SSNJim

Good luck to you! I've actually got a 1984 crew cab in progress, and I found the below website to be an invaluable asset. It has all sorts of information of almost any GM vehicle since the beginning of time . I used it to get accurate dimensions for my truck. There's also ordering, technical and option information. I will generally go to this site for information when I build a GM vehicle (rare, but it does happen). GM Vehicle Information Kits This is the section for the 1996 Chevrolet Truck. If it doesn't have the data you seek, look at some of the other years of that body style. The content of the PDFs do seem to vary from year-to-year, so check 1988 to the end of the model run. 1992 looked interesting too. You should be able to get accurate dimensions from one of them. 1996 Chevrolet Truck I'll be watching your build.

A Hummer EV pickup, unfortunately no pictures. About the same blocky size as an H2 with strong accents and LED lighting. The round headlights are gone.

Nice start. I've got a similar project in somewhat progress - converting the Black Beaury to a custom custom Imperial. Still figuring out the details. Looking forward to your build.

There is a HobbyTown USA in Frederick, MD at US 340 and US 15 in the Festival shopping center. They used to be off of Motter Avenue where they had an indoor carpet 1/10 track, but not in the new location. They may be able to point you in the right direction. The other hobby shops in the area that I knew had indoor/outdoor races are long gone, and the current local ones don't seem to have any interest in racing, yet they have cars and parts.

In Navy bootcamp many, many years ago, they had us use Zest brand bar soap. Supposedly it doesn't leave soap scum.

Mine too.

Well, it did appear in many Mercury and Cougar commercials - at the sign of the cat.

Thanks for the explanation, Rex.

That blue 59 Chevy low rider is amazing. I thought it was at a full size auto show at first when looking at the side view. Beautiful car. I guess I missed it. Why is this the last NNL West?

Good for you! I was able to see them both in Manassas, VA a few years ago and both were doing flights. The prices were way too expensive for a spur of the moment flight, so we watched them both (and several other WWII planes including Mustangs) take off and land several times. Quite impressive. My wife's father was a bombardier in a B-24G (Chiquita Mia) which was shot down over Austria in 1944. Seven of the crew made it back to friendly territory, but he and two other crew members spent a year in Stalag luft 1.

He came by my house last night in his fire trucks. There were two engines, two or three fire chief vehicles, and one or two other vehicles, lights and sirens going full blast. I thought they were on their way to a major accident, but they were going slowly so I called my wife. We were able to watch from the curb for the first time. They made quite the noise. Fortunately he only made one pass.

I had a brand new 85 Tempo for a couple of years - 2dr, Sage Green, 4spd. Nice car, drove well, fit 2 child seats in the back. The only problem was the throttle body went bad and it idled at 3000rpm. It could still be driven, but it was out of warranty and was an expensive fix. My next door neighbor years later didn't have that kind of luck. His burned up in front of our house one night.

I thought #3 was the Family Truckster at first. "You think you hate it now, wait 'til you drive it." 😄

I was in San Diego years ago in a parking lot waiting to take my wife to lunch. A car came screaming to a halt in front of a fairly new early 80's Camaro. The guy jumps out and attacks all the windows of the Camaro with a tire iron. Busted all the windows except the driver's (it was rolled down a bit and just flexed). He hopped in the car and drove off. We called the cops, and it turns out it was his car and they wouldn't do anything about it. Apparently he and his wife were having some troubles.

I got my 2021 Charger chassis painted in Tamiya AS-29 Gray Green. It may not be a perfect match, but I think it's fairly close and looks right to me - at least for the rear part of the picture above.

I think you're right. I picked up a can of AS-29 today and it does look pretty close. I haven't sprayed it yet, though. Thanks!

Now that I've seen the picture Bill posted, I'm going to take a look at the Tamiya AS paint line. They have several paints that might match up much better than good old Army olive drab.

Where are the drivers in the LeMans and 69 Imperial? ?

We've had something steal our bird feeders. They go missing in the morning, and later we would find them 20-50 feet away in our woods. I suspect deer, but it could be racoons though I would think racoons would drop the feeder and eat it near the post. The deer seem to have a taste for our plants and flowers now. I did rig a retainer for the bird feeders so that they don't go missing anymore. My wife keeps her birdseed bags in a traditional galvanized garbage can next to her shed. We had something get into those, so we started putting broken slate blocks on top. That stopped that, until one night she forgot to put the slate on. I go out later, and the lid is off, so I just put the lid back on with slate. In the morning, she goes out to feed the birds and comes back in livid. There were two racoons in the can that had been there all night. I go out and sure enough there they are. I put the garbage can on its side, and one racoon took off like a shot. The second one seemed a bit traumatized. I did some gentle coercing to try and get him out, so I let him be and went in the house. When I checked an hour or so later, he was gone. No, they didn't eat all the seed in the can overnight, but they did look a little plump.

The US Coast Guard recovered some wreckage and released some findings this week Below is a link that has a little more info. Reader's Digest Condensed Version: the laminate debonded. Unfortunately, there's no link to any USCG or government documents, but some might find it interesting. I did find a 20 minute NTSB hearing video on the page. The Ship Model Forum • View topic - Submarine Titan implosion : NTSB report: (shipmodels.info)

It wouldn't surprise me. I had a 1965 Belair wagon in the mid 70s. A friend of mine had a 1965 also, I think it was an impala 2 door. His ignition key would unlock my doors, and his door key would start my car. Mine did the same on his. My wagon was stolen sometime later from my home, but was recovered a few days later in a shopping center parking lot nearby. It was undamaged, so I imagine the key thing was used to get it for a joyride. No, my friend lived in a different city, and didn't know where I lived.

At Harpers Ferry (WV) National Park last Saturday, a Buick Reatta convertible.

Actually there were two versions of this kit. The one you have I believe is the concept car, which would be a 1999. There is another later one labeled 2003 Thunderbird Convertible which seems to be pretty much the same except it has side marker lights. The boxes are very similar for both. I have a New Thunderbird I've had in the works since 2001 or so. It is a mostly complete Neiman Marcus edition, but I decided it needed side markers. Now I do have a 2003 body that I need to strip so I can get if finished up. With side markers: REVELL 85-1924 1/25 2003 Ford Thunderbird Convertible Without side markers: Wheels of Fire New Thunderbird Revell | No. 85-1916

One day I heard a loud boom audible throughout the house. I looked through the upstairs windows but didn't see anything. I sat back down in front of the computer, but my curiosity got the better of me. I went downstairs and looked through the windows, and saw a turkey 10 feet from the house looking kind of dazed. That turkey hit my 1941 house with the very solid wood siding. He did no damage to the house, but it definitely rattled his cage. We get the occasional small bird strike, but it's very rare for a turkey to do so.

I found this (what I think is a 2013} Camaro Hot Wheels Special Edition in a DC Metro parking lot today. I think the marks below the right tail light are an artifact of the Magic Eraser I used on the pictures.