Tom Geiger

About the $4 offer. They can offer it, some guys might sell. But once you say “no thanks” there is no reason for them being rude! Many years ago I was selling my 1960 Buick Electra project car. I had it for sale for $3200. A guy pulls up with a Hummer with a car trailer on it. I figure he’s that serious. He walks around the car and says “I’ll give you $100”. I was startled and of course said no. Then I asked him how/why and his answer was that I’d be surprised at how many people just want the car gone and take it! And he wasn’t buying cars for restoration.. he was selling them for scrap metal! He left with an empty trailer! End of story was it took some time to find the right buyer! I got my $3200! But wouldn’t ya know my daughter’s college tuition bill was due for that same amount!

Thank you Dave for all you do!

Very cool. People will look at the finished model and scratch their heads… that front looks familiar but I just can’t place it!

Opinion is a matter of personal thought processes from your life’s experiences.

Hey guys, give the moderators a break! They work for free and the board is free. So stop attacking them and acting entitled! I’m having the same issues on my Dell Windows 11 laptop, using Chrome or Edge. So now I’m on this board on my iPhone. No life threatening issue! Thank you moderators for all you do!

Of sad America ??

Great model! Typical of the Dusters running around back in the day! Early Dusters were a sales success. In 1970 my Uncle Dan waited 6 months for the one he ordered. His was the classic stripper.. 198 Slant six, 3 on the tree, manual everything. That’s the way he rolled!

Laughing at unfortunates

Great pictures! Interesting to see cars you never see on our side of the pond. When I was a kid I lived on a US Army post in Germany. We had car shows which were a mix of local German cars and what Americans brought over.

Right on the highway here in town. I like the license plate

Morals or sense

Play time for adult men is sitting at the model bench!

Here's a good one! I have an eBay store. On Saturday a fellow seemed to spend his entire day buying items from me. Most folks know to put items in their shopping cart, then check out when they are done. My settings would combine postage. There are people who don't understand the concept, plus eBay admits that the "Continue Shopping" button disappeared on the mobile app and they have a ticket in to fix it. So when unknowledgeable buyers get here, they think their only option is to "Pay Now". In reality, if you click anywhere else, it will keep it in your shopping cart. This guy had bought from me before, some 5 items. Some of them were spread out between other sales so I didn't see them all at once. When I started to pack the second item, I recognized the address. At that point he had paid $5 for postage ($1 per item) but if he had done it correctly he would've paid only $1 total. I wound up sending his 5 items out in 3 different envelopes, so I kept the overpayment. This time he takes the cake! He isn't a registered eBay user, he used the "Guest Account". That's fine, but over the course of the day he bought 40 items and somehow created a different guest account for each of those 40 transactions! So the user name is slightly different (eBay guest account are the first 3 digits of your name and a long unique number). In doing this he cost himself $40 in postage, and he cost me $12 in eBay transaction fees (each unique transaction costs 30 cents). I post this to my eBay sellers message board and nobody had an answer besides "Call eBay". So I called eBay expecting it to be a hassle. I hit the button for their rep to call me back and my phone rang two minutes later. The rep was very nice. She was also perplexed that she had never seen anything like this. Could she put me on hold? Yes. She comes back with two other reps on the line a few minutes later. Nobody knew what to do! They said if it was just one guest account they could combine the order for me and make it right. But the 40 different guest accounts? There was nothing they could do. They said I'd have to mail each one of these orders out under separate envelope! Or cancel them all... that would be 40 individual actions, and have the guy put it all back in correctly. We then agreed that we doubted he'd do it right! They said to send him a message through the eBay system. I knew he'd never go to those 40 accounts to look for a message! We were all laughing, it was a truly odd situation. That occupied most of my afternoon yesterday. I'm picturing this very old guy (note that stamp collectors as a group are about 10 years older than model car guys) not knowing how eBay works at all. But he did buy 5 items from me prior, and had no qualm with how I handled it, since he then placed this sizable order. So what I decided to do... I have packed up all 40 items into one small package. I figure between the shipping cost and my eBay fees, that should be around $20. I will write him a letter, that I will print and put in the package, explaining what he did, and what he needs to do to be on eBay with a legit account. And I will refund him $20, probably write him an old school check (Note I can't refund that thru the eBay system). Argh!

Something I started years ago. With all these little trucks appearing locally lately, I’ve pulled it back out

Compassion is highly overrated!

Feds Nuke Tallahassee

And don’t forget she was Chrissie on the show for awhile before they revealed her full name was Christmas Snow.

Ernie’s Taxi in the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life” was a Checker. The early ones didn’t have headlights up next to the radiator shell, they were in the cowl sides in front of the doors.

Sending Keystone Kops

This puppy has been sitting on the shelf over my work bench for years looking down on me. It originally had no hood, then I found one. Last year I bought a big bag of parts at a show and the bed cover jumped out at me. Guess it’s time to do something with it!

Same with the Ford plant in Edison NJ.. and the GM plant in Linden NJ

Plaque is why those of us who still have teeth go for a cleaning every six months.

Mostly repeating nothing

That would probably work! Car modelers are a very small niche market. There are many more Coke, TV and movie memorabilia collectors out there. Tom Lowe has been very astute in licensing and marketing to the broader markets.