ranma

It al comes down to one word GREED! enough said.

If I remember correctly Nascar tried the rain tires, although the tires worked the winshield when it rained was the issue. Wiper's would be a issue for aerodynamics. basically you'd have to have special cars for "rain races". Nascar has road courses that they race on such as sear's point and walkins glen.

Pinto had 27

and how many died in the Pinto's? I understand that's why I wrote that GM is not alone in negelgence And the fact that Ford had a lawsuit in Indiana for homicide. Like I said FORD knew the pinto wasn't safe by their own test. Just as Gm knew the ignition problem but if you look at the data Only 13 crashes resulted in death and of those 13 most were teenage drivers whome didn't have the experience to adapt to an engine being shutoff. most older drivers would : shift into (N) restart engine and back into drive. There was a test done on a Saturn the driver done everything to get the switch to fail he succeeded when he put to much on the key chain causing the key to pull down and shut the car off, He did the shift into N and restarted the car. Also a total of less than 100 cars had this happen out of millions sold. Same can be said about the pinto, or the Eco boost problem's It's not band loyalty induced it's just the fact as it's a Fact that Demo derby drivers like the early 70's gm wagons, or the 64 imperial's and now the ford Crown vic. Every auto maker have faults. Look at what the big three did to Preston Tucker! all because he made a safer car! the man innovated the laminated windshield, padded dash, seat belts, Disk break's and more. all before the seatbelt became manditory. all these safety added things we now have in every car made.

Harry, GM is not the first to hide problems and know that the parts were substandard, FORD did the same Thing with the pinto . Ford knew That the gas tanks were not right they even had three different ideas to resolve this matter just after production of the pinto had started. one idea was a rubber bladder made by good year that worked but was rejected because it cost just over $5.00. And according to the information that I read Ford had gas tank problems before this. FORD's President got rearened and his tank opened and caught fire he got out without being harmed. He addressed this to Ford so it wouldn't happen again This was a few years before the PINTO! Bottom line FORD knew and sold the cars anyway. Just as GM knew and sold cars anyway. Even though 8 of the 11 crash test Pintos gas tanks ruptured 3 did not due to safety devises that were done to the tanks. again this test was done just as production had already started! See: HOW STUFF WORKS THE PINTO CONTORVERSY

A truck load of Fords that never made it to the dealer, the cars just caught on fire. Ford had problems an still does with the eco boost engines. this Ford flex started with a rattle went to a shake and burn.

Yep, I voted on those. Please vote for any of mine (ranma)

You do not have to join to vote ,but to make your idea's you will have to join the site!

Right now the most requested things are 1/72 Russian troops! Come on guy's heres your chance to vote on some car models on there. I have three kit sugestions on there 1.1960 Chevrolet Impala wagon 2.1966 Chevrolet impala wagon 3.International harvester 9670 c/o all as 1/25 scale kits the impala's have 100 votes so far and the 9670 has 30! (I just posted the semi yesterday!

Actually, it does, I maintain my cars with proper maintance, I don't abuse my cars either. Beside my Dad always had gm cars. and he never had issues with any of them. I recall the 78 Dodge pickup he bought caused more trouble and cost him more money than any of the GM products that he owned! The manifold cracked three different times on that dodge truck Dodge put to small of a radiator in the thing, plus when it got damp or cold out it wouldn't start. He instilled in me that If you take care of your car It will take care of you. BTW he bought a Mercury Metor new and it was in the shop more than he ever dove it. he bought the 71 Catalina wagon new, it was still going strong when he sold it in 1978! and we had the grand safari wagon from 77-89. and it had over 300,000 miles on it when he sold it and it was still going strong as well. He bought an 86 Celebrity new and had it till 2002. It was still running when he sold it.

Most were used cars, but the 84 new port I got in 87 didn't even have it a year! as with the Omni it was less than a year after buying it Used. But as I say they were all Used but New cars to me. I never owned one like it before that is. My Corsica has had the Computer replaced, that cost less than 80.00 Not bad for a computer to last that long, the starter again it was the factory part, and the heater core replaced. But the car has never left me on the side of the road! GM's problems will end and then some other automaker's will start. from Ford to Toyota back to ford and on to GM. Intresting fact The For pinto 1971-1980 had 27 deaths related to the gas tank fire's That makes GM"s 13 look better.

I placed this on revell's share your dream, If any fellow model truck builders will vote for this IH 9670 to be produced in 1/25 kit form, Maybe Revell will produce it.

BTW, Iv'e owned Chevrolet's, Pontiac's, Oldsmobiles, Buick's, Dodge's Chrysler's and ford's and a mazda pickup. none of the Chevy's ,oldsmobile's left me stranded on the side of the highway as the 3 ford's I had, or the four dodge products I had. 2 tempo's that either the front drive system went out or engine failure. 2 dodge caravan the drive train busted on . a Newport that the Transmission self destructed on and a Omni that the front coil spring busted and tore the heck out of the car. One buick Centruy that the time belt went out on (zero tolerance engine) on that one. I bought an 88 celebrity for $300.00 and it lasted four years and had over 300,00 miles on it. traded it and got my 91 Corsica . that had only 67,000 miles on it. (I bought the celebrity in 2009 and the Corsica which replaced it in 2013.

Maybe because GM makes more and sales more cars than Ford. even if it was the last century Ford had it's troubles in the 70's My aunt told me about a Ford she had bought new and within the first two years the steering wheel cumbled apart!, ford also still has problems popping up on the ECO-Burst(Boost) engine's.

Need to see the US recall news dated December 18,2013! between 2005 &2009 For recalled 14 million cars and trucks. and if you read this it shows that ford much like GM made bad choices! and don't think that Honda ,Toyota are amune to this because they aren't!

The only decal used on this truck is a red pinstripe at the bottom of the white stripe. I added a fire exstingisher to the inside of the sleeper inside the lower compartment. I'll post a picture of that later.

For those of you Bashing GM The latest top 10 unreliable used cars List is online now and there isn't a GM product listed! Kia,VW, Mini Copper are on the list. as are Mazda, Subaru , jag, Smart car, and Land rover. This just proves that GM is not alone in all of this. Don't anyone rember the PINTO? Or Ford frame rot problems of the 70's? My cousin had a 73 ford pickup that he had to junk due to the frame being so rotted and that was in 1979! when I was in auto tech in High school we had a nice looking 64 ford donated to our school The reason was frame had rotted out but the body didn't. That car was cut up for scrap! If you look it up online Ford has had just as many recall's in recent years, and on you tube there's a video of a 2012 ford Flex with a engine rattle noise. You can really here it rattle badly.

This is my most recent build of the 7Th Transtar 4300 to be added to my collection.

The recall Problems aren't just GM"S cars But if you would look on line Ford has recalled a lot of different cars and trucks as well as has Toyota and Chrysler. Now it's just my Opinion here but when parts are made in China what do you expect? They poisoned Pet food, Put lead paint on toys, and Now the U.S.. is going to send Chicken to be processed there to? Beware of those Mc Nuggets they maybe coming from china!

It would be better If round2 would produce a few modern trailers as well as the reissue's that they are putting out. Such as a modern auto carrier, grain, lowboy, flat bed with adjustable rear wheel axles, livestock, milk, ect. some with those aerodynamic skirts under the trailer such as dry good's and refidgerated trailers now have.

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I'll post the pictures soon of this resin body eventhough the body is incorrect as a delivery it does build into a decent kit given that you'll have to rework a monogram 60 impala parts to fit correctly. I had to trim the top of the door panels off and trim the chassie side overhangs to get a proper fit. other than that the monogram parts fit well, to correctly do the rear tail light area you'll need three of the tail light's as the Wagon had a strait across tail light Chrome. So to do this correctly you'll need to cut both tail light chrome parts at the drop point's the third Chrome tail light cuts cut in the same mannor . Also the 60 chevy wagon has only four tail lights so the third rings need trimmed out on both tail lights the third Chrome piece will need two rings removed and cut between the the first and second light ring (the ring on the outside) this will make the third piece of chrome rectangle shaped thus making the rear chrome tail light bar strait.

I agree with you Harry, Just think what's to stop the computer system that drives that car from getting Hacked. Just another way the someone can kill people not to mention progaming the darn thing to deliver thing's that go BOOM. No thank you I'd rather drive than let a car do so. It's just a bad idea more so these days with groups like al kidia

Here are two more Pictures. car need's the Chrome parts as it didn't come with them. Back tires and axle expected to come soon in the mail. the body before primer and blue paint.

I also would like to thank Impcon for tradeing with me your a stand up man. and a real pleasure to trade with my friend. Without him I wouldn't have the two 69 GTO's.