Rob Hall

Found out this morning that the house I put an offer on sold to another buyer. I didn't want to get in a bidding war. I drove around toured 4 properties yesterday that fit the criteria of what I'm looking for in my next house, 3 of the 4 had issues, one fit the criteria the closest and I put a reasonable offer on it. Oh well...got a few more lined up to look at next weekend. It's nice and sunny today, working off and on my yard...starting spring cleanup.

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Same platform as the Jeep Compass and Alfa Romeo Tonale. Basically the Tonale body w/ different front and rear. Could sell well other compact CUVs, seems to be a popular niche.

Re: the exhaust tips--they are visible in this photo. Molded into the stock rear pan, and the instructions say to paint them chrome for the stock version.

Got another of the Coronet R/Ts and an original issue of the ‘68 Road Runner. Plan to put the Hemi and maybe chassis from the RR in the Coronet. I need the body and other parts of the RR to repair an original one I built 30+ years ago that got damaged in storage over the years.

A high capacity CD changer is something I’ve never added to my home theater, but probably should. I have a late 90s Sony ES 5 disc player that still works great. I still buy CDs after 35 years, I do like to have physical media at home and in the car, alas, it’s getting harder to find new cars w/ CD players. I usually rip CDs to mp3s for my phone or on a thumb drive for the car. With movies and tv I bought DVDs and Blu Ray discs for years, mostly stream content now, but have a couple Sony blu ray players at home.

I've been to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Ca and to it in Boston when it was there in the mid 90s. Really neat places. I did learn to use flow chart templates in my early computer classes in the late 80s, learned about punch cards, but have never had to use them...I did use green screen terminals to access VAX computers in a couple college classes. Programming is hard enough, I can imagine it was a lot harder in the punch card and mainframe era...had to be very precise w/ commands, not easy to debug compared to testing and debugging code in an IDE on my laptop w/ local databases, etc..

I do have some older tech at home—various pieces of stereo equipment—but some older technology doesn’t just doesn’t work well with modern technologies—a VHS tape looks really bad playing on a modern large HDTV for example. I couldn’t imagine using my laptops from the 90s or 00s today—too slow, too limited in storage, incompatible with current software, etc...or my cellphones from 10-25 years ago. I used a typewriter in high school in the 80s, but once I started using computers with word processing software, there was no point in going back to a typewriter. Once digital cameras came about, I was done with film. As someone that works in tech, I’m always about moving forward and building on past knowledge with new and emerging technology to build stuff for the future.. so many products (hardware and software) become obsolete pretty quickly...

Reality is complex.

A couple more new reissues. Nice to see the Chevy truck back, now molded in white with a new tool of the ‘81-82 grille w/ separate headlight lenses.

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Works hard, Rob does whether in a cubicle, home office or open plan office.

Looks like the difference is in the bottom edge of the top where it hits the tulip panel. I've heard that the shape of the tulip panel front edge in inaccurate on both the MPC Coronet and AMT '69 GTX. It follows the wavy line of the ht window opening, but the 1:1 is different? Never studied a '68-70 B-body convertible up close..

Looks like 3D Scale Parts lists one also. https://www.3dscaleparts.com/product-page/1-25-amt-plymouth-gtx-convertible-top

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Probably will work w/ the '69 GTX convertible also..

Work from home provides a lot of schedule flexibility.

The '68 GTO has been out for a couple weeks.

At the show yesterday vendors had them for around $32-$35 IIRC. I've seen them on eBay anywhere from $30 to $40.

A '59 grille and hood would be nice to see, better looking than the busier '60 grille, IMO. One thing I noticed in searching for images of these trucks is the huge gaps between the grille and hood...made that way, apparently. ('59 in red & white, blue & white '60)

Both are restorable..the Torino has some glue damage on the decklid, the Monaco has the hood glued shut, unpainted, good chrome..it's a '78 (year on plates)...maybe the Force 440 kit built w/o the police gear..

Windy, springy/wintry weather coming back from Columbus on I-71 today--snow flurries/whiteout/sun/rain..the only unusual car I saw was a '72 Dodge Coronet in black w/ white doors and roof...like an old school police car w/o any markings.

Went down to the Buckeye Classic show today and got a few old models to add to the stash. The 72 GTO is a parts kit, I need the interior and roof to repair one I built as a kid 40 years ago.

I want to build one with that scoop and the intake tubes…