lordairgtar

Gee Harold, if your brother has the means to go to Australia and live there, I don't think anything Bush does or did would affect him. As we all know, Bush hates the poor and minorities. That's why he built a weather machine to wreck New Orleans.

I hate snakes, and my town has a huge problem with spiders. Seen a few nasty ones here. I would love to move to OZ. I just love the place. You have really cool cars there. A guy here bought one of those new GTOs in '04 and ordered the stuff to return it to Monaro looks. Gets a few looks.

Hey Zebulon, how ya doin'? Thinking about going to freeblog and driving PDL nutz?

NSW means New South Wales. One of the six states in Oz. The others are Queensland,South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and western Australia. Two territories are Northern Territory, and Australian Capitol Territory.

Here in Muskego it is at $3.85 for reg unleaded. Another town north of us had $4.02 for reg unleaded. lowest in the area was $3.73.

Aldi? They just sell cheap generic food in the US.

Does it leave a residue to contend with?

I had no trouble using my Mozilla. But I just don't like it at all now. Looks cheap. I guess it could be worse, they could have made it look like the old Hobby Heaven boards. I can't use that one at all, it gives me a headache just to read it.

$3.79 over here in the Milwaukee area. I am now studying the Mad Max films!

The old MPC 1928 Lincoln is nice and well detailed. The recent AMT/RC2/Ertl release is pretty shop worn with flash and all, but a little care with cleaning up the pieces will still turn into a nice model. The engine is chrome, but that is easily removed to be painted in stock colors. The AMT (former MPC) 32 Chrysler is nice too, as this was from the same era as the Lincoln. If you can find the 32 Chevy kit from AMT (former MPC), that's nice too. Revell's recent 1940 Ford is very nice. The JoHan classic cars were state of the art back when they were first made, and can hold their own today. AMT's 1941 Plymouth is a nice car too. Heller has some European Classics, like the Bentley Blower, a Renault Vivistella PG7, a 1950 Talbot-Lago Record (I know, 50s cars, but still nice), Delage D.8, Talbot-Lago Grand Prix racer. Monogram has a nice Cord.

If they have Hemis they do.

Looks like the car from the new Speed Racer movie. Gotta get this one....hehehehehehehehe!

Is that truck based on a real one?

Perhaps maybe, get stuff to build a replica of it. Then you could have the original stay as is and the new to show what it wouyld be like built fresh.

Really nice looking model Javie! How did you get the shift pattern to be so nice on the shift knob?

Buying Chinese made goods is offensive

Not flaming anyone here, but your synopsis of the crusades are a bit off and leaves a lot out. The original intent of the crusading knights were to protect pilgrims going to the holy land from bandits ( the Church asked countries to provide men for this) and then the Muslim raiders who were increasing their territory throughout northern Africa and into Spain. The part of your paragraph (which is true, BTW) deals with what happened when greed and avarice entered the picture and they started to go after who they perceived as heretics and enemies of the Church. Does the Spanish Inquisition ring a bell? This is where Torquemada came from. (You couldn't Torquemada anything )

Send some of that 86 degrees over here.

http://www.elomnibus.com/images/carsbig/20...es_hs170big.jpg Look at this. Could this be the birth of the KdF wagen?

Here's something I picked up off an Audi web site. There was a Mercedes that had a similar look. volkswagen Literally, the word "volkswagen" means "people's car." In Germany, the idea of a people's car wasn't exactly a new one. Before the 1930's, there had been many efforts to create simple cars that everyone could afford, but none met with profound success. Almost all cars before 1930, even if they were designed to be simple enough for the average person, ended up costing more than the average worker's yearly wage. Ferdinand Porsche Meanwhile, the year is 1930, and Ferdinand Porsche had just set up an automotive design company, which became known as the Porsche Büro. The company patented a sophisticated independent front suspension system, which consisted of transversely mounted torsion bars connected to two trailing arms on each side. At the time, this was lighter than most other common types of suspension. In 1931, a German motorcycle company, Zündapp, asked Porsche if he could design a suitable car for them. Porsche came up with a streamlined 2 door sedan, which had lines similar to the Beetle. It was designated the Type 12. Zündapp wanted to put in a 1.2 liter radial engine from one of their motorcycles...this was the end of the line for this design, as it didn't make it any further. Porsche then designed a car for NSU in 1933 that was known as the Type 32. This car looked even more similar to the upcoming KdF Wagen than the Type 12 did. This car looked similar to the Tatra V570, and shared many mechanical similarities. After World War II, the Volkswagen company paid Tatra for compensation, since Tatra believed its technology and design was pirated in development of the KdF Wagen. Eventaully, NSU dropped the Type 32 project. Later in 1933, Adolf Hitler met with Ferdinand Porsche to discuss Hitler's idea of a volkswagen. Hitler proposed a people's car that could carry 5 people, cruise up to 62mph, return 33mpg, and cost only 1000 Reich Marks. This was an opportunity for Porsche to push his idea of a small car foward, as was it to help Hitler get a real people's car for the citizens of Germany. Initially, Porsche designated this design the Type 60, but it was soon changed to the V1 (experimental 1). Hitler also proposed to have a convertible version produced: it was designated V2. Porsche was not able to make the deadline to finish the first two prototypes, as there was not enough time to physically design the cars and to built them. In any case, they were completed and driving by 1935. Soon, the V1 design was updated, and three cars were produced. This new design was the VW3. These cars were put through rigorous testing in 1936. These cars looked very similar to the KdF Wagen, that was to appear later. Eventually, the VW3s had metal floors, swing axle rear transmissions, Porsche's front independed suspensions, and backbone floorpans. Several engines were tested, and eventually a flat four cylinder aircooled four stroke engine was chosen. Surprisingly, the engine that was chosen was cheaper and more reliable than some of the four cylinder two stroke engines that were tested. This 22.5 hp four cylinder "boxer" engine was roughly the same as the engines that would later be incorporated into Volkswagen Beetles that are still produced today. VW30 in 1937 After data was collected from the tests of the VW3s, the next version, the VW30 was created, and in all, 30 were produced. Due to Hitler's regime, control of the company and testing of the VW30 was given to a government organization called the DAF. Now, members of the SS were required to drive the VW30s to confirm that all the problems of the V3s were fixed. For the most part, these tests showed that most of the problems in earlier cars had been fixed. VW30 In 1938, construction began on the KdF Wagen factory, and on the town that was going to be next to the factory. In 1939, several VW38s (pre-production) and VW39s (demonstration cars) were produced just to show that the factory did work, and to show what the final version of the car would look like. These cars were different from their predecessors in that they had front hinged doors (all the VW designs before had "suicide" doors), split windows in the rear, larger hoods, and many other minor differences. This edition of the car was the basis of the Beetle after the war was over. Introduction of VW38s When the V38s were introduced, Hitler abruptly changed the name of the car to KdF Wagen. KdF stood for "Kraft durch Freude" which meant "Strength through Joy." This upset Porsche, as he was not a member of the Nazi party, and he didn't support Hitler's use of propaganda when advertising the car.

If the kit seems daunting, you might try and put the "46" specific parts on the Revell. I have two of the older kits, one Testor's and one IMC. Both are convertibles. I do certainly remember building them as a kid, and I really want to attempt the IMC one this year.

Wow, I'm in the presence of smart people. I feel really stupid now.

That is one fine kit you have there, evilone. Just be mindful of the bumper brackets...they are very fragile.

The same with The Nashville Network. They used to have neat shows all car related on the weekends. They changed it to Spike and it's all truck stuff. They used to show My Classic Car, but that went somewhere else. When Speed quit showing the different racing and went to mostly Nascar, I quit subscribing to the sports package it was in which cost me extra.

That's really nice. It looks like a shop truck heading back with a nicely rebuilt inline six for another project.