Tom Geiger

Small electric alternative to golf carts, usable in retirement communities or beach towns like you show..

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Happy to help get another model completed!

Very cool that you have family originals! I remember back in 1969 I went to someone’s house who had a shelf of Hubleys that he and his dad had built together. I remember being impressed by the cars, the quality of the builds and the fact that he and his dad had worked on these together. A bit envious since my father hadn’t done so with me!

A while back I bought a lot of all small parts. I sorted a lot of it into my 50 drawer cabinets and wound up with labeled full drawers of things like carbs, valve covers, oil pans etc. I even have drawers marked round shapes, square shapes etc.. I constantly pull from those drawers on my current projects. And I still have a box like the size of a beer case bottom several inches thick to sort!

Tents for sleeping ? ?

The first Academy Model I remember years ago was a Pony. Wonder if the same kit..

Out in leftfield

There used to be a vendor at NNL East who had “The wall of dreams”. He had a stock of rare old annuals everyone drooled over! He had these priced high. Often $200-300 each. There were people who were furious.. they’d come to me to complain that the show needed to “make him price kits reasonably!” First, we cant make anyone do anything.. but I’d ask the complainers what was “reasonably”? The answers were all over the place based on what they’d want to pay! Everything from “no kit is worth more than $100”. down to people who would reference that kits once sold for $2! Of course if those same folks owned the kits and were selling, the prices would be much higher! At the end of each show I’d see people that had bought some of those kits and I’d ask. Yes they paid the price. They wanted the kit for years and finally got it. So the seller found willing participants. The vendor did have a good business plan. Rare old kits are hard to find! If he priced them at $50 each, folks would have maimed each other to get at them! He would have sold out, and would have no stock for subsequent shows. But if he sold 12-24 kits at a $100+ profit, he’d make his money and could find a dozen or two kits to fill those slots in his inventory. Makes sense to me! End of story is that the kits were his property and he could ask what he wanted. But if there were no buyers he wouldn’t be at the shows. Nobody was forcing people to buy at those prices, but enough did to make it a viable business!

Agreed. Go to eBay Motors and do a search for "Challenger" and model cars do pop up. So now you have a guy who sees a kit he had as a kid and has no idea what it's worth, so he buys it! Also as has been said, $1000 is nothing to some folks. Just try to get on the other end of one of those transactions! Hmmmm... eBay keeps sending me emails begging me to sell stuff....

The HL email looks like the canned response they send to anyone asking a question... Keep in mind there are like two aisles that actually have hobby stuff in the entire Hobby Lobby! I don't believe they will discontinue models, but like everything else this year, they are probably having supply chain issues filling those shelves.

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Neat! I like a model with personal history!

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I like it! Great scratch building project !

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Understand this isn’t about us.. with Roger Moore expiring, there will be a bit of attention to Bond memorabilia, and they are right on it!

Absolutely! To your first point, cars like this were rough, sometimes even painted with spray cans or even a roller! Even cars like NASCAR have poor paint jobs that aren’t all that shiny with matte decals on them. I got to tour the IROC shops a bunch of years ago and was surprised at how rough the cars actually were. The philosophy was it had to look good from the stands! There was once a guy who built NASCAR cars with beautiful paint jobs and decals under many coats of polished clear. Simply beautiful like jewelry, but not true to the subject! To your second point, it’s difficult to duplicate poor paint jobs and other details. For instance my Cavalier security car has a paint job that is supposed to be poor.. right over the Chevy emblem on the grille header.. people point out that my paint isn’t smooth and shiny, and I missed chroming the emblem! And the square headlights on those cars are never straight and I tried to duplicate that.. you know the comments!

And hidden camera

No longer friends!

Yes, no doubt the builder glued it under the joint to hold the roof together. I will try to grind it without pulling the roof apart

This is the plastic piece I need to remove, lessen or disguise!

Pee a lot

I have a whole box of washers and even the plumbing supply guys agree this washer is unique! I just took off the valve stem cartridge so yes I will crawl under the sink and remove the faucet. I will inspect it for any clues before I give up and buy a new one!

Another option for the glass.. clear double sided tape comes in different widths. Holds glass well, either by itself or in combination with canopy cement