Chuck Most

A man had just done a transaction with a woman of the evening, and they'd walked off onto a dark, woody trail to consummate the deal. As they were going at it, a policeman found them and shined his flashlight on them. "What are you doing, sir?" The officer asked the man. "I'm making love to my wife." He replied. "Oh," the officer replied sheepishly. "I didn't know that." The man responded "Yeah, neither did I until you shined that light in her face."

Cool conversion! Makes me want that alleged Revell Cutlass even more!

A man was getting ready for bed, when he peeked out his window and saw that the light was on in his gardening shed. As he thought to himself how forgetful he was and to go shut it off, he noticed there were two shadows in the shed, rummaging through the shed. He picked up the phone and called the police. "I have two burglars ransacking my shed!" he told the dispatcher. The dispatcher responded: "I'm sorry sir, but all of our units are busy. Just sit tight and we will send out an officer when we can." ""Okay..." the man groaned, and hung up. A minute later, he called back. "Yeah- I'm the guy who called about the two men breaking into my shed. Well, you don't need to worry about it now, because I just shot and killed both of them." Within five minutes, two patrol cars, a SWAT van, a helicopter, two fire trucks and an ambulance were at the scene. The two burglars were caught and arrested. As they left, one of the police officers turned to the home owner and said: "I thought you said you shot them dead!" The man replied: "And I thought you guys were too busy to come out!"

"I heard that loud and clear!" said my 74th alternate personality.

Slap on that cold air intake and break 'er in, Harry! Or loan Harold the money. I'm sure he'll pay you back. Eventually.

Dunno... if I had $2500K, I think I'd hold out for a similar vinage Lincoln Continental. But sheez- I'd be happy with one of these!

Nope, he appears too busy driving an open Bentley in the snow. (Judging from his avatar...)

But, three bucks was, like, a year's salary back then! And they had to march barefoot across red hot broken glass uphill both ways to get to work! Or so says my Uncle Seth.

A 'spring over' conversion? That would work too.

Oh... and with all the windows down, and the A/C just a ba-LASTIN'! (And with the parking brake partially engaged.)

I would. And I'd make all sorts of unnecessary trips, and take the longest route with the most stops possible! Heck, they used 'em as daily drivers back then...

Then repeat as necessary to foot the gas bill!

That is cool. I have an AMT '32 Ford Phaeton that has the information in French...AND, according to the info printed on the bottom of the box, it's actually a '69 Hurst Olds! I bought the kit sealed (it's a late 1980's/early 1990's issue), and it had the wrong bottom in the box. The box top has French and English translations, but the bottom is English only.

Flexible ducting and duct tape are all you need for a cold air intake! If it were mine, I'd yank the V6 and drop in the mill from a wrecked GT500KR! (Then immediately regret that action when I filled up the tank afterwards!)

Kind of looks like a Trans Am car, updated a bit and modified for street use. Maybe a bit too early to be Pro Touring, but you can see the intent is there!

I've always thought the Camper Special Fords of this era were really goofy looking with the rear axle shoved so far back. I've got one of these I'm planning to convert into a regular longbox F-100. I'll get rid of the weird wheelbase, AND theoretically correct the coil spring front suspension by so doing!

Making your own risers would be easy- just cut some strips of plastic the thickness you want to raise the car and size them to fit into the spring pockets, then glue the springs onto them. Extend the shocks, or find some longer ones, and you should be in bidness.

I've seen those Carney cases- trouble is I'd STILL need to add a wing to my house to accomodate them all!

Me likey!

My MCRC '53 IH Metro showed up today!

I did see an entirely scratchbuilt 1:24 scale passenger bus in the other magazine years and years ago- I believe it was a man in Australia. It appeared to be a curbside kit- all the windows were blacked out, but the bodywork was incredible! I've seen a few 1:25 scale 1940's-era school bus bodies in resin, but I have no idea who produced them. Wouldn't mind one of those myself!

Flatheads- and not JUST the Ford V8 variety. There's just something so inherently cool about an engine that is little more than a couple of Briggs and Strattons stacked together at the crank. They're totally utilitarian, but they just look awesome! The last cool looking engine was the Boss 429. Covering that engine with one of those plastic shrouds you see nowadays should be punishable by death- you KNEW that engine was all business just by those valve covers!

You'd have really hated the first engine I test fitted into it, a dual quad Mercury 410...

Here's the box top- knew I had a picture of it somewhere!- Yeah, it is a bit pricey. I've only seen it once- a local guy ordered one at the hobby shop to modify into a model of his motorhome.

Shhhh.... You've got to build up the drama!