Rob Hall

Got home and had a couple mail packages--an AMT '59 Ford Galaxie conv. box that I won on eBay, new home for the restorable '59 convertible builtup I bought last year, and some Modelhaus '59 Buick resto parts for a '59 convertible I got recently from eBay.

Well, in 2012, I will be 42, which is a magic number unto itself. I'm cynical and skeptical; I don't put any weight or significance into prophecies or whatever about 2012...if it can't be proven through mathematics or science, I don't believe it... Live for today--in the moment---plan for tomorrow, don't live in the past...

My first car was an '84 Ford Escort diesel, 5dr w/ 5spd manual. But it was one of my folks cars, so I shared it w/ them my junior year in high school until I got my first new car, an '87 Mustang GT--5.0 w/ 5spd manual, which I still have 22 years later...has only 63k miles. My college car was an '86 Mustang LX 2.3 sedan w/ 4spd manual, since the GT was too nice to let sit outside at college in Ohio. The LX was totaled a few years later when I moved to Michigan for grad school, replaced by an '88 Bronco II XLT 4x4, my first SUV. Here's a pic of the '86 and '87 Mustangs together around 1990.

I didn't trade anything. And the government doesn't have access to user's computers through this...what you are talking about is a standard website EULA. That's just propaganda being spread by delusional anti-government right wing nut jobs, which the US has way too many of.

You mean the Focus? Ford hasn't had an Escort in probably 10 years...

Now that sounds like delusional right wing ranting to me.. please, leave that nonsense to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the other wackos out there...

Speaking of C4C, I received a number of solicitations in the mail from various auto dealers incl. the one I bought my Jeep from new inviting me to C4C my Jeep. A 2000 w/ over 100k miles, it was prime C4C material...but mine is in excellent condition and probably is worth more than $4500, and I still like it.. Going to keep it for winter use when I buy my next new car.

Very cool build.

Politically, the bill would never have passed had it been limited to domestics...all the Reps/Senators from states w/ foreign plants would voted against it.

Haven't heard of him...will have to check it out..anyone have a link?

A list of vanilla FWD generics...reliable, dull point A to point B cars....which the mainstream loves.

I grew up in the '80s around '60s-70s cars, still like the cars of that era, still have my oldie (my '87 Mustang GT), but for real world, daily driving, I'd rather have the safety, reliability and creature comforts of modern cars. Time flies, can't believe I've had my Jeep ('00 Grand Cherokee) for over 9 years and 100k miles now. Other than the broken driver's seat, it's been extremely reliable and never stranded me (unlike the '87 Mustang which stranded me too many times). Probably going to get a new car next year, no FWD appliances for me, though. I'll stick w/ RWD or RWD/AWD.

ME is who I got the McLaren MP4/4 and Nissan Cima from... Model Express and Evers Toy Store are two of my favorite online kit vendors. I've been buying from both for years...

3 very different kits and a 48 yr old model box showed up yesterday... The box is an AMT '61 Merc ht box, full of random vintage customizing parts...I needed the box for the built, restorable '61 Merc ht that came a couple days before. Next was an original issue, sealed AMT '66 Chevy Nova Pro Street that I got NOS from an online vendor for $10, preferred molded in white parts to the new release in blue Next a sealed Tamiya '88 McLaren MP 4/4---my first foray into 1/20th Tamiya F1 kits---got it for $20. I'd looked at Tamiya F1 kits in the past, but never built one...since Senna and Prost were my favorite drivers of that era (I remember watching F1 on ESPN as a teenager then), figured that was a good place to start. And lastly, an Aoshima Nissan Cima 450XV--aka 3rd gen Infiniti Q45. I have kits of the 1st and 2nd gen Q45s, wanted one of the 3rd gen car.

I got a couple oldies in the mail yesterday from ebay, a mint-in-box unbuilt MPC '69 Chevy pickup w/ the firetruck parts...been wanted to build one that way for a while, and a restorable, mostly complete AMT '61 Mercury Monterey ht. The Merc is sans box, but I won a box in another auction, on it's way. The Merc needs a few Modelhaus parts to be complete.

Interesting..so this was built relatively recently? I thought it was from the early '60s..has kind of all the excess cliches of that era of customs. (then again, I'm pretty clueless on customs, just not my thing).

I have an unbuilt original in storage, but forgot the details. I think I was thinking about the AMT '55 Chevy street machine..it had unplated wheels.

Thanks..are the wheels chromed like on the box art? For some reason, I'm thinking the original issue (yellow car on the box) had them unplated. Or maybe I'm thinking of another kit.

How about the new Insight? Looks like a mix of the Clarity with the Prius...

I guess Roth stuff is a 'you had to be there' or a generational thing...I find most of his stuff to be pretty tacky and tasteless. Kind of like the Tom Daniel kits..zero appeal to me.

I'm getting the dry heaves now...it's one of those things that once you see it, you can't un-see it.

Is this issue of the Nova PS molded in color?

Sharp build. I like the color scheme.

Yes, they are one of my sources...just got a couple sets of Pegasus 18 inch tires from them.

Cool...someone is working on a similar conversion on one of the other forums, planning on having it resin cast, I heard. I've thought about working on a shaker hood for the Challenger, to use on my SRT10 project.