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Hydro-electric dams supplanted by nuclear. I'm patiently waiting for a long-range (I'm talking 500+ km) electric pickup truck that can tow my camper. And be able to plow snow. Or even drive in snow...

This is a very valid point. Forum rules require us to put our real names either below our avatar or in our signature. I think that providing your actual location in your profile and not a quip should be required if you are posting items for trade.

Looks familiar! But much better executed than mine.

Two words: Rob Ford.

I think a very good idea and very easily implemented is to amend the posting rules so that the first four characters of a thread title should include brackets and the two-letter postal abbreviation for you state or province. Easy way for us canucks to get an idea how much we'll be paying for shipping.

Has the Constitution been updated for inflation?

Now, see, in Canada (especially northern Canada) this wouldn't be an issue. Go far enough north and all the parking spaces at malls and sports stadia have outlets for block heaters. All the apartment buildings in Thompson, MB have outlets for their parking spots, as well as the mine for employee and visitor parking. Typical Americans.

Picked up my latest eBay parts score today: one each of the 77, 78, 80, and 81 issues of the MPC squarebody kits for a steal of a deal. Only the 78 issue has suspension, but lots of other bits are in the bunch including a bench seat and the Fall Guy GMC grille!

According to my research, it was issued in 1998. Updated the initial post.

I hope this generation has other interior colours available besides black.

I haven't looked through my copy of the kit in a while (and I'm at work at the moment) but I seem to recall it being a rather old, crude kit. The chassis pan is typical promo-style. I can take pictures when I get home.

Well lookit that! I'll need to find that auction to figure out when that kit was issued.

Most of the MPC boxes, yes, but the snap Blazer kit at least is the same size as AMT boxes.

I think they are required by law (at least in the US) to show on the box what comes in the box. Something about "truth in advertising" or something like that, IIRC.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of 'Cyber' Monday?

Here's another in AMT's race car/trailer/tow vehicle series:

I'm so trying this. I've been trying to "flock" (using embossing powder) for the first time and not having much luck.

I think that the threads that are currently in the reviews section should stay as is, however a new policy moving forward could be adopted. When it comes to new releases, separate threads for speculation and reviews should be present. Once the kit is released, a new thread strictly for the review should be started (say, for the Moebius F-100). These new release review threads would ideally present enough material for presentation in the magazine itself (pictures of box contents) and discussion on the kit. Retro reviews would ideally also contain pictures of box contents. History of a line of kits should contain pictures of box contents, but from experience I can tell you that unless you actually own all the kits it is difficult to do. Just my 5¢ (according to the Government of Canada's suggested rounding guidelines)

  Eastern Canadian, too. At least, that's how I've always pronounced it.

Can you paste items by using Ctrl+V on your keyboard?

The main problem with using the AMT 1960 C10 chassis on anything later than 1964 or so is that it has a torsion bar front suspension. The trucks switched to coil springs later on.

Looks like a school bus with a 41 Chevy pickup nose. I see this bus body on eBay from time to time, usually just the body no truck nose to go with it.

How did you go about making the medium duty front clip? And what did you use for a grille? Hard to see in your pictures.

I would LOVE To have a copy of that grille.

A drop-in for the leaf spring version would be the MPC '78 C10 kit; the original issue, the only one to have a 2WD suspension. Unless, of course, you want to make a 4WD version in which case any of the squarebody frames will work.