Tom Geiger

Not really a worry now a days.. credit card or debit card... banks take the hit immediately, not you. Recently my wife got a new debit card in the mail from our bank. The letter said her card was compromised recently, taken care of, and to just activate the new card and stop using the old one within 10 days. I would rather do nearly anything than pump gas. I can check my email, or sometimes I even use the bathroom!

I told Gomer to fit them into the shipping container!

Moonlight, Feels Right - Starbuck (one of those one hit wonders!) BTW, the last one I posted goes unidentified... popular artist, popular song... can't figger that nobody got it New One: And we wanna go where she goes We wanna listen to her radio

Me either. I was one of those guys who would salt food before tasting it. My father used to yell at me. Then my sodium went up and I stopped cold turkey. Same with putting sugar in coffee. Hard at first, but you get used to it and it tastes normal. I never pay cash because I don't carry much. It used seems to disappear. I use my debit card for everything I can. That way I can pretend I didn't pay that much for gas! And while my money still disappears, at least I know why!

Same morons who can't figure out how to pack a Priority Mail package! Many years ago when I lived in NJ, my dim back door neighbor came over for advise. I had a tough time containing my laughter. It seems he bought a mattress and box spring from Sears and loaded on the roof of his mini van. A few miles down the road he lost the load. The car behind him braked hard and still ran it all over. The car behind him ran into the back of the car sitting on top of the mattress. Said mattress got to the cat convertor and started smoking. Cops came, recorded the accident. Fire dept came. Nobody was hurt thankfully. The funny part? After telling me that whole story, his question to me was, "Shouldn't the guy who ran over his mattress buy him a new one?!"

That's a 1962. That was first year for the dual headlights. The '63 had the same bezel with minor changes to the grill, but that year they did away with that split between the doors.

but I think a girl could be "loose" and also be a "loser". Add in misuse of to, too, two and there, their, they're... and one of my pet peeves... 10$ instead of $10. Sometimes I think our International guys who speak English as a second language do better than the American natives! Although when they do the 10$ thing I understand since many currencies are displayed that way. Harry, do we need an English Class thread??

Pretty much a financial decision no doubt. Although this place has been there 25 years, owns the entire shopping center, and is always crazy busy with people waiting for tables. It's a homey kind of place like Cheers, the staff addresses you by name and knows your usual order. And the bar is always filled with regulars we know and have conversations with. I spoke to one of the managers and he said that the regulars were flipping out. So we'll see. In the mean time there is no shortage of places with Happy Hour specials in this area. My wife has uncovered a couple more places we hadn't tried.

I've been working in New Jersey so I'm buying my gas there. 10-20 cents a gallon cheaper than Pennsylvania and they pump it for ya! I'd much rather check my email than pump the friggin gas! Steak... Medium Rare order usually gets me Medium. I like it pink in the middle. If it's been seasoned nicely, I won't put anything else on it. Hamburgers, kinda stuck with catsup in fast food restaurants. When I go to Five Guys or cook on the grill, I like a robust barbecue sauce on mine. I try not to salt anything, and use catsup minimally. If the fries have a nice taste, I won't put anything on them. There are a few places we go that do nice crisp fries I will eat plain. I also like vinegar on fries! A board walk thing!

and why not a story about when that New Beetle came out? VW had done it as a show car and it looked pretty neat to me. When I first saw them in person it was like they were making those show cars! The dealer in Shrewsbury, NJ had a whole front lot full of them. People were stopping to look, as we did when I first spotted them on our way to a restaurant. I decided I wanted one, so that Saturday I drove back to the dealer in my paid for Geo Tracker, the title and a bank check in my pocket. I walked the lot and picked out a red one with a 5 speed. I knew that there was a lot of interest so I knew there wouldn't be much bargaining on the price. A salesman walked up to me and I pointed to the red Beetle and said, "I think I want this one." He just laughed at me, "You and everyone else!" Then he went on to tell me that they weren't selling the cars on the lot, just taking orders for much later delivery at some $2-3000 over list. So I told him to pound salt and walked off the lot. I was so ticked that I swore I'd never buy a car at that dealer or own a VW. And within six month same dealer was calling offering a few thousand OFF list. I no longer was interested. And probably a good thing since those early Beetles were plagued with issues.

My favorite pub of four years changed their Happy Hour menu without notice. No more half price wings and mussels, they decided people wanted mac & cheese and tiny little meatball sandwiches instead. Guess we need to find a new place!

Yup, my two Plymouth Breezes were the same. I never even tried, just took it to Pep Boys and paid their extra charge. The light bulbs on those cars are also a pain. You need to remove the headlight or tail light from the car to change the bulb. Other cars I was able to reach in behind and just replace the bulb! My Jaguar S Type battery is in the trunk. The fuse box is right next to it under the trunk mat

Hey, Lord would ya look out for her tonight If she is sleepin' under the sky. Said now, make sure the ground she's sleepin' on Is always warm and dry.

Indiana Wants Me - R Dean Taylor --- yea, I have the 45 somewhere :-)

Just remembered where this photo was! Rowan University facilities and grounds dept had a bunch of these for use on campus. No plates on them, but interesting to see a Japanese product with "Property of the State of New Jersey" lettered on it.

And there are times where the more expensive resin beats a cheap nasty built up! I've been looking over some of the built ups I have and by the time I've blown them apart, stripped them, supplemented the broken or missing parts from Model Haus and got the chrome redone, I'm better off with a clean resin kit, and that's before I start repairing the body etc of glue marks, and glue melt/sinks from overambitious work with glass runners and body to chassis. I've got some 67 to 69 Pontiacs where the sides of the fenders are sunk in where they meet the radiator panel. Great work so far Rich! I'm always up for watching your build progress!

I was thinking recently (which is dangerous), and in the Euro car world, we've recently gotten some interesting classics, many never kitted. From Revell of Germany we got two new variations of Beetles, two new kits of Trabants (both limousine and Universal), and a world class Mini Cooper kit. From Ebbro we have the Citroen 2CV fourgonnette and the Renault 4 sedan and fourgonnette. And I know I'm missing some! Sooo... what Euro cars do we see in our future in 1/24 scale ? 1. VW split window.. surprising that this one has never been done in 1/24! 2. Citroen DS 3. Fords... any Cortinas, Capri or Taunus models 4. Opels... any Kadettes, Mantas... of course we already have an Opel GT kit 5. Old Mercedes... any SLs, 190s And since ROG has done most of the above kits in pairs... can we hope a Mini Traveler is on their minds?

These guys were on Steve Harvey today... The son was eight years old and was playing Hot Wheels with his father. The father picked up a '57 Chevy and said it was his dream car from the time he was young. The eight year old told him that he'd buy him that 57 for his 57th birthday. And he never forgot! There was more to this video on Steve Harvey where they panned the length of the car and it was a 4 door. I just had to laugh thinking that there are guys on this board who would say, "No thanks son. I'd never own a 4 door!"

and if someone did resin cast it, the cost of the average resin is around $50.

That's TDR Innovations, Tim Floyd's company. Gary Kulchock has done some work with them. They have been a vendor at NNL East Yes, they are pioneering the future! And right now a model body goes for $46. and it's nowhere near kit perfect. So much for the guys who think they'll be buying a 3D printer next year and printing models out for free.

Nice work Mike! There are a lot of these Japanese mini pickups in the US. Most of them get used on private roads. When I was at Disney in Florida, they were all over the property, Rowan University in NJ had a bunch of them too. The companies I have worked for have had 100 acre campuses and used electric Cushman type vehicles, and I had suggested going for this style pickup since they would be more robust and last longer than the electrics.

The view from my office window... my kitchen table. I work from home 3-5 days a week, a fairly virtual worker communicating via email, phone and Live computer meetings with manufacturing facilities around the world. There's no reason for me to go my assigned company property since my boss is the only person I work with there. We get together to collaborate the 1-2 days a week in person. My day can start with calls to Europe as early as 6am, calls to US facilities during the day and sometimes meeting with Asia after 8pm. Sharp eyes will have already spotted the deer in the above photo. She sits under that bush maybe 2 days I week that I notice.

I just took a quick look and you are correct. There are the AMT 1951 Chevys and 1949-50 Fords, a 1950 Mercury snap kit, the recent 1950 Olds, Moebius 52-3 Hudsons, AMT '53 Studebaker, Revell and Monogram 53-4 Chevys. And there's the Lindberg 1953 Ford. The original warping promos were the only thing actually produced back in the early 1950s, there weren't any kits so everything of that era are historically created models as these I listed above. There is resin. Off the top of my head I have a R&R 1950 Plymouth 4 door sedan. A pretty poor effort but the only show in town. I just checked eBay and the supply of R&R seems to have dried up. I saw many second hand resin kits being sold at the last swap meet I was to, so they're out there. Hendricks also does some interesting 1950s resin including a 1957 Plymouth wagon. They are on the 'bay. Jimmy Flintstone has a few conversions. Another source is diecast. Both Franklin and Danbury have done subjects not seen as kits. I'd watch the 'bay for damaged ones if you want to take them apart to do your own way.

1/43 and 1/32 seem to be very popular scales outside of the USA. I know when I was a kid in Europe, I collected up and built much of the Airfix 1/32 scale line up. Many of those had as many parts and as much detail as US 1/25 kits of that time! Speaking of Renaults in 1/24 scale, with all the recent Euro car activity.. that is the Renault 4s, Trabants -- both sedan and wagon, and the 2CV van issues... I'm wondering if we'll see a new Dalphine kit?? As we watched an old Hubley one, the bag kit without interior, go for $100 on that auction site the other day... just saying...