Tom Geiger

Maybe a level switch? Per UL it should have one.

Back to my 57 Ford kick .. got these three pieces at Liars Show. I don’t know who did the resin. It’s not Modelhaus quality. I was thinking maybe All American but he sold a full kit and this is just a body as you see it. Funny thing, as we drove to the show my friend Bill and I were talking about how few kits we purchase these days. I remembered the days when I’d have bags full of stuff! Then at the show we saw a younger guy carrying a bunch of bags. Bill said, “There you are!”

We’ve gotten spoiled since most purchases show up within the week! Lest we forget the good ole days when anything mailorder was 8-12 weeks. Want those X-ray glasses advertised in the comic book? They’d show up long after you forgot you ordered them! 12 weeks was a lifetime to a young boy

Maybe sorta kinda

I dunno. $20 sedan body so I grabbed it. I remember All American models did something with the 57 Ford. Anyone?

Green, Ohio today

We had that conversation while I was buying these from you! I’ve been on a 57 Ford binge lately, buying kits for parts to finish up a few restorations!

One afternoon a lawyer rides in his limousine. He sees two men along the roadside eating grass. Disturbed, he orders his driver to stop. He gets out to investigate. He asks one man, "Why are you eating grass?" "We don't have any money for food," the poor man replies. "We have to eat grass." "Well, then, you can come with me to my house and I'll feed you," the lawyer tells the man. "But sir, I have a wife and two children with me. They are over there eating grass under that tree." "Bring them along." Turning to the second poor man, he tells him, "You may come with us, also." In a pitiful voice, the other man tells the lawyer, "But sir, I also have a wife but have six children with me!" "Bring them all as well," the lawyer tells the pitiful man. They all enter the car, no easy task, even for a car as large as the limousine. Once underway, one of the grateful men turns to the lawyer and tells him, "Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us with you." The kind lawyer replies, "Glad to do it. You'll really love my place. My grass is almost a foot high..."

Happy B-Day my friend!

Daughter’s neighbor has a couple Porsches. This is a 1960 356. He was headed up to New York City in it. My daughter’s baby! Bought new. Pennsylvania Turnpike headed up to Allentown. Interesting architecture in the Poconos. Paging @Chuck Most A Jeep shop. An Ollie’s shopper Allentown, NJ

At local Ollie’s

There was a large oak tree next to my driveway, but over the property line so it was owned by my neighbor. It had several trunks out of a single stump, and a bunch of rot at the bottom. It also littered my driveway with acorns. My cars have what looks like hail damage from those. Tree was on a hill so when it would come down it was headed my way! I spoke to the neighbor and she wasn’t interested in taking care of it. I knew she was going to sell so I waited instead of starting a war with a person who was cranky to begin with. New neighbor! I advise him if situation and he gets the tree removed. No more worry about it coming down in a storm and damaging my cars and house! So what happens? Nice new neighbor backs his lawn tractor into my basketball hoop post. It snaps off and takes out my Buick’s rear door and quarter panel. Yes he paid for the damage.

Here’s the NNL East 1/24 & 1/25 scale ruler. We designed this tool and had a measuring device company print these for us on plastic. We gave them away in our Goody Bags, hoping to get more people interested in working in scale. To make working in scale easier, we stuck to all inches. This way you don’t have to worry about inch to feet calculations. The ruler works from the middle. That way it can be used for centering. I’m not home and this is the only photo on my phone. Here I was creating a truck bed from Evergreen plastic. I needed a piece 58 scale inches wide and I used the centerline for orientation of how the pieces went together. A lot of folks just approximate, but why when you can work to exact scale?

I had a squirrel who had his winter stash in a planter that’s part of my deck. When I’m on my computer I sit at the kitchen table with full view of him adding stuff to the planter. We had a big oak tree that hung over our driveway. It dumped acorns and I had to sweep them up or my wife would slip on them. I had a Home Depot bucket about half full and had a thought.. I dumped them in the planter! I can imagine my squirrel ? thought he hit the jackpot!

Spend it wisely

Pet gilla monsters

Santa was watching!

Hitting your karma

Needs are things you actually require to survive, but desires are pretty much frivolous

And just when you think we are a safety society… Pennsylvania Turnpike. I’m going at least 80 and a Harley screams by me like I’m standing still, weaving through traffic! Two riders, guy driving with a girl hanging on. No helmets! Wearing shorts and flip flops!

Yup, big hairy spiders get escorted to the woods. Today while I was blowing leaves I came across a sleeping garter snake. I put him far enough in the woods that I wouldn’t disturb or hurt him the rest of the afternoon. Last spring I had baby ringed snakes hatch in my office building. Didn’t find the nest but they were all over the first floor. We kept collecting them in coffee cups and putting them in the woods out back. That went on for two weeks. I got a panic call from the CEOs assistant. She said there was a baby dinosaur on her desk watching her. I thought this could be interesting and not knowing what to expect I brought a box. Big disappointment! It was a stink bug! I would’ve liked to have a baby dinosaur! Stink bugs get flushed!

Very cool! I do have a kit, but I don’t think I ever saw one built. I believe the show was only one season, probably find episodes online

There was a guy who pined over 66 Impalas. At every meeting all he talked about was that some model company needed to bring one out, then his life would be complete! Then RM actually did! At that club meeting the local kit vendor brought a case! I expected him to be deliriously happy as we all bought them but he just sat there. I asked and he said he needed to see the contents to see if the kit was worth buying! We all met eyes and none of us opened a kit! The last kit got sold and he went home empty handed!

Awhile back Doug Wagner told me he had bought the business. Then something happened and deal didn’t finalize.