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Customize Matchbox vehicles (and a few Hot Wheels but most have out over-sized wheels and inaccurate dimensions..... Collect give minor league hockey giveaways (bobble heads, trading cards)...mostly ECHL, but some AHL Die hard Bullwinkle fan!! ...and stepfather to three rescue K9's. A 7 year old Jack Russell/Sheltie (Turner), a 3 year old Australian Shepherd/Pekanese mix (Miss Bear) and a 4 year old pure bred Australian Shepherd (Jamie).

1993 Dodge Stealth. Nothing makes an insurance agent cringe than writing a policy on one of these to a single, male, under 30 driver....even with a spotless record. (25% surcharge for the SE and RT (due to the 24V engine) and my carrier wouldn't one for the RT Turbo for ANY age driver). Always had the sensible car before this (but kept the Dodge Rampage as a second car as the hatch was only about ten inches deep). Front wheel drive so it was great in the snow. Even the base model had enough to break it into triple digits (common sense went out the window and took it up to 130 mph). Getting married and having kids made me re-home it as now i needed something with a usable backseat. Wife hated it as we pulled into a parking space on day and view out the passenger side window was the 16" wheels on a Ford F250 4x4. Bought it with 13,xxx miles and sold it with 110,xxx

If you need some ideas of how to accessorize the interior, I can post pics of the inside of the wife's SUV. LOL

Be careful using a local auction house. 1) Two in my area charge a commission of 40%!! 2) I recently bought a lot where the auction house just lumped models together from an estate without doing any research. One lot of 20 (costing me a little over $3/ea) yielded a sealed Jo-Han Maverick and another lot of 40 built (costing me less than $2/each) yielded a 70 MPC Cyclone and a 74 Impala.

I've been waiting two plus months DD214 (military discharge paperwork) from the VA to see if my father qualifies for a veteran's nursing home. In digging through his files I actually found it! He enlisted right out of high school in 1955 (four months too late to qualify under Korea) and was discharged in 1963 (six months too soon to qualify under Vietnam). Although he has proof of deployment in Berlin during construction of the Wall, that doesn't count as 'hostile' territory. My father has dementia and needs to be in a memory care unit

My oldest son was in the 3rd or 4th grade and I was an assistant coach in what was a little league for basketball. They played an away game at a city where they took it much more serious than we did. They were running the score up on us and my kids were not having fun......until I pulled our team over and told them "you get five fouls....go use four!" Those fast breaks, run-n-gun and fancy lay ups stopped pretty quickly when bodies started flying. No one got hurt and now eight years later my wife still gives me grief over it. My sons friends still laugh about it.

DynoMight, on 07 Aug 2014 - 7:07 PM, said: It seems to work well for the weather forecasters......especially when a front approaches with snow

I was in the KHL terminal of the Detroit airport when they came on the speaker asking for volunteers to be bumped as the flight to England was overbooked and overweight! Say whaaaaatttt??? I had to call the wife and waited for the announcement to repeat as I wanted a witness to this one. If I was to be on that plane, I would have preferred just knowing 'overbooked'....didn't need to know the second part of that announcement!

The wife!!!!!!!!!!!! (Which is why we no longer have joint credit cards)

I make the occasional pilgrimage to the only small hobby store in the area, but they are 90% trains. Otherwise, I buy at shows or off the internet. Why? Because the Big Box store check out is the only employee interaction I've had during the entire trip! No, I don't have your frequent shopper card No, I don't want to sign up for it or to be on your mailing list No, I'm not in your system and I will not give you my phone number No, I don't want to donate a dollar to whatever cause you believe in this week No, I don't need batteries for my purchase today since I bought a Hot Wheel and a video game No, I won't be putting this on my store name credit card (I have this weird thing called C-A-S-H) I'd just like to make my purchase and get outta here!!!

Much like the G8 truck, it'll never make it state side. I hope GM does a better marketing job with the new Chevy SS than they did when brought in the same car as the Pontiac G8.

O-man.... Correct, it's not a GT. I'm 47 and suffer from a heavy right foot so with a son who turns 16 in a week, it's best not to put such a vehicle in either of our hands.

For the past eight years.....2002 Mitsubishi Diamante For the past month....2009 Pontiac G8

42 out of 48...not bad for a 47 year old. My father taught me well !

After a two hour drive to the Kentuckiana Model Car Club contest/swap meet in Louisville this morning, I'm greeted by a neon green that says the show has been cancelled. I presumed it was still a go as the flyers were available just a few weeks ago at the show outside Indy.

I've tried Kangaroo meat.....it made me jumpy!

My local Hobby Lobby had a sticker on a slot !!!

I've not seen the movie, but I did see a promo that was on the Internet which had my interest. Two things......Julianne Hough and a stripper pole! What they showed was PG at best, but then again the previews on TV/on-line are FAR tamer than the movie trailers for the Seth McFarlane movie Ted

They aren't pets....they are family! I had to have my greyhound put down about eighteen months ago and it still hurts. His arthritis had gotten the best of him that he could no longer even get up. I took the day off work and just spent it with him knowing my friends time had come. Look up the Rainbow Bridge and read it....read it a couple of times It helped me through it and pulled up some great memories I had with my big guy.

Do you have a flyer for this years show (this weekend)?