Harry P.

The steering wheel turned out great, even with the breakage. The steering column U-joint, however, is no good. It rubs on the inner fender. Assuming you have assembled everything correctly (which of course is what I do assume), TDR is going to have to look at that issue.

My idea. (Emoticon here indicating smug sense of self-satisfaction).

From the Amazon site: Not intended for use with hazardous materials, flammable or explosive paints or materials. Seems like a strange warning for an item sold as a "hobby spray booth."

http://www.pacepaintbooths.com/pace

There is now a direct link from this site to eModelCars. The header just below the main navigation links is clickable. Try it!

The hobby shop can give them away if they want... the manufacturers don't care. What counts is the cost the manufacturer charges the distributor. Just like real cars. The manufacturer sells to the dealer for the price the manufacturer decides. What the dealer then charges to the car buyer is the dealer's business. The manufacturer doesn't sell to people, it sells to dealerships.

Maybe "lining up" was a bit of an exaggeration. But they are selling, so somebody is buying the "collector" angle.

From a purely marketing standpoint these "collector tin" kits are pure genius! Take a tired old model kit whose tooling was paid for eons ago, add a few cheap to produce "new" pieces like posters, decals, maybe a handful of odds and ends parts... put it all in a "collectible" tin box that probably costs pennies a piece to manufacture, crank up the MSRP by 50% or more... and the people will line up to buy them. Genius! And it seems to be working. I have to hand it to the manufacturers who are offering these... uh... "collectible" kits. It's probably the single smartest business move they've made in years. P.T. Barnum is smiling...

Wanna bet?

You could have done a google search for "1968 Dodge Charger white interior" and found a bunch of photos that would have answered your question a lot faster than posting the question here and waiting for answers. Just sayin'... http://www.autotraderclassics.com/classic-car/1968-Dodge-Charger-488701.xhtml http://www.autotrade.../0_gerlach4.JPG

You also could have used brass rod cut to the correct length.

I'm always looking for new material!

Real or model? The answer: REAL!

Does that for me too.

Well, I knew that you knew that I knew. But I didn't know if you knew that I knew that you knew that I knew. You know?

Uh, Danno... you do realize that I was kidding about the emoticons? Right?

One more tip: the avatar size is 200x200. For all of you mathematically challenged folks, that means square. Don't use a picture that's, say 200x150. Use a square image.

Just deleting all of his emoticons would free up about a gajillion cubic feet of space...

It's like going from a small house to a bigger house. Pretty soon the bigger house fills up with stuff, too. Then you need an even bigger house... and so on. By deleting ancient stuff we could delay the next server upgrade.

This site is like your attic. There's only so much space... you can't save everything. I think deleting ancient stuff would be a good idea... and we wouldn't need to upgrade servers so often.

How about deleting old stuff? Say, anything older than two years?

If you mean all the old JoHan tooling, I think you're right.

That "multi-color glitter effect" is a CF decal, I assume.

Right, they sold through the site. But "they" was Okey Spaulding. He was "JoHan," there wasn't anyone else. It was a one-man operation. He bought the company (or what was left of it) from Seville and kept the "JoHan" name, but the name is the only thing that he and the "real" JoHan from the 60s had in common.