Tom Geiger

Yes I was disappointed when I actually went to one and learned this. The way some guys on the board carry on about Hobby Lobby like it's the end all model place, I expected more!

Since we're going out there... DUEL Gift Set - Peterbilt tanker and '71 Valiant ?

Agreed. IF they were successful in getting kits out at the same time that the movie was released...not a year later! I am amazed that we are getting a Starsky & Hutch Torino. I was sure that ship had sailed a long time ago. I do get kits of timeless tv or movie cars like the Love Bug, which has been in a series of movies and still watched by kids today. Nearly every breathing human can identify Herbie. I do see Round 2 putting out TV and Movie theme box art on tired old kits. Tom Lowe is very into that market, and the truth is that it's a much larger market than our meager model car clan, with large conventions all over the country. So most of those kits are bought for the tie-in and most won't even get the shrink wrap damaged. That's good for us, as it's sales that keep one of our favorite companies in the black. The one car that they haven't done but should, is the Wayne's World Pacer. True, their Pacer is the earlier flat hood version, but that's the only one part (the hood and grill) that are different between the two versions of the kit. So it would be easy to do, fix the nose, add some decals and even if they don't do the red licorice container, it would sell oodles. Many years ago someone local did a model of the Mirth Mobile. I took photos of it at the Liars show way back then. All of a sudden my hosting account was going wacky with hits on that photo. Seems someone saw it and posted it on a Waynes World fan site. So there is a cult following. That would sell. And anything with a comic book connection. I just saw how big ComicCon is and can see that it's a much bigger hobby than ours once again!

Okay back to the subject matter... One of my big rules for beaters... "If you remove a body part, you need to create the detail that would be underneath that part." Doesn't matter what kit manufacturer, if you remove fenders, nose etc. the kit maker hasn't invested time in creating details nobody normal would ever see. I see soooo many models with parts cut off, and just model kit innards showing! Note all the shapes etc that went into creating the Honda inner details.

But $1500 was a lot of money back then. It just looks like chump change today. But back when a new car was in the $3000 range, that represented half the price of a new car. With a Camry hitting $30,000 now, that's like looking for a $15,000 used car today (kinda / sorta). Per the Power glide, my father wasn't a fan of the ole two speed, so when he bought his 1966 LeMans with a 326, he got the 4 speed. Yea, that was our family car. And a thought about AMC... I can't see how a company with such limited resources came out with two versions of pretty much the same car with a 4" difference in length. Think of all those different parts and stampings between the AMX and Javelin.

LOL.

Wow! Great precise work on that door and jamb! No criticism here about the speed you are working at, you are working consistantly and moving forward on a very intricate assembly. Kudos to you! I'm enjoying watching.

I'd say both are equally bad. More wars have been fought over religion than politics. Every religion pretty much has the same good intentions, but every religion does have their fanatics. In fact, as we were experiencing 9-11 my thoughts were about a Muslim friend of mine and how devistated he would be over the events. I have lived all over the world, as well as having worked in International companies for the past 35 years, so I am well versed in embracing people of different cultures and beliefs. In fact I enjoy knowing people who are quite different from myself. I agree that I'm uncomfortable with people pushing religion on me. I don't answer the door for the Jehovahs. I have my beliefs but I don't believe it's appropriate for conversation in the work place or hobbies. I don't care what color you are, your sexual orientation, your religion or your politics, I'm good with you as a friend in the hobby. In fact I have a good friend who I knew 10 years or more before it came up that he was Jewish. Religion had never come up and nothing changed in our friendship. Now back to worshiping the little plastic cars!

End analysis is that the 327 will be very cool in your Camaro!

Hmmm... I won two eBay auctions today with 6 second snipes! But you guys don't care, the lots are for my stamp collection. Funny thing, the one item is very rare. I have an eBay search agent on it and I hadn't seen one in years. One was for sale last month and it went for a lot more than I anticipated. So this week a second one appears (that sometimes happens, someone sees the big number and decides to sell theirs in the following weeks to get in on those dollars!) and I had no competition! I bought it for less than half the other one went for. And the big one of the day...I have a full size refrigerator in the shed next to my pool. Plugged it in last year and it worked but never got cold. So I figured something went wrong with it over the winter. I unplugged it and let it sit. Today I was cleaning out the shed and planned on tossing the refrigerator. I actually had it strapped to the hand truck, and had moved it out onto the patio. Then I plugged my shop vac into the outlet and guess what? No power at all! So I plugged the refrigerator into an outdoor outlet and it cooled right down. Even froze a cup of water! So now it's back in the shed with beer in it! I replaced the outlet and all is well.

Tesla just open sourced it's technology agreeing to share it with competitors. More car volume means more investment in charging stations that will make the electric vehicle mainstream. You may have seen my drive report on the Tesla here on the board. My cousin bought one and let me drive it. He explained that the GPS system on the car programs in the fuel stops and those partial fills don't take long. He said that on trips from home in PA to Detroit, North Carolina and Maine, he was only inconvenienced long enough to have dinner at a charging station. The charging stations are going in at a fast pace. Here in PA, they've had them at the King of Prussia mall for at least a year. I saw them at rest stops on the PA Turnpike. A little restaurant we frequent has two spaces. The charging works two ways. Some places don't charge as a way of enticing you to patronize their business. Others work off a Tesla credit card that you swipe at the charging unit. So there already are some of the things you wish. Workplaces are getting pressured to install charging stations. I was a facility manager for a large pharma and we had the requests at multiple facilities. We already had preferred parking spaces for hybrids and car pools.

A bit more civilized north of the border! I always said Canadians were like Americans, BUT with manners!

Bill- More information please! Who? What? Where? Where are these races in Pennsylvania?

Wow! Here in the US we have no organized "Official Offer Date". When a house comes on the market, it's anyone's game. When I was a realtor, you would aggressively seek customers for any new listing your office mates had, hoping to get it sold before it hit the multiple listing service. I would also sit in the office until 7-8pm when the multiple listing service's daily listing package got dropped off. (They had messengers who would hand deliver the printed listings to every real estate office every day) I'd quickly go through these against my current customer's requirements and call them immediately. I showed many a house in the dark! I was always prepared to make offers on the spot. I presented hand written contracts with my customers sitting in my car many times, and walked between the house and the car to negotiate the final deal. Note that his was 30 years ago before computers and cell phones. That all changes the game considerably these days!

I remember reading an account of people driving from Philadelphia to Wildwood on the New Jersey Shore in the 1920s. The car broke down once, and they got three flat tires along the way. It took them 12 hours or more. Today? About a 2 hr drive! And a modern driver wouldn't have any issues!

Wow! On Sunday, two idiots carjack a woman in a tough section of Philly and force her into her Toyota SUV. They drive around taking turns raping the woman. Cops see them and a chase ensues. They manage to blow a tire and hit a church fruit stand manned by a woman and her three kids. All three kids are killed. Both idiots jump out and flee the scene. I was just watching the chief of police say that there was unprecedented cooperation of the public. MANY witnesses came forward with descriptions and cell phone videos. One of the criminal idiots dropped his cell phone and a citizen turned it in to police, solving the crime. And this is in an area where nobody ever sees anything. The stupid part is that one of the guys who did this had no criminal record and was going into the marines next week. Go figger! The breaking news flash that just pre-empted TV read off a list of crimes they are charging these idiots for was a mile long. They are giving them no breaks at all. They're talking life without parole. What stupid idiots.

That's the other side of the folks who answer ads. Car guys who want to come and kick tires, just to have a friendly chat. I've met some nice guys that way. In fact I've been friends with one I met that way over 30 years! Still, you want to sell the car! Vegas rust? Nooooo?! A story - My friend Mark bought a 1971 Vega for college transportation. This had to be around 1976. It was a piece of junk then. He literally dumped his oil in a lot across the road from Motor Vehicle, so he could run it through inspection without it visibly smoking. Somehow he got it through inspection! Then he went back across the street and added oil. One night I was visiting him at college and we went to a frat party. On our way home the highway was one where they lowered the road at ancient overpasses so modern trucks could pass under. He was driving so fast that we hit one of those dips in the road hard, and when we hit, the hatch popped open and the area around the hinges was so rusted, the force ripped it off. The hatch hit the highway with a spray of glass and sparks! We just kept going! It was late at night so nobody was around and we had much too much chocolate milk at the party to be speaking with the good officers! He was fortunate that the rust was on the hatch side so he had all the hinges still on the car. He was able to install a new junk yard hatch. I actually found him a red one that matched. He did drive that car through the end of the semester and did find someone to buy it from him.

Congrats! Nothing like owning your own home. No landlord, nobody to tell you it's time to move except yourself! I watch some of the Canadian home channel shows and see prices in Toronto are very high. So this is an accomplishment!

I've only been to the one in NJ a few times, but the cashiers there were middle aged women who seemed to be happy to be there and were very pleasant.

Jason a low mile, clean no rust vehicle like that, maybe start at $6500 and see what happens since Craig's List is free. You can always go down, but you can't go up! Someone who is looking for one of those would come see it if it was priced high, and wouldn't be shy about making a lower offer. That car would sell high on the East Coast since we have the terminal tin worm. I'm not sure in your area. Rust free hulks that are considered parts cars in California are be gold here! Also note that when you put a car on Craig's List, be prepared to get contacts from scammers. A friend of mine in NJ recently put an ad in for a 1999 VW and most of the responses he got were scams. I always put in my ads, "Hey Scammers! Don't even bother! This car will only be sold to someone who physically comes to see it and pays cash in person!"

Ditto! But for some odd reason mine stopped working. I just get "no new content" as the response. It has to be in my account info on the server because I get the same response from three different computers and different browsers.

Yea, the only thing I see wrong with it is that it's on the WRONG COAST! If that was on the East Coast and within a pleasant drive, I'd be all over it. I had a 1977 LTD II with that same nose and loved the look of it.

I wouldn't mind having one, but they are holding their value pretty well. Which means they are out of my price range. I would expect it to have the same driving characteristics as my Jaguar S Type since they are basically the same car down under.

Yes, my Valiants had those same indents on the glove box door. I believe they were for holding your drinks at the drive in restaurant!

Per your mention of manufacturers doing things before they were required. Here's a shot of my 1963 Studebaker. Note the dual master cylinder. Notice the slot in the firewall in the upper left corner of this photo? That was the interior air filter. It worked just like the one on your dryer. Pull it out, bang out the dirt, put it back in the slot! And since I had the album open... note the word "Vanity" on the glove box door... And here it is open, a real vanity for women to put on their makeup. And a place to put three beers! Maybe the first cup holders? The independents did try harder!