Tom Geiger

Cool project! The doors on this kit and the '57 Ford are a bit wonky. It would be best to replace them with wire hinges. That's what I'll do on the next one of either year I attempt.

Looks very cool! I have so much stuff in my queue right now I cannot commit to building a '65 or '66 Chevy anytime soon, but I'd like to! In fact when moving some stuff around looking for my 1/32 Lindberg kits, I came across a MCW '65 Chevy 2 door sedan resin body that I swear I never saw before! Nice job Dave!

Looks great in those colors! I actually liked it before you added the red, the gold roof with silver body looked good too!

If you really want to dive in head first, you are invited to attend NNL East in the spring. Yea, it's in New Jersey but it's the best place to fully absorb everything in the hobby and meet everyone. Check it out at the link in my signature!

I just had to chuckle today! Here we have Revell giving us a really nice new kit... and we're all complaining about the box! ?

Oh whata relief...

Very cool! And for the family history, there's nothing more Canadian as a hockey stick maker!

and those jokes about selling me a bridge.... no thanks I already own one. Really!

Welcome Bo! And you soon will! If indeed you treat people well and participate sincerely, there is nothing the folks on this board won't do for you! And if you haven't figured it out yet, many of us know each other a long time. Some in person, some just on-line friends forever. For instance right in this thread I know Tom Woodruff and saw him about a month ago at the Toledo NNL. Rich Manson and I have been friends for (gulp!) decades! I now see him at least once a year. While at Toledo I met a few guys I've known on-line for many years, we just hadn't met in person, but now we have! So participate on the board. Post your questions, ideas and opinions. Become part of the community. We're happy to have you!

yea, early on I paid $20 for a kit instruction sheet thinking I was getting the entire kit! ?

Mine showed up today! Philadelphia 'burbs zip 19341. Kinda funny that people on other planets got theirs before me and I live in a major population area!

With Ron buying the Granada on eBay, I thought I'd start a thread to identify the series. Note that Lindberg did a bunch of then contemporary cars that hadn't been done in any scale. Some of them remain unique. I've been collecting these, as I see them cheap at shows. I don't care if I have a particular one when I see it for $5 or $10, I just grab it. Anyway, here's some of what I own... Chevy Monte Carlo, Buick Century and Pontiac Grand Prix Mercedes SL and Datsun Z Ford Granada Olds Omega Chevy Monza The El Camino I also have the Chrysler Cordoba, Dodge Charger (same body style as Cordoba), and maybe another one or two. I can't put my hand on those ones right now, and they are all unbuilt in their boxes. A pair of Corvettes. I'm not sure what the hardtop is, it has no makers markings on it. The Convertible with the interior built into the body was a later Lindberg series that had poorer detail. I remember these being in stores for a dollar each maybe early 1990s. Here's the Cougar from that series. Ford Torino The Thunderbird. There was also a Gremlin, maybe more... So dispute anything I've written if I'm wrong. Add any photos of cars you own or any information you may have. Let's crowd source some info on this series!

My mother expected me to eat the cereal level down in the box until the car appeared! I didn't have the patience for that. First time she turned her back, my arm went in the box!

I will be watching. I always loved the shape of the Europa, probably due to my early association with the Matchbox car. I did work with a guy who was into British sports cars and upon showing me a photo of his garage with two lifts in it, I spied a Europa up on top. He was impressed that I could identify the cars in his photo, but said he no longer had the Lotus. He wasn't a fan. He said there was always something going wrong with it, it was difficult to see out of and always hot inside as the air flow was poor. But at least it's pretty!

There are probably more Coke collectors than model car collectors. Tom Lowe is very tuned to his markets. I have no problem with Coke collectors financing kits for us!

There was a company that advertised in that Sunday newspaper insert magazine. They had a name that ended with "Mint", but were just a mail order retailer. Everything they had in their ad and catalog was made by someone else.

many years ago we had a guy in our club who worked in a hospital. He brought many surgical blade number 11s and shared them with our members. They were sterile and individually wrapped. I remember thinking at the time that these were probably $20 blades!

So you may ask, "How did the Christmas ornament presentation go?" Well, it didn't. My wife just put them in a bag of other things my daughter needed to bring home. They left the Thanksgiving celebration right after dinner because one of the babies went ballistic and wouldn't settle down. Five minutes into the ride home she was sleeping. Anyway, my daughter saw them once she got home so I never got to see her reaction. We slept over at my wife's sister's house, so this morning we got up and ate breakfast with them. Then we left and drove the hour south to my daughter's house to babysit the three grand daughters so their parents could go shopping. My daughter did open them up last evening, when she got home. She said she couldn't figure out how I got the names onto the ornament, especially as small as they were, as it looked like it came that way. I explained how it was done and she was impressed. Mission accomplished. And I got to spend Black Friday with infants on my lap all afternoon! A great day!

I put the head back on a Precious Moment tchotchke a few weeks ago. Thick CA and Dullcote did the job with no evidence of repair!

Oh I know that feeling! Sometimes when I open an unfinished project I cannot identify the paint I used or remember just where I was with the build. I might as well as started with someone elses old project!

I have the Trabbie out of the box and on the bench. I have putty drying around the head light surrounds as the gap was too wide. I’ll have to sand it flush and then scribe in a suitable gap.

Shop4megastore.com is where I bought mine. Thin cardboard diaper wrapped around box.

I had one of the first Fox cars, ours was. 1978 Capri RS, red with V8, air, TRX package and Ghia interior. Paid $6500 for it, using my wife’s 1974 Mustang II V6 as trade in. The Capri suffered from new car intro defects and the usual poor quality of that era. Traded it in as soon as the 3 year loan was paid!

And mean children

Cool! I have a Sandpiper squirreled away in my dune buggy collection. It is a clunky thing, with bad early 1960s molding and all. But it's part of our history! Many years ago I bought an eBay auction for two Sandpiper rebuilders. I saw it towards the end and it was cheap so I bid quickly without looking too closely. What comes in the mail? Two Surf Woodies! And that was right after the reissue and eventual blow out sale at $5-10 each so I didn't want them. I messaged the seller, who saw his error and refunded my money. He told me to keep them, so they are somewhere in my hoard!