lordairgtar

Still BPs up here in Wisconsin. I usually get my gas at Citgo, or Kwik Trip, which is an awesome convenience type store with a great selection of groceries. I buy our butter and dairy there. butter is usually about $2 a pound and eggs are 99 cents. All there hot food like pizza, sammitches and bakery is all done in each individual store. Our BP stations are generally among the higher priced places. We also have Marathon stations.

Get the car, and put some cool white scallops on top of the black paint, then paint roof a metallic color with heavy flake. Trim rings ans small caps or a smoothie wheel cover with white walls.

I read the back of the envelope and I see the USPS feels all they have to do is get to you, the damaged mail "expeditiously". Then further on they kind of put the responsibility on you like it's all your fault.

I have one. I looked up our local cable company and it did not have the number.

That is very interesting, Harry.

I'd rather buy the model. LOL

I started as a kid. My grandfather bought me model cars when I went with him to Sears & Roebuck store. Yup, Sears had a second name then. They also sold models in it's small toy department. I'd go look at the models while grandpa was looking for tools in the Craftsmen department which was right next to the toys. Grandpa told me stuff I could never believe like Sears used to sell real cars out of the store (rebadged Henry J called an Allstate). My dad, on the other hand never got my fascination about cars.To him, they were appliances to provide transportation. My first was a 61 Mercury, soon followed by AMTs 57 T-Bird Craftsman series kit. Nearer to the house was a shop my grandpa went to get ammo and stuff for hunting. Through a narrow hallway was their hobby shop, mostly carrying Lionel and other trains. But they had models!!! They carried a lot of the IMC kits and that started a long love affair with their hard to build, often fiddly, but oh so realistic subjects. I think I massacred that poor little 48 Ford on the kitchen table at grandpas house. He saw you could make a 46, 47 and a 48 Ford from the kit by using different trim bits. He got two more of them for me to make the whole set of three. He also had all kinds of enamel paint in One Shot sized tins by Rust O Leum. I brush painted all my models. This was before I discovered Testor's and Pactra. In my teen years, it was a means of escape from school troubles and home problems. When I left home and school, I became involved with The Jesus People and things like model cars and other hobbies were not encouraged. Traveled with a tent evangelist raising tents, fixing trucks and buses and working the portable kitchen to feed the hundreds of Jesus freaks that populated the ministry. i eventually left with issues. Having an intense love for Jesus but I lacked the discipline to live that kind of life. Kinda got messed up, and since they did not provide me with any kind of foundation, I fell away. hopped around the country for three years not having a home and depending on the kindness of hippies in communes and college kids who would take me in and let me crash in dorms or frat houses. I got so messed up, doing drugs of all kinds. Eventually I tried going back home but no one would help me out. Found work on my own and bought a $50 1964 Buick LeSabre and left for California. I was still without a home...but I had a CAR!!! I thought I was on top of the world. Still messed up though and some Christian brother told me about a ministry that helped people with my drug issues. I became a resident of the Drug Abuse Preventive Center in Santa Barbara, California. Went through the whole program and wound up working there for eight years. It was as well a Christian community, but with a bit of a difference...hobbies were encouraged. Art, cooking, wood working, auto customizing, and model building. So yes, I built models as a past time and as therapy during the long 6 week restriction when you weren't allowed to go anywhere except with staff members on center business, and the weekend leisure trips to the mountains or dirt bike track. I became a staff member after my stint as resident and wound up running their gas stations, driving the truck to pick up things for the second hand store. Worked out of Santa Barbara, then on to santa Maria, then finally San Luis Obispo before going back to SB. Another difference was they taught a work ethic, because drugs kind of take that away. They were also not a twelve step program. Once done and confident that you are off of your particular addiction, you are cured. Faith in the healing power of Jesus. No "recovering" anything. I have been drug free since and have no desire to ever return to drugs. So I build because of my love for cars and automotive history, to keep my focus, and for just plain fun. I also love talking up the hobby to others who may be looking for something to do, hobbywise.

True, we tend to praise our "friends" on the forum. But we usually have an idea of their age and / or skill level and praise accordingly. If we see someone's build where they BMFed the trim and it was their first time doing so, we'll over look the uneven blade work at the edges. But these posters aren't coming here claiming to be the next Juha Airo. I remember a guy on here who created models of cars not offered as kits by shaping bondo, putty, plastic into something obscure. They weren't the smoothest or the most accurate, but we were all amazed at the creativity of that builder.

Forty five years of experience, and he couldn't wire the engine? Plus the chrome scrapes and bad fitment.

Wisconsin allows a credit, for sales tax properly paid in another state, against use tax due. If you properly paid sales tax in another state, the sales tax paid may be used to offset the Wisconsin use tax due. Sometimes, tax isn't paid on items purchased online...and that tax you will owe the State of Wisconsin

One some, AMC had the same center cap as Chrysler. Just the emblem piece was different.

True. Since Amazon is placing warehouses in all kinds of places, they will charge you the sales tax if you live in that same area. Also, I just filed my own taxes and the State of Wisconsin asks for any items purchased online or from another state. If I drive to Illinois to buy something, I have to pay tax in Wisconsin.

Lindberg had some of it, so I guess Round2 does. Union and Testor's had tooling as well.

UPI does those fancy chrome goodies for big rigs and tools for all kinds of areas. Hong Kong based.

It probably will be the same as the older issues.

Coming along nicely.

That just looks wrong, like someone used a Palmer, or something from a toy, grille in a different company's kit. The hood edge does not even rest on the grille right.

did you calculate the time zone? We are Central time here, two hours earlier than you on the west coast. You would tune in at 7AM to get it. The station is a small Christian station that has ethnic music programs on Saturdays and Wisconsin Hotrod Radio is on in the middle of all that at 9AM Central time. They archive shows so you can listen to any of them in the queue. Today's show is not archived yet but will be during the week.

That Monkey Ward version was just..........no! Probably designed by monkeys.

Ed will be on between 9 and 10 today at Wisconsin Hot Rod Radio http://www.wisconsinhotrodradio.com/ Go to web site thenm click on to listen here live button. Time is now.

i don't think whitewalls were such a big deal in Europe as they were in the USA.

Thanks for the link. Interesting synopsis of Japanese car cultures. I was aware of the TV series the car is from, but you can see where my assumption was made.

Someone you know may be employed in the electronics industry as an assembler. i get most of my braided line and wires from my job. Just gotta ask permission from the Boss before I take.

Forgive me for not being as intelligent as you.

Mopar had a really subdued metallic tan in those years. I liked it.