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God! How I hated those steering wheels with the horn on the outer rim. Seemed like every time I went to back up in one I'd end up blowing the horn.....repeatedly!

not really, a decent bolt cutter will take care of cutting through the steering wheel and you can just lift the club off. We were taught this by a professional when the tow company I worked with was going to start recovering reposessions, and getting vehicles to settle court cases.

Thank you for doing the hard work. I haven't been able to get to my planes, still unable to negotiate climbing over stuff without danger of falling. Stupid surgeries anyway! And on top of that, I hate doing math, it makes my head hurt ??. Well I guess it's close enough for the people that will see it, to most of them if it has a propeller, and wheels you can see when it's flying they wouldn't know if it was right or not. In fact most wouldn't even know it was a REAL airplane.

Yeah, as luck would have it just after posting that while looking up images for the '70 Charger to freshen my memory (I sure seem to be doing a lot of that lately) I came across three different cars in this color. In fact one appears to be the one used for making this kit. It's identical except for the fact it doesn't have the "Bumble Bee" stripe and instead has some strange white and black pinstripes that run front to back and also along the bottom demarcation line.

OR, heaven forbid! We get a model of the most prevalent version, bench seat, column shift automatic, vinyl top, 383, (either carb option), IF we want to build the Hemi four speed version pretty near everything is already out there, just dig in the stash and put it together.

The Plum Crazy and Hemi Orange pre painted kits from Revell WERE painted the individual colors, and the Foose Challenger was molded in the lime green pearl color with the black being painted, with a decal for the separation and trim stripes. If you wanted to make a proper version of the Foose car you'll need the wheels from the Foose '67 Charger kit, and repaint the green on the body in a pearl yellow.

I know that the Chargers were available with the high impact colors, and I remember a couple of Plum Crazy ones that really stick out in my memory, but try as I might I just don't remember ever seeing one in Panther Pink, not saying that they weren't out there, BUT I never saw one. And I'm pretty sure that something as big as the Charger in Panther Pink would surely stick out in my memory. Saw some of the Challengers in it, and they weren't bad, even saw a local '70 El Camino that was painted in Panther Pink just after it was purchased. It belonged to a local sign painter and it DID draw attention to his business.

It'd be even better if it came with the "California Sunshine" kit that California Stepsides offered for the 1:1 version. For those who might not know what that was, it was a bolt on fibreglass kit that made it possible to put monster N-50 x 15 tires on the rear with plenty of clearance, with corresponding extra width in the front. It kinda resembled the old Can-Am styling cues.

Issue 204 landed on my doorstep (well, at the mailbox anyway) and it's been worth the wait. There's plenty of content, excellent new products reviews, it looks like Gregg is going to be busy with ALL those new things to play with. The kit reviews, and coverage of the usual things are as good as ever. I really liked the ideas on the A roadster, even have my favorite picked out. The tribute to Harry was especially touching, along with the inclusion of his final (?) article. Now I'm looking forward to issue 205. Thanks to Gregg and his excellent staff for hanging in and getting the issues (pun intended)taken care of.

I'll try to drag it back out tomorrow and give it a quick check. I'll let you know what it measures out to, thanks for the information.

Picked up one of the Lindberg releases of the Laird Turner-Meteor to go with the Gee Bee R-1 from them I picked up last year. I know that the Gee Bee says it's 1/32nd scale but it checks out closer to 1/25-1/26th scale, just hope that the Laird is the same thing. I've always been a fan of the '30s racers, especially the Gee Bee's I've got every model of the Gee Bee that was ever released, multiples of the Williams Brothers kits, and have ALL the single engine 1/32 nd scale racers that they have made. Now if I can just get inspired and start building them.

Sure do, interested in trading NASCAR, kits or aftermarket decals for the. '55 Chevy in your photo? (No harm in asking is there?)

California put the requirements for the air pumps in effect starting in the 1966 model year, but for some strange reason they weren't required on what was deemed higher performance competition based engines in the early years, it was strange seeing the Nickey 427 single four barrel engines with an air pump, but the two four version with the aluminum intake setup didn't have the air pump. Must have been a nightmare to enforce when people started doing engine changes.

Still off topic, BUT what I guess I should have said was that when my first APPLICATION for membership arrived it said that I was eligible as soon as I turned 50 years of age, even though I didn't actually join until I turned 54. But I still think this getting old is getting old and is highly overrated, no matter how old I get, I REFUSE to grow up.

? Did they change their minimum age?? When I first got my "junk ads" it was fifty years of age, but that WAS 16 years ago. ??

Everyone gripes about reissues that everyone already has. What is important to remember is there are newer younger builders that have never seen any of these kits so we're keeping new builders (something we REALLY need if our hobby is going to survive) so instead of complaining about how many of these you already have, point out the reasons you bought the original for the new guys that haven't seen one yet. Make the hobby sound like it's fun to see these again.

That looks like a definitely different custom possibility.

Why not just use the Leadstone Custom "Chevy" (?) Fastback from Jimmy Flintstone that's supposedly based on Cadzilla? This chassis and running gear along with a couple of interior mods should make a fairly nice semi-clone.

Did anyone else catch the "oopsie" on the instructions? One bucket seat is labeled part #74, and the other one part #10? Don't spend all day trying to figure out why part #74 doesn't look right, on the parts tree they're both #10.

Bill, have you thought of using the H brass material and making guides for the door glass that go top to bottom in the door and by using sort of leg shapes on the ends of the "glass" (or a lower channel the glass would sit in like on a lot of 1:1 cars) and let the pin on the arm slide in a slot on the bottom of the glass holder? Like I mentioned, there are a lot of full size cars that don't even have the vent window for a guide that use a setup basically like this. The second generation Camaro comes to mind right away., by the way, love the subject matter.

For that just "borrow" the roof off the Lindberg/Round2 '53 Ford Hardtop kit. With a little surgery to the front using the '49 roof it should be doable.

Don't feel so left out, there's even less for 1950. Unless you want to count the Chevrolet 3100 kit, and that (shudder) is a truck! ??

Thanks, must be coincidence that the 10:00 a.m starting time just happens to be 7:00 a.m. Pacific time where I'm at. I noticed the time thing after I'd already posted, and also got the answer that the 7 a.m. time was for my time zone when EBay answered my application for a bidders pass.

I'll help you out with saving the planet too. BUT I also believe our youth need to challenge their minds and learn new things, and increase their reading skills so if you will send all of those diabolical means of destruction I personally will let kids read me the instructions while I keep them safe on the other side of the glass while watching me follow their directions and while building these death machines will point out and explain the different parts and pieces of an automobile or aircraft. I'll even send you photos of the progress we're making and of the finished models.???

I noticed that the starting time since says 7:00 a.m. I assume that is the time for my location, not the Eastern time zone.