Ace-Garageguy

I'd never seen one before, so I had to go through all the rigamarole.

Say what?

Standard #1895 instrument panel bulb '71-'77 Corvette

Then where do you figure the "choose size" in the listing comes in? Pretty obvious that would refer to a photographic print...at least the way my brain works.

"SEEN ON TV !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed hysterically somehow never made me want to drop what I was doing and rush out to buy something.

I actually appreciate you bringing this issue up. I have two long-term builds I have a lot of effort in that will need white primer prior to paint. I have some higher-end Japanese stuff that works beautifully for not obscuring detail, but the two builds I need to be white soon both have heavy custom bodywork where all the fine detail is already gone. Having had excellent results with the Duplicolor white under the same colors I'll be using on a similarly heavily-bodyworked build, I figgered I'd just use the old Duplicolor stuff I have on the shelf. Thanks to your unfortunate experience, I'll test it very thoroughly prior to squirting it on something I have no intention of having to strip.

"Fact or feeling, that is the question; whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of embracing causality, or to take arms against a sea of empirical evidence..."

Not gonna touch that with a ten foot pole.

To me, it looked like a child's drawing of a VW Microbus nose. The headlight rings and mirrors looked suspiciously VW too. And it definitely has the "developing nation" vibe. There's no shortage of those in this hemisphere, and Mexico used to make Bugs. I also noticed the leaf-sprung solid-beam rear suspension and figured from that it couldn't possibly be anything VW, but just on a whim, I image-searched "Mexican VW truck" or something similar, and it popped right up.

Which reminds me...March 15 is Las Vegas Showgirl Museum Day. Never forget it. EDIT: Oops. Missed it. My old paper calendar didn't give me a voice reminder.

I think I'm going to have Cheetos and cherry pie tonight....if I can get them delivered.

Rigged thingamajigs are sometimes subjects of whatchamacallits.

Boy, you guys have more problems with Duplicolor primers. That definitely looks like extreme dry-spray. But every time I've shot the stuff, it's slicked out just real nice. Either they've changed all the formulas, or...something else.

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Courtyard, government, or townspeople...I wonder which one sentence I'm supposed to use to refer back to for the last-next word.

Seriously...for what it's worth, asking price on feePay is around $50-$55, so hardly unobtanium, and there always seem to be several to choose from. The kit is a decent parts source too, with an OK Buick nailhead that can easily work in 1/25, backed up by a Dynaflow trans, probably the only one ever kitted. The wheels and tires, particularly the big whitewall slicks, are quite nice. It's on a shortened '55 Chevy frame that has poseable steering, so that's a bunch of cool source material there too. Whole lotta stuff to build something interesting from...

Most definitely sacrilege...

You need to practice your glue application technique prior to doing it, if it's not something you have already developed skill at. I see most amateur "repairs" doing more harm than good usually. Another thing...that generation of promo is probably ABS, which is a toughened version of kit-style polystyrene. A solvent-type adhesive specifically made for ABS would be recommended, and again, you'll need to practice your application technique, as too much will inevitably spoil the "glass", or the surrounding material. The typical "repair" I see on things like this ends up with poorly controlled blobs of tube-gloo or CA ("supergloo") making the damage look worse than if nothing had been done at all. A well-done repair can be almost undetectable.

Very nice, exceptionally clean, just-right chop to accentuate the car's long lines without looking clownish.

I'm in...

Montana is a place where you probably ought to have a lot of food in the pantry for winter if you live very far from a city or town.

Texas is big.

Yeah, I'm starting to think of my life as "Project Groundhog".

Dimension shifts are fun until you wake up underwater in France.

Hmmmmm...those are two kits I've never had...but I'm sure somebody here knows all about 'em.