Rob Hall

Yeah, Round2 seems like they include some pad-printed tire in all their 'retro deluxe' reissues...

Who knows..can just turn them backwards as blackwalls. There are pics out there of them w/ steelies, dds, and white walls.

The other side of that display..

Found this pic on FB...looks like it shown in blue on the box art....retro style, but not exactly like the annuals.

Found this pic on FB...mostly car kits, but you can see what may be the final Dodge pickup box art, kind of retro style, but not the same as the annuals.

Ah, yeah..haven't paid attention to modern F1 kits in a while..was thinking street cars in 1/24th.

Been a while since anyone has tooled up a new Ferrari kit, hasn't it?

Not on the '69 Boss 302 and '68 Chevelle that I got recently. Both still have the Elk Grove Village IL addr on the side of the box, but say distributed by Revell Gmbh w/ the German addr on the bottom.

I'm glad I work from home on days like this. Was sunny yesterday and today, back above zero now (about 1 or 2F now). I still prefer a little cold in winter to Phoenix summers.

I see them in my yard all the time here in the Cleveland suburbs...drives my dogs crazy. Yesterday evening around 6pm 3 deer strolled by a foot or so from my back patio... there are 4 that spend a lot of time in the empty wooded lot next door.

Nothing going on right now, about 40 degrees and still..but serious cold in coming Tuesday night through Thursday...supposed to be the coldest in NE Ohio since 1994..I remember that winter---I was in grad school at Kent State and my '86 Mustang LX had the doors frozen shut. I got them open, it would start, but couldn't get it in gear....ended up walking across campus to my office.

It's on my to-do list..maybe this summer. I'm planning a road trip maybe in June to see some Michigan lighthouses and visit Ann Arbor--haven't been back to my grad school town in 20 years.

I have the AMT original '69, '70, and '71 kits (along w/ the '65-68 kits), but have never compared them closely.

I assume the tooling was modified to make the '70 Mach 1, which was then made into a funny car. I don't know if AMT's '71-73 kits shared any tooling w/ these.

From the Book of Knowledge, it was 1958 they introduced Apache for the light trucks, Viking for the medium duty, and Spartan for the heavy duty. I don't know when they stopped using those names, sometime in the 60s? I think I've seen early 60s pickups w/ Apache badging..

Interesting...since moving back to Ohio in 2017, I have seen a few vehicles with that style plate, wondered what the significance of the color was...

That reminds me of a story from a guy i worked with about 10 years ago.. he said he had always wanted a blown Nova...he went to one of the January auctions in Scottsdale and bought a Pro Street style '66 Nova w/ a blower sticking through the hood, huge rear tires, nitrous, etc..bright yellow w/ orange and red stripes. I saw in the office parking garage, looked like it was really well built. About a month after he bought it, he over accelerated turning onto a divided street, lost it, and slid into a raised median and rolled it..he was ok, but the way he talked it seemed he was embarrassed he wrecked his new toy.

I got an electric one from Amazon...most of the snow melted w/ the rain and higher temps yesterday. Supposed to snow again this weekend, will give it a try...

I think I need to get a snow blower sooner or later. I shoveled a bit this morning....not a fan of shoveling. 12-18 inches of snow in the driveway, and about 9 degrees temp. But it's supposed to get 'warmer' the next few days...

In the mail yesterday came an unexpected package...a modeling friend sent me a Gunze-Sangyo High Tech Ferrari 250 GTO kit, with engine, photo etch, unbuilt w/ some extra parts. Never seen one these kits before in person, pretty cool...kind of a late Christmas gift.

Been a couple pauses in the snow this morning, but still coming down.. during a brief pause I shoveled a bit, but there is still 10-12 inches on most of the driveway..and colder than yesterday.

Been snowing since about 11am today...got a few inches of fresh snow on top of the 3-4 inches from last weekend. A few of the dogs ventured out in the yard a bit, the others didn't want to go off the covered patio. Arizona dogs, only in their 2nd NE Ohio winter.

About the only programming I like to watch live are NFL games and F1 races. Everything else I stream after the fact. I used to use a DVR a lot (had a TiVo way back when, then a Comcast cable box w/ DVR), but w/ on-demand and live tv streaming from Hulu, less need for a DVR. And I've got Netflix, Amazon Prime, Brit Box, HBO Now, MhZ for other streaming.

Been snowing here since about 11:15 this morning.... slow but steady so far. There was already 3-4 inches on the ground from last weekend.

Different generations...the white one is newer. The orange one appears to be a 997 from about 2008. The white one appears to be the 991.2 from 2016-17..