Rob Hall

86F, dry and sunny today..quite a change from last week when highs were in the 50s w/ constant rain.

Heat and dryness over the years, the fabric shrunk?

This was my brother’s IPC after pulled from the barn and cleaned up. I think it had about 75k miles. 302 w/ automatic. Missing the headliner but complete and unrestored.

They are nice to have..I have one for my '69 and '87 Mustangs, along with/ my late brother's cars..I got them for his (incl. his '79 Mustang Indy Pace Car and '82 GT) before they were auctioned in 2022.

WIndy, overcast and 50 today. No rain since last night, but there is standing water in parts of my backyard.. such a wet Spring, like 2022 and 2023 were.

Yes, in Ohio my black on black Cadillac gets warm. Esp w/ the pano sunroof. Good thing I have ventilated seats and cold AC. My black on tan Jeep can get warm also (and I bought it in the desert).

Not anything new, but I unboxed a few boxes of my old kits last night..these are mostly kits I bought between 1995 and 2008. Some of these I haven't seen in 20 years. A mix of unbuilts, restorable used kits, well built oldies. Still have another 20 or so boxes to go through.

I think that is the spare? IIRC, that kit came with 5 wheels and tires.

Its been a very wet and cool spring so far here in NE Ohio. Lots of rain and wind lately.

I'd love to see a kit of a doka syncro. When I lived in Denver there was one similar to this in my office parking garage.

Saw a Fisker Ocean a few days ago

Saw a Fisker Ocean recently and this clean ‘80s Porsche 911 cabrio at a rest area.

I got mine the last time I got a new driver's license when I moved in 2023.

The F&F kits are neat...maybe they will tool up an Eclipse eventually, with the removable floor pan plate and a laptop with a screen sticker with 'Warning!!! Danger to Manifold' message.

Green.

I built my first snap kit at age 5 in 1975, my first glue kit in 1977 at age 7..it was the Revell 'Bad Dream' '56 Chevy. Still have it.

My neighbors are pretty quiet and keep to themselves..the retired Vietnam Vet next door sometimes can be a bit chatty if he sees me out in the driveway, but fine otherwise. My house is set way back off the street and on about 2 acres, so plenty of space and trees from the neighbors on each side, w/ woods and a city park behind me. It's a very quiet neighborhood. My previous house, though, where I lived from 2017-2023 had neighbors on one side that had a lot of parties with Ukrainian music for a couple years..but they eventually moved and the people that replaced them had a lot of parties w/ country music and setting off fireworks many summer weekends... Besides tiring of the noisy neighbors and my split level house, I wanted more space and quiet when I bought my current ranch and moved in 2023. I plan to retire here eventually.

Bypassed by freeways decades ago...I-40 in AZ specifically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_66

I got some neat Chevy truck grilles and Beaumont conversion parts from Canuck 3D in the mail.

I don’t have any interest in the Scorpion, but if they could retool the Astro 1 that would be cool.

Volvo V70 Cross Country wagon with a strange paint job or wrap.

And that is only a small portion of my stash.

Yes, I have a few Palmers that my older brother built back then and later passed on to me. And I like Cougars (have all the AMT and MPC ones)—my folks had a 1:1 ‘67 and a ‘68. When I was about 10 (1980) my older brother gave me a box with about 25 kits he built in the 60s, and ‘58-65 vintage promos. Kind of kick started my interest in old kits…

I found the ThunderZ easily. It’s much as it was when I built it 43 years ago as a kid. Unpainted with the decals. The 78 should be somewhere in the top of these stacks. These are mostly kits I built in the late 70s to early 90s.

I built the MPC '78 annual stock and the ThunderZ (as on the box art) as a kid...still have them in their original brush-painted glory. I can see getting one of the reissues..