oldcarfan

I can't find the link right now, but I read a while back that a lotof the companies that have been sending jobs to China are looking at bringing them back to the US to improve quality and response time. Seems that labor is like everything else, you get what you pay for. Also anything that they ship over there to get built gets copied and ripped off.

Hey congrats! My wife finally had lap-band last year and she has lost almost 100 pounds. Now she wants me to lose 20 or so pounds!

I voted for the pickup, but I would love to see them start re-issuing all the previous versions but with stock and maybe also vintage speed parts added. How about some vintage Bonneville/drylakes components? It would give me a whole new reason to buy more. I have started to buy more of them at various times, but the modern day components always stopped me.,

Love this car! Color is great too. So good to see cars that look like hot rods that could be driven. I like Chip Foose and all those guys, but there cars lack personality. They are sort of the Toyota Camry of hot rods, competent but bland.

I currently have 233,000 on my Focus.

I would love to see the MPC 70's annual kits reissued, Pinto's, Vegas, Monzas, Volares etc. Oh and the 1976 Datsun pickup with the stock parts back in it. The '68 parts back in the Chevy pickup.

Though these were mass-produced vehicles, through time and attrition, they are no longer easily found. Just like endangered animals, the pool of availability is ever shrinking. My personal pet peeve is when Chip Foose or someone else starts with a pristine vintage car and then proceeds to tear it down and customize it. Like they say, "It's only original once." I always hope to see the original unrestored cars cared for so our grandchildren can see them. There are many projects that need a little work in junkyards all over the country that could be used instead. Just my opinion.

Beautiful work! You've inspired me. My dad started on a similar project about 15 years ago, using a 1/32 scale semi-truck chassis and one of these cutdown LRW bodies. He was building it to tow a big camper trailer. I'm going to have to dig it out and see if I can finish it for him.