The Junkman

Actually, ironic commentary. ?

I was looking about the internet when I found a site that displays user uploaded pdf files. There's a lot of chaff with the wheat but if you search for, say "mustang", it will come up with all kinds of stuff including car club newsletters, etc. https://www.yumpu.com/en/mustang or Corvette https://www.yumpu.com/en/corvette Play with it. Afterall, what else are you doing?

Two days ago, Costco gas line in Rohnert Park, CA. Maybe not this one but honestly, how many screaming yellow Sunbeam 260ci Tigers are out there? BTW, it sounded potent.

Just another Revell GT Lemans kit from my local (68 miles away) hobby shop. Now off to Indycals for some options.

Ebay purchase of an opened Revell Corvette C7.R but missing the decal sheet. BUT(!!!) in the same mail delivery was two decal sheets from Indycals. 2001 Corvette C5.R with the post 9/11 markings (flag draped across the top/NYPD-FDNY logos on the nose) AND a C7.R sheet I had ordered just on a whim. Its all good.

I got your answer right here, a current day version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Straight

Did anyone else notice the car in the original post looks like Stan Motts "Cyclops" in Road and Track? It had all the features, over 60 years ago.

If you at all have the time, DO NOT miss the Blackhawk Museum. Especially if you like muscle cars, brass era cars, Italian coach built cars, Italian studio built cars, etc, etc. If you're traveling with a "shopper" the museum is located in a high end shopping center. For this kind of venue the tickets are almost laughably cheap @ $15 and less if you qualify for discounts. Last time I went (10 years ago) the Alfa Romeo B.A.T. 5 and a Shooting Brake done in a solid copper body were both on the floor. Exhibits rotate, just so you know. https://blackhawkmuseum.org/cars/ The California Auto Museum is located in Sacramento and although I haven't been there I hear good things. https://www.calautomuseum.org/

"Ford: The Dust and The Glory" by Levine was my first "car" book. I just thought cars raced and won or lost, not knowing the back stories. Vol 1 was magnificent but the later Vol 2 was not a worthy successor. Also add "Ken Purdy's Book of Automobiles"

I don't have this kit but the box top shows that they are not dual tires but rather large singles. Might be a consideration. Back into my hole.

Or might I mention a '68 Coronet competitor? How about a newer-than-40-year-old molding of a 1968-69 Torino FB (yes!), sedan, or convertible (be still my racing heart). All in all not a Chrysler product that will not be named.

Saturday at NNL West in Santa Clara Fujimi 911 Carrera RSR Turbo kit Studio 27 decal sheet for Ford GT #66 2019 Daytona 24 hrs (the white one with all the red stripes) HRM GT40 Engine and detail kit HRM 250GTO seat set HRM Corvette Grand Sport Nassau hood Clearly Scale ignition wire packs (blue and white) (vendor threw in a set of 3D printed Weber carbs-gratis) I was there either too early for deals or too late for full selection but am content.

I recall a Ford Pinto commercial in the late '70s offering a comparison of the Pinto, a VW, and a Toyota Corona. One of their talking points was the advantage the Pinto had in "road hugging weight" over the others. Detroit never quite got the appeal of lighter, more economical cars back then.

I guess that jibes with my original post. I last recall buying my latest issue in late August/Sept and haven't seen any new ones since. I'll keep looking and hoping.

OK, impatience bubbling to the top. I think I may have blended memory of RJ and Vintage Motorsport, which does print every 2 months and likewise is inspirational.

Just a question: has The Rodder's Journal gone away? I had a subscription a long time ago and still pick up issues that interest me but I've not seen it in the bookstores for months. Real great for inspiration

Why am I flashing back to that old Bill Cosby sketch about his new Cobra and George Wallace?

Slixx has done that on several of their quarter panel/number sheets. Look closely enough and you can see the makings for Skoal. http://www.slixx.com/1327.htm?id=811

Owned: nothing dangerous. Wouldn't have kept it if it was. Drove? Oh, heck yes! Remember those 5.0 Mustangs all the police agencies had in the 80s and 90s. Great in a straight line and off the line but it had seats like sitting on a plywood plank (no lateral support-at least in stock form). But it was the Stone age suspension design, especially the rear, that stood out. I had to be particularly careful on surfaces with unequal traction. If one rear tire was on a wet patch and the other on a dry one, any quick application of power would make that thing swap ends faster than you could believe. And uneven surfaces..... I was once responding to help another officer fighting with a DV suspect. Entered a gentle right hand curve on an overpass (at the speed of heat I'll admit) but the concrete pavement/bridge sections had a light rise every place they abutted-a condition not noted at normal speeds. Traversing them started an oscillation where the rear end started walking/rotating clockwise and pushing me toward the median, where undoubtedly it would have rolled like a ball. Luckily I had enough room in the lanes to gently relax the turn and recovered without further drama. A fun car but one that could bite you if you weren't careful. And, believe it or not, the CHP experimented with 1979 Dodge Aspen station wagons. 318 ci engines (140-160 hp I believe) and overhead light bars which enhanced the brick-like aerodynamics. The no doubt, downhill, hurricane wind at your back speed of 75 mph. Took the best part of 200-300 yards to accelerate off the shoulder to merge into traffic. Which meant you had to back up a station wagon 200-300 yards on an LA freeway shoulder from every single broken down car that you checked on. Eventually, the sgts had to order guys to take them out. More eventually, even the powers-that-be had to admit they were dangerous.

Looks like a Delorean that drove through the JC Whitney warehouse while covered in Elmer's Glue. Never was a fan of '80s folded paper design studies, most Lotuses excepted. Hard pass.

Harry Bentley Bradley. Widely published, imaginative, but every design seemed rooted in reality and possibility.

"If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it"? That looked like SO much fun. They get all twitchy (every one) and then they catch.

Maybe someone with a bigger library than I can answer a question. I have Comer's "Shelby Mustang: Fifty Years" already. Is there enough/new info to justify buying this one in addition to what I already have? I already have 4 books fully dedicated to the Shelby Mustang and sections in another 5-6 books. Can you have too much?

I grew up in Westchester and returned to that area when I had a job related relocation. I remember when there was actual berry farms across the road from Knotts Berry Farm, that an "E Ticket Ride" at Disneyland was worth something, when there was a tunnel on Sepulveda Blvd rather than I-405 and when there were horse and chicken ranches in the San Fernando Valley. Yes, I am old. OTOH, I met my wife at Dockweiler Beach but otherwise you couldn't drag me back there.

Mentioned twice in the first page. All the Mercury muscle cars are severely underserved.