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Why, do you want it to crash?!?!

Even though I'm not currently working on them, that's light compared to my Dale collection. So much research, so little time!

The T-600A is around 25 years old since the the real truck is only 25 years old, the 1:1 T-600 came out in 1986 if I remember correctly. The kit is probably closer to the 20 year old range, since I think it came out around 1990. As for the trailers, not really much was modified from the original moving vans, with the exception of the added racing parts.

I'll take one too!!!

If there is, Gregg better not miss me, especially since I somehow managed to hit that level in ONE YEAR!!!!

That's more than I needed to know!!

Oh please make these images stop!!!!!!! I just ate and might want to sleep tonight!!!

If you can't, you can drop it off at my house or the TA at exit 11 next time you're through!!

I don't think the problem is Facebook, it's all the idiots talking or texting while driving! HANG UP AND DRIVE!!!!!!!!!! If you were supposed to talk on the phone while driving, a phonebooth would have wheels!

Yep, I just found this one. http://www.youtube.com/user/modelcarsmag?blend=1&ob=5

Have you checked with Jerry at Modeltruckin to see if he has any similar decals?

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! I'm going back to keeping my mouth shut!

Or if you run out of gas, drop it around the ball on the back of the nearest pickup and get a free tow to the gas station!

My favorite (and only! ) method is using Dawn Power Disssolver. It does not have any harsh fumes like you might get with the oven cleaner, and it does the job in just about 3 or 4 hours if you are in a hurry and overnight will have the chrome literaly falling off if you're not in a rush. It does a great job at both the chrome and the lacquer undercoat, and since it is for nasty gunk on dishes, it washes the parts in the same step!

I was thinking the same thing!

I had picked up the Race Hemi at Walmart before they quit selling models a few years ago.

I thought about families posting for other reasons like in a case of an emergency, just make sure your login info is know for them.

I'm not sure how it measured up with the Cleveland, but I know the 351M was just a destroked 400M, the 351M was a 3.50 inch bore and 3.50 inch stroke and the 400M was 4.00 x 4.00, or at least that what my old Chilton's I had on them said.

Yeah, I've been thinking of that as well, Tommy. This was my first virus attack, my Avast antivirus usually does a good job of keeping the bad stuff out, but this one got past it. I did get an external hard drive, and was able to get the important stuff onto it, and everything is also on my laptop as well. As for losing everything in a fire, I pray I never go through that again, I lost everything including about 250-300 models back in 1997, and I'm still searching for some of the rarer kits I'd lost. I'd hate to think about rebuilding the almost 500 kit collection I have now, not to mention the NASCAR collectables and everything else in the house!

I should say the same to you!! I've been here for a little over a year, and only go to that other site you know me from for the Cannonball CBP!

I had three of them too! The Cougar was killed when I put some of that "Restore" engine treatment in it. Yeah, the stuff gave it some more power, and seemed to help it, but it also locked up the oil pump, which killed the camshaft! I got the LTD with the 400 to replace the Cougar, never did get the swap finished, and the last was my Bronco. It was the best of the 3, except for the carb. I had to tune it alomst every 2 weeks! It liked to richen itself up, and the fuel mileage would drop to 4 MPG! I'd lean it back out and get 12 MPG!

Jim, the engine in the truck is either a 460 or a 351M, I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure it might be a 351M, because the 79 Bronco from the Model King I have looks like the 351M I had in my 1:1 79 Bronco. As for a Cleveland in a Thunderbird, I'm not sure about the actual Cleveland, but I had a 76 Mercury Cougar with the 351M and a 77 Ford LTD with the 400M in it. These were all the same car underneath as the T-Bird, and the M engines were called "Modifieds", because from everything I had learned on the engines, they were a modified Cleveland. If I remember correctly, the M engines had traits from both the small blocks of the era as well as the big blocks.

Yes, Casey, I believe you are correct, that engine does have a mounting plate. For everyone else questioning the type and difference between the Hayes T-Bird and the LSC, I'm almost 100% sure that the engine is a Windsor, a Cleveland style engine has a "snout" that the distributor mounts into where the Windsor goes straight into the block. This Cleveland "snout" is also has a flat mounting surface for the water pump, where a Windsor has a shaped timing chain cover. The 351M and 400M was based from the Cleveland block, and the "snout" I mentioned cast into the block was more or less the timing cover also. The front cover on those engines was just a flat piece of metal. As for the kits themselves, both are the same kit. If you have built the T-Bird, you have also built the LSC, you jusst didn't know it! The only difference was the body, and maybe the inner door panels, I have both kits and the LSC I have to restore to one I had when they were new in the 90s is being restored with about 95% of the T-Bird parts.

I had the same happen to my hotmail account around the end of January, and the (insert your favorite four letter word here) idiots put a virus in the email they sent from my account. How do I know? I accidentally opened the darn link when I was trying to see who all it went to! My computer died 15 minutes later! AT least on the bright side, I was able to save my pictures and research materials, and the friend of mine who had built it even threw a newer motherboard and another hard drive in it, so it wasn't all bad!

It looks like REALLY Big Creek now!! On the serious side though, I pray it stays where it is and starts going down soon, and that you and your neighbors don't have any serious damage from it.