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Around these parts, the dealerships were always split up Ford-Lincoln, Mercury, Chevrolet-Oldsmobile-Cadillac, Pontiac-Buick-GMC, and I think we've only ever had one Mopar dealership selling all brands. There have been a lot of mergers lately, and now we only have one Ford-Lincoln dealer, one GM dealer for all brands, one Mopar dealer for all brands (including Fiat), but separate dealers for Toyota-Scion, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz (+Smart), Hyundai, Kia, Honda, Volkswagen, and Subaru.

I watch a lot of home reno shows on HGTV and they're all based out of Ontario; horizontal panels are quite common there. And to code.

Although he wasn't an active poster here, he was always browsing through the various boards admiring builds and getting ideas for his next project. On the board here he was Kenny Martin; to me, he was dad. He passed away 2 February at the age of 60.

Right now, I see something. Yesterday. I saw something. I have seen things in the past. If you tell me that you seen something, I will throat punch you.

A bigger view of that box art hints to me that the Hardcastle & McCormick wheel and tire combo might be making a comeback.

I built this one around 8 years ago. The slant 6 kinda gets lost in there.

The fairly rare and hard to find Hardcastle & McCormick kit also has the bench seat.

The MPC kits have a separate seat piece from the tub, so swapping a bench for buckets is easy peasy. The Revell kits have the one-piece tub with seat.

The Monogram Ramcharger kit has Dana 60 front and rear; might work on this beastie.

Thanks, Bill!

The Revell 1:25 kits are best ignored... The frame is completely different (and wrong); the MPC parts wont work.

The section of frame that broke wasn't corroded, not sure what caused it. No serious offroading, just regular street driving.

It was actually yesterday, but this happened:

One could if one had both the parts and the ability to cast in resin. I have the former but not the latter.

With the exception of the GMC wrecker, the Revell kits are all '77-'78 model year. The stepside trucks are an aftermarket California Stepside bed, not factory fenders. The GMC wrecker kits are actually a '79-'80, not a '77 as labelled on the recent reissue.

A little late but to add to the asphalt conversation, speaking from a civil tech/inspector role I would definitely not approve of asphalt being laid down out of the truck like that. Unless it is strictly for patch work. Usually you dump the asphalt in a spreader that mixes and heats it up somewhat. For highway mixes a transfer buggy is used that has an internal hopper so that there are no cold joints in the road, just a steady stream.

I've pinned that truck on Pinterest but haven't seen any other views of it. Not sure what the bed is, probably a custom build as it certainly isn't a Dodge unit. The fenders, maybe.

The box art for the '84 GMC is exquisite! I'm going to have to buy a couple of those to go with the 13 variations of that kit I have already...

Here are the Blazer's wheels and center caps painted: Here's the Blazer's interior tub: You can see my attempt at flocking that failed horribly. Decided to give it and the Jimmy both a black vinyl floor, which seems better suited to a convertible truck anyway. The Blazer has a three-speed column shift, had to add the shifter and turn signal lever to the steering column. And here's a somewhat successful experiment for underhood insulation. Painted some masking tape and cut to fit. Should've cleared the tape and the underside of the hood as I had to touch up the paint.

Big Rig Build Off

Presently I have a bedroom set up as my hobby room.

The '78 annual is indeed the only 2WD version. The Chevy kits weren't done the same as the Dodge kits that had both suspension options. As for the long bed, I have seen a couple different resin versions and they done look that great. With the upcoming reissue if the 84 GMC it might be better to cut up a pair of short beds, which is what I plan on doing.

Okay, new website but still not much info on there...?

I've actually been using sprue mixed with lacquer thinner as a filler. Filled in from the backside and topside no idea why the lines wouldn't smooth out!

These hoods...were almost the death of these projects. For whatever reason I couldn't get the cut-out lines to get flush. I got them as close as I could and what I could live with (better than this) Engine painted up and on the chassis for the Blazer. Painted it GM Alpine Green. These two projects are my first time painting with my airbrush. The Blazer here is painted with Testors Aztek Blue and the roof is Vallejo Model Air white. Another reason for the delay in updates is a failed paint job on the Jimmy. I tried painting it IJN Chrome Jellow but it failed horribly and had to be stripped. Since I had such good luck with the Aztek line on the Blazer I picked the basic green for the Jimmy since my local Michael's didn't have the Aztek yellow in stock. The pair together. It was very tedious masking off everything to get just the radiator support and inner fenders sprayed black, but it looks a lot better than either brush painting or painting the whole engine compartment black. Now, for the Blazer, I had another idea for the wheels. Should I stick with the chrome steelies or painted white with centre caps?