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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2Jt4WOxN8 Iz rocks!!! Heaven needed a new angelic voice

FTW

Take a completed model or two, a couple of kits to show what the un-started product looks like, reference material (books, mags) for researching your subject. A few supplies like paint , glue, hobby tools, to show what one needs to get started, a couple copies of Model Cars to pass around. Just tell your story about what interests you in the hobby and what you derive out of it. Maybe some enlarged photos showing the process of building. Plus a lovely assistant in a bikini...uh, just kidding on that part.

Is this a military car? The wood would have been painted over if it was. Civilian cars are left coated with varnish to show the wood. Later woodies had painted or dinoc wood. Some owners I would suppose would paint over the wood as it aged.

Revell of Germany is doing this? What a cool looking bus. I see lots of possibilities for this one. Due 8/2008

Hello Rick, I'm just down the road apiece here in Muskego. I would like to invite you to our model club, Auto Modellers Group. We meet every first friday of the month at the Wauwatosa Savings Bank on S. 27th in Oak Creek. Meeting time is 6:30 PM. Come join us for some modelling fun. We also have an NNL type event every April in Waukesha.

Even without the working features, that car looks very nicely done. Love the photo etch grille.

I got a Road Ripper Chevy HHR cheap RC car which will be taken apart and modified for resin casting hopefully. Other than that, I got nuttin'. I did get a CD from my nephews band, Rictus Grin. Yeah, it's metal. I got a DVD VHS combo player too and a framed photo of a naturally occurring cloud and sun formation which looks all the world like a number "3". Nice Dale Earnhardt tribute thingie. Also got a bottle of wine and a 57 Chevy ornament for the tree.

ZZR Spy Car by Barris, I think this was redone as some custom fire truck 1969 Buick LeSabre, the full detail one, not the 70 promo style Wildcat. 1962 Mercury (or was it a 61) it was my first model. 1966 Dodge Polara any of the early to middle 60s Ford pickups.

That AV is creepin' me out, Paul. I stared at it for minutes.

How do we know it's really you?

Hmmmm, how much is worth to you that I don't tell?

One more note, the teeth appear to be De Soto parts now that I look at them closer. The dagmars look like Buick units. Not sure of that bumper but it is not the same as the 51 Chevy custom bumper, that one is thinner. The Lincoln's bumper appears to be larger in cross section.

I think the hood is different. Note the character line (peak) that eminates from the back of the hood down to the flare over the front. The Mercury hood does not have that. Also, the B pillar will have to be canted forward as the Model Merc is straight vertical.

Getting Gregg to focus will be hard seeing with all those Wahines that surround him daily.

Went to a swap meet yesterday and I got a 1964 Rambler American with a 6 cylinder in it. Nice clean build up but not so good spray job in screaming yellow zonker yellow. I bought it because of the six in it. All for 25 bucks. I also got a Flinstone 48 Chevy woody coupe body and a 59 Dodge kit from JoHan.

http://www.6066gmcguy.org/ Try this linky. The V6 GMC engine seems to be a motor all it's own. The valve covers resemble the old 348/409 Chevy engines but that is all. I know that earlier in the 50s, GMC used Pontiac V8 engines.

Use the Merc kit. The Revell is already chopped. Those front grille bits are not Lincoln. They seem to be Buick teeth and dagmars. The hood trim can be scratched easy enough and I have no clue as to what the bumper is off of.

No one likes to just toss a friend to the cops in a case like this. I have had some experience on either side of the problem. I used lotsa drugs before I got rehabilitated. I also worked eight years in rehab helping those who were in the same situation. Ken raises a valid point with the availability of things behind bars. Addicts are most likely to steal from friends and family because of that misplaced sense of loyalty. They know they usually won't get busted by people close to them. I guess everyone will have to deal with this situation as their heart leads, but I have seen and talked with people who ripped off their own parents, grandparents, or other relatives to get high. Guess what, people? An addict who will rob family and friends are not loyal to them, they only are after the "high". They know that "family" is an easy mark. I never did that myself as I was away from my own family and I was closely associated with musicians, so the drugs and pot was easy and free usually. I did see my youngest sister put my mom in debt to the tune of 40,000 bucks because of her habit. Mom wouldn't kick her to the curb, and suffered for it. Mom had to sell her house and everything else she had. If you don't want to involve cops, get them into a rehab situation.

Wagnerian Opera, but seriously folks, I listen to talk radio and oldies or the sound of the little woman talking to me even though she knows I can't understand a word she says from across the house. I also like a more eclectic collection of music like Celtic Woman or some South American folkloric songs, polka, parody songs.

Now if I could only find the Graham or Hupp front clips to make those post Cord variants.

I don't understand the concept of over-education. How can someone be over-educated? Never can have enough knowledge. It's the under-educated ones I worry about.

OH MY. The last one I finished was two years ago, a 56 Chevrolet Del Ray 6 cylinder. Whats on the table is a 2007 HHR Panel being made from a toy RC car; Galaxy 48 Chevy, frame done, trim made from strip styrene added to the body; 68 Beaumont, body being converted from 69 Chevelle; Fuso truck and auto hauler from Japan with assorted Japanese vintage cars for it to haul; plus various promos to fix up and paint as soon as I can afford the new chrome bits from Modelhaus.

Hoo boy, you gone and done opened a can 'o' worms here. First, I like Ask G & J (I didn't used to, but I mellowed), but I would like more letters to the editor stuff. I always find those the most interesting parts of any rag that I read. A guest editorialist every so often would be awesome. Serious articles about changing body styles or creating a car from some other car (like Juha Airo does). More models of cars that are not the norm, I mean, how many 32 dueces or 69 Camaros can we read about unless of course they are outstanding in detail and build. Also would like to see more hard news about the industry and the people in it. Once in awhile a cartoon would be nice (Model Behavior?) More sketch pads by Jairus of course and perhaps other artists who can meet the design and quality criteria. Also, pictures of models could be a bit larger, a certain contest issue had me reaching for a magnifier lens which us old guys need because of macular degeneration due to age. Bios of leading masters in the hobby and in the aftermarket industry.