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Dave Van

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  1. Great work! Wish they'd reissue....I like the kit!
  2. The cycle will help this kit greatly.....but did I miss info about the figures and other goodies??? Thanks Tim for your info!
  3. I think that was himself.....
  4. All the Sprint cars were the same other than bodies.....I built the King car....tough build and I never liked it........
  5. No one answer.......in the 60's NASCAR still required the race car be based on the street version. So if car had full frame so did race car. Then in the 70's they started the 'generic' chassis where the car used a full frame and had to have the same TYPE suspension as street but could be fabbed or cross bread. (GM truck trailing arms on a Torino) Cars like a 67 Fairlane would start as a stock version and be modified into a racer. IIRC they could connect the sub frames but could not fab a full tube frames as they did 70's. The real experts are on Randy Ayers Forum....
  6. Got my 2 kits....look great but will wait until Indycals gets their decals out. The reason we have kits by Monogram of the Ford Mustang GTX, GTP, IMSA GTO and Trans Am is because Ford wanted kits and they helped Monogram in a number of ways! IMSA GTX
  7. You do fine...I did a lot of technical writing in my real job.....Wife says I speak in 'short speak'.....
  8. They were on Sullivan 36 times!!!!
  9. My jokes do not translate well do they Luc!!!!!
  10. OR..........
  11. Is that what happened to the French SST's?!?!?!?
  12. Sad but what a great run.......RIP
  13. I have done a lot of licensing work with the big 3 US auto manufactures. Ford is the easiest to work with, offers the most help and cheapest. Ford WANTS models made of their product. GM is different to be polite......all I'll say in case I have to go to them again!!
  14. ?? got email....mine arrive in am!!!!!
  15. Welcome!!! Pretty of answers here!
  16. I think as many as we here are buying......I hope Tamiya will notice......I'd still like to see a NASCAR Mustang from someone.
  17. Motorcraft from Indycals here!!!
  18. COOL!!! Always wanted to build that one!
  19. Hey...I have a collection of masks....use one outside all the time. Not seen the kids or grandkids going 6+ weeks......we were taking care of two of them daily.....actually miss them big time! And yes....moving to the most rural county in the eastern US in 2002 seems very wise now. But until someone can explain Sweden.......and why the people all around me ignore distancing, folks were talking face to face..no masks...chatting at the store like they have for years, It's like a very difficult puzzle...one we may never figure out. But I hope the logic of this can be found.....is it shared HVAC like NYC?? Is it population density alone? Shared public transit? We have almost none of these so distancing alone is not the solution or we'd have it bad. All I know is we can't live in a lock down state forever.....it will all collapse in on itself and it will be Mad Max for real. If I had the solution I\d give it....but it HAS to be found. PS...food for thought. TB killed 1.5 million folks in 2018, is very contagious and is completely ignored by media. Why? Or all the other much more deadly things in the world......many equal or worse than COVID. Please just think about that.
  20. But Sweden stayed open.....pushing common sense and personal responsibility and it looks like it's working. As a retired analyst I don't take ANY one person or agency word as the final know all. I've read a lot of reports from folks on both sides....from 'we should have a stronger lock down' to 'open 7/24'.....both have valid points. I just got back from the grocery store. I was the only person masked. No one here wears a mask at any time. I'm almost always the only one wearing one when I go out. Yet we have ZERO COVID cases in the county. We had two cases via people visiting from Maryland. No residents......and no social distancing or masks......WHY???? And our population average age in in the late 50's with many 80's and 90 year olds. Shouldn't we be ground zero??? After all I read I am going into the workshop and fashion me a tin foil hat. My info is not just rumor or 2nd hand.....my wife is the head ER person at our hospital and COVID person for the area.
  21. Mustang box is kinds cool.......My son has a white one much like the box....
  22. The gap is as designed. You are correct it should not be there....it comes from Salvinos using one generic chassis for all the Olds, Chevy's and coming Dodge......one size for all as such. There has been tons written about this on Randy Ayers NASCAR forum.....check there for detailed info. Basic fix was adding strip plastic to chassis sides.
  23. Two on way....thanks for showing!
  24. A big resin caster, still in biz, said he was looking at it 10 years ago.....must have passed on it......I want one still!
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