High octane

$57 a pound for Portillo's beef? What is it gold? That is pricey!

Check out page # 33 of the latest issue of "the other mag" as it shows this procedure.

The "Empire" is my FAVE hobby shop and I get over there a few times a year and also stop at Greenfield News & Hobby which is only 15 minutes away and has 12,000 square feet which is the biggest hobby shop I've ever seen. I need to get over there in the very near future.

Here are the books:

Besides watching the gassers run back in the mid-60's, it's books and mags like these that fuel my passion for building these cars in scale.

Mike I'm sorry to hear of your hobby shop close its doors as it is a rough business to be into these days with all the other electronic devices that are available to kids these days as well as the tough economy. Where in Milwaukee or what hobby shop did your dad take you to, do you remember?

The next swap meet at the DuPage County Fairgrounds in Wheaton will be on February 26th, 2012, be there!

Just glue the hood shut and move on with it, simple!

While I've never had pizza from the Quonset, I have been by there many times and there are a lot of great pizza places in and around Chicago. I know people who have left Chicagpland and they really miss the hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches,so much that they'll take a sack full on the plane on their way back home after visiting here.

Harry the SNOW is COMING!!!!

John, check with Jim Stein at: jamesmodeler1@comcast.net as he should be able to help you out.

I believe it's going to be held in Loveland, Colorado.

Scale Auto, Model Cars, Goodguys Gazette, Gasser Magazine, Musclecar Review,and I'm always looking for issues of Hot Rod and Super Stock magazines from the 60's.

Welcome back and sorry to hear about your housing situation.

Besides working on my model cars, going to swap meets and NNL's, going to real car shows and cruise nights, cooking, doing things around the house , going on vacations, belonging to two model car clubs, retirement for me is ANYTHING but boring, so I don't know who you've been talking too.

I sometimes cringe when I look at most of my stash and to really think that I'll build all of them is only in my wildest dreams. And yet if a new model comes out that strikes my fancy or I see one or three at a swap meet I buy it. Oh well, what's a few more on the pile? My wife doesn't complain about that at all, however she does find other things to complain about/ LOL!

Thanks everybody for your comments.

I was at a small swap meet yesterday and picked up another "Rat Packer" Chevy II kit, three Hot Rod magazines from the 60's, a '32 B-400 body and interior tub from Jimmy Flintstone, and some decals from Rick Lucas.

I would stay away from that one myself and when I do get one it will probably be a PACE booth as several people I've talked to that have them are real happy with them.

Here's a build I recently finished after taking a break from building 1/4 mile nostalgia drag cars. It is basicly stock with the exception of the baby moons on the steelies which came from the LRW kit. The dog dishes in that kit looked too big and clunky. The hood pins, seat belt hardware and pentestar are photo-etched items and the antenna is made from guitar string. Also added are floor mats, valve stems, cap for washer fluid, and battery hold-down. The paint is Testors and of course BMF.

Sweeeeeet car, $169,900 I don't think so!

I hope to be cutting back on my buying of new kits this upcoming year and the '62 'Vette will not be on my "buy list" as I'm really not a big fan of Corvettes otherwise I would own one.

If you need a '70 Charger, check out Time Machine resins. I don't think that Revell is going to produce ANOTHER Charger kit for awhile.

While I'm not really excited about the re-issued Myers Manx kit at all,I'll probably buy one as I'd like to put in a 'Vair engine into it istead of the VW power, or it'll just sit in the pile like so many other plastic purchases I've made of the years.

In 1967 I was heading east across the state of Indiana through the pouring rain at 110 mph in my '65 Corvair Corsa without a quiver. Unsafe? I doubt it.