Harry P.

Quick! Everyone into the cloud cellar!!!! Where's Toto???!!!!

A couple more... Road Runner and a "what if Tucker was still around?"...

No way would I try to paint all the unassembled parts... way too much of a hassle. I assembled the wheels and then just sprayed them from all angles, front and back, until every nook and cranny was covered.

Chris, the only thing that's "one of a kind" about it is that it was put into a time capsule (along with other stuff, BTW). The car itself has no particular significance whatsoever... it is one of thousands manufactured that year. It's like if I take a 2014 Toyota Corolla and put it into a time capsule, and they open it 50 or 100 years from now. Is that particular 2014 Corolla any more significant than the thousands of other Corollas made in 2014? I don't see why.

I use the brush and airbrush tool mostly, almost never the pen tool. I also use Illustrator a lot, but for my "real" work (brochures, ads, newsletters, etc.). I prefer PS for pure illustration work... I love the flexibility of PS... the vector nature of Illustrator just doesn't work as well for me and the way I like to work. PS works more like a "real" airbrush or paintbrush, especially when doing "freehand" type of painting, because of the raster nature of the software. Illustrator is too "controlled" and tight... I like Illustrator for laying out print pieces, but I prefer PS for "painting." Here are a few more PS pieces... sorry, not car related, but examples of why I like to "paint" in PS instead of Illustrator...

Oh man, you are in for some fun now! Not sure if you've ever built Pocher wheels before, but if not, get set for some real fun! I remember the first set of Pocher wheels I ever built, for a Mercedes. The first one took me something like 4-5 hours! For one! By the time I was on wheel 6, I had cut that time down to under an hour. BTW... Pocher wheels are very tedious to build, due to the number of parts (I think the Mercedes and RR wheels have several hundred parts each), but if you follow the instructions, they actually go together quite nicely and look terrific when done...

Careful, Bill. You can only cram so much knowledge into the old cranium before your head explodes...

All I have to say is "I'm going with another provider" and they will jump through hoops to keep you happy!

I do that every year with my cable/internet provider. They jack up the price, I call and say I'm going with another provider, and suddenly they find a "special deal" I can have for the year, and I wind up paying less than before the price increase! It's worked the past two years. Cable/satellite companies are really feeling the heat from competition they never had before, specifically Netflix, and believe me, they are desperate to hang on to their current customers. If your TV provider has recently raised your rates, call them and tell them you're going to go with another provider... odds are they'll agree to significantly reduce your rate. All it costs is a phone call. It's worth a shot.

I really don't see any "historical significance" here... it's a rusted-out old Plymouth, and it's not as if it's one of a kind or anything... there are plenty of other ones out there in nice, restored condition. I don't see much reason to save this one. It can never be "restored" to any kind of reasonable condition, there is just too much damage done to the body, frame, and engine. I say take it to the crusher. At least that way whatever metal is still left in it could be recycled and turned into something useful. Take "Miss Belvedere" off life support.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/04/23/chinese-automaker-blatantly-copies-ford-f-150/?intcmp=features

From autosavant.com: Update 2/24/2012: I got a call back from Dwight Foster. He said that he still has “Miss Belvedere” in his possession. While the car was offered to Tulsa for a special exhibit, they have no interest in it due to (in his words) the necessity of police overtime and other expenses they weren’t willing to incur a second time. One of the car’s elderly owners has passed away (he didn’t say which one, but presumably it’s Catherine, who would be 97 if she were alive today. Mr. Foster stressed that the car is in terrible shape – basically, as it sat in a cauldron of water for the better part of five decades, the water became acidic from the various chemicals within the car, and more or less “ate itself.” So the sheetmetal is extremely thin. The car will probably never get much better than it is today. Mr. Foster noted that he has a donor car, but is only using it for parts to get “Miss Belvedere” rolling on her own again. He abandoned the idea of replacing the car’s frame with one from the donor car because he didn’t believe it would be able to withstand something so dramatic (even without seeing the car in person, I tend to agree). For this reason, he hasn’t even tried to open the doors. He did note, however, that the car has just 4 miles on its odometer. The car’s owners and Mr. Foster are hoping to have the car placed in the Smithsonian or in a museum in Tennessee, but nothing is set at this time.

This is all that hangs from my ignition switch...

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/?showtopic=21536 http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/?showtopic=29647 http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=77329

He moonlights as a building super? I keep my car keys separate from all my other keys. Just the key and the little door/trunk/alarm gizmo is all that hangs from the ignition switch when I'm driving.

Pardon my skepticism, but somehow I get the feeling that saving the consumer money isn't exactly at the top of big pharma's to-do list. Not when you look at some of the prices of many well-known prescription drugs.

That's really good!

Beautifully done model.

Some of the things you mentioned are probably done not only to save money in manufacturing, but also to drive customers back to their dealerships for repairs.

Beautifully done. That could almost pass for real.

We're still in that period where temps can really swing widely...daytime highs in the 60s-70s, at night drops to the 30s. But I think (hope?) that the snow is over.

I'm guessing she's glad to hear that...

Ok. I'll give you as pass!

Keep at it, Tim.

Maybe a printer ink cartridge would make a nice anniversary gift! "Printer ink? Oh, sweetie... you shouldn't have!"