Harry P.

"I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon, and another girl to take my pain away"...

"I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro's hood"...

"The white walls of your dressing room are stained in scarlet red. You bled upon the cold stone like a young man"...

"Sleep your sleep, I'm awake and alive. I keep late hours, You're a nine to five"...

"All the days became so long. Did you really think I'd do you wrong?"

It's a lazy and uninventive way to "make a statement."

Not to beat this language thing to death, but the greatest band of all time, IMO... the Beatles... never used profanity in their music. My point being, great music (and it doesn't get any greater than what the Beatles created) doesn't rely on a cheap crutch like profanity. The Beatles didn't need profanity in their music... they had all the talent they needed without resorting to cheap tricks (no offense to Cheap Trick... ). Editorial over... back to the game,

Beatles, You Never Give Me Your Money (Abbey Road album).

I agree this car is not bad looking. Actually I kind of like it. Not enough to ever want one... but I've seen a lot worse.

I have an Entex '37 Packard that should be arriving any day now.

This week's car is a 1984-88 Zimmer Quicksilver. Who got it right: sjordan2 MikeMc wisdonm GeeBee Foxer Draggon Pete J blunc 62rebel jaymcminn dw1603 matthijsgrit mr chips Lunajammer customsrus

Yeah, I've always liked the old cars. I guess because they are just so "honest"... all mechanical, everything visible, and a lot of opportunity for detailing, which is the part of model building I like the best... adding the little details.

Yeah, this is the one I had almost finished a long time ago, and then dropped onto a ceramic tile floor. The floor won. Lots of broken parts, lots of rebuilding. And then I put it aside because the chrome on the grille shell was messed up and I didn't want to go through the hassle of sending it out to be replated. Then I got that can of Spaz Stix for my Mercedes wheels, and it worked so well that I pulled this out of mothballs and finally finished it,

I'm way too lazy to do real wire wheels! I do them on my Pochers because that's how the kits are made and I have to do them or I have no wheels. But otherwise... I just don't have the patience for that sort of thing,

They are made of strips of thick paper, painted brown. The "buckles" are thin silver wire, the brackets on the hood are made of thin sheet aluminum (actually they were cut from a pie pan!)... the "bolts" holding them to the hood are pin heads, and the attachment brackets on the frame rails are scratchbuilt of styrene and wire. Those brackets that the hood straps attach to were mounted to the frame rails on the real car, but to make removing the hood easier (and without having to actually undo the paper straps), I glued those brackets to the bottom of the hood instead of the frame rails. When the hood is in place it looks like the brackets are attached to the frame rails, but because they are actually attached to the hood, I can remove the hood and the straps all in one assembly without having to actually undo the straps.

No, 1/12.

It's really sad that today's music is filled with profanity. Back when I was a kid and my musical tastes were forming. profanity in music was incredibly rare. So rare that any song that used it became "famous" immediately. It was very much the rare exception, not the rule. I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the songs that had a "swear word" in them... and they were never played on the radio without the word being edited out. These days, swearing in music is as common as the sun coming up, and IMO that's a pretty sad commentary on how our society has "evolved." We used to have standards as a society, but it looks to me that our standards are all falling away and today, anything goes. Pretty sad.

No, you're not missing anything. If it can't be seen, it can't be judged. If it can be seen, then obviously that's different. On the other hand, I can't remember ever painting the insides of the engine block or the insides of the rear axle halves. Just sayin'...

Hmmm... after looking at these photos, I notice I didn't paint the Bentley emblem on the grille shell. Gonna have to fix that...

A few more...

If this model looks vaguely familiar, John Teresi posted his version here some time ago, and it was also featured in the magazine. My version isn't quite up to the level that John's model is, but here it is anyway. Many changes made... all gas tank surface detail sanded off and new straps, mesh stone guards, and fuel lines/valves made from scratch, scratchbuilt stone guards over the headlights, and scratchbuilt stone guard on the cowl, real mesh added to grille, scratchbuilt map lights on dash, wrapped springs, scratchbuilt tonneau cover with snaps, radiator shell painted with Spaz Stix, seat cushions heated over a candle flame and pushed down to look "used," brake rods added, hood hold-down straps and hardware scratchbuilt, rear reflectors scratchbuilt, etc.... Let's just say I added a lot of stuff that wasn't in the box.

"No, I ain't seen my baby since a nigh' on a week, gotta get drunk man, so I can't even speak. Gonna get high man, listen to me, one drink ain't enough, Jack–you better make it three"...