Harry P.

Yeah, back when Anglias still looked cool!

I see by the second photo you even worked in your initials (LS...low 'n' slow)... Nice work! I could never do that!!!

Art, you have the patience of a saint!

Tim–nice photos! But my favorite one of all is the silver PU you included in your post. That is too cool! Ya gotta love spring and car show season!!!

That is awesome! Great imagination, and fantastic execution. One of the best rods I've seen lately in any scale... very, very cool!

Great stuff!!!

Wow! Somebody sure has a sharp eye...

Here's another one you might like: A blonde was taking helicopter flying lessons, and finally the big day came: her first solo flight. Her instructor stood proudly nearby as the blonde fired up the helicopter and took off. But after just a minute or two the blade stopped spinning and the helicopter fell down to earth. Horrified, the instructor ran as fast as he could over to the downed helicopter. "Are you ok? What happened?", asked the insructor. The blonde was shaken up, but not hurt. "Gee, I don't know,", she replied. "Everything was going really well, but I was getting a bit chilly up there so I turned off the fan."

A brunette, a redhead and a blonde were taking a survival class. The instructor asked the brunette, "If you had to travel across the desert on foot, what one item would you make sure to take with you?" The brunette thought a moment, and said, "I'd take a white sheet, so when I got tired I could drape the sheet between two cactuses and rest in the shade." "Excellent answer," said the instructor. Then the redhead spoke up. "I'd take a book of matches, because it gets pretty cold in the desert at night, and I'd want to build a fire." "Good idea," said the instructor. Now the blonde spoke up. "I'd take a car door," she said, smiling. The others looked at her with a puzzled expression on their faces. "Why in the world would you take a car door?", asked the instructor. The blonde replied, "Well, DUH! If I get too hot I can roll down the window!!!"

:P

A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender looks at them and asks, "What is this... some kind of joke?" Ba-dum! A horse walks into a bar. The bartender looks at him and says, "Hey, buddy...why the long face?" Ba-dum!! A sandwich walks into a bar. The bartender looks at him and says, "Sorry pal... we don't serve food here!" Ba-dum!!! A guy walks into a bar, sits down at the far end and orders a beer. After a few moments he hears a voice. "Hey, buddy, nice shirt!" The guy looks around and sees nobody there. A few moments later he hears the same voice. "Hey, I like your haircut!" Once again, the guy looks around and there's nobody there. A few moments later he hears the voice again. "That's a nice watch." Now he's a little freaked out, so he motions the bartender over. "I keep hearing a voice telling me he likes my shirt, my haircut and my watch. Am I crazy?" The bartender smiles and says, "Nah, those are our peanuts. They're complimentary!" Ba-dum!!!! A piece of rope walks into a bar. The bartender looks at him and says, "Sorry, but we don't serve your kind here." The rope walks outside, ties himself into a knot and messes up both his ends. He walks back into the bar. The bartender eyes him suspiciously... "Say, aren't you that same piece of rope I just threw outta here?" "No," replies the rope... "I'm a frayed knot!" Ba-dum!!!!! A set of jumper cables walks into a bar, looks at the bartender with a sneer and demands, "Gimme a beer!" The bartender looks at the jumper cable and says. "Ok... I'll serve you... but don't you go and try to start something!" Ba-dum!!!!! Thank you... and don't forget to tip your waitresses. Good night!

Every week it gets harder and harder to find ANY photo that'll fool you guys. I've already used so many, and there's only so many out there! This one is a 1/18 scale diecast.

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The magazine is printed in and mailed from Denver. That's a heck of a lot closer to Illinois than it is to Australia!!!

ok... when a subscriber halfway around the world in Perth already has his, ans a subscriber smack dab in the middle of the good old US of A still doesn't have his, there is something seriously wrong with this picture!!! Maybe if I move to Indonesia or Nepal I'd get it sooner???

Granted, your Mazdas don't have heavy, long doors like an American coupe has. But what happens if you misplace that big wind-up key???

That's where it is on my '67 Impala. I get some weird looks at the gas station when I walk to the back and flip down the license plate!!! And man... the bending down to get the nozzle into the hole!!!

Welcome aboard! As far as filling the spoiler holes, there are a couple ways you can go. 1. Rough up the area around the holes with some coarse sandpaper or a Dremel tool with a rough grit sanding drum bit. Then fill the holes with either some 5-minute epoxy or Bondo (or another brand of 2-part filler), and sand smooth when hardened. Do NOT use "spot putty" or "model putty", as they will shrink over time and your filled holes will become indentations (usually after you've finished and painted the model!) 2. Another way to go is to hold a piece of scrap sprue over a candle flame until it softens, then pull the ends apart until you get a length of stretched sprue between the two ends. Then cut the sprue apart and jab the stretched sprue into the hole, using liquid model cement to glue the sprue into place. The liquid cement will actually fuse the sprue and the kit piece together. When the glue dries, snip off the excess and sand smooth.

8-track??? Geez... how old are you???

Ok, so I just bought a new car... and every time I drive it I feel like I'm in Jerry Seinfeld's "Bizarro World". Everything is the same... but different! I had my old car for 9 years, and it practically drove itself. The shifter was right where my hand wanted it to be, the clutch felt like an extension of my leg, etc. Everything just fell into place. Now I feel like I'm learning to drive all over again. The clutch doesn't feel the same, the shifter isn't where I want it to be, the tach and speedo are opposite of where they are on my old car. To turn on the wipers on my old car you flip the lever DOWN. To turn on the wipers on the new car you have to flip the lever UP. When I glance at the dash to see how fast I'm going I see that I'm going 2500 RPM. And so on. All minor things, and nothing I can't get used to. But I do have one major rant. The gas cap is on the driver's side!!! My old car has the cap on the right side... where it should be! Now, every time I need gas, not only do I have to remember to pull up to the pump on the "wrong" side, but I have to be careful so I don't open my door into the concrete island! Obviously the cap can be on either side... so why not put it on the right side, where it's convenient for the driver?

Hmmmm.... good to know! I'll make a note of it!

As bad as things are in our auto industry, you have to remember one very important fact: The auto industry's problems are basically self-induced. That's why I am so adamantly opposed to tax money being used to keep the auto makers running. For far too long the US auto industry sat on its backside, fat and happy and seemingly blind to the fact that the competition was getting better and better all the time. For far too long our auto companies seemed to believe that they were simply invincible. Not until far too late did they even begin to take the competition seriously. Now they're in full panic/crisis mode. Well, where was the planning, the product development and the effort to seriously compete with "foreign" auto makers 20 years ago? Or 10 years ago? Like the saying goes, "If you snooze, you lose". Well, our auto industry is just now waking up from their collective nap... but it's too late. BTW... someone explain to me how cutting dealership numbers would help the manufacturers? Aren't the dealerships in reality the manufacturer's CUSTOMERS??? Dealers are the people who buy GM and Chrysler cars... then the dealer resells them to us. Dealers are independent operators, the automakers don't subsidize them. So how will trimming dealer numbers bolster the fortunes of GM and Chrysler? I can understand trimming production... but trimming dealerships? Why?

3/4 of you can give yourselves a pat on the back... it's a MODEL! The rest of you can go to your room with no dinner! Next ROM coming MONDAY!

You might want to post this in the Trucks section...

I'm not sure what you mean, exactly, by "taking it out of the box"? Do you mean breaking the shrinkwrap? If so, be aware that shrinkwrapping machines are pretty common. It's easy to break the shrinkwrap, open up the kit, and then "rewrap" it again... so bottom line, a shrinkwrapped kit doesn't necessarily mean it's never been opened.