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1972coronet

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  1. It Happens Each Day is one of my favourite songs by David Crosby
  2. Can you believe that "butt cuts", bellbottoms, midriff shirts, and hairspray all dated to c.1962 ?
  3. Office of The Fonz was in the men's loo, which is quite curious
  4. Mid-1980's were my teen years ; the years which I realised that we were on the verge of mediocrity , and I made no bones about being vocal about that
  5. Is it Red Oxide ? Scratch-Fill ? Those are, in es., "spot putty" that's been thinned for spraying. I don't know enough about which was "first" : putty or primer. I've seen spot putty thinned with lacquer thinner then sprayed, but I don't know of the chemistry behind it beyond what I've seen a handful of times.
  6. Prince Chrysler-Plymouth-Imperial 11989 S. Hawthorne Blvd CA 107 Hawthorne, Ca.
  7. Panther Pink / Moulin Rouge [FM3] was a nifty, Spring 1970 colour offered by Dodge (Panther Pink) and Plymouth (Moulin Rouge)
  8. That looks fiddly, that original assembly. The "printed prop phone booth" is going to be cardboard ? BTW, great news that it's going to be produced in the USA !
  9. Head [1968] , the Monkees film, got its title as a goof on Andy Warhol's [REDACTED] from c.1964
  10. Neighbors is an underrated classic Black Comedy from 1981 which stars John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd in reverse-roles
  11. The positive mounting points are one of the biggest improvements (i.e., the manner in which the exhaust manifolds or headers mount to the heads, for an instance). The decal sheet is outstanding; huge improvement over any MPC offering of that time ! Then there's the separate headlamp lenses (though I wish that there were two extra included, as I managed to lose one on my [mediocre] build), which are always better than moulded-in / plated offerings. Good call on the two extra front wheel mounting pins, too !
  12. Truth is, today's society bears an uncanny similarity to the works of William Burroughs's imagination
  13. "It is, depending upon your definition of what is is... because there is no there there."
  14. J'm planning to do a mix-n-match with those decals : Lazy Larry's Take-Away : Champion Breeding
  15. Awesome kits coming along ! Got me eyes on that Dually , Bronco, and maybe the Jeep. Keep 'em comin', Round2 !
  16. Lots of white knuckle "drivers" on I-15 in the Murrieta/Temecula stretch, all travelling to the casinos -- just sluggin' along in the number one lane at a mind-bending 60-65 MPH, not a care in the world. It's nice driving a beater ex-police car -- surprising low-mid range torque for passing the s_it heels who should be travelling in the far right lane(s) ONLY.
  17. Well, General Lee speaking, you may get into some trouble.
  18. "Life is just a bowl of All-Bran, you wake up every morning and it's there..." , goes Happy Days Toy Town at the end of Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
  19. I'm of the opinion that the 1980's were responsible for ruining more Muscle Cars than the 1970's. So many over-restored / incorrectly "restored" cars from that era -- braided hoses, Pro Street, and, worse yet, original items/parts which were thrown away or plated-over, forever ruining their originality. I, too, enjoyed D.O.H. as a youth. I can't stand it these days -- really, since the mid-1980's as a teen. A friend-of-a-friend had (he sold it some 15 years ago) a 95% original 1969 Charger R/T 440 in factory Hemi Orange. He had to hide his car because of the clowns who were on him to sell it to that T.V. show. He knew how the cars were "treated", and told them to pound sand. And, this was during a (awful) period when a 10 year old car - in the stranglehold of the 1979-1980 OPEC crisis - wasn't worth the ground it sat upon.
  20. Outlaw Josey Wales is one the greatest revisionist history films ever made
  21. The seller ostensibly offers the same set for the orange car : General Lee 1:24 1:25 scale water slide decals Dukes Of Hazzard white backing | eBay IIRC, the Black General was used in the episode when them Duke boys were smuggling prunes across state lines (Dukes of Prunes S8-E15)
  22. I'd be happy if the STOCK version of the 1/20 scale Econoline were to be remastered and re-released.
  23. Your memory's better 'an mine. I certainly remember those overzealous eBay listings ; and, now that I think of it, I never witnessed an official announcement from Round2.
  24. Run to the loo, but watch the aglets of your shoes
  25. "Down on the street where the faces shine...", is the first line in the Stooges Down on the Street on their 2nd album , whose title is Fun House
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