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On the other hand what would I do with a Bentley Mulsanne? I would have to live in it since I wouldn't be able to make mortgage payments anymore.

Slight tangent here. I drive a 2001 VW Passat wagon which I bought used from a local Mazda dealer who also has a Maserati/Bentley dealership in the same building. Apparently since my car is "European" and therefore "classier" they shunt me over to the exotic side for overpriced oil changes and what-not. During my first and subsequently last overpriced oil change I saw a Bentley Mulsanne sitting in their showroom. Sticker was over $350,000. Apparently I am on their e-mail list for all the great deals on offer from this establishment. Last week I got an e-mail from them offering to lease me a Bentley Mulsanne for 36 months at the low, low rate of 2,999 DOLLARS a month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course I was flattered that they thought I might be able to come up with such a princely sum every single month for 36 months. My entire VW Passat only cost $4,500! I could get a another Passat every 45 days for 3 years instead of the Bentley. Food for thought.

I really enjoy seeing your work. It is very well done and very attractive. Now you can rework that Franklin Mint car so it looks as nice as your builds!

Very cool! I started a similar collection but stalled out! Keep on going! In addition to the Superbird the AMT Road Runner and GTX would be relatively easy to do. Don'y you love other people planning projects for you??!!

The Orange Crate looks great not being Orange and chrome.

Back in the late 80s/early 90s Herb Deeks kitted the 39 Peterbilt in 1/32 scale.

He's all growed up!

My first car in 1973 was a 63 Riviera that came with two crunched quarter panels. It only had 60K miles on it and did not have power seats/windows, etc. I loved that car. I had many others: 63 Impala SS, 66 Chevelle SS, 33 Plymouth with a 289 in it. I can't even remember all of the lesser 60s iron I went through. My high school parking lot was not bad! There were two guys with Boss 302 Musrtangs. Several 383 Road Runners, a very nice 56 Chevy Bel air Hardtop, lots of Chevelles and many 6 cylinder 3 speed rusted out mustangs. There were two guys who had identical 58 Chev 4 doors in the same two tone green paint job. I remember a 340 Duster and one 340 Dart. Another guy drove a 49 Chev fastback in lime green with a small block and automatic in it. I don't remember the teachers driving anything too interesting in high school but my second grade teacher - Miss Monahan- drove her model A to school! It was 1965 and she was a spinster. In Junior High the shop teacher had a new 71 Torino with the laser stripes and another teacher drove his german Ford Taunus to school. After I graduated a friend of mine bought a Boss 429 Mustang from an ad in the classifieds in the paper for $2000. (1976) He kept it for about six months and then he sold it for what he paid for it. He ended up with a beautiful 69 Cougar Eliminator with 428 SCJ 4 speed and detroit locker. It was mint. He sold it several years later to buy a new Ford 4X4 pickup. DOH!!! Live long enough and we all have stories of the ones that got away. I passed on a 60 Caddy Convert, complete and running and little rust for $200. Also was dumb not to buy a 63 plymouth two door with a 413 and torqueflite with extra engines, trans, etc for $175. Also missed out on a nice chopped and channeled Model a coupe with a 300 inch flathead in it that was set up for dirt tracking for $125.00 SIGH.

I saw a Lotus from the mid 80s zipping down the freeway the other day. Even cooler was a late 40s Buick Fastback that cruised past me while I was riding my bike in St. Paul.

Art! Look at the first post. See at the bottom to the right of the picture of the Revell 57 Ford wagon? It is a link to someone's list of staion wagon kits. Look at it. It is very comprehensive. It even includes your 40 Ford woody wagon as the first kit on the 1940s page!!!! That's what I am talking about.

Chevy used the Nomad name quite a bit after '57. The family of a grade school friend of mine had a 58 Chevy wagon with Nomad trim. My grandma had a 61 Chevy Nomad wagon. I have seen 70 Chevelle wagons with the Nomad nameplate on it. On a different note - why is everyone listing wagons when the link is to a LIST OF WAGON KITS !!!!

You are lucky she didn't lay "Their misfortune is no excuse for my gluttony" on you!!

That is a little too comprehensive. The guy even includes Palmer and TKM kits!

Motorcycles actually did evolve from bicycles. They added small motors to bikes to pace the bicycle racers and it evolved from there. You can say that the pedals and cranks are vestigial.

Hyperbole much? No doubt a significant collection but "arguably the best in the world". There are lots of great collections around the world. That is like saying that there is one painting in the world that is the best! Laughable statement.

Really? There are a ton of ignorant people out there who are incapable of having anything even remotely resembling an informed or even a half-assed opinion. That is part of the problem. If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything!

Didn't some guy in Indiana do one of those in resin several decades ago? I vaguely recall that.

Even back in the day I thought it odd how MPC did some kits in 1/20th like this one, the AMX, McLarens, STP Turbine cars and the Corvettes. They were good kits but...... IMC and even Monogram dabbled in 1/20th too. I am glad AMT never did.

I saw Eric Burdon several years ago with the "New Animals". They were great! The Animals without Eric Burdon would suck. They would be a cover band. Eric Burdon without any Animals would be great. He was the band.

Google the Monteverdi Hai. It was a Swiss built mid-engine GT car from the late 60s. It was sort of an ugly version of a Pantera. It had a mid-mounted 426 Hemi in it.

Several years ago I was driving my Austin Mini past the local drive-in when a guy in 66 Charger with 383 emblems pulls up next to me and asks me if I have a hemi in it. It was humorous but I replied in the negative. Later on it came to me what I should have said to him - "Naw. It's just a 383!"

A can of spray insulating foam down their stacks would work really well and is cheap and easy!

You could always grab a SCTA rulebook.

The producers Of DOH committed Charger-cide! Send them to The Hague for war crimes!

Those morons like to do it to cyclists also. There is no end to stupidity of some humans on this planet.