Tom Geiger

and if you really wanna have fun, go to the US Virgin Islands.... right hand drive with US left hand drive cars!

Amazingly stupid bidders.... all of them! Even the guys who bid under $100 early on, just bid on eBay and let their cards be shown! And some of them have over 1,000 feedback so they're no newbies. Just stupid. The newbie with 13 feedback was chipping at the other guy's proxie bid $5-10 at a time to see where he was. I've seen this same thing done for a dollar a bid. It looks like RJ put in a $200 proxie bid and when newbie chiseled at it until he got to be high bidder, RJ came back and put in a proxie bid in excess of $440. Now if RJ was smart and sniped the auction, newbie would have sat tight at $102.50 since he was the high bidder at right after RT's $99 bid. He would've sat fat, dumb and happy until a smarter RJ swooped in with sniper software with six seconds left and would've only paid $105. That auction is a perfect example of how important it is to bid with sniper software!

But it's a DRY heat!?! I used to go to Denver a lot on business many years ago. Aside from the air being thinner, the dryness got to me. I had to Chapstick inside my nostrils to keep them from drying out and bleeding.

Demo Derby, Wall Stadium, Wall, NJ in the early 1980s. My buddy and I'd run once a year, or as often as someone donated a car. Here I am as heat winner in a '73 Cougar that truly deserved to die! There is nothing like the feeling of throwing a car in reverse and aiming for other cars! Note- We ran the "Kill Russia" theme the week they shot down a Korean airliner that strayed into their air space. Got a standing ovation! And this is where I met Dave Burket way before we were into model cars!

Great work! I see you already figured out the fit of the body to the chassis. I will caution you that you will need to thin the door panels. The resin body is thicker than the kit doors, and the door panels will collide with the side of the front seats. Watch this fit! I learned that the hard way.

Thanks Ray but I have too many small perennials and seasonal bulbs that pop up to do a mass spray thing. I see the fall stuff starting to pop up. My mums from last year seem to have survived and are just starting to bloom. I didn't get a great start this year with the yard. My wife had surgery this spring which kept me from doing the yard chores as I needed to. We didn't even get the pool opened up until after July 4 weekend! Rough year here.

Yea, the weeds here in PA are ferocious! Weed a garden and by midweek all kinds of stuff has popped up. Miss it for two weeks and all the bare dirt is covered!

You cleaned up good! (I said that to my nephew when I saw him in a suit) Note that the tire / wheel melt is a chemical reaction that happened to many old builds and nothing related to heat!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember that MPC would put out the new annuals in the fall, then do the customs as their mid-year release to keep the sales rolling. I'm currently playing with their Dodge van series and that seems to be the pattern with those too.

I don't know how you guys survive in this 100 degree plus heat. When I see numbers like 115 I just cringe! When it hits the 90s here in the NJ/PA area, my company will send out Heat Advisory emails, asking everyone to shut down all unnecessary electrical usage to help the electric company avoid outages! If it hits 95, that's major news and they close schools and businesses. I guess at 95 you guys go out and do yard work? It will be 92 today and I have the pool temp set at 90, so I will send the day sipping beers in the pool!

You can only grow six plants... might as well make them count!

Hi Mark! Welcome to the board! Ha! I hit a wrong button and wound up on the oldest page of the board. Some classic stuff there!

I'd guess R&R... if that's the right box in the background, that looks like Ray's handwriting!

It was a misunderstanding. Donald Trump is so far from reality, he thought that's what cars cost.

As you describe your conditions, could the hazing be from the temperature / humidity of the body? Maybe heat up your paint can, AND warm up the body in a dehydrator prior to painting? Your description sounds like my basement... cool in summer and if I touch anything there, it's cool to the touch. I'm thinking about that because with 1:1 autos, I once got a hazed and rough paint job in the winter ... one of the techs there told me that the reason why was that they pulled the car into the shop from outside and shot the paint without having it warm up to shop temperature.

Caddy is from Morgan Automotive Detail. Hood appears fixed. http://www.madmodeling.com/store/ccp0-prodshow/69coupedeville.html

Thanks. Somehow there was a double http// in the link. I fixed it now, either .com or .org should work, we own both and have them both pointed at this page. Please do consider attending a meeting. Next up is September 12. Contrary to what's on the site (guess I need to pull it up and fix it) we will be meeting at our normal church building.

Gotta love stores that assume that all their customers are criminals! I do that ONCE, then never go back. There are way too many stores.

Wow Ray! Round Two has been doing a great job with box art!

Me either. She is used to what I do by now! She'll bring in the mail and sarcastically call me, "Presents! Come get presents!" I haven't bought much for models lately, but I got interested in my old stamp collection and specifically my New Jersey postmark collection I started as a kid. So I've been buying them on the 'bay! And it's not a lot of money, but a sprinkling of Paypal purchases over weeks for $1.50, $3.00, $8.00 etc... you get the idea of the spend. One or two every other day... sooo, I get notice from my bank that they've shut down my checking account due to an unusual spend pattern! I had to call them to explain that yes, that was me! And what's good for the goose... a while back my wife came to me and asked how to sell things on eBay or Craig's List... she brings out a box filled with expensive pocket books... and she's wanting a lot of money for these things, that I swear I never saw before! Did I complain? Nope! I realized I had absolutely nothing to say about spending hobby money!

Steve, I think Revell of Germany picks the Revell USA subjects that it believes will sell well in Europe and releases them under that brand. My thinking is that if there was a grand demand for the kits you name, then ROG would have the good wisdom to offer them. I don't believe Round Two has any sales organization for Europe. I know they have a tiny staff, and are already overworked with all they are attempting to do. Maybe if one of the hobby distributors in Europe took an interest? Since the kits are all sourced from China, the big cost jump you are seeing is for the double handling, and of course postage and duty. It seems reasonable that either company could have their Chinese vendor ship a few gross of new issues to someone in Europe at a cost not much greater than sending the same to the USA. Then it would be a matter of IF they could sell them.

Ah! Last evening I invoked "Slump Buster Number Two" from my previous post. I had posted a few photos of the differences between the last two Dodge van issues, so I had a few bodies sitting on my table here. As I glanced at them, as always, different ideas kept coming up in my head. So I went upstairs, dug through my Dodge van junk box and we have this one in progress! Slump busted! I can't wait to get back upstairs this evening to work on it a bit more!

Check Craigs List for a guy with a stump grinder. I had one come by (I'm in suburbs west of Philly) and grind down two for me for $80.

Sorry to hear that Mark. The State Farm estimator who came to my house wrote me a check on the spot. They told me to hire my contractor and they'd pay them any difference directly.

My steak! Today I went out to the garage refrigerator to get a new bottle of Coke. I noticed that my wife had a steak defrosting (still in the freezer bag) on a plate in that refrigerator. Odd, she usually does that in the kitchen refrigerator. So I'm thinking about this steak all day... almost grilled it for lunch. My wife walks in and tells me we need to order pizza for dinner. I remind her that she has a steak.... she tells me that steak is old and bad, got ruined when our freezer went warm recently... and she took it out of the freezer because she keeps forgetting to throw it out. Hmmmm... no warnings... I almost had it for lunch!