Tom Geiger

Getting away from trees.. My son in law, father of my three grand babies is a professional fireman. He has been called upon for extra duties right in the thick of this mess in New Jersey. If you saw the evacuation of a nursing home due to Coronavirus in NJ yesterday, he was there. His department ran the decontamination tent for those who handled the patients. Scary!

Need I say more? ? I like the Turtle brownies and oatmeal cookies with cream filling. I buy them in the large box at Walmart.

My old house in NJ had great trees that made the property a bit different than other development houses. I had also built multi tiered rock gardens across the front of the house and around the base of the largest tree. I drove past the house a few years ago and my heart sank! Everything was gone! The numpty I sold it to had torn down all the trees and removed all the gardens. The lawn coverage was poor and he had a couple lawn chairs sitting in the dirt. Awful! Ron, check your local noise ordnance for time limits on loud work. I believe ours is 8am.

I have the 1963 Valiant wagon and it is wonderful! Well worth the price and any wait. I ordered that and the postal Jeep and Jeff hand delivered them to me at the last NNL Nationals.

I attend a lot of shows and watch eBay and I cannot recall seeing this one. As I’ve collected all the MPC car kits if this era I surely would’ve bought it!

Tom I’d suggest scaling and printing out gauges. It only has to be on white paper to glue in place. This entire dash piece is one piece of paper, Dodge D50 pickup. 1950 Ford pickup real gauge cluster photo stolen from eBay. Scaled it down and printed as well. I can send you these as Word files ready to print

I like the flathead six. Here is one I built and used in my 34 Ford sedan build. I was fortunate to find good reference pix of a recently rebuilt engine that hadn’t been put in a car yet. Note that there is a metal trough running up the side of the engine to hold the wires. That’s not in the kit. I used it in the 34 Ford just because it was an unusual engine and I don’t believe it had been done before. I have bought a few more 41 Plymouth kits found cheap just for the engine.

Me either! No musical talent at all! One of the sad things in my life as I have music in my soul and no way to get it out! I cannot sing and have never played an instrument.

What? No pandemic extension??

Agreed. The weather sucked here too yesterday, a day you were happy to be stuck inside, Today is better, I may go outside for some yard work later, just for some physical activity. And watching the coverage, your NY governor Andrew Cuomo is on now. I had never noticed him much before, but he is really a decent guy leading in this situation. He just talks in normal tones, explains himself with no political airs. I’m now a fan.

Pennsylvania has beer package stores that are separate from liquor stores. The liquor and wine stores are state owned and run, (like going to motor vehicle) and are currently all closed. I went to the beer store yesterday and they were open but not letting people in the store. There was a table across the door and the clerk would take your order, and bring it there. He took my credit card, which I didn’t have to sign or use my pin. I got two cases of Yeungling Lager, which should last us a few weeks! Strange times indeed.

Out of boredom during my isolation, last evening I watched “The Wayward Bus” a black & white 1957 movie from the John Steinbeck novel. The bus was a 1941 Chevy shortie that could be built from the RMR resin. That’s Jane Mansfield in the photo from when the bus wound up in a small pond. Bad 1950s movie, lotsa bus.

I’m housebound and feeling like a trapped house cat! This has been a game changing week. Just last Saturday we were wondering if this would all blow over. And now there is no end in sight. I haven’t felt like doing much of anything.

And hand sanitizer

Go to YouTube and there are plenty of videos of crushers in operation. Note that they remove the tires first.

There is an Overhaulin’ episode with a Lotus Europa if you want to see one all taken apart. This may be one of those cars that are better owned in scale! Your photo has the making of a great diorama

Just like there are a battery and fuel tank inside a sealed trunk, there were no doubt plans for future fendered vehicles. And we’ll see how Revell moves forward

Looks fun! I’ll be following along!

This week we had boneless chicken prepared four different ways! Today we bought chopped meat for 3 meals, chicken for 6 meals, 2 meals worth of pork chops and steak. 2 packs of hot dogs, they were out of pork roll. Will freeze some for now, but that’s the menu for the next 2 weeks. The new world order.

The direction Revell had taken with all their new tooling was to create new, high detail kits of iconic vehicles that would be reissued over and over and wouldn’t go out of style. Kits people could build over and over. The series of 32s was very successful and designed for kit bashing within the series. The Model As are an extension of that series, and if things had gone better there would no doubt be more variations by now. Anyone whining about more engine options can pull the Ford engine, or any other parts and options, from the 32s.

Cats can’t act!

Just got back from grocery shopping here in the Philly burbs. The first time we left the house in a week! Went about 9:30 and Giant supermarket was not crowded nor was it ransacked either. People stocking shelves in every aisle. We got a weeks worth of groceries and enough meat for two weeks. Some people wearing gloves, only one lady with a mask. We were able to get everything we wanted. Meat aisle fairly well stocked Paper aisle completely wiped! Priorities I guess. Then I stopped at beer store. They wouldn’t let anyone in store. They had a table outside front door and asked what you wanted. Got two cases of beer so I’m set for the a couple weeks.

This whole situation can get to you if you sit in the house with CNN on the tv! Ive been outside doing yard work and it’s a big difference. It was warm, sunny and the spring flowers are blooming in the yard! Quite a contrast to the doom and gloom.

I have a recurring nightmare that there’s a warehouse somewhere in Brooklyn where someone finds the Palmer tooling and reissues this stuff!

Great idea Dan! Sounds like a lot of fun!