Rodent

They 45-48, younger than most of the folks on this forum.......

If you want to do an American car, try the Revell '68 Chevelle SS396. It has fewer issues than the '69 (bumper fit) and I believe that it is available from RoG.

My local Goodwill has "Grandpa's Old Truck". Also appears to be a Ford promotional piece, with a red/white 65 F100 and "Grandpa". Cool puzzle Misha, and I'll bet it was one of your favorite gifts!

Isn't Dale Horner the last one standing?

Agreed, or cast when/if you feel like it and put the parts on eBay. Your stuff looks too good for it to just disappear.

Most of his subject matter doesn't align with what I typically build, but I did order his '53 Ford PU interior parts a while back. Very, very nice pieces at a reasonable price and very good service. Three thumbs up for Ed!

Like this one?

Tina Louise wins. She is still alive.

I guess I have very few degrees of separation from her. Mom's oldest brother lived in Reno and drove truck for Wells Cargo (her parents' business) for many years. She just seemed so honest and midwestern on the show.

with phonograph needle

blind, deaf, mute

Saw one at my LHS this weekend, priced at $34.99.

You are probably right, but IMHO the engine and engine compartment were the worst features of the original kits. I don't see them fixing that. I guess that we can hope that Oldsmobiles and Pontiacs are on Revell's mind as offshoots of the new Chevelle tooling, even though the Grand Prix is on a longer wheelbase.

Ha! In pre-Covid days, folks would bring jigsaw puzzles to the office and leave them in the break room. This is a company of around 300 bodies. The idea was that someone would open one and start it, leaving it on one of the tables. During the day, other folks would wander by and add to the puzzle, until it was built. Part of the idea was that you may be working on that puzzle with someone who you hardly know, from a department that you have little day-to-day relations with. Then, some diabolical person left a puzzle with all identical pieces, except for the outer sides/corners. I think it was a picture of Butchart Gardens or some other similar thing with flowers and trees and water. We finally finished it, but I think it took about two months.

Her Dad's rich

Is the OP using a Y-Block or an FE? For an FE, I would suggest the cast iron headers from all of the AMT kits. For a Y-Block, I don't know what to suggest other than the '56 headers.

In real life there wasn't much room for non-fenderwell headers in the 57-64 Ford.

Never had this kit, and don't know a lot about the car in general, but it looks like it may be a road draft tube. It's where crankcase fumes used to go before PCV systems, and the reason why there is always an oil streak in the middle of the lane of 1950s concrete freeways when you watch those old videos.

Thanks. I thought their kitchen was amazing at the time, and that the white tile and oak cabinets at my folks' house was lame. Not so much anymore...

She made cookies before going on dates?

Seems like something Car & Driver would have done "back in the day" for the April issue......

I have been returning to this pic all day and staring at it. I have never seen so many 1970s colors in the same place at one time, not even the Brady's kitchen. And I was present through the entire 1970s. I think that a lot of the "Porsche-powered" buses were thrown away after the third or fourth engine failure. The parts prices were just too much for these compared to the earlier carbureted 1600 dual-ports and the domestic manufacturers were turning out halfway decent vans with actual air conditioning.

My dad built an original Big T somewhere in the 1963-65 time period, and it was always on display when I was a kid. It became a bit worse for wear. Mom would try to dust it and break parts off. Dad smoked until 1971, Mom smoked until 1979, so the white parts weren't so pristine. The chrome was pretty much gone. Sadly, I did not save it or his Monogram Duesenberg. I have never seen one of the Lindberg kits, but when the reports started coming in that there was no chrome, I immediately thought of a period "rat rod" kind of thing that some young guy in SoCal would have built and driven, maybe hoping to take it to the dry lakes. Weathered body, etc. No money for chrome axles or backing plates. Just rattlecanned or brush-painted junkyard parts.

through the door