Rob Hall

Seems like a lot of those customs were 'all show, no go'...

I have a couple years until 50. Turned 48 at the end of June. Time flies...

Had a really fun evening. Went out in the woods to Blossom Music Center amphitheater to see Roger Daltrey and the Cleveland Orchestra perform The Who rock opera 'Tommy'. Great weather.

I like Belgian beers and craft brewed beers from a variety of microbreweries...when I was living in Colorado with it's vibrant beer scene I really came to appreciate hefeweizens, pale ales, and various lagers.... Phoenix had a pretty good scene, as does Cleveland. I can't drink mass market swill like Budweiser anymore.. but I do like a variety of Mexican beers w/ Mexican food, Indian beers w/ Indian food, Japanese beers w/ Japanese food, etc. I like to pair the beer w/ the cuisine.

As far as the Torino kit, I have one to do as an S&H car, two to do stock w/ different wheels (the kit hubcaps on one, the Magnum 500s on another), one to do as a period street machine, one to do as a beater, and one for parts for a resin conversion....maybe w/ the Motor City Resin '72 wagon? (I have their '72 Gran Torino 2dr coupe and '72 Ranchero).

I think it's partially a generational thing..I find nothing appealing about 50s-60s era customs...all too weird for me. For old cars, I like original survivors and concours quality restorations.

'79-82 all looked much the same outside..'83-86 had the bubble window hatch, revised taillights, hood and grille. IIRC the Revell kit shared it's body w/ the various Revell '79 Mustang kits, making for inaccurate Mustangs (Capris had front fender and rear quarter bulges the Mustang didn't have).

One of the oddest USPS experiences I had was last year, an eBay purchase in Illinois came to Columbus, OH then to Akron OH, then to Cleveland..was delivered to my local post office, then back to Cleveland, then to Akron then back to Cleveland...then repeated the back and forth 3 more times over a week until it finally got back to my local post office. Nothing was wrong w/ the address on the package. Very odd..

Ordered models from Model Roundup in Atlanta a while back.. was checking the tracking info a couple days later, it was in a USPS facility in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Was then delivered a couple days later. Why would a package going from Atlanta to the Cleveland, Oh area go to the West Coast??

After a lot of hot, humid and rainy days and an 8hr power outage this morning, the weather was perfect this afternoon and evening. Grilled some burgers earlier and relaxing on my back patio.

Well, it's a reissue of a 50yr old MPC drag kit...wasn't that great to begin with...

I like the old full size Blazers and Broncos, esp. the 90s Broncos. Almost bought a clean '95 back in '00.

It's like whomever did the master had never seen the 1:1 or even a photo of the 1:1.

Yeah, they aren't perfect. The quarter window shape in particular seems off. Not as bad as their '69 Biscayne which has a very odd C-pillar shape compared to the 1:1.

MCW has done '62 and '63 Biscayne 2dr sedans, those would be good starting points to build 4dr sedans.

Not with GM then...in the late 70s through the late 80s all the GM midsize cars like the Cutlass were still body on frame. As were the full size cars. GM didn't migrate to unibody for mid size coupes until they went to FWD starting in '88. Anyway, that was with real cars. As far as racing 'stock car' panels, by the late 60s wasn't it more about 'stock appearing' and roughly stock dimensions rather than anything truly 'stock'..

Sharp build. I don't remember that show, but did watch Street Hawk back on the day. Anyone remember the short-lived Viper show?

Ghoulardi...I've heard about him here, but before my time.

The '62 Buick and '76 Caprice were in Pro Shop boxes as well...

The 1997 reissue had similar box art...which was unusual, AMT didn't have many retro box art releases in the 90s.

Sharp..very clean build.

My Jeep has the paddle shifters in addition to the console shifter..for the 'sport' setting of the 8spd auto. I've never really used them, though I do bump them occasionally.

Yeah, the short front door to front wheel distance (or dash-to-axle ratio) is a giveaway of a FWD based platform... not a fan of FWD, I prefer RWD/AWD for cars and SUVs (though I do like certain Audi and Volvo models). Interestingly, the next gen Explorer coming for 2020 will be on a new RWD/AWD platform I've read (same as the new Lincoln Aviator which replaces the MKT).

Front drive/transverse engine, same platform as the Acadia and XT5. Just a volume lease appliance.

Fleet spec pickups I can imagine are pretty stripped down and gray inside.