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On 12th Street SW in DC, I saw 3 20ft or so box trucks parked on the side of the road. They had basically huge TVs mounted on the box sides and rears covering the entire area. I have never seen anything like that. I took some video of them, but being DC, the message was very political and not appropriate for here.

LGB is a German company, and stands for Lehmann Gross Bahn (Lehmann Big Trains).

You may also see the LGB compatible stuff marked as G scale.

I had an automatic 92 SC. Best car I've ever owned - I was devastated when I sold it. I expected it to be my forever car, but it was not to be. From what I remember, there were no manual transmission Super Coupes sold in 92.

"Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War" by Henry Rausch. What a great book. It sheds a lot of light on the life of a junior naval officer. It's a very accurate depiction of life in the submarine business in the late 1980s/early 1990s. I've read the book 5 times or so since I got it in April. Disclaimer: he was the Weapons Officer supervising my job on another submarine, and I flew back to the US with him from the Mediterranean Sea many years ago.

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What scale are these? You've done a nice job on them. I have the Amphicat that Jack L mentioned, and was thinking they'd be cool when I was building mine. I love that theme song - it's a happy and fun song and video. I go watch it on YouTube every so often.

Expand the box above to see the pictures - you can probably only see text.... Looking at these two shots, it appears that the front end openings are about 1-1/2 times larger on the model than they should be. They also look a little too low. The bottom edges of the openings should have "ramps". I would think that adding those ramps to the existing openings would do wonders, and I would do that before adjusting anything else. Just my thoughts.

That's what I get: (1/25) / (1/24) = 96% (1/24) / (1/25) = 104% Just about 4%.

A Lamborghini Revuelto and a Volkswagen ID Buzz.

Here is a link to some GM Vehicle Kits Vehicle Information Kits | GM Heritage Archive | General Motors Most of them are Chevrolet, but there are others. Many of them contain measurements for unusual dimensions. I find them quite useful for GM cars.

That's what I thought. There was a factory color called Iris Metallic available on the 90's F-Series that was very similar to this color.

I was riding my scooter on a state highway headed to Santee, CA many years ago. The car a ways ahead of me had a mattress attached to his roof, until he didn't. It flew through the air tumbling end over end. It was a beautiful and graceful thing. Fortunately I was far enough behind that it wasn't a hazard and easily avoidable. What a sight.

I just got one from WSDOT (I assume Washington State Department of Transportation) on my business phone. I've never been to Washington state in my life. The closest was California. I also don't take toll roads voluntarily, and only on business trips where I'll be reimbursed.

I would check Amazon, Ebay and the like for the proper blades. I've had pretty good luck with finding discontinued products brand new on those sites. Sometimes hobby shops overbuy or incorrectly estimate the demands, and they have the stuff sitting on the shelves.

You've got to be careful with the Revell Cougars. Some came with a V-8 - I think it was the later models (1992 maybe?). Another option is the AMT Ranger/Splash. They had a V-6; I think that was a 3.8L. Maybe the AMT Explorer, too.

Here's a story the LA Times ran on it: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-11-25-ca-16356-story.html XTRA was a radio station that played progressive, alternative and punk rock, and pretty much anything they wanted to. I believe it was licensed in Mexico, but the targeted audience was the US. Great station - it helped develop my tastes in music.

For those of you who are concerned, yes, it is satire or humor. I highly doubt any person has been killed or even slightly injured by impalement of a 1/25 scale 1932 Ford driveshaft in their jugular vein. This whole thing reads like something out of Naked Gun. Check out when Frank Drebin investigates Ludwig's office on youtube. Thanks for all the responses!

Loving your work! You did a nice job on the restoration of the original body. I'm not sure I've seen anyone do a Landau (that's what they called T-birds with a vinyl top) conversion before. I'm a huge fan of 67-69 Thunderbirds. We had a 69 Tudor we bought new. I think I'll be contacting Jay's Resin for a set of those wheels. They're very similar to what I have on my 2007 Mustang V-6. I'm looking forward to seeing this completed.

I found this on Cracked.com a few days ago. It was 35th in a list of the 35 most dangerous hobbies.

There was a radio station in San Diego in the 80s that ran a contest, and first prize was a six-pack of Yugos. I had just bought an 86 Honda Gold Wing Interstate, and I was talking with a neighbor who just bought a Yugo. He told me how much he paid (I think it was around $5800) and then he asked me what I paid ($6200). He was shocked that the motorcycle was more than his car. I used to get a lot of "your 4 cylinder 1200 cc engine is bigger than the one in my car" too from Suzuki Swift owners.

I'm not sure she would need a new propulsion system. She still holds the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing (both ways) since 1952. Allegedly she had a top speed of about 44-50mph which is pretty darn fast for a ship. Many of the features of the propulsion system were very closely held; only recently are some details becoming available. I am very sorry to see her go. I could see her in the 80's in Norfolk from the Destroyer and Submarine Piers on the Norfolk Naval Base, and I would very recently see her in the Philadelphia Navy Yard on my work trips to Philly.

Concur, it's the kit. It looks like it has a separate hood, which generally indicates that it's a kit and not a promo.

It gets worse. I worked at a former Bell cell phone subsidiary in the early 2000's. They told us it cost about $5.00 for them to generate and mail one simple bill regardless of the billed amount.