1972coronet

Welcome back to the hobby! While it's possible to paint-over plating - primer coat is necessary - it's best to strip-off the plating. This is easily done by the chemical strippers which are widely available; Purple Power and/or Super Clean are the most common for this purpose. Certainly, others' opinions will vary - I've always used the aforementioned and have had the best luck with either/or.

Diapers of the pre-owned value are oft tossed asunder in the Walmart parking lots of Anytown, USA

At last! The Supra is back! One of MPC's best kits ever! I'll have to get one or ten of them this time around... Good seeing the Monte back after 10 years. Heck, I still have the last reissue of it... don't know why I'd shelved it to begin with.

Please Kill Me is the title of a book (taken from a shirt's design made by Richard Hell which had a target painted on its backside, and the aforementioned words on its front) of interviews with early Punk Rock luminaries

Fame is what Pink Floyd had when they created and performed the soundtrack to the film More

Health is oft compromised predominately by stress, and not libations

Question Mark & The Mysterians [? and the Mysterians, as styllised] was one-of-many "one hit wonders" from the classic Garage Rock era

"Sixties? As in Rollin' Sixties?", replied the owner/operator of the Soul Food cafe on B'way & 92nd when I'd enquired about the presence of Rollin' 60's graffiti on one of the cafe's tables.

Once one has a feline companion, not another day can pass without a feline companion.

Motorcycle culture cinema from the sixties reached its zenith with Easy Rider, a fait accompli.

Sixes, as in DCLXVI, reminds me of, "I've forgotten what fifty-one, six, and five-hundred are in Roman Numerals, and I am LIVID!"

I love Russian Blues, and Tank is a fine example of the breed. How old is your companion?

Spectacular, like the Breakfast Taco that's served in the United States' southwest region

Cats - big or small - will install themselves into the tightest spots which seem to defy physics. They can do so because their arms and legs aren't directly-attached to their spine; their spine can twist and flip in ways that're completely foreign to we bipeds. When I first brough home Tæo (two years ago), he was still a tiny chaton. He'd found old cat toys and silverware that was long lost! Haha! He'd lay on his side, and swat under the stove and refrigerator; into nooks that're inaccessible to bipeds (or even adult felines). That photo of the chaton in that trailer reminds me of the first brood of kittens my family had. It was in 1986 (kittens born on 12th April, four days before me 16th birthday); I couldn't believe just how tiny those four chatons were! My sister - she's 8 years my junior - was playing with my old Tonkas and whatnot, and the kittens - after they were weened - would cuddle-up inside truck beds and front loaders and other compact spaces. Amazing (and superior) creatures.

1/24 scale 1975 Dodge Valiant Super Bee. Anyone else seen this before?

Screaming Lord Sutch performed Jack The Ripper, and is considered to be a proto-DeathRock artist

I get all kinds of attention in that rascal -- anything from the One-Finger-Salute to thumbs-up to "Here come the Po-Po!". I laugh at the finger-flippers - that's my favourite reaction. To make the entire experience for others that much more perplexing, I'm usually blasting psychedelic music or Punk or Metal while smoking Marlboro Reds and sipping coffee out of a 10+ years old 7-Eleven plastic cup (it's perfectly seasoned, like a BBQ grill or cooking pan).

Clarence White playing the hell out of the then-new White-Parsons B-Bender (which is now owned and curated by Marty Suart). 28.09.1968 Playboy After Dark

One of my favourite kits, warts and all. Yours is quite lovely, especially since you'd put more effort into than you give credit for: - Added the fender-to-cowl separation - Added front fender-to-rocker separation These are in addition to your other reworkings, aforementioned. My biggest structural peeve - and it's one which dates to the 1971 original Duster annual - is the wheelbase is off side-to-side, front wheels. I mention this not as a reflection on your fantastic build, but as a general observation. Keep up the GREAT work!

Reading books such as Joan Didion's White Album [1979] provides "unintentional" purviews into historical recordings of the ever-changing weather-climate of California

!!!NICE!!! Did you retain the kit's 'generic' Chrysler B/RB engine? I know that the Sebring/Plus could be had with the 400-HP/4-speed. Nice, classy RP23 appearance, too. IIRC, Missing Link offers -or did offer- those wheel covers.

Back on topic: I feel that promos of the Mach-E would be a great idea. I don't see it selling in kit form, as it's about as inspiring - design-wise - as a rice cake.

That kit is a treasure trove of cool accessories! I have an unbuilt original (I'd built countless copies back when it and its ad sequitur annuals were new) that I'll get to some day. Now, I must wonder what possibilities exist when it comes to design of E.V.'s? No EPA fuel economy standards to cater to, not emissions standards -- why not go crazy with designs? Talk about retro and individualised styles again!

I didn't listen to the audio as my dad's watching T.V. Are those guys predominately in western Canada? My friend Cliff Guidand owns a '72 Swinger Special 340; his is B5 blue with matching cloth/vinyl (base) interior, rubber mat (some cars received post facto upgraded upholstery), 3-speed. IIRC, his is a Crosstown car. 1971 1972 Swinger 340 Special | Canada | Canadian Swinger 340 Specials