Rodent

took them away

must be married

Jeannie, of course!

I have purchased pants and shoes online, but only stuff that I am familiar with. I have been picking up business casual pants on eBay for $30-40 that sell for nearly $100 at Nordstrom. New with tags, new without tags. My normal work shoe is a Rockport Eureka. When I need a new pair, it's much less hassle to get them online than to hope the brick and mortar store has the right size. Not usually cheaper online, but much less hassle.

If you want to disappear down a rabbit hole for hours, there are dozens of these old dealer training films on YouTube. I was watching Imperial vs. Lincoln for 1959 last night when Bill posted this thread.

https://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/olds/68ol1/68ol1.html This isn't the greatest, but you can glean some info from it. Of course, brochures are printed before the cars are released, and things changeover the model year. Given the choices in the brochure, I think a prototypical W-30 in that color would have been ordered with a black top/interior or parchment and the stripe to match.

Black, gold, parchment, blue are the color choices I can see that were available.

Not to hijack the thread, but Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is another great car spotting movie for those of us of a certain age. Especially if you dig in to the actual story of what cars were owned and driven by the real people depicted.

That was Franz von Holzhausen that broke the window. He is Musk's chief of design.

I too am working on the Revell of Germany 1/16 356B coupe. I haven't built a Porsche since the original Revell 914 in what, 1971? Also don't build larger scales, but I liked the way HPIGuy's build looked. My LHS didn't have it (now they do), and the mail order giants were out of stock as well. Got mine on eBay from Burbank's House of Hobbies in SoCal. Great seller BTW, and I like that I am supporting an LHS, even if they aren't my LHS. As drodg said, the engine is a bit blobular. I don't think I am going to go too far to change that. I still have to detail paint the engine tin and install it with the generator and air cleaners. The model sits a tiny bit low in the front which restricts the movement of the steerable wheels. The tires rub on the inner wheelhouses. Mine is all painted which causes issues with the snap together aspect, but it's easy enough to clean out the joining areas. A bit of mine is glued because it is more solid that way. Color is Testor's Italian Red over Tamiya pink primer with wet look clear. That is pretty much the same as the molded red color. I have been having trouble with roughness in the red and clear, and wound up stripping the bumpers. I need to do a little color sanding and polishing of the body. My research showed that the 356B coupe circa 1960 could have a red, black, or grey interior with red paint. Not 100% sure if that is true, but I decided to go with grey. Tamiya AS28 and TS48. Used different blacks and metallics on other parts. Was fairly happy with Metalizer aluminum on the transaxle, and Magnesium on the engine. After it dried, the engine got a wash of The Detailer to make the cooling fins stand out. Some sadistic person at R.O.G. though it was necessary to have a Porsche crest on the shift knob. I managed to get the decal in place fairly easily, but was sweating the whole time. Wish I had better pictures, but the sun is so low in the sky it makes long shadows any time of the day now. Someday I will make a photo booth.

The 91% IPA finally melted off the pink primer. Just for fun, I tossed in another part that had been primed with automotive primer and had a coat of the Testors lacquer without clear. The Testors came off almost immediately, but the primer stayed put.

Came close to getting hit twice today, big time. Once in each car. Coming back from Walmart there is a curvy residential street with a 25 mph limit that nobody obeys. On one of the left curves I see an early 90s Ford cargo van coming the other way much too fast. He crosses the center line and is heading right for me. Not just head on, because of the curve in the road he is pointed at my driver's A pillar. At the last minute he yanked the wheel and got back in his lane. Gotta dump the dash cam footage of that. Later on, I was in the spouse's car. Red light, I was going to turn right. My light turned green and I waited three "potatoes" and started my turn. A woman in a black Challenger blew the red, totally unaware of her surrounding. I assume she was talking to someone over bluetooth because her mouth was moving as she went by. I followed her to the next intersection where she cut someone else off so she could make a right turn from the left lane. Makes me want to get a Tahoe for a daily driver.

pays for models

Magazine was at B&N when it was published by Golden Bell. At least some of them were.

Assuming it won't be available at LHS or Barnes & Noble?

I have had poor luck with brake fluid and Tamiya as well.

If you are going to be a rivet counter, the 67 accessory drive is not correct for 69 and up. An AMT 70 Monte Carlo could donate it's underhood parts to make a more correct 69 up Impala/Caprice.

Just got off the couch to get another 7% IPA. The 91% IPA seems to be having an effect on the Testors red, hence the pink color. Nothing on the pink primer yet. If it strips to the primer, I will consider it a victory.

We will see. I have had poor luck in the past with 91% IPA and Tamiya. At least this new stuff is turning pink. Hopefully by tomorrow morning I will see some progress.

OK, wish me luck with the IPA(s).

Three weeks in new Super Clean in a sealed container. Tamiya pink primer, Testors laquer, Wet Look clear. Hardly budged the Testors, didn't do anything to the Tamiya. Once the parts dry out, I will try new 91% IPA on the parts, and a 7% hazy IPA for me. I tried ELO before the Super Clean and it did nothing.

I picked up a can at the LHS a while back, but haven't used it. Yes, it was something like $15. Figured I'd use it for the exposed chassis primer on my next Mustang.

I agree with Snake. Not that I have anything to hide or be ashamed of. It's just that I would have to assemble my stash from five different areas and it would probably take a couple of hours to set up and put away.

did just befell

Bangkok?