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When I was a wee, impressionable lad in the early '90s my then-uncle and godfather worked for a local manufacturing company that built and shipped components to the US (he was the truck driver). He would routinely carry the item down and come back empty. The company ended up getting a large contract for several items in Texas and my uncle got the idea to start bringing back cars. One such car was a 1967 Fairlane 500 two door. I have many fond memories of spending time at my uncle's house and playing around the car, watching the restoration progress in its various stages. Unfortunately, life happens and my aunt divorced my uncle after my grandmother died and I never really saw him or his car much after that. This evening I was browsing Facebook and a friend of mine posted a picture of a 67 Fairlane a friend of his was building; I recognized my godfather's car immediately! I contacted the now-owner (my godfather's cousin) and talked about the car and went through his build album. Turns out he bought the car in 2011 and has been building it ever since, taking advantage of the huge classic car restoration market that has sprung up that wasn't available in the 90s. He is doing the car justice and I can't wait to see it finished!

I have that Escort kit in an AMT box. Which is weird as that style Escort was never sold in North America. The kit has both LHD and RHD dashes.

I'm scaring myself thinking about how much I'd pay to buy what is in that picture... Also, not sure how well that bed will line up with the cab as they are two different manufacturers (bed is MPC).

You would be surprised. Internal shipping rates for Canada Post are more expensive than shipping to/from the US. I purchased a kit from a seller in BC; it was cheaper to have it shipped to my US PO box than to have it shipped to my door. And that is within the country!

Check out my history thread: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=70067

If current Model King releases are any indication expect the pickup to be around $33.

I haven't purchased a kit from a US seller on eBay and had it shipped to my door in a couple years now. Being as close as I am to the US border, I take advantage of package depots that accept parcels for Canadians so that we only have to pay domestic US shipping charges. Saves a bundle, you better believe it! Yes, I still have to pay the sales tax on the purchase price of the item, but 13% tax (here in NB) on a model kit is a lot cheaper than getting it shipped to my door. I do the same with car parts as well; in one case I saved over $500 than buying local!

I saw one of these little things tooling around Thompson, MB one day. Would love to get a hold of one if only for the WTF factor. Maybe swap in an SRT4 engine in one.

I think Scott started carrying them a couple months ago. I remember him bringing some paints to a club meeting before I headed to MB for my rotation at the start of July. I don't think he has all the colours listed on his website but if you fire him an email with what colours you want he'll send you an invoice.

Elm City Hobbies is a Canadian online model store based here in NB that ships all over Canada and carries Scale Finishes paint, which has the colours you're after.

This is my poor little car, as it currently sits: Half white, half blue. It made more sense to me to get all the good body panels on it and THEN prep/paint. But, with my family and my waistline continuing to grow it's not really practical for me anymore. Now the next owner will have to deal with painting.

I think one of the biggest weathering errors I've noticed to date was on a late 90s Ford pickup that had the bedsides all rusted up. It was a stepside, which had fibreglass bed sides from 1992 on up!

A neutrino walks into a bar, orders a drink, and asks how much. The bartender replies: "For you, no charge!" A farmer is having trouble with his chickens, they won't lay any eggs. So, the farmer hires a physicist to look into his problem. The physicist checks things over, makes some calculations, then comes back to the farmer and says "I have a solution to your problem, but it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum."

According to their webpage they've already gone digital, woo hoo!

There's even a couple of promos in there!

We have a drive-in here in Sussex, which is about a 45 minute drive for me. It is based a campground and seems to be doing pretty good. It is only open during camping season as our winters simply wouldn't support a drive-in theatre. Not sure what their equipment is like but they show all the latest movies so I'm assuming they've upgraded to digital?

Ha, this is kinda funny. For years and years all we had available were Fox hatchs and everyone was converting to notchs. Now we have a new notch kit and folks want to convert to hatch!

That's about what I figured. The fun part now will be getting stickers/decals made with the company logo...

Every year there is a flea market held in a double ball field in a town about a 45 minute drive from me. There are always all kinds of things there and you'll never know what you'll come across. Browsing this flea market this year has rekindled an interest I've always had in older metal Tonka toys. Both my parents work at a local line construction company and I managed to get a good deal on a late-70s era bucket truck that was originally labelled for Bell System. The Bell stickers are all gone now and it shows expected wear and tear from being played with for almost 40 years. My question to those folks on here that may know a thing or two about older Tonka toys if it would be a good idea to disassemble this truck and paint it up in their company's colours? I intend to give it to them to display at their office when I'm done with it, either a simple cleaning or full-out restore. From the research I've done so far this particular truck doesn't seem to be all that rare or valuable, thus my inquiry.

Coyote X!

Yup, up here we had Fargo trucks and Mercury trucks. This rig was probably built for working in muskeg or snow in northern Canada somewhere.

Holy! My wife didn't pay that much for her brand new car off the dealer's lot!

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Thanks! I'll keep an eye out for that Olsonite Eagle kit.

Anything with a looong hood