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I believe that it's "real" insofar as it was built up from genuine leftover Tucker parts so nobody actually cut up a real Tucker. I seem to recall somewhat of a ruckus concerning it.

In today's world, some folks interpret 'soon' to mean "some time in the next 45 minutes."

Nope, never done in styrene. You must be of my generation; remembering things that didn't happen and not remembering the things that did.

3D printing is happening. It's pretty much a done deal. 3D printing in 1/24 scale? That's a little more problematic.

I know what it looks like it wants to be (well, the front; the back looks like it wants to be something else). It does look kinda cute, in an ugly sorta way.

I had never seen that! One of a hundred; bet it was ... um ... "pricey"

Did someone actually make a resin kit of that car. I don't recall ever seeing one.

They can't put it on the Internet if it's not true.

I absolutely understood what you wrote, I was just clarifying that it didn't take a deep reading to find mistakes. I was agreeing with you!

Yeah, that was a quick gloss-over reading; I'm not in a mood to proof read. My usual practice when writing posts of that sort (which I've been breaking all too often of late) is to write the post, read it, delete it and write it again. Repeat until the post is not likely to cause undue offense. I should get back into that practice.

Ooo, I do hope that is not the exact email you sent. The tone is somewhat combative (not a good way to get the attention you desire) and I counted no less than 9 spelling/spacing/punctuation errors (really not good when you're telling someone how poorly they're doing, quality-wise.) For the record, I agree with you; all of the manufacturers could be doing a better job.

Yep ... I'm a GM automaton! What the General says, I do! That's why I left at 15 years, it's such a good place to be! As far as IMHO, I am very aware of what it means and in my experience the 'H' rarely applies. I note in your profile that you and I are very nearly the same age so don't presume to talk down to me; I'm not near the dolt you take me to be.

Yeah ... I get really cautious on the highway. According to icasualties.org, we lost a total of a little over 2200 soldiers in the mideast between 2001 and 2011. In 2011 we lost more than 32000 in traffic accidents. I didn't add up the preceding 10 years worth of traffic fatalities. I'm imagining that the majority of those traffic deaths were caused by impaired drivers and 'distracted drivers'

You're right, Bill and I acknowledged that the families would feel that the death or injury to a loved one would be significant TO THEM. To me, not so much. Three fatalities out of 8.2 million cars that MIGHT have a defective switch? Not gonna get worked up. We've lost a significantly higher percentage of soldiers 'over there' and I don't see a whole lot of 'getting worked up.'

Nope, sorry. I left GM 15 years ago. Nice try, tho. I'd be defending Toyota if you all were saying they needed to go out of business over 7 accidents out of 8.4 million cars (sorry, the ignition switch only accounts for 8.2 million cars) or crowing from the housetops over another batch of recalls (one for a grand total of 117 cars). Heck, I'd defend India's finest if the pillories were out over half-a-dozen cars. Just curious, what, precisely, about my former employment invalidates anything I've written? I'm more than willing to accept any correction so long as it's relevant.

The engineer has been fired and GM is recalling a massive number of cars because they MIGHT be defective (they can't be sure how many ARE defective; the engineer in question didn't tell anyone) What more do you want them to do? Everyone ever associated should commit seppuku? And 7 cars out of 8.4 million is not hiding anything; it is simply NOT on the statistical radar.

And, now, they are recalling exponentially more cars than required to deal with those "potentially dangerous parts" and still, they are, apparently, the epitome of evil. No, they don't know how many ignition switches are actually involved. All, they really know is what cars the engineer in question "touched" and that at some point he respeced the switch without changing the part number. I'd be curious to know if the early parts or the later parts are the "good" ones. With my experience (15 years on the GM assembly line) I'd bet on the newer parts being the substandard parts. On the line I cannot recall ever seeing a part "upgrade" that resulted in an actual upgrade. That's the only reason I can see for "forgetting" to change the part number. An off topic, semi related story: I learned my lesson about upgrades/revisions way back when I worked as a design draftsman for a Knock-Down Kit Furniture Company (Think IKEA only LOTS cheaper.) One of our suppliers superseded a screw we were using. I went into the parts lists for all of the units we produced that used that screw and changed the part number to reflect the new screw. On one unit I neglected to note the revision (Version 1.0 to 1.0.a or some such). The chief engineer had me for lunch. I never made that mistake again.

And ... in the real world every manufacturer KNOWS that they ship product every day that has defects. 100% defect free is not possible. Do you really advocate for 100% Quality Control (hold everything until we can prove there are ABSOLUTELY NO DEFECTS)? GM is recalling cars that MIGHT, MAYBE have a certain defect or another and this, to you, seems to be almost the embodiment of evil. Hypothetical question: What defects might Toyota or Honda or anyone else be "covering up"? How do you know?

I dunno ... maybe we pillory and then burn at the stake at .83 out of a million? That would be a failure rate of .000083%. Yes, 83 ten-thousandths of a percent. I'd be willing to wager that significantly more people have died in those very same cars from DUI or Distracted Driving.

Let's see ... according to the article there have been 7 crashes with 8 injuries and 3 fatalities ... out of 8.4 MILLION cars involved in the recall. Now, I'm no mathematician and I realize that to the victims and their families these crashes ARE significant but 7 crashes out of 8.4 million cars doesn't even begin to be statistically significant. Of course, I could be very wrong and I could have missed all sorts of significant stuff.

Aw, man! I thought you were keeping watch!

Like Jim said ... cosmetic brush!

"Hey! I just saw some pictures of Modeler A's great model of Car X" "Cool! Where?" "I can't tell you."

Great, outta-the-box thinking! I love the idea! You do know that the headlights are upside-down, right? I mean, they're great for coon huntin' an' all but they won't do a thing for the driving at night.