Tom Geiger

Bill Harrah died in 1978, but he was known for putting away brand new cars from his dealerships into his car collection. He saved some pretty low end mundane cars because he felt that the hobby distorts history since everyone saves convertibles and high end cars. Some of those were in the auctions after his death. Anyone for a zero mile 1963 Rambler American? And as time marches on 80s Toyotas have become antiques, after all 1980 is 38 years ago. And those pickups figure into some folks memories of their youth! I remember back in the early 1970s people were saying that the cars of that era were "unrestorable" because of all the plastic interior panels etc. so no one would collect them. But today all that stuff is reproduced and the cars are coveted!

We never did get a straight answer on that. I was told that it sold poorly the last time it was released. I always thought it would do well in International markets, so maybe now they’ll do it. I had been looking for one but the last few I saw were $100. Yea, you know what would happen right after I bought that!

My father had full size Fords, I used to call it his “Living Room on Wheels”. Last laugh was on me. After he died I drove his last one for six years and liked it! ive always thought the South American versions of US cars were very interesting. I’m just waiting for Tulio to do the conversion in scale!

What’s up Doc?

Very cool! Here's a few photos I took when I stumbled into the hotels for the Syracuse Nationals.... I had never seen a Beaumont in person before!

A very nice cabinet! The organized size of me likes it! Only when going with the "one unfinished project to a drawer" theory, I'd need 4-5 of them!

My stereotype offender on the NJ Turnpike is a 15 year old Honda Civic, dented all the way around, with 6 people in it and a New York plate, going 50-55 in the middle lane. Oblivious to the fact that cars going 80 are whizzing around it on both sides!

I received my 1989 Crown Vic resin kit from Greg Wann in the mail today! Oh happy day! Many thanks to Dwayne and Greg for one superb resin kit.

I just cut my headlight out and made my own! Yes, that is a rusted and dented Corvette. One of one. Yes, I know.

I received mine today! Thanks Dwayne and Greg! This is indeed a "push all the models off the work bench" kinda model. It is absolutely flawless in every way! So I will be building my grandfather's last car, which then became my father's last car... that I then drove for ten years. Bottom photo- Those are the huge Coleman coolers in that trunk! And I'm hoping Dwayne gets finished with the LTD II as below. Mine was a '77 and it was a company car at my dad's company. A salesman car, it was two years old with 100,000 miles on it when I bought it for $600. Once cleaned up, it looked new especially since Ford was still selling the same car. A perk was that the NJ State Troopers drove these at the time. My father and I commuted to work together in this car for a couple of years. It was a great commuting thing that the minute we pulled up behind anyone, they'd immediately get out of the way! We did put another 100,000 miles on it and sold it onward for the same $600 I had paid for it years earlier.

Nice work on the interior.... or the absence of interior!

Lindberg doesn't exist anymore. The kits are now under the Round 2 umbrella.

What pleased me this weekend... My Celica GT Convertible has been in storage in my NJ garage since 2012. Opened the hood, attached jumper cables to it and it started on the fifth crank! I pulled it out into the driveway. Seems to have a brake line leak, but otherwise good! Note the barn fresh dust on it.

Surf Woody has a surprisingly cool chassis under it. Worth buying a few at this price just for the possibilities!

Yup! I travel on the NJ and PA Turnpikes daily. The amount of slow pokes in the faster lanes is the major issue with the commute. When I start out every day, the first 20 miles of the PA Turnpike is two lanes. Most days we zip along at 80 mph or better. Speed limit is 75. Every few days there are two numpties side by side... aka that rolling roadblock, going 60-65 mph. Usually it's two tractor trailers, often it's some slow poke commuter riding alongside a tractor trailer. Both of them think life is dandy because there isn't a car in view ahead of them. That's only because the cars ahead of them were going 80 and are long gone from view. Of course these pokes never look in their rear view mirror where it looks like they are pacing the Indy 500!

Jeff- Dave's earlier post may answer your question. I haven't done anything further with the truck One addition to this thread - The black Monogram Chevelle was used as our raffle car at NNL East a few years ago. So we gave that one away!

A Scout story... back in 1991, there was a black Scout with a white top and a scallop graphic on the door for sale. It was sitting in a lot on the highway with a for sale sign on it. It wasn’t rusty, but dull paint and pretty well used. I had the bug to buy a little 4x4 at the time, and passed it every day on my way home from work. I had been too lazy to stop, but one day the owner was there so I stopped to look. If I remember right it was around $2000. The guy had it running and let me take a test drive. It seemed ok but there were two red flags. There was a big oil stain where it was sitting and when I wanted to investigate, the guy said the hood latch was broken. Sounded fishy so I passed. Interesting enough, someone a block away from my house did buy it so I’d see it all the time. Either the truck was there or the big oil stain where it sat! It must’ve been an okay vehicle because the guy had it for years! I’ve kinda regretted not buying it and have started s model of it for my “vehicles that got away” collection. i did okay too. Shortly after that I bought a brand new yellow Geo Tracker that I still have today!

I did a double take on the NJ Turnpike on my way home. There was flatbed tow truck with a New York City police car on it headed south (away from the city). It was towing a Ford high top news van with a satellite dish on the roof. It was lettered for NY Channel 6 News.... NY TV does not have a channel 6... so I'm assuming these were TV or movie cars. The truck was moving slow in the truck lanes, and I was too far away in the car lanes to try to get a photo.

The funny thing about online applications is that you never know what corporate does with them! When we first moved to PA my wife needed a job. I had networked with people in two companies and said she'd have to "officially" apply online. These guys already had her paper resume in hand and were interested. Both of these guys were screaming for help! The online application never got to them. They even inquired through corporate who said they had no such application. I guess these companies didn't want a reliable woman in her 50s!

I had a buffalo chicken stromboli from Ron's Original Tavern. The big huge one.. I ate half. Guess what I'm having for dinner tomorrow night?

And if you buy stamps today from my eBay source, they are still 39 cents each! And what you say is true. I have loads of 3 Cent, 4 Cent, 5 Cent etc stamps that once were the first class rate. Today you need to put ten of those 5 Centers on a single letter.

Yea! I love a happy ending!

Jeff, your orange Scout reminded me of these... I took the photos in NJ in 2006.

Looks good! I have one that had a bad paint job and someone screwed up all the trim sanding on that paint job! So I've sanded it all off and was in the process of building it as a primered rod with holes where the trim would be replaced. I did buy half a dozen of the Lindberg Dodge for the slant sixes, so I'll put one of the chassis under this one. I was also thinking of trying to improve the interior since it's so shallow.

Jim, that was one of the eerie things.. I lived in New Jersey, across the bay from NYC. We were in the flight path of all the major airports. There was never a time when you'd look up at night and there wasn't a dozen planes in the air. You could follow the landing formation into Newark from my house. After 9-11 the sky was empty and silent. The other thing was that the smell was awful, even in Central NJ. It smelled like there was a raging electrical fire on your street. That lasted better than a week, maybe two. Living in bedroom communities to NYC, we knew people who died that day. There were friends, and people we knew from town. Relatives who had close calls, my wife's brother was in a subway headed to that station from NJ and was turned back. Three wives from my model club, thankfully all escaped. Two of my kids friends, lost fathers that day. An awful day for America!