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I could build that for you. You got an extra $10,000 laying around? LOL. BTW, the company I work for has old molding equipment we use to mold Simson plug ends to some test cables we make. It's quite old and had the ability to be changed into whatever config the dies required. Damned thing leaks and makes a ton of noise, but it still works. I don't know who made the machine but it has ARTOS components and Allen Bradley switch panels. Not like the modern Van Dorn units I worked with when I worked at Sussex plastics molding mary Kay and Avon boxes

I've worked as a busboy, pizza delivery guy, gas station attendant when I was in HS. Travelled the US, Mexico, and Canada for three years hitch hiking in the early 70s. Worked as security for tent evangelists. Cleaned fish at a packing plant. Hauled dead bodies out of flooded areas in WV. Roadied for Dave Laflamme during a California tour (It's A Beautiful Day) and worked eight years as drug rehab staff member. Sold used cars and was the lot boy in several dealerships. Refinished old furniture, and ran to gas stations for the non profit drug rehab I worked for. Drove school bus, served subpeonas to hard to serve people ( I got shot at so i quit) Did some work as a comedy stripper for hire (dressed in a grass skirt and a couple of coconuts dancing to Blue Hawaii) Drew cartoons for Car Modeller magazine. Since 1991, I have worked for a wire harness manufacturer doing coaxial prototype harnesses for all major companies needing those things. I also run my own DJ service to the car show organisers. I only do car show and related events...no weddings. I also am an automotive artist drawing cars at car shows.

Nice on the 200. I had a 84 Duster hatchback. I miss that little rocket

Me too, especially this one. He had a rack that was the biggest I've ever seen...it was quick, but I would say a 15 or 16 pointer. Someones gonna get a nice buck come hunting season

Score!!! Grails!!!! MPC The General Locomotive for $8 MPC 65 Polara $100 AMT ZZR Spy car $100 MPC 33 Chevy Panel truck assembled but clean $ 20 Doyusha Invader (old Eldon tool) $30 AMT 1960 Edsel Convert $80 I am now happy. I have most of my grails

Last night driving in a night rallye, I came over a rise to find a big buck standing in the road. My ABS kept me straight, but it sure looked like I was gonna have "grilled" venison. Then he just calmly walked away like he owned the road. I was shaking for a while.

I would be so interested in the Howmet. One of my grails. Hope you get back to me with a price.

Noticed the tag on the box. I live not too far from that place. Hobby Horse hobby shop is long gone though.

G Scale comprises everything from 1/29 to 1/22.5. Most buildings done in G Scale are in 1/25th. Most of what I see in the plant is 1/29 for rolling stock. Yup! My boss bought a company that sold G scale trains. They call it Wisconsin/Illinois Trains. They are just selling rolling stock, locomotives, track, electronics for DCC and sound, and some building kits from various makers like Bachmann, LGB, Pico and others. I'm trying to get them to take on a line of figures.

An old book I revisited "They Call Me Mr. 500", the story of Andy Granitelli. First read it in High School, then just recently again. Just starting the Dodge Story too. Also A Day In The Life Of The Soviet Union...a photo essay of a single day by several photographers during the beginning of Glasnost. For fiction, currently reading the Presence series by Charity Becker. Her writing is darned good. I am a bit biased I think because I proof read her first in the series, Presence: The Awakening. It's about a girl named Mina who encounters several supernatural entities. A great twist on a genre.

I keep mine in the garage and also in storage when I had no garage. I've had nothing happen to them that I can see...on the plastic or otherwise. I live in Wisconsin. I just keep mine high just in case of leaks or rodents. Don't forget, most kits are on board a ship from the far east for an awful long time in metal container boxes above decks.

I had family members steal stuff from me. They are no longer welcome in my home...ever. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but if someone steals from family, they are the lowest of the low.

I would like to remind those in Wisconsin to come to the Wisconsin Street Rod Association's Corn Roast on Labor Day weekend. On Sunday, we have a model show/contest. Times are from 10AM to 2PM. Awards are awarded based on votes, similar to an NNL event. It's in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin held at the County Fair Grounds. Cost is $5 to enter grounds but contest is actually free, no matter how many cars you bring. Enjoy the car show, the free corn and all the cool stuff we have going on. This car show actually goes on from Friday night to Sunday afternoon, but the model event is on Sunday.

...and not water proof

Hot Rod isn't a mag about what most term "hot rods". It's about what they think is cool and what people are doing to their cars. Even in the 60s, that mag had articles about the latest stuff from Detroit. If you look at the term Hot Rod as a verb instead of a noun, I think you would get the gist of the mag.

Ammonia: Household cleaner. Arsenic: Used in rat poisons. Benzene: Used in making dyes, synthetic rubber. Butane: Gas; used in lighter fluid. Carbon monoxide: Poisonous gas. Cadmium: Used in batteries. Cyanide: Lethal poison. DDT: A banned insecticide. Ethyl Furoate: Causes liver damage in animals. Lead: Poisonous in high doses. Formaldehyde: Used to preserve dead specimens. Methoprene: Insecticide. Maltitol: Sweetener for diabetics. Napthalene: Ingredient in mothballs. Methyl isocyanate: Its accidental release killed 2000 people in Bhopal, India, in 1984. Polonium: Cancer-causing radioactive element Enjoy your ciggies

I had the almost same car, Dodge Charger. All my DJ gear fit inside it.

2010 HHR Panel, I use this to haul art work supplies and DJ equipment. An awesome 32 mpg. Same car, different view The first HHR Panel I bought in 07. Ultr reliable, so I bought the red one. Before HHRs, I hauled in this.

Real Vampires do not sparkle.

http://s43.photobuck...RPanel002-1.jpg http://s43.photobuck...RPanel001-1.jpg For some reason, my photobucket is not letting me post direct. This is my HHR Panel. I've had two so far. A 2007 and this 2010 model. Sorry to see it being not made anymore. I've driven a friend's PT and I find it cramped and tinny. Reliable car as it never gave her any trouble, plus it's the second one she's owned. I've never had any trouble with the 2010, and the 2007 had some vibrating brake issues that were because of the Chinese sourced brake rotors. I replaced those with Napa ones from Canada. Problem solved.

Not a diecast. gaps in the hood to fender area are too narrow to be diecast.

Carefully going through cheap jewelry at rummage sales looking for that right piece of chain.

...and yet, that isn't new. I clearly remember older cars with that feature. My Grandfather's 1960 Buick LeSabre had the switch under the gas pedal. You tromped on the pedal to crank the engine. Some cars had it on the dash.

To borrow from a rather randy limerick, "In days of olde, when artists were bold, before computers were invented. We held a pencil and slung some clay, And that's how cars were imagined" Trouble is, is that all the designers have all studied at the same couple of schools and don't realy have an original thought in their minds. Guys loike Loewy, Exner, Gregorie, Brooks Stevens, et al, were men of vision. Retro isn't such a bad thing, neither. Exner restyled early classics into what were known as Revivals in 1966. They even were the basis of a line of model kits and a coupl,e of actual production cars. I myself drive a retro vehicle, my HHR panel truck...I've owned two of them.

The first application of a flashing electric turn signal was used on the 1938 Buick as a new safety feature. It was advertised by Buick as the “Flash-Way Directional Signal”. By 1940, Buick added the self-canceling mechanism attached to the steering column.