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Precisely as you've proposed: member donations (KLON in Long Beach for an instance). Too bad that there aren't any Rock stations which sustain from donations, etc. They're all commercial, Top 40 tripe (e.g., Disney owns them via whatever slush organisation) with zero imagination; "Simulcast" bollocks.

Side Bar: That's from one of my all time favourite albums ! Mike Pinder narrating a poem written by... Lodge? Hayward? I can't recall.

Thanks for your response and for the link. IIRC, there's a free-form station which broadcasts out of NYC, though I don't recall its call letters (no, 'Murray The K' isn't involved). However, I've only read about its existence, and had heard tales of it. Out here in the Los Angeles area there was at least one 'Pirate Radio' station which turned "legitimate" by c.1972: KLOS (long gone). Older friends and older relatives used to talk about KLOS (and, later, KMET, also long gone) and how it was broadcast from off-shore; how they'd play entire albums, etc., etc. Again, before my time (not by much, admittedly).

I have a de facto bootleg of The Stooges Raw Power album (1973) which is titled Rough Power (1995). It's almost entirely composed of a WABX broadcast from late 1972 wherein rough edits of the pending Raw Power were brought into the WABX studio by Iggy Pop. Total free-form broadcasting -- a tradition carried on by the fledgling college radio stations ("Lightbulb" stations, et alia). Likewise, I recall a time when I was quite young when stations broadcast in both Amplitude Modulation [AM] and Frequency Modulation [FM]. The only commercial-free station left that I can think of is KLON out of Long Beach (CSLB); a Jazz station which also plays Blues on weekends.

Thanks much for your well composed response. The excerpt is from factory literature for the 1969 Dart; here's the link to the original document :

Chevy and GMC light duty pickups of 1967-1972 and 1973-c.1991 have been favourites of mine - esp. design-wise - for my entire life and then some

Ostensibly, Frequency Modulation [FM] was broadcast sans commercials at one time. Of course in my time, I wasn't able to reap that benefit , as I was born in 1970. Here's a (modified-by-me only to emphasise the catalogue's text) dealer information document excerpt from the 1969 Dodge Dart , courtesy of Hamtramck Historical . I would like to hear from anyone who can support or deny this boasting. Maybe it was a regional thing, the commercial free aspect ?

Amen to that. I've been using Tamiya's aerosols almost exclusively for more than 20 years, and have only had one can 'go bad' -- and that's only because of user error (the can was half-empty - I'd used its first half on another kit - and I let it sit for too long between uses... like, 10+ years). I've sprayed Tamiya TS in weather and temperatures from 20 degrees with moderate humidity, to 100 degrees and low humidity, and more recently, 90 degrees with 50% humidity -- zero issues.

Dan (Them/They) is the new CFO of SVB after much consternation

Trailers (Heller ) look NICE ! Cragar tyre/wheel kit (Aoshima ) is promising . Lots and lots of AWESOME kits coming along !

This kit's been an absolute pleasure so far (I've only assembled the engine/trans; waiting for turquoise paint for the engine). Such a crisp, lovely kit with that vintage feel, but with modern tooling improvements over the original (mounting points are vastly improved vs. the original MPC 'generic' Chrysler B/RB). The separate ignition distributor is a major improvement over the blob on the original engine (which resembles an oil fill tube & cap). I'm building my copy OOB, but I am going to source plain steel wheels for the trailer; I'm also going to whittle a brake master cylinder out of the kit's sprue (technically OOB... haha). For giggles, I assembled the headers after stripping their plating. While I'm building this one as a stock representation, I am planning on using the headers on the next build. Unlike their fiddly relatives, the improved headers have positive mounting points (male) to the heads (female). Not certain what colours I'm going with for the body and interior, though I'm leaning toward a red body with red/white interior and white tail stripe.

Fits are what I have when dealing with finicky parts in some kits which don't want to fit and make me want to sometimes quit

Nice COPO (Central Office Production Order -- General Motors' fleet and special order department) Camaro L72 (427, iron heads, solid lifter, single four barrel). Nice to see a correct 'raw' aluminium intake manifold -- most that I've seen in-so-far-as models have been painted engine colour, which is incorrect. Love the work on the door cards ! Blue-on-blue will be a stunner !

One of my favourite gold paints available in a rattle can. Excellent choice , @mrmike!

That '55 210 hath truly grabbed my attention! NICE ! Yes, I'm a sucker for minty greens, especially pearls. Scallops are perfect, too ! Now, '56 is my favourite year of the so-called Tri-Fives. Your build has garnered my attention as well ! Looking forward to following your progress.

Chris or the truck ? ?

The pending reissue of the Drag Nut reminds me that it's time to make an appointment with my doctor.

I'm liking those rims/wheel covers. Since you asked for opinions: ditch the wide white. I'll be honest here and state that I'm not a fan of wide whites on any vehicle past 1957, 1958, and especially pickups (any year) and any 1961 & newer vehicle. Pinstripe white walls would -- again, IMO -- look 1,000 times better with those rims/wheel covers. Looking forward to watching your progress.

Another classic G.M. A-body from the sixties for your collection. Quite looking forward to following your progress, @mrmike!

I finally received a copy of this bad boy (disclaimer: I'd ordered another one yesterday from a local-to-me eBay seller -- received it today ! The other one I'd ordered back in 1972 will get here soon enough... ). !!! WOW !!! This thing is AWESOME ! A kit that I - that nobody - thought would never see the light of day (a hardtop was 'proposed' some, what, 16 years ago ?) is now in my arthritic hands ! KUDOS to Round2 et alia ! Keep 'em coming, folks !

Burritos, of the Flying Brothers kind, performed awesome versions of R&B and Soul songs in a C&W manner

"Flop that MPC 1968 Coronet into the P.O. Box, s'il vous plait?", I'm going to enquire of the Postal Carrier this afternoon.

Funny thing about the nomenclature of U.S. models' auto transmissions : I still employ their now-ancient alpha-numeric identities ( 700-R4, AOD, 518-A, 904, 727, TH-400, etc., etc.) . In other words, 46-RE is what used to be called A-518-A (I believe that the A-618-A -- for 6 pinion plantery , used behind the later-year-before-Daimler-bollocks-Cummins -- is dubbed 48-RE). Or, maybe I'm confusing the A-500 (904/998/999 with overdrive) with the A-518 assignment ? Or was the 43-RE ? That's why I employ their older nomenclature (haha).

Hopefully this Saturday (11. Mar. 2023), but I doubt it (Model Roundup usually posts thumbnails from @hpiguy's builds, even before he shares them on his YouTube channel).

I saw your earlier post; thanks for following up with photos. It appears to be decent, or at least a better basis for the Magnum (intake manifold could use some scribing). Which transmission is behind it? It should be a 518.