Chuck Most

I remember getting one of the originals and being thoroughly disappointed. Can I get away with saying Xtremely disappointed? No? Okay... I knew it was the show truck, not a production Xtreme, and even though the side of the box proclaimed a 2.2 and a manual transmission. Pre-internet me thought perfect, I could make a neat little fleet truck. Nope,it had the same power train as the other S truck kits. Nice bench seat and floor shifter though. Lowered suspension proved once again that Ertl was blissfully ignorant of what a scrub line is, but the stance looked decent. Updated grille isn't going to move the needle much for me, especially if that's the extent of the updating. We're a long way from the 90s when they'd update things like the steering wheel and intake to depict the changes to the real vehicle for 1995, I accept that. I'm hopeful that if this version meets with a little unexpected success, maybe there will be a more thorough 1998-up S Series update later.

They'd need to throw in the '95 interior as well.

Moebius kit built box stock, painted in Testors Blazing Black and Diamond Dust. The wheels and tires are temporarily installed with water based glue, eventually they'll be popped off and replaced with something a bit more period correct for the late '70's/early '80's. Once that happens I'll whip up a backstory and call it done.

Got my hands on 2 of the 5. I noticed there's no urine or feces in the area. So I got curious and googled it... Yeah, wish I hadn't because exactly what I thought was happening was happening. 🤣

I built one from the Nitto kit (wonder if this kit is based on that one). Those working hinges are making my eyes cross 🤣

A couple times a year, cousin Robby rolls up for a visit from Indiana. You hear him long before you see him, from the rumbling and ratting of his extremely worn out Demon, usually accompanied by some '70's and '80's AOR blasting out of the speakers. He got it when he turned 16 in 1978, and he's never owned another car. Sure, he's moved a few times, and he works at a different gas station now, but the Demon has been a constant. When Robby isn't spouting off his theories about lizard people, hollow Earth, and flying saucers, you'll find him cruising in or working on his Demon. It may look shabby but it's ready for a trip to work or the dispensary at a moment's notice. This is the MPC kit, heavily aged. I used MPC D150 wheels and parts box tires, old photo reduced plates, Gofer Racing bumper sticker, and a Spotlight Hobbies sasquatch silhouette. Aside from those additions it's a box stock build.

If you do end up buying this kit, it does include a spare set of the corrected F100 hubcaps first released in the M100 just so you know.

Got one today, think mine's getting some more period correct wheels and tires. Just personal taste but the wheels are a little too "brodozer" for it. Maybe I'll warm up to them but I have another project I think they'd look better on. Put some Jackmans wrapped in TSL Super Swampers on it and it would resemble pretty much every third or fourth pickup you'd see in a Michigan road in the '80's.

The kit's two biggest flaws are the grille and the rollers. This is a pretty good way of fixing both of those issues. 😁

Now my problem is Dinner 🤣 He's been the only cat in the house for the better part of 10 years, and he doesn't seem to be adjusting well. He seems really tense. I might need to formally introduce him to the kittens once Patty is back outside. She's obviously been a lot less tolerant of him since she moved the litter downstairs.

This looks familiar.... And the kittens are still kittening. As far as I know Dinner has never even seen them.

Dinner seemed sick all night the night before, but he was wound up and hit on the trail of something in the yard this morning. If you were curious, he and Patty get along about as well as kerosene and an open flame. 🤣

Well she wasn't that stealthy, I knew what was going on because for whatever reason she hopped up on my bed in the process and landed on my ankle.

She moved them from the upstairs closet to the bedroom. Which is fine, but did she need to do it at 3:15 in the morning? 🤣

They're actually beginning to resemble cats. 🤣 They didn't even hiss this time, although Patty got between me and them. So I started petting her then the kittens and she was like "okay. I'll allow it" 🤣 This is the first time the orange one wasn't on the bottom of the pile as far as I remember.

I swear they've already doubled in size.

The one facing the camera was hissing at me. What a frightening, ferocious beast. 🤣🤣

She has the nice cushy cat bed but for now she's staying under the old TV cabinet. 🤣 I mean, I guess it works for her. Also, check out those incredible whiskers.

Not sure what the plan is. Patty is probably getting fixed once she and the kittens are ready. After that not decided on keeping them or rehoming.

She's cool with me putting a straggling kitten back on the pile. 🤣 She's honestly more relaxed than normal the last couple days. She was with the kittens a solid 24 hours in one sitting, before she headed outside to "take care of some business".

There are actually five! Four black and gray ones plus the oddball orange and white one. 🤣 I now have a cat bed set up in there, along with food and water for mom.

Can't see the third one but it looks like the gray one. They're so loud for something so small. 🤣

Patty had her kittens about 8am this morning. I'd post a pic but she had them in a 4" gap behind a cabinet so I can't really see them right now, but I can definitely hear them. Mom and the babies seem to be doing A-OK.

Just plain old Testors Electric Pink.

It was mid August of 1985, and Frank and Rose Kearney walked into Brandall Dodge in Sickles, Michigan. They had their end of a bargain to hold up. When their oldest son Scott turned 16, he was given a junker '68 Ford F250. He was told if he managed to keep it on the road, didn't blow it up or wreck it, he'd be getting a new car after graduation. Scott, who'd landed a job with Wheels Magazine and had subsequently basically rebuilt the truck from this in 1983... ...To this in 1985... ...had obviously held up his end. And so it was that Scott became the proud owner of a brand new 1986 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z. Originally red, it wasn't long before Scott decided to really make it his own. Wheels Magazine hadn't done a "customize a brand new car" thing in quite a while, and so it was that Scott set to work on the Daytona. As it turned out, he never submitted an article about anything he did to the car, but he still had fun. Scott didn't document anything he did to the car for the magazine, the only time the Daytona was ever printed in Wheels was for an article on dynos for front wheel drive applications, before he'd started modifying it. It also appeared on the cover of the March 1987 issue as part of the "Modern Muscle Machinery" issue (along with a Mustang GT and a GNX), though the car itself wasn't featured. Scott added custom wheels, low profile tires, and a custom louvered hood. He also lowered the car and shaved the side markers and door handles. More than satisfied with the car's factory performance, Scott was happy to more or less leave the rest of the car alone. The metallic pink color was actually his girlfriend Kelli's idea. His younger sister Hannah had similar feelings. Originally the car was left in the factory red, but a hail storm when the car was barely a year old led to a complete repaint. Scott used the Daytona as his main mode of transportation. He used it on his honeymoon with Kelli in 1990 (during which they drove it to the Daytona 500, four days after tying the knot. He used it right up until April of 1993, when it was totaled in a collision at an intersection. It was replaced with a Stealth R/T which remained stock during Scott's ownership. The model is the MPC 1986 Daytona kit, and aside from the tires (from an RC2 reissue of the Monkees Mobile) and the custom hood from an '88 with the '86 front edge grafted on, it's out of the box. Needs a little touch up with the blackout paint here and there. I did use the '88 dash and manual shifter, but I didn't change the '86 transaxle. Honestly I can't tell the difference and I'd imagine 95% of the people who see the kit parts won't either. 🤣