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  1. Rob Hall
    They need to redesign trees to snap off at the base in a crash like they do lightpoles on freeways..
  2. Rob Hall
    Blech..that would be a nasty 4cyl fwd convertible..recipe for failure. A horrible idea, as bad as the FWD Mustang idea was back in the 80s (that became the Probe).
  3. Rob Hall
    LoL...one thing I've wondered is why some companies require it and others don't...must not be a state or federal law...large public Fortune 50 companies I've worked for required it, but small private companies haven't...
  4. Rob Hall
    I like Christmas because I take the week off between Christmas and New Years off every year and a day or two before Xmas..so it's a nice quiet vacation period....visit with family, eat well, maybe go to the beach, go the mountains...some downtime at the end of the year to rest.
  5. Rob Hall
    I'm sure sooner or later some retailer will have their Xmas sales starting in May...
  6. Rob Hall
    That mower looks neat...
  7. Rob Hall
    And the best part of US holidays is most are arranged conveniently for taking 3-4 day weekends...I plan mini-vacations around those. Then there are the strange years where July 4th falls on a Wednesday...
  8. Rob Hall
    Looks like two sets of rollcage parts on the trees..probably the old and the new. I have the '80s Hawaiian Tropic version and the Model King version from a few years ago, neat subject matter. Does the Pepsi livery represent a real car? I haven't seen mention of a specific driver.
  9. Rob Hall
    As far as building replicas, there are a couple fo resin '65 2dr sedans available now (MCW and R&R), maybe a caster eventually will make one optimized for the upcoming Moebius ht kit, or maybe Moebius will do a sedan eventually...
  10. Rob Hall
    One of the posters said something about it going through walls before hitting the tree...
  11. Rob Hall
    On thing I did read that was different from previous releases is the window netting is now a separate part rather than molded in as in past releases.
  12. Rob Hall
    LoL...I got that kit when new, was dissapointed to find out it was the '83 w/ a new body and wheels.. seems like the kit was out longer than the TV show...
  13. Rob Hall
    Exactly...the politics and religious angle of the chain's owners is why I won't shop there, won't give them my money. There are plenty other sources for hobby supplies.
  14. Rob Hall
    Can't recall when, but it's been a while..looks like the Monogram kit...I remember it was out in the late 80s, shown in black on the box.
  15. Rob Hall
    The tooling must be incomplete then...no stock hood, no windshield frame on the body, no stock wheels..it's not the stock kit.
  16. Rob Hall
    Do they still have scouting? It's probably a tiny percentage of kids that do that...I know it was pretty uncommon when I was that age 35+ years ago..
  17. Rob Hall
    My cut was in the soft part of the thumb, the knife cut deep...IIRC, the kit was the Revell 'Skips Fiesta Drive In' 59 Skyliner. I also cut the webbing between my thumb and forefinger once w/ an X-acto knife..that really hurt. Years later, one of my dogs bit me there...
  18. Rob Hall
    That's pretty cool...one thing I've noticed w/ the models and Tomica police car diecasts going back 40 years or so of Japanese patrol cars is the peaked black section on the hood..wonder what that is about.
  19. Rob Hall
    Yeah, and I knew better...but I had to amp up the melodrama, I guess...
  20. Rob Hall
    I remember cutting my thumb w/ an x-acto knife when I was about 17...wouldn't stop bleeding...ran around screaming about cutting my aorta. Still have a scar on my thumb from it.
  21. Rob Hall
    I notice on that salvage site it lists as being sold...I wonder how much it sold for in wrecked condition? $50?
  22. Rob Hall
    The first photo is the funny car version if you look closely...
  23. Rob Hall
    Yeah, dig out the vin tag and swap it on another body...
  24. Rob Hall
    I think even the Graveyard Carz guys would pass on trying to restore that...the decklid, taillights, tail panel, left rear wheel, and rear bumper can be salvaged...the rest is scrap.
  25. Rob Hall
    It won't be a Rabbit unless they do a US spec kit, the previously announced RoG kit is a Mk I Golf GTI, which I assume this will be a rebox of.
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