Tom Geiger

Paul- Is the glass otherwise clear and usable... except for being fused firmly in place? The last one I had like that, I taped it off and left it. Once the car was painted and BMFed it looked fine! And I HATE those plastic seat belts glued in place! ?

Great pair. I just chuckle when guys say they hate when a custom model is released because there is nothing else you can do with it!

Do they have to stay six car lengths apart because of Covid?? ?

I live in a nice development. Everything was fine until a few months ago. There is a cul-de-sac across the street from my property. Somebody there got a new red Hemi Charger. All I hear is this damn thing coming and going all the time. I don’t know if it’s the homeowner or a kid because it’s got dark glass. What I do know is that this clown leaves for work at 6:15am. He comes around the corner and floors the damn thing. Then the next stop sign is two houses down.. he does it again! I can hear him all the way to the highway! I don’t have to get up until 7am so this idiot wakes me up nearly every morning!

It’s a profit center for them. I regularly see trailer loads of barely damaged cars heading who knows where.. An example.. my wife got hit by a driver who stop signs don’t mean anything. We bought this 27,000 mile, garage kept and perfect in every way 2000 Jaguar S in 2011 for $12,000. We didn’t have it but a few months when this happened. We didn’t have collision so we are relying on the guilty party’s insurance, Liberty Mutual. They decided to play hardball. They totaled the car and wanted to give us $4000… and they wanted the car. I got local estimates around $2500. Gave them the original purchase info for $12000 a few months prior. No reasoning with them, four grand and where can they pick up the car? So sue us they said.

The Green Hornet tool is pretty worn with mucho flash and sink marks. Places like top of radiator and the length of the frame rails. I do want to build a Black Beauty but note the chassis / underside was made for a battery power motor but those parts are gone leaving a void. I will figure out a better chassis

Spotted a random curb Parker in Middletown NJ yesterday Lambo out on Friday night in trendy Red Bank My ride for the day!

Cool! I like multiple builds. I built three of the same 1950 Chevy pickup at the same time.

Nice save! If you need door handles, half a staple works well. I've done it!

I used to drive the Garden State Parkway to work every day with a car pool mate. There was a guy at our work who had a red Miata. The parkway is 3-4 lanes. Sometimes going fast and coming to an abrupt stop. And it didn't matter which lane, each lane would slow down and or stop from time to time. We realized it equalized. So we'd stay in our lane. The clown in the Miata was driving a road race! He'd zoom from lane to lane, whichever one was fastest at the moment, then cutting someone off when his lane stopped. In the end, we'd be side by side with him when he got off his exit. For all the aggressive theatrics, he gained exactly zero ground! We'd just laugh!

The most fun that $4 can buy!

When you need to move boxes in your Mini

Working on a replica of my ‘56. I had this car back around 1978.

We had my daughter’s doggie this past week while she was on vacation. It exhausted out on the deck. My wife forgot about it, told me the next morning.. I went to retrieve it and it was GONE! Figger one of the other animals you mentioned might have ate it?

A parallel story.. I had a triple brown 1978 Ford LTD II that was a salesman’s car at my father’s company. Two years old and had 100,000 miles on it. Filthy inside and out, no wheel covers. A New York City car. Bought it for $600. My friend detailed used cars at a dealer and he made it look brand new! Since it was the then current model, and the odometer showed a few thousand miles people thought I had a new car. It was my customer car when I sold real estate. Then I started a job at my father’s company and we commuted in it for years. The NJ State Police used this same car at the time so we looked like an unmarked car. People would get out of our way! We put 220,000 miles on it with nothing more than maintenance. We sold it and about two years later saw it on the road! Figure it went 300,000! Who knows, it might still be out there!

Nice little Mercedes in the morning rush hour.

Great scratch building!

You did a nice job on that Ramcharger. I have one I did a while ago to practice a two tone, a simple kit that does look nice when done!

Me three! The first thing you checked when the Valiant wouldn't start! And yea, I always got a kick out of TV shows where sound effects would use a Chrysler starter on another make.

I had a Dodge Caravan with red plastic that I painted light blue. It was Duplicolor gray primer / Duplicolor light blue... worked fine until I added the Testors Wet Look Clear... the red seeped through. I did strip and repaint.. Duplicolor gray primer / Duplicolor metallic silver and was ready to add the blue when I thought the silver looked dandy! I added Tamiya clear over the decals and silver with no issues.

Gotta love the Vanity option. My 63 Lark had that too

if it's the 3D printed interior for the '56 Pontiac, Okey already posted it on Facebook

I got my free preview of retirement via Covid and didn't like it. I felt like a house cat. I built more models than ever before. And it started to feel empty! So September of both 2020 and 2021, I got calls from colleagues to do short term projects. I jumped at the chance. Then I had a head hunter call me about a permanent gig. I figured, heck toss my hat into the ring (nobody hires 63 yr olds!). And guess what? They hired me!

Who ya calling an old man car! ? I bought this 2005 LaCrosse for my wife to drive daily and for the 2 hr trips between PA and NJ. It was an estate car, son traded it into an Acura dealer. Paid $9000 cash for it back in 2014 with 23,000 miles on it. Eight years later it just hit 90,000 and has been a pleasure. Recently had it in for brakes and the garage relays the message that another customer asked if we'd consider selling it for $10,000. Um nope, my wife loves it!