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No clue why the search on eBay isn't working. I found this by googling his seller name and it showed up on TopRatedSeller.com. I couldn't get it to work on the eBay site either.

I don't think a '69 LT-1 is a thing.... Pretty sure they came out for the 1970 model year.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/pontiacbanker/m.html

Wasn't this discussed a while back (I didn't search) and the answer was that is was a great idea, but the forum doesn't yet support attachment of .stl files?

Not red, but 2x aluminum, Tamiya metallic orange, a couple of light coats of Tamiya clear orange (which isn't super-shiny when dry), and TS-13. Should have dusted it before I took the pic, LOL. I did several spoon tests and the orange looked way better over the aluminum than anything else I tried.

What Joe said^^^ And she was a stripper before that.

Was just watching HPIGuy Chris' build of this kit. Looks good, but (like the AMT/Ertl '67 Mustang) it appears to have a power steering ram cylinder, but no power steering pump. C'mon model companies, do a little research please. Or hire me as a consultant to help with this kind of thing.

and Palmer blueprints

I remember that. My folks had a pretty good antenna, and channels 36 and 44 usually came in pretty well in the Sacramento area. Of course, as young boys, we all thought that Carol Doda was working for the wrong one of those two stations....

Yeah. Helped my ex's ex repaint a 76 280Z in 1980-81 that had spent most of its (short) life outside in Santa Barbara. Needed a junkyard hatch due to rust around the window and a bunch of other repair around the windshield.

Looks sweet Rich. Glad I could help.

This is what you want. It used to be available at Wal Mart, but you may have to go to a parts store to find it.

I believe that the Ego Blast version uses an external water pump. Some of the NA 3.5L and 3.7L use the internal pump. I believe that the F150 has an external pump no matter which version of the engine it has.

If it was a Ford V6 (like an Exploder) with an internal pump, a typical repair is "replace with known good engine" due to coolant in the crankcase.

Under Palmer kits

walk and point

I was at the LHS yesterday. Their 1/35 stuff is quite near the cars. I couldn't help but notice this on the shelf.....

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-cadillac-1952-sewing-machine-1883837593 This was one of the few things I found about Cadillac sewing machines when I searched. They say that it says 1952 on their machine.

I don't know either. One of the links I found gave a year of 1952 for the machine in question in the post. I think that would have been too late for Occupied Japan. It's a good riddle! An ex of mine had an old Singer that her dad adapted a larger commercial motor to. With the right needle, it had the power to hem Levis. She made many wonderful things on that machine, including wedding dresses for some of my friends. She and I also reupholstered her couch using it.

JC, I love these builds. Thank you for the tutorials. Not to take this down a dirt road, but I owned a '68 hardtop from 1977 to 2001. In 1981, I put it on jackstands and disassembled it underneath. Having never been more than 200 miles away from its birthplace, a good scrubbing underneath with Fantastik and some paint on other parts was all it needed to look new again. The link to the (almost) Ken Miles car is almost exactly what my (also) San Jose built car looked like as far as overspray underneath. Can't comment on what the other assembly plants did because neither me or my dad ever owned an early Mustang from any of the other plants.

Never owned a car with cooled seats, but had two rental Cadillacs with them over the years. The DTS ones were meh, but the CTS ones were amazing and cut down the need for A/C. They were also useful for distributing farts to the other passengers in very short order.

Nice Bonnepile! The most impressive thing I saw on my trip to the grocery store was a Charger Hellcat being driven carefully and safely in traffic.

I didn't see much online about these. Was that a blatant trademark ripoff by the Japanese company that made them, or were they somehow tied in with a GM promotion or something?

Maybe a rebuilt wreck?

Thanks for the heads-up Guido. I am DVRing it myself and alerted a colleague.