Tom Geiger

Very cool! I had my friend Bill over yesterday so I had cleaned up the model room a bit. I pointed over to my mess of spray cans and said that was next, I needed to sort them all out, toss the dead ones and organize them better. I have a few small Lazy Susans that are only one high, this baby would solve a good number of my problems. I will check a few stores like Walmart and Odd Lots to see if there's anything like it. Thanks for posting!

I have one of these. Charming story time... Back when I got into model cars in the early 1990s, my club meeting wasn't that far from my grandparents' house so I stopped in one evening. My grandfather thinks for a minute and says, "There is a model car in the basement." He goes downstairs and returns with The Racers Wedge! Factory sealed, good as new! My grandfather had been cleaning out his basement from 40 years of living in the house. They had a habit of buying Christmas gifts on sale all year long, and hiding them from us kids in the basement. I'm figuring that he bought that kit for me when I was a kid. He forgot about it and it sat in hiding until he presented it to me. This was way before the Model King release of the bed was even thought of, so I did open the box to view the contents. Otherwise it's still factory mint. And I will keep it forever because of this memory!

Here's two photos of box art on display at the International Model Builders Museum in Utah. The box bottom was simply tacked to the wall and then the box top was put onto it. Very cool display. This is how it looked during my last visit there in 2015.

Whoa! Classic New York City street survivor! That's a truck that's taken 20 years plus of pounding! Amazed that it has hub caps! Hey Chuck Most... this one's calling our name!

In the early days of eBay most of the auctions didn’t have pictures. That would be unheard of today but was normal to us since we were used to classified ads. One of my first purchases was for a model kit, and what I received in the mail was an envelope with that kit’s instruction sheet! The auction was designed to deceive since it appeared to be the kit in the title, but mixed into the description was “ins”. I contacted the seller and he refused to help me, he said it was clear to him it was just the instructions. I bid against several other buyers. Back then the full emails of everyone appeared, so I contacted them and they all thought it was a kit! Negative feedback! No PayPal protection in those days.

Mark- It would be cool if you would post the cars, and the articles. Let the museum know that the cars still exist and that you have them. Then if they are on the "Lost" list that can be updated. Are any of them on the "Clone The Past" list?

The photo you had is actually a Tempest. The Lemans had a bright piece across the back. Which is actually easier. Using the Snake's suggestion, I think that could be printed. You may want to mount it onto very thin Evergreen plastic sheet to give it depth.

A project on my to-do list. My father also bought a 1966 Lemans 2 door hardtop new! His was midnight blue, with a white bucket interior. 326 with a 4 speed. It was our only family car. My dad was in the military and no sooner took delivery of this car, then got orders for Izmir, Turkey. So that's where the Lemans ended up. He drove it there for the 2 1/2 years and then sold it to a rich Turk when we left! Back when that '66 GTO kit was new, I had prodded Bob Korunow of Model Car Garage to do a photo etch set for Lemans / Tempest. The tough part for the Lemans will be the front fender gill trim and the rear tail lights and bright panel. I'll be watching to see how you make out!

Back when the Pacers were knew, a friend of mine worked in the local AMC dealer's service department. That gave us access to cars to fool around with, and I can say that a first year Pacer with a six cylinder 4 speed was a fun little car! I always thought the design was neat too. In the mid 1980s there was a red Pacer wagon with a 4 speed and air conditioning for sale at the Englishtown Fall Swap Meet. It was a low mile car and looked perfect! The guy wanted something like $1200 for it. I got the guy's phone number to follow up with him during the week. Then I could actually drive it before plunking down the cash. I had visions of this being my daily driver.... what happened? I lost the phone number!

Just learned that nobody won the Powerball last night, so the next jackpot will be even larger! My wife informs me that we didn't even get a single digit on our three tickets. Oh well, no woody this week!

Wrap the models tight! On one trip from NJ to Salt Lake, I stood there and watched my carry on (with my model inside) fall off the end of the xray station belt because the lady behind me was slow getting through the xray scanner herself!

Not so with the Caravan! Drove me nutz seeing that I could buy a full set for a '69 Dart, but not for my car!

My first car was a '66 Valiant that my father bought for my mother in 1968. It became mine when I got my license in 1975. That car sold me as a Mopar guy! I then bought a '66 Valiant Signet hardtop with a V8. It had been in an accident on the left side but only had 28,000 miles on it in 1976 so I paid $200 for it. My father paid to have it rebuilt by a body shop so I don't know what that cost. My next car was a '65 Barracuda that I paid $100 for and kept over 30 years! I also owned a '73 Barracuda that I paid $1100 for and a '73 Valiant Scamp with 40,000 little ole lady miles on it for $800, both of those in the 1980s. Right now the closest thing I own to a Mopar is my '96 Grand Caravan. One day once my settles down I will buy something nice again!

New thread! The Powerball Lottery is up to $625 Million tonight. My wife and I aren't major players, but will invest a few dollars when the jackpot is crazy. We understand the odds, but it's worth $6 just to dream about it. And people just like us do win the lottery, I always enjoy watching the TV coverage where some stunned dude is standing there with the big check. So here we go.... What model of yours would you have built in 1:1 if you won the lottery? I believe I'd have a reputable shop build me a copy of my Model A Woody Pickup! I'd love to drive that one around! Only difference is that I believe I'd want a cooler old school engine than the Chevy small block. Thinking a Buick Nailhead! Next?

Welcome! I put two daughters through college so I feel your pain! As you said it was worth it. They both graduated and have good careers today.

It must be Mopar repair day! I got the NNL East Swag Van... my 1996 Dodge Grand Caravan Mark III high top back today! Last fall I had a brake line rust through and fail. At least it did so in my driveway, I went to use it and the pedal went to the floor. So I took it up to my usual repair shop where I have a good relationship. They were hesitant at first to repair it as making all those lines are a lot of billable hours. We put our heads together (and I tapped the resources of the model car community) and we figured out that all the rear lines, the rear proportioning valve and all the hoses were available through Rock Auto. Most everything was Mopar OEM, and pretty cheap! My shop let the van sit there a while as we sorted all that out, then repaired it on shop downtime to get me out the door at a reasonable price! And it's back in time to haul all the club owned materials to the show next month! Hopefully we are good for the next 203,000 miles! Caravan smiling to be home again this afternoon! Caravan being loaded for NNL East last year!

Yea, that little pop up floats across the screen and hitting the "X" on it is like being in a shooting gallery. No sooner do you nail that one and another one pops up. Very annoying.

Because people do not know how to search. And in some cases they cannot read either. Ever notice when you do an eBay search in a category, at the bottom it will give you results from all of eBay... different categories? Now that sellers get a certain allocation of free listings each month, it doesn't cost anything to go fishing. So a predatory seller is hoping that someone searching for parts for his 1:1 1975 Datsun pickup will also see a listing for the MPC 1/25 scale kit of that truck. Someone not familiar with our hobby may say, "Oh wow! There's a model of my truck. I never saw one before so it must be super rare!" and will hit the $200 "Buy It Now" button. There have been many cases of the aftermarket trying to sell 1/25 scale resin parts and decals on eBay, having people bid the $8.99 plus $4 shipping on that resin hood or Camaro stripe decal, thinking they are buying parts for their 1:1 cars. Some of the ads have a lot of bold print stating "THIS IS FOR A 1/25 SCALE MODEL TOY CAR -- NOT A PART FOR YOUR REAL CAR! "

Ever vigilant! My daughter once told me she thought there was a mouse in the attic. I told her to put a cheese curl on the attic floor and check the next day. If it was gone she had a mouse. Then add a mouse trap under the cheese curl! She was pleased that the cheese curl got old and dusty!

Ditto. Seller was apologetic and extremely grateful that both parties understood the situation and agreed to mail the packages to the other at his cost.

No, We live in a clean camper!

Great work Dominick! I was wondering about the roof graphic on the convertible top, but the last photo explains it all! Cool replica!

Sometimes it's the little things. This week I started playing with my Dodge van camper. I noticed that the top of the storage cabinet had no top on it. Just hollow! So I decided to add a top to it. Then it needed something.... so out came a mouse trap. I took it apart so I had the flat wood panel and scanned it. Reduced the scan to 1/25 scale.. print. Glued the print to plastic for depth. Made a wire snapper and added a silver bait holder. Instant 1/25 scale mouse trap! Took me maybe an hour. Totally relaxing. Pleased with the results.

I didn't have a strong opinion either way. This truck was Chip's father's old truck that they grew up with. And then they customized it. When I read that they moved the front wheels, my thought was WHY?