives in Hawaii and still hasn’t made any parts. He might have a fan by now tho ??

Fix pillar, then repaint, then add GLOSS clear so decals lay down nice and smooth without silvering (where the decal sheet gets air trapped under it and shows ‘silver’ spots from being applied to a matt surface), then decal and clear if you so wish ??