lordairgtar

I think they are pushing out product that the nostalgic amongst us will buy without regard to reworking tooling or adjusting the tooling. Tool slippage at the moulding facility? Just bad moulds? Who knows. I would not blame it entirely on it being made in China. We've seen very nice examples come from there.

I honestly do not know what the appeal of White Castle is. I had them years ago and just got ill. Don't like the taste, don't like the concept. There are way better burgers out here than those. I don't even eat McDs. We have Culvers here which is way better for fast food chains. I prefer independent stores for burgers. BTW, I did see the store you refer too. I wished I would have gotten a Chicago Dog, but the kids were in no mood to stop.

Harry, I think we got used to the standard 3:15 song common in pop and country. The song here tells a story, more of a piratical or chanty type song. Admittedly it is long, but not for the genre. Personally I liked it and loved the singers inflections. And yes, I'm a singer...or used to be.

True harry, and The Beatles learned a lot of the techniques from the Beach boys. In fact John Lennon had said the Pet Sounds album was a very great inspiration to them.

That dusting we got can hardly be considered a snow fall.

A 1969 Buick Special DeLuxe 2 door cpe.(Skylark body with posts) Bought this car for $50. Drove it from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara California. Had it for a few years and acquired more cars, a 73 caddy Eldo ragtop and a 54 Chevy Bel Air 4 door. The Buick had one of those after market steering wheels with the thick padded foam rim from Cal Custom or Grant. A lady I knew that volunteered in our Thrift Store for the non profit I worked at needed to go to LA for a coup,e of days and asked if she could borrow the Buick. Anyway, she comes back from LA raving about how comfortable the car was and how much power it had and how she could easily drive the car because of the steering wheel. She had a condition with her skin that caused it to tighten up and make her fingers curl up into a kind of hook like grip. The wheel was very easy for her to grip and manipulate. I asked if she truly liked the car and she said yes she did. I said "It's yours". I just gave her the car. This was in the late 70s. After she passed away (during which time I was back in Wisconsin) her son had the car for a while. I miss that car.

My GF/Wifey collects angel figurines. It's relatively cheap as we get them at yard sales. The house is being over run by them and the model cars have staged a defensive posture against all the little figurines. I may have to build some armor/military kits to give the cars the advantage. Honestly though, she likes just being with me and doing things I do like going to car shows, helping me DJ and cooking stuff from scratch. I have not seen a boxed food for years. Even the pancakes are made from scratch. She makes home made bread, marinari sauce , pizza sauce and pizza dough, granola bars, smoothies...et al.

So get out yer supplies and build build build!

I really want to attempt building this. I think the hinge mounting for the trunk/top cover will have to be modded as the real car does not have those notched in hinges.

2.2L = 134.25in³ 149 Horsepower in my HHR panel. Pretty impressive considering early V8 engines had close ratings if it was a basic 2 bbl carbed engine. I'm getting slightly more that 1 HP per cid. The SS model gets 260 HP out of a 2 litre turboed engine...and they are wicked fast.

Xarana-X, I drove a square back through the southwest that had a Porsche engine in it in the 70s. Wicked fast. I was picked up hitch hiking and the owner let me drive it. My favorite of the variants was the rarely seen notchback.

Old Pyro motorcycle kit tires are known to melt the kit wheels. Some kits have the plastic tires which were molded in red. Use those instead of the rubber ones. Those make good diorama bits in a garage seen. If you open sealed vintage kits, or even new ones, the best thing to do is wrap the tires tightly in a paper towel and tape it shut with a bit of scotch tape. If you never open a collector sealed kit, that really don't matter. Also wrap the glass in tissue or paper towel too.

Pete, I just looked through your pic collection. Very well done kit builds and the scratch built vacuum formed cars are awesome. I especially liked the roadster with the dogs running along side.

If you want plot, see faith Grainger's Deuce Of Spades. She tours with this movie and it's out on DVD. She is making another movie about the Deuce. She's practically funded this thing on her own and did a lot of the work...produce, direct, write and act in it. Very good movie.

At Milwaukee NNL, the photog puts a little round sticker on your entry sheet notifying they want to do pics of your model. You see this and you take your model to the photo booth. If you don't see the sticker or you don't want a pic for the mag, well, that is your choice.

"Looks like a roll of Quilted Northern on some Daytons." LOLZ

In this day of liabilities and licensing to sell cars, that is indeed rare. There are several of these groups in Wisconsin that cry for cars all the time, but are sold for scrap. It's nice to hear of some entity actually offering the cars for sale at good prices.

Hemmong's Muscle Machines magazine seems to cover many different types of cars. I suppose we could call the 64 GTO the "official" start of the term "muscle car", but the list of "muscle machines" covers a wider assortment. 1957 AMC Rambler Rebel is considered an early muscle machine. My grandfather had a 69 GS Buick, but it wasn't. It was a Skylark Custom that had all the same bits a GS had. Nothing on the car called out GS and had no hood bulge. You could order that if you knew the codes and had a savvy car dealer friend.

I remember this. My dad worked for The Milwaukee Road. He had me come see the unloading at the yards. it was pretty cool to see.

Another idea for large scale kits is to do what I've seen European modellers purchase. There is a company called D'agastino that offers subscription model kits, that is, you buy a subscription much like a magazine and they send you monthly a segment of the model for you to build as is or refinish and detail as you want. The kits are generally 1/8th scale and are quite nice. I have seen some of the builds over on Britmodeller.com. Hence this lovely build of James Bond's Aston martin DB5. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234956830-18-aston-martin-db5-james-bond/

Always interesting going to Chicago. I had to pick up my step daughter at Midway Airport (apparently landing at Mitchell costs way more) when she returned from a birthday trip to Tampa. I'll say that I had quite the adventure driving the toll roads. Mostly uneventful but there sure was the traffic going down. Driving on Cicero Ave was like being in a demo derby or obstacle course. Trucks flying out of driveways and people just crossing the road in front of you. WOW! Going back was faster...you guys in Chicago do not obey your speed limits at all. Snow plows were plowing off the shoulders keeping up with the traffic. wasn't too bad except for the one time I was put in white out conditions when the plow near me hit a drift. At 40 mph that would not be so bad, but at 80mph it was "o ###### o ###### o ###### o ######" until I cleared it. ######!!! I think my anal orifice did not relax until I crossed back into Wisconsin.

The Image Harry posted is blurry, but on his own computer it is OK. Can't judge by a screen shot.

That was cool.

I remember where I was when Kennedy was assassinated. I was in my 3rd grade classsroom. I do not remember where I was when the Vipers got the order to be destroyed.

Depends on what car they used for their "model". However, in the first years of production from 1908 to 1913, the Model T was not available in black but rather only grey, green, blue, and red. Green was available for the touring cars, town cars, coupes, and Landaulets. Grey was only available for the town cars, and red only for the touring cars. By 1912, all cars were being painted midnight blue with black fenders. It was only in 1914 that the "any color so long as it is black" policy was finally implemented. It is often stated that Ford suggested the use of black from 1914 to 1926 due to the cheap cost and durability of black paint. During the lifetime production of the Model T, over 30 different types of black paint were used on various parts of the car.These were formulated to satisfy the different means of applying the paint to the various parts, and had distinct drying times, depending on the part, paint, and method of drying. Model Ts were also produced 'round the world in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Geelong, Australia; Sao Bernardo de Campo, Brazil; Toronto; Walkerville, Ontario; Copenhagen, Denmark; Manchester, England; Berlin, Germany; Cork Ireland; Cadiz, Spain. those places may have added or deleted a color choice as well.