Harry P.

It's in the forum software. I don't know if it can be changed. I know Gregg has been noodling around with the settings, but so far he hasn't fixed that. Maybe it's not anything we can change. I don't know for sure, because I don't have access to those controls. As far as I understand it, if you make a post in a thread, then make another post in the same thread and nobody else has posted between your posts, your posts get merged. I don't know any way to change that. EDIT: Turns out I do have access to forum functionality. I think I fixed it. We'll see.

You might want to narrow this down to favorite auto maker or model logo... otherwise there are hundreds, maybe thousands of auto-related products out there. If we limit it to auto makes and models only, I vote for the Roadrunner, Super Bee, and Mustang logos for specific models... Mercedes star for auto maker logo.

I was thinking more that with your scratchbuilding skills you should be able to come up witch something good looking rather easily. Those early wipers were rather simple - just like the Pocher version but just using thinner/finer materials. You probably have some good closeup photos of the 1:1 scale blades in your reference materials. Something like this. I used a set of these on my Pocher Mercedes. What do you think? http://model-motorcars.myshopify.com/collections/rolls-royce/products/assembled-wipers-r002 You could use a pseudonym. Many authors do that. Eventually they would have to pay me. That's when they find out my real name. Unless they would be wiling to actually publish something from me under an alias. But I think when Gregg found out, he wouldn't be too happy... Nor would Jim Haught, you naughty boy! I probably have a better chance of being a Playboy Playmate than ever getting any of my work into SA!

You could use a pseudonym. Many authors do that. Eventually they would have to pay me. That's when they find out my real name. Unless they would be wiling to actually publish something from me under an alias. But I think when Gregg found out, he wouldn't be too happy...

The quote function is messed up with this new forum "upgrade." Back to the subject at hand... as some of you may know, I build 1/8 scale Pocher kits. I've built them all except for my "holy grail," a Pocher Bugatti. Never found one for sale that wasn't priced in the stratosphere, so after all these years I still needed a Bugatti to complete my collection of Pocher "classics." The other day I saw a couple of them on ebay, as usual... but this time I bit the bullet and clicked on a "Buy It Now" listing. Sort of a spur-of-the-moment thing... there's no way I could justify buying it as a "rational" purchase. I paid the equivalent of two mortgage payments for it. And the strange thing is, I feel fine with that! Can't wait for it to arrive.

Very cool. Me likey! And a beautiful car, too.

Please stop posting this in the model cars section. I moved it to "All the Rest" the last time you posted it. Pay attention to the forum categories... they are there for a reason.

That looks like it would be a real handful to drive! Nice work on a quirky little car...

That's just flat out beautiful. You did a spectacular job in every respect. That one deserves a spot front and center on your shelf for sure.

It's impossible to pick just one... I have dozens of favorite photos, but here's just one... Just one more. Sorry... I had to...

I agree on the clunky wipers. Might have to get a set from Modelmotorcars eventually. As far as submitting an article to another magazine... I'm pretty sure they wouldn't publish anything I send them due to my connection with MCM.

Anyone notice that the rear window is actually a '50s-era windshield?

Never heard it--I didn't even know there WAS a song about the Kardashians!

John Mellencamp- Jackie Brown

When my son was in his teens he worked at Menard's, which is a regional midwestern chain of home centers (same thing as a Home Depot or Lowe's)... Anyway, he sometimes worked the returns counter, and he would tell me stories of people who would buy something, like a weed whacker or power saw or whatever, and then return it, after they had obviously used it for a particular job or project. But Menard's policy is "no questions asked," even when the customer is obviously returning an item they have used. The nerve of some people!

There should be a prize for anyone who can name all the different car makes of the parts used on this one!

Oh, almost forgot, with all of this "squashed photo" business... Beautiful! Superb! Spectacular! Steve, you are the master!

Wow. Beautiful. Stunning. Those images just make me glad to be alive... Thanks for posting them, Clay.

Man, you sure see a wide variety of cool cars! Keep 'em coming...

Show us! Post some photos... we'd love to see them.

Can't be. They're all in jail! Yeah, I can see that. But at Walmart, they don't look at the stuff in your cart! They look at the receipt, they look at you, then they hand you back your receipt and say "have a nice day." A completely useless exercise and a waste of everyone's time. If they don't actually cross-check the receipt with the items in your cart (and they don't)... what the heck is the point? BTW, Tom... that bit about buying a load of stuff, putting it in your car, then coming back into the store with your receipt and stealing a duplicate of everything is brilliant! I gotta try that some time! KIDDING!

Not really. The 1/16 scale kits are engineered completely differently than the Pocher kits, and the CDs deal specifically with the way the Pocher kits go together and address issues unique to the Pocher kits. Almost all the build info on Koo's disks is completely irrelevant to anything but the specific Pocher kit it's meant for. Koo's Pocher CDs would be basically useless as far as help in assembling your 1/16 scale kits. About all they would have on them that you could use are reference photos of real cars, but you probably have more reference photos collected then are on any of these build CDs.

When I downloaded one of the photos via Firefox, I got an error message when trying to open it in Photoshop. When I downloaded the same photo via Chrome. it opened fine and displayed correctly in Photoshop. Yet in both Firefox and Chrome the photo is squished when seen here int his thread, but looks correct in Safari! Somehow my Firefox and Chrome are handling the photos differently than my Safari, which is the only browser that's displaying them correctly. Weird...

Yes, pretty sure that all Pocher RR kits have the same identical chassis.