Tom Geiger

at Ford factory

I had a 1978 Mercury Monarch 4 door sedan. It was that awful silver that flaked off, with a blue interior. What was interesting about it back then was that it had bucket seats and the same console as my 1979 Fox Capri. It was a 302 automatic car. Bucket seats in a sedan is common place today but was very exotic in 1978!

Agreed, For all the naysayers, the company that bought all of Revell is an investment company that has a good track record for growing companies. They own varied businesses such as electronics parts manufacturers in Germany and a paper company in Spain. They don't slash and burn. They make smart investments and make them grow. This is their first venture in the USA. They are very interested in making this successful. I don't believe that a lot of people in this hobby understand what it takes to start a new business from the ground up. The old company ceases to exist. The new company needs to lease office space, negotiate all new licensing agreements, deal with suppliers and vendors... some of which are holding serious debt from the old company. Heck, the last email I got from Ed was from his personal account. That's starting from scratch. So give them a little leeway! Again, follow the business. Round 2 made an enormous investment in that old existing tooling. With attitudes in the hobby being that the tooling is "bought and paid for", it no doubt represents a large debt and carrying cost. Thus it needs to be worked to make that investment successful. Last I communicated with John G. their biggest issue was the band width to handle all the projects currently underway. They are indeed working as hard and fast as they can. And they are doing a great job at that. The imagination, box art and new parts in the kits is amazing! Give them a break!

A flat bed would be very easy to make yourself. Evergreen makes both an L and a C channel that would work for the edges. The bed itself would be best made from bass wood strips. There are a few kit flat beds... AMT '34 Ford and Beverly Hillbillies truck, both have beds. It's a matter of what size you need.

Mine has the entire Foose Ford pickup chassis and engine under it.

Cool! I'm a sucker for a beater! Nice job on the weathering and rust, so easy to overdo and most folks do! Per the Jack Daniels, what you call a "slab" we call a "case". Expensive stuff, nobody can buy a whole case! And a story.. for my 30th birthday, my wife threw me a big surprise party. And it seems everyone's gift was a bottle of Jack! I had enough Jack for the next decade! I drank some, regifted some, marinated meat in Jack... got tired of it and haven't bought any in a long while!

Okay Joe! I just ordered everything I believe I need to turn the AMT '60 Chevy pickup into a long bed V6 GMC! I will be building the above truck. Interesting story... I was reading Classic Truck Magazine and it was mentioned that the 1960s camping frenzy was partly started by John Steinbeck's novel "Travels With Charley, In Search for America" Steinbeck described the camper as being "like the cabin of a small boat or the shell of a learned snail." In the fall of 1960 Steinbeck started out across the country in this custom ordered GMC pickup camper he named "Rocinante" after Don Quixote's horse. Charley was a brown poodle that answered commands in French. I checked the book out of my local library and have been reading it on airplanes. There weren't any pictures in the book, at least in the copy I have. But in the book he spoke of the V6 engine, so I had that detail. I figured I might just have to fudge a lot of details. But then, I Googled it and found all kinds of photos.. yes the truck still exists. It's in the Steinbeck National Center in Salinas, California. That's Charley!

Very nice! I like a "real" Coke truck!

Go with the Crown Sapphire Poly, it'll build up like mine! Hey! It's stock!

I had posted in another thread that I got into a conversation with an HL guy in the Exton store near my home. I asked about why that store never had any clearance kits. He told me there was a guy who stopped in nearly every day and would buy them all. No doubt a reseller. Funny thing, I don't know a single model guy near me!

Calm down Adam! I'll let you hug my Cavalier! A funny thing, back when I build my Cavalier, two different guys saw me at shows and gave me one! It was like "I've had this in my stash forever and didn't know what to do with it!" I'm thinking along the lines of they weren't gonna build it, couldn't imagine anyone buying it from them, didn't want to just toss it in the trash and then there was me! Kinda like handing off toxic waste!

The future.. embrace it! LOL The parking lot at a tech company I visited this past week!

I use mostly those Acme license plates, unless I cannot find what I need. Then my next stop is eBay, where there are a lot of good images /scans of actual plates. I do most of my photo editing in Irfanview, which is a free program. It also has the Paint commands in it if you are used to those. Then I will pop the jpgs into word and arrange my sheets. Then I print on 110 lb bond card stock, flat finish. You can buy a pack of the Georgia Pacific paper I use in Walmart, I use it for my stamp album pages. I use white glue to affix, more than likely the Micro Kristal Klear because it's already sitting on the work bench.

Great work! I see you managed to find the grill!

Goes back to the days of Walmart checkerboard kits! They all appeared on eBay and at shows!

While out in Seattle, I stopped by this hobby landmark! No more R&D Unique, but the sign lives on! This is our kind of hobby shop, lotza stuff, older kits and tons of supplies! Had a nice chat with Emil, the owner too!

From dog butts

If you have a really bad built up or promo, you could build this car!

But he makes more money than he did alive!

I’m in Seattle again this week. I found myself a nice little bar and grill to have dinner each evening. And all the sandwiches come with tater tots!

Neat model that brings back memories I bought a first gen Fox Capri in 1979... back then when we first saw that Mustang / Capri pair they looked futuristic! I was buying vehicles for my company and the Mercury dealer did me a solid selling me his first one in. They weren’t released yet, so for the first month we drove it on dealer plates! Car was a red V8 RS with Ghia interior, TRX package. Very pretty car but a turd! It was always back at dealer for repairs and quality issues. Typical of Detroit in that era. Traded it in on a Nissan Stanza in 82. Still I have all the parts in one box to build it someday!

Looking good! You are an inspiration! I’m working on the 64 Valiant convertible and am making the side panels from 71?Duster parts. Next I tackle scratch building the convertible bow side pockets!

I would give her a look! Your Mustang looks like it might be a Mustang 2, which was Pinto based.. modifieds are like funny cars, one frame fits lots of bodies! You may surprise yourself!!

Exactly! Thanks Steve! Wouldn’t ya know that one show challenged my putting the Volare in Light Commercial?! When I read them back their own rules, they hemmed and hawed a bit and said “well we really meant trucks”, wow! The Volare even has NY commercial plates on it!

Hey if you have a Coke license, use it! It’s a huge collecting area and Coke collectors will buy anything with the trade mark and most won’t even break the shrink wrap. Who can object to allowing Coke collectors keep Round 2 in the black?