The Junkman

Double post

There is one legal exemption, written into the Calif Vehicle Code. The deTomaso Mangusta. Now THERE'S an underserved car. Even a resin kit is lacking. My latent 15 year old self just got reactivated.

Common sense: In California the maximum height for a headlamp is 54 inches. Just the illustrations show those headlamps to be over 60 inches. And there is no allowable adjustment mechanism for headlamps being that high especially mounted at an angle because who the hell would do such a thing? They would be over height and impossible to bring the light cone to a usable level. That is IF you could see anything in front of your truck, what with the obstructed view due to the hood angle. Besides, it looks really stupid.

As promised: I stopped by my neighbor's house and snapped this photo. 1952 Studebaker pickup with a flat head straight 6 cylinder engine. Not a dent on it, even the bed is straight and pristine. There's a tiny bit of rust bubble at the base of the left hand A pillar. Spent its early life in the SF Bay Area but the past 40 years inside of a barn. And his go-to quote: "I didn't need another project but this was a rescue." It was on the jack because he needed to free up a seized brake.

Was the Boss Mustang funny car modified from Revell's 1969 Mustang Coupe mold? I've never seen the coupe kit in real life and the funny car has some coupe lines to it. The lack of a 67-68 and 69-70 coupe is a HUGE hole in any Mustang collection.

I posted the neighbor's cars at a local car show a couple of weeks back ('58 Olds and a punkin orange Henry J). He just brought in his latest project on a flat bed trailer. Early '50s Studebaker pickup truck, in a very dark bluish-green. It looked complete and in good shape but pics will have to wait. I had errands to run.

I like it. Sanitary with the important bits, Rat-rod(ish) with the remainder.

OK, check list: Beret Striped t-shirt "High water" length chinos White socks Loafers Optional: take up smoking Gauloises and having a glass of wine at lunch-in the front yard

"Would ya look at the size of that TRUNK!" That would justify the price of a Costco membership.

You've got a point but a "True American" would simple park across any number of spaces. ?

An accurate point. OTOH, Autoweek has an article about how Ford is pushing the Mustang E as a police vehicle in the UK. Baby steps, baby steps. We'll have them hauling their 8 year olds to their youth football games with SUV's in no time. https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a37511291/ford-mustang-mach-e-police-car/

Just an observation but that shopping center looks like it could have been scooped up from Middle America and had it dropped whole into the upper right hand corner of England. Nothing different but the license plates and the steering wheels being on the wrong (?) side.

Got on the West Coast (The Best Coast) on Monday. Thank you all for your efforts.

The Henry J and the Olds have the same owner. He has wide and varied taste in restoration. He mated a 1962 Bel Air with a bubble top and dropped a 409 in it, a kit Cobra, Nash Metropolitan in red and white. 1967 Camaro (a rotisserie redo), and on and on-all just in his garage except for engine and transmission rebuilds and paint. I want to be just like him if I grow up.

Our town has spent the past 6-8 months just devastating all of the downtown streets in the name of "progress". The streets are smooth now but they've taken a good 1/3rd of the available street parking and made them into wider sidewalks, parklets, expanded street dining space. All very nice but unnecessary, its not that busy downtown. Now there's even less places to park but what do I know? Last weekend they had a "soft" re-opening of downtown and decided to have a community fest and low-end car show. Look at the clean, newly-laid asphalt. The first three are owned by neighbors (like 2-5 houses away). I watched the restoration process on each. The front bumper was a recent addition. Powered by SBC. The money quote on this Olds: "I really didn't need another project but this was too good to pass up. Look at the wiring. Its almost looks like it was made last week" The requisite Mustang Corral Oh, so shiny! Hard to tell but this one had substantial "Big and Littles" and a bit of a rake. Rat Rod, the inside was as well finished as the outside. Very sanitary. Had a 383 as best as I could tell. There were others but these interested me and being a local show I had seen any number of others on previous occasions.

Is that thing even streetable? It took every "organic" line of the original and switched it with straight lines. It never "floated my boat" either. A lot of money for a show car.

You're likely thinking of the Mercedes "blow over" in 1999. Check this out-action at 1:05.

I really appreciate what it must take to keep that old dinosaur in such good condition, especially so far from the US. But that paint job screams for low rider tires and some Dayton wire wheels.

Reminds me of how they dealt with the stock of unsold 1969 Shelby Mustangs and how they simply painted stripes on the hood and, et voila, 1970 Shelby Mustangs. I think they may have had to adjust the VIN's though.

Ah, yes. I vaguely recall these "hobby shops". The closest one is 68 miles away and just cut their modeling section by about 2/3rds. After that there's one in Berkeley about 110 miles away (Berkeley Ace Hardware) that moved to new location and removed about 80% of their previous modeling products. And yet, somehow, I still am managing to accumulate "stuff". Persistence is the key.

A 2020 (or thereabouts) Shelby GT500, classic in white with Kona Blue stripes. Parked at Pier 48 in San Francisco (covered parking for the nearby Giants game) yesterday. Visualize this with blue stripes. As an aside parking was $50 (no, not a typo) but at least it was secure from the car break in's in the city.

"Hobby shop"? What is this "hobby shop" of which you speak? Better than that what national chain?

Hey, all. I've had an online subscription to VM for a couple of years. I've been trying to access the current issue on my iPad and it won't bring up anything but the thumbnails for the articles. There's no login box visible and the Safari web browser says the server cannot be found. Ideas?

The concept is still alive today. Sit, or rather try to sit in the back seat of a Mustang. Dogs, small children; OK. Adult size people-well you better be good friends before a longish trip because you won't be afterwards.

You sum up my view exactly. Were I of a mind to buy an electric vehicle (living in a semi-rural area with significant distances between charging stations=nah) I would look hard at it. But it is not and never will be a Mustang. Ford was trying to generate interest in a new line at the expense of product identity of a long established one. They did much the same thing, only the opposite a few years ago when they stopped calling it a Taurus and instead marketed it as a Ford 500. No identity, no interest. They went back to Taurus. Change my mind.