Jump to content
Model Cars Magazine Forum

Tom Geiger

Members
  • Posts

    18,967
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Tom Geiger

  1. Nice conversion! I assume Caprice emblems from Model Car Garage? Or?
  2. You seem to have overcome those shortcomings but wouldn't the goodies from a Joker Goon Car have been good substitutes? I know, scale, but how bad could it be?
  3. and I have no sympathy for them!
  4. and that was the strategy of the Revell new tools under Ed Sexton. No one shot wonders, all quality kits of vehicles we will build over and over!
  5. Christina El Moussa from Flip or Flop. Gorgeous and knows it, thus the attitude. Her voice drove her first husband insane! Okay to watch in 1/2 hour doses, any more and you want to put a pencil through your eye! Joanne Gaines from Home Improvement. Bonus points because she is genuinely nice. I knew there was something exotic and different about her. Found out her mother was Korean and father was American.
  6. Wow! That looks like a Palmer version of the Deora! I look forward to watching!
  7. They’ll only produce a new tool Chevelle AFTER Kelson pays big money for an old one. ?
  8. Actually no. You can sell stuff from anywhere in the world today. I manage operations in China, Japan, Italy, France, Ireland, Puerto Rico and mainland USA all via Skype on my kitchen table. When I need to print things... be it a banner to complex manuals, I print simultaneous in six languages from USA, Netherlands and China. I can deliver in 48 hours to all locations.
  9. Okey's email is okeyisnow@gmail.com.
  10. Nice cars Alan! I've been playing with original issue Monogram '30 Fords lately.
  11. Great work! This would be a typical stock vehicle of the period. Very nice photography too!
  12. Happened to my wife in the Dodge Caravan many years ago... of course she drove the rest of the way home, deeply engraving an arch in the windshield. It's still there!
  13. Ah! Was that the Ken Berry story? Cool We believe the museum has a lot of video of people and presentations from GSLs past, but none of it has become available. I'm hoping there's Paeth footage as well as a few others like Augie.
  14. Drove past the local Hobby Lobby on my Sunday Walmart / beer run. I caught the light and noticed the empty parking lot, but in the short time I was at the light a couple of cars cruised close to the door. They could do a grand business on Sundays!
  15. Hey I'm wearing my hat in my new avatar photo! It's just a cheap $5 hat from Party City. I wear it because it ticks off my wife! And there is a story. My daughter was pregnant and having a gender reveal party. Everyone had to guess the potential sex of the baby. So I wore this hat with the pink band because I was sure it would be a girl. And I was right! What they didn't know was I had the very same hat with a blue band I was wearing underneath the pink one! If she revealed a boy, I would've whipped off the hat. But in the end I have a grand daughter! Who is the apple of my eye!
  16. He was a super guy! I met Bob at GSL, probably 2000 when they had the entire original Revell staff on a panel. I stood up and addressed the staff, telling them as a kid I had bought that '57 Nomad, drawn to it by the Hollingsworth car on the box, and couldn't get it together. Then every year I reasoned I had grown up a bit and could tackle that car... nope! I never did get one together. Everyone laughed at my story, and afterwards Bob sought me out, sat me down on a hotel lobby couch and spent the rest of the evening telling me that story! The next time I went to GSL, I folded up that box and brought it for Bob to sign. That brought together my entire modeling experience, and the little kid in me was pleased! If I ever knew that would happen someday when I was a kid. Bob was very humbled that we all remembered, collected and thought his work was important! He said back then they were just making toys, they never imagined what occurred with the collector hobby with adults. As such, he said he would participate and share everything he could, which he did right up to his untimely death. Rest in Peace Bob! You are one in a million!
  17. I learned on a brand new Toyota 5 speed! I was to receive a company car, a 1978 Toyota Corolla wagon. I was dropped off at the Toyota dealer to pick it up. Back then people got on a wait list for Toyotas, no decision on car, color or options. You either took the next one that came in or you went to the back of the line. The salesman gave me the 5 minute lesson in the lot, and I took it out on the highway. I soon figured it out, sink or swim. I learned to love that Corolla! It was a great little car. And it started my love for manual transmissions as well. My '65 Barracuda was a 3 on the tree, My Saab 95 was a 4 on the tree! And there were several 5 speeds in my future!
  18. Not the first time this type of story has been reported! I cannot tell you how many times someone has asked me if they can take my Geo Tracker for a spin. I'm always happy to oblige, but several guys I would've assumed could drive a clutch couldn't! And to add to the story, one of those guy's girlfriend drove the Tracker!
  19. Nice set! I guess you must know this kit pretty darn well by now!
  20. Quite a list of a few celebrities and a whole host of unknowns! It would be worth going just to meet Barbara Eden and Gumby!
  21. Great save! Like others said, it's great to restore a glue bomb. Kinda takes you back to when you were young and trying to restore the beat up old 1:1 cars we could afford! I'm playing with an old Monogram 1930 Ford coupe that some kid chopped the top back around 1962. I'm building it in the original vision, color and all. I'd love to find that kid today to show it to him!
  22. Very cool. I like your transition from the old panel's front fenders into the Mustang nose! Clean!
  23. Great work on one of my favorite old rods! And my favorite color too!
  24. Yes! We saw the chassis, what are you doing with the interior to make it whole?
×
×
  • Create New...