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No, that's not the case, especially since it's a GIRL!!! Maybe that does explain where a few parts disappeared to, though!

Chris, glad to see you joining in, and Nick, the plow would be fine. I'll get you both updated on the entry list shortly.

You won't here any cruel comments from me, I forget if it was the Focus RS or Fiesta RS Jeremy Clarkson tested on "Top Gear", all I remember was it was an electric green. Whichever one of the two it was, I know I'd give must more than just a kidney for it!!

....which is Eelco's bad driving, right!?!? If it has wheels, he will find a way to wreck it!

OOPS, my bad!!

Model!! Oh wait, wrong week!

Thanks Kostas, and maybe that is why progress is taking so loooooong! Or maybe just because I'm the slowest builder known to man! I have one project on the shelf that I started 12 years ago, and it's a car!

Slixx is still around, but only doing drag racing decals. They stopped making NASCAR decals years ago.

Not if you train the cat right!! I have four cats, and they know not to get on daddy's workbench, even though I swear my youngest girl would probably build if she had thumbs!

Those are good examples why those old split rims were called "widowmakers". By the way, there are also spoke wheels like that in the Revell AG Kenworth Australia W900.

Jared, your right, we do need to see some more Chevys. All the Fords need something to tow!!! I'm just kidding, I like where you have this going so far.

Was it Paul Blart!!?!?

Thank you, but I can't take credit for the truck, it is a NewRay 1/32 scale diecast! I just wanted something pretty to pull the AMT reefer kit.

Yes Aaron, that is a good example of the different state laws. Here in WV, the last time they changed the style of the plates was in the mid to late 90s, when they dropped the state background from our plates and went with the plate now. When they did the change, all the old plates had to be replaced.

i have to disagree there, yes reaction time is part of it, but even vehicles at the same speed won't stop in the same distance. If your driving a brand new Corvette and I'm behind you by only three seconds in my almost 5,000 pound 1990 Ford F-350 dually, my front bumper will be kissing the back of your head!

Great pics Aaron, thanks a bunch!

Did you wash the parts good in soapy water after you stripped them? I'm far from a paint pro, but it sounds like there may still brake fluid on the parts and it is reacting to the new paint. I would suggest, even though you don't want to, strip them again and then wash them with dish soap, just like if you were doing the dishes.

I guess sometimes working on a model gets stressful, man!!!!

You think this one is big, wait until I build one of the other little ideas floating around in my crazy head!! This one is scaled to a 180 inch sleeper, my idea for another one is going to be a 230 inch sleeper!!

Is there an echo in here!?!?! I'm just pulling your chain a little Casey, and you are correct on the two kits as well. The only real difference in the two kits are the bodies themselves, and maybe the dashbards, but other than that, the kits are exactly the same. The engine in both are a small block Ford engine with an automatic transmission. You are correct on both parts, Dave. As I mentioned in reply to Casey's post above, the Hay's Pro Street T-Bird and Lincoln are basically the same kit with different bodies, and they share nothing with the pro-stock or pro-stock based pro-street kit I posted the pic of earlier. I compared both kits shortly after my first post and there is nothing in common. By the way, just for reference, the Monogram pro-stock kits and so called pro-street car in my pic are 1/24 scale and the Hay's T-Bird/Lincoln LSC kit is 1/25.

Yes, a friend of mine used that primer with no problems. As for the one coat lacquer, probably, but don't hold me to it.

Well, between sleeping through most of the month of May because of a change in my high blood pressure medicine (which worked great by the way, lowest my blood pressure has been since I started having problems, with the exception of the wonderful side effect of constantly feeling I ran a marathon ) and my 1:1 figuring it was special enough to be worked on EVERY weekend for the past 3 weeks, I FINALLY got a chance to work on the truck again! I sat down at the computer and the workbench last night and did some little things, so this is not a big update, but it is an update! I finally have communtications, I took this pic of a Cobra 29 NW(NightWatch)LTD Classic I found online and photoreduced it on the computer. Then glued it in place in the overhead console, and sorry it's not the greatest pic, but it's the best I could get! I also made a mic cord out of some thin craft wire I had laying around, and coiled it by wrapping it around a small drill bit for my pin vise. I still have to get the mic I'm stealing off a kit CB painted and on the cord, and make a bungee cord out of thread for the mic to hang on.

Well, if there is congestion and gridlock, nobody's moving, and since I drive large vehicles, I have the right of way at all times, smaller vehicles WILL be shoved out of the way!! As for the Mario Andretti drivers, this is actually more real world, since I spent 12 years of my life driving 80,000 pound tractor trailers, I was lucky sometimes if I could get up to 40 or 45 MPH before I had to merge. I would either get going just enough to match up with a break in traffic and merge into the open space, and there more than one occasion where I had to stop and wait for a hole in the Indy 500 to open up before I could merge.

Well John, at least on the issue of the pro-street Matt & Debbie Hays T-Bird, I'd probably say with 99.9% certainty why Revell molded the kit in pink was because the car the kit was modeled after was pink! As for the AMT Nova, I was quite shocked when I opened the box to mine to see the light blue staring at me too. I have no clue in this day and age why they did that. My guess is someone at AMT thought it was a good idea or maybe they ran out of gray coloring for the plastic, or maybe just the one in charge of the coloring was smoking something good!! Also John, while that Revell T-Bird is similar in appearance to the pro stock version, that is all it has similar. If you are looking for a donor for a race only pro stock car, stick with the race only pro-stock kits and forget the Matt & Debbie Hays T-bird or it's sister kit Lincoln LSC even exists. The hays T-Bird and LSC have a twin (if I remember correctly) front mounted supercharger engine, full interior panels and treaded rear tires. The pro-stock T-Birds would be my only choice for a full race only donor. By the way, what are you looking for exactly out of the kits?? I have this version, even though I don't know if it is a complete kit or a parts kit or if it is another kit of this series that I have parts for without digging them out, but I MIGHT be able to help you out. If you would be interested, PM me and I'll start digging though the stash. EDIT:By the way John, I noticed this one says "Pro Street" on the box too, but this and the other kits in that series, a Trans Am and Camaro, were all based off the pro-stock kits of the time. They were far from true "Pro Street" cars!!

I can at least answer that part of your question for you Matt, and the plain simple answer is NO. We do things much differently here "across the pond" than you do. None of our cars come from the factory with license plates, each state does their own and not only do the plates get reregistered if the car is sold, we must renew our plates each year. With the renewal process, the plate stays the same, but if it is sold to another onwer, regardless of in the same state or not, the plate will change. Even if the vehicle is not sold, but the registration expires for a long period of time, the same owner may have to reregister a vehicle and get another plate. I had this happen personally with my pickup that is sitting in my driveway right now. I have owned it since 2003, and this was the plate I received from the state of West Virginia after I had purchased it. It sat in my driveway from late 2005 to late 2008 for mechanical reasons I just seemed to lazy to get around to until my better half's car decided it was going to go to the big junkyard in the sky and the truck was the cheaper of the two to fix. In that time I let the registration expire and first thing I had to do before I started driving it again in 2008 was get a new plate, the one it still wears today. Also, for the piece of junk still sitting beside my truck, if I were to spend the money to fix everything wrong, I would have to get new plates for it since it's registration ran out in 2009. When the plates are renewed each year here, we just get a new sticker for the corner of the plate with the year it expires. Here is a pic of the car's plate with the expired 2009 sticker. One other item to note, each state does the renewal process differently, some go by the registered owner's birthdate, West Virginia uses the first digit of the license plate number as a renewal date, and the plate expires the first day of that month. In the example of the car's old plate, it expired on July 1st, 2009, since the first number on the plate is 7. In the case of specialized plates such as a commerical plate, which my pickup wears a form of, all of the commercial plates expire on July 1st also, and personalized plates expire on January 1st. Sorry I can't be of more help on the specific plate you're looking for, but at least it may give you a better understanding of how we deal with license plates here in the states.