lordairgtar

Just so you know, the Top Gear referenced here is a magazine, not the TV show.

Mine will disassemble themselves sometimes LOL

the Jeepster kit had some spoof parts too. I remember the Plymouth Duster with those parts too.

They are connected with Metabank, a federally licenced bank, so state usury laws do not apply.

I, as well as you guys, get offers from different loan companies saying "borrow from us". I got a new one today and I usually just throw them away unopened. But this was from some company I had not heard of. Brookwood Loans said I was "prequalified" to receive one of there loans. They offered me the grand sum of $3,500. Oh lucky me. They said I could pay them off in 36 easy payments at 96%, You read that right, not 9.6%, a whole whopping 96%. So I got out my handy dandy dollar store solar powered calculating machine and woke up the beetle who inhabits the tiny treadmill inside. Payments for the sum are $298.71 per month, which totals out to be $10753.56!!! Are there people that stupid that will bite this juicy bait hanging in front of them. The local Mafia loan shark in town gives better deals than this.

Thats it!!!

These cars are expensive to keep and expensive to repair....and yet she bought another Mercedes?

I think I finished three.

I wouldn't mind either of those kits. The AMO seem quite accurate when compared to the pictures of the real ones. An engine would not be hard to scratch build.

look closer. The wagon in your photo does not have the rear quarter slope down as the model's does. The glass remains level with the quarter on an even plain. The model has the quarter slope down some as it meets the end, with a bit of fill below the window. I think his model also has the rear pillar a bit wide...maybe about a millimeter and a half. Still a nice model though, despite the irregularities.

Never nice to PO the Ferrari Team owners, is it?

I DJed a car show held in a municipality some miles away from my home. When I got there, the venue did not have an outlet in the area where they wanted me to do the show. A Masonic Lodge had an outdoor outlet near where I was set up. I was told to just plug into that. I refused knowing I did not have the permission to access it. I wanted the OK from the Lodge before I plugged in. We could not find a person with that authority. I eventually moved to a city owned pavillion and DJed from there with the OK of the city. Had I used the other source and a person from the Lodge showed up and had an issue with it, I would have been at the very least be asked to cease. So no, a guy cannot just plug in to a random outlet. The guys excuse in the article was he considered it to be like getting water from a public bubbler (drinking fountain for those not living in Milwaukee). I say that the bubbler was put there for the intended purpose of letting thirsty citizens get a drink....not so with an outlet which was there for school functions, school power equipment, etc.

You really need to see these beasts in action. In Wisconsin, there is a thresheree where they power up these tractors and other vintage steam and oil engines. Place is called Symco. They also have a pre 64 rod and custom show there as well and they do fire these things up to the delight of the spectators. They drive them around the grounds and the steering on these is very crude....a chain hooked up to the front axle controlled from the operators perch, much like a soap box car steering.

That is a car that Mattel had made to replicate the Twin Mill toy they made. It toured car shows a few years ago. I saw it in Milwaukee.

My condolences to you. I'm in Wisconsin too and sometimes the cold weather can add to the heaviness one feels in times like this. It is true that the simple things can bring the greatest joy and I sincerely hope you find that joy in your life. Keep you in my prayers.

Had a model car club meeting tonight and wound up with a 40 Ford Sedan in a bag. Looks to be all there and the parts seem to be sourced from different kits as there is black, grey and white plastic. Too bad the chrome is from the diamond in the rough kit with it's bent bumpers and crappy chrome. Also got a partially built ZZR Spy Car. Not painted and cleanly assembled. Won't be hard to take apart and redo it. A sealed Mercedes kit from Lindberg. A 1/43 scale Moskvitch station wagon with Aeroflot markings. The box says "Made In The USSR". I love this kind of stuff. And an MPC 71 Jeepster Safari Version which also has the Spoof parts included. These were outsized add ons to be comical in appearance. No plow came with this issue, but it has firearms!!! I need to get a new memory card for the camera as my Chihuahua chewed it up.....derned dog!

You are only missing the Bugatti. I have that and I am missing the Jordan. None of mine are untouched except the mercer. The rest are built ups.

How'd you get 9500lbs wench to stay there.

Interesting, 935k3. Are these resin kits, or multi media? I never heard of that kit maker before.

we have had posts about the many brilliant manufacturers, designers, builders and box art artists. Never a mention of those who draw the instruction sheets. Some of the sheets were works of art in and of themselves. I bring to fore, one Phillipe DeLespiney, who did the drawings for Heller in the 60s. His drawings were pretty darned nice in my opinion. Do we know who drew for the other manufacturers? Who drew brilliantly? Who shouldn't be near a crayon? Whose drawings were not able to be understood or who drew so well that you just knew how it all came together? I think the people who drew JoHan's sheets for the Trophy Series (Mercedes, Cadillacs, Turbines) were very talented.

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So photography of the real car would not qualify as art, sjordan2?

They won't be reissued. The tooling is beyond repair or missing important parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpxd3pZAVHI

Yours makes me think Ford should have offered a stainless area in between the chrome strips like yours.