Tom Geiger

Perfect! All the right wear cues in the right places!

In the 1980s when guys would complain about accuracy of the new releases I always said that when I took over AMT I was going to put a garage door into the design department and park the friggin car in there until they got it right! Now, as you said above, the guys doing the work are in China. Probably be cheaper to fly a pair of them here to do the measuring. Then again, remember that China is becoming more prosperous and they love American cars. Won't be long before they can just go measure a '57 Chevy locally.

You must mean this car!

And hopefully one of those guys are your bum! Stick 'em!

A guy I went to school with owns a limo company. He says much of his Town Car fleet has over 500,000 miles on them. Mainly airport runs on highways. Last I spoke to him he had no idea what he'd be replacing them with as they expired. He couldn't think of a suitable Ford product.

I made out like a bandit this weekend! I went to the swap meet in Wayne, NJ. I found all the following stuff.... Lindberg 1/32s... Mercedes, Datsun Z and Olds Omega. All cleanly built (or should I say snapped together) without paint. $15 for the trio. I have been collecting this series so this is a decent score! Premier Kaiser Darren and Porsche. I love obscure old stuff and these are pretty cool. Clean too. I just need to figure out tail lights, rear bumper and windshield for the Darren. Mazda RX7 in an odd scale but neat and clean. For the few dollars I just had to have it. 1961 Comet. Nice piece overall. Missing one fender top chrome piece. Once home I went digging in my stash and found I had the same car but with an a pillar missing a piece. So that one is going to my Aussie buddy to cut up to build an Aussie Fairlane Ute. 1965 Rambler wagon that needs some love. Easy fix and a great price because of it. Will be done to nice model car standards.

This one just drives me daffy. Here it is on a post it stuck to a model I got at a swap meet. I've seen it on the boards and other places.... how many years have you been awake in America? It's $5 not 5$ !

I hate when that happens. You brake hard to avoid the idiot, and in the process your beer gets all spilled!

I got lucky at a swap meet on Sunday. Crawling through a vendor's junk boxes I found three clean built ups from this series... The Olds Omega, the Datsun Z and Mercedes convt. All three for about $15 total.

Note that Norman doesn't have a website etc because he's already selling everything he can pour!

I do Facility Planning for pharmaceutical companies. I work with the organization, their growth and expansion plans, and make sure they have proper real estate to do so. I am currently looking for a new gig because the company that hired me to find a location and build a new headquarters building for them got a new CEO who squashed that project. I interview next Monday with another small pharma that wishes to do the very same thing.

Just some of the things I still have in primer...

I went to a swap meet in NJ today and was amazed at how many first gen Valiants (60-62) there were for sale, and at reasonable prices. I already have much more than my fair share of these, unless it's a very interesting and unusual old custom build!

Creedence Clearwater Revival? When the band broke up they tried to do resin parts. That kinda tanked too.

I've found two problems with the doors on those kits. First are the plastic hinges. They are awful and next time I'd replace them with scratch built metal ones. Second is the fit in the frame. The second kit I built as an adult was the '57 Ford. I didn't know enough to test fit everything back then the doors are very tight in their frames, and I broke off the drivers side hinge so my door is just wedged into the frame now.

And check the clearance aisle at Walmart! I've found some amazing things there.

He should be happy that you make house calls! Have fun, model cars will wait.

What a beauty Ron! I should've sent mine down to Maryland for you to work on!

Ted isn't a cat. He's a human. Ask him, that's what he thinks.

Hi Clement- I know you said in the past that you wanted to come to the US, so let us know how it comes about that you are coming to Canada, the west coast no less! Hopefully you can get down to the US and some of our shows while you are on the continent.

Actually we just blame it on Jim Keeler!

Cool Harry! Noting that one of the ads shows a Walmart sticker of $8.50 on a box, and they're offered on eBay for about $2 each in the lots, I'd say they weren't a big sales success, and maybe hit closeout?

Okay Virgil. My top favorite kits.... 1. 1953 Ford pickup - AMT 2. 1957 Ford 2 dr hardtop - AMT 3. 1950 Ford pickup - Revell 4. 1955-7 Chevy pickups - AMT 5. Green Hornet show rod - Monogram (the old 1960 '32 Ford one, not the 1960s Chrysler)

I think it's an epidemic! I've had some interesting experiences in the past two weeks... I'm driving the PA Turnpike towards NJ going about 85 mph. Mind you that the line of cars I'm following is doing the same. All of a sudden I hear this BWWWWWAAAA! from behind me, so I look in my rear view mirror and all I see is this guy's face a few inches outside the back window of my Caravan. There is no helmet law in PA so this guy isn't wearing one, he's on some sort of crotch rocket going 85 right on my back bumper. We were going too slow for him, so the first tiny opening between me and the cars in the right lane and he zips through and then back again in front of me. Total idiot. The tiniest little mistake, pot hole or other bit of crud in the road and he was toast. A few more 'threading the needle' type maneuvers and he disappeared ahead of me, no doubt faster than 90. Second idiot.. I'm on Route 202 in PA, through the eternal construction zone heading into King of Prussia. This area is two very narrow lanes, very closely hemmed in with concrete barriers on either side. I come up on a slow moving wide load. It's a prefab house / vinyl sided trailer thing that's so wide it's hugging the center line, taking both lanes. It has a guide truck behind it with a yellow flashing light, as the law requires. The guide truck is in the left lane so I settle in a reasonable distance behind him in the left lane to follow along. No problem. Then out of nowhere, this little chick in a Beemer flies up in the right lane and passes both me and the guide truck. She noses in IN FRONT OF THE GUIDE TRUCK, who brakes hard to avoid her. Now she's right on the back bumper (if it had a bumper) of the house. What does she do now? She starts honking her horn! Apparently people are this stupid.

Today there aren't any Premier or Palmer manufacturers to totally avoid, so I think it comes down to subject matter. Revell and Moebius are producing the new interesting tools as of late so they are getting a bunch of our money. Round 2 is still focusing primarily on reissues and modified reissues, exercising the old tooling that they invested a fortune into buying. So when those issues come out, especially something we haven't seen in eons, we buy those too. Outside of those, and depending on your modeling interests, Tamiya just did a nicely detailed kit of the old Citroen 2CV panel van. Their quality is first rate so I want one of those for sure. Subject matter wise, I'd even buy that one if it was from an unknown manufacturer. Today's worries are mainly with the aftermarket, both quality of the kit they produce and the probability of them actually delivering one to you in a reasonable timeframe, if at all.