Tom Geiger

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because if that song?

Probably haven’t changed the water since then either! Keep in mind I grew up on US Army posts. As a kid I’d get up Saturday morning for bowling league. Three games 10 cents each. I had my own ball and shoes. Lunch was that dirty water dog on a steamed bun. 10 cents. Fountain Coke was a nickel. Then we’d run across the lot to the movie theater. Kids noon show was a quarter. Popcorn was a dime (extra nickel for butter) and again a nickel coke. The first regular show was after that. If we had been responsible, the guys would ignore that we were supposed to go outside and pay another quarter. But we’d get another popcorn and Coke. That kept us busy until dinner time. Our parents knew where we were, so no issues. This was every Saturday. If you were counting it cost a dollar!

An interesting question. I had a vision of building a replica of Dave Shuklas’ Bobtail Cat but using modern materials and kits.

And forget the car wash!

It means that some unidentified person hit the new “Like” button. It would be nice if it told you who! For now I just ignore that notification.

Bingo! So many folks subscribe to the theory that old tooling is already paid for! Following along those lines, used cars should be free! Make mine a 56 Chevy convertible! And there are carrying costs. There is a mortgage on that tooling so we have interest paid, corporate tax on assets, warehousing costs of square footage and labor. That’s not only on the tooling currently used for production, but all the idle and broken ones as well! In my business the benchmark is that it costs 1/3 acquisition value to maintain spare parts on an annual basis. So there is considerable costs to maintaining this inventory!

They always do!

A battery charger

From 1966 thru 1972 I lived in the USA for only the year 1968 and that was in Jersey City, NJ while McDonalds was primarily a suburb thing back then. I do remember eating at White Castle. While in Europe the American fast food had not yet arrived while I was there. I learned that later on the road leading to our US Army post became littered with our chain restaurants. When in Paris, there was a British burger chain called Wimpy’s, of course named after Popeye’s friend. Us kids loved to go there! We returned to New Jersey when I was 14 and couldn’t get enough of McDonalds and Burger King! And I loved sub sandwiches!

And permanently purple

There will be a Pro Street version followed by a custom version with a bandstand in the back! ?

And I'd get in trouble no matter what... Back at evil company number two, an engineering manager was screaming at my boss, Why was Tom telling all the engineers what to do?! His response? Because they were smart enough to ask Tom !

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Including dead fish ?

I know most everyone in video so it was a treat to see them all. Doug’s intent is to record folks in the hobby for the future. Unfortunately his prophecy came too quick, Ted Chopper Lear has already passed away.

The wagon was never a kit back in the day, just a promo. I believe it first was a kit later on. My chassis is nothing more than a flat plate. The 1960 was the first year of the unibody so you could try the 64 Lindberg chassis under it.. don’t know how the wheelbase lines up. The interiors were shallow and had flat sides due to the limitations of injection molding in the era. Remember too that Johan had smaller tools that the bigger companies do they might have had an older molding machine with more limitations than their rivals.

43 just being petty!

Like the Kardashians

Or common sense

F is for Fairy!

Back in the mid to late 1980s I did buy all the Johan Mopars I could find. There was a local hobby shop that had a 20% off sale and I spent something like $50 on kits, which was big money for me at that time. Same shop, I walked through the back room with the owner to their office and spied 6 Johan 1962 Studebaker Lark convertibles on a shelf. I asked and was told they were there because nobody would ever want them.. I asked and was sold the stack for $1 a kit. In the early 1990s I was at a show and bought 5 MPC Pacer kits for $3 each. I really wanted the Goodyear Suburbanite snow tires out of the kits. As I walked around the show with the kits, people were making fun of me for buying them!

I wouldn’t budge on the screen name! Should the state of Indiana change its name? I think not. The political correctness nonsense has gone way too far!

The sign was still up two summers ago when I was working in Seattle. I was out there a week a month that summer and Dave and I planned on getting together, but never connected. I did see him that fall at the last NNL Nationals in Ohio. SE Limited wasn’t part of his company. This is owned by Ric Golding in Florida. He used to come to NNL East as a vendor.

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For a girl