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    Very nice. Never ever see those Escorts over here, real or model.
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    I remember him pitching the '69 Series against the Orioles, still followed the Mets after I moved south from Yankeeland.
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    I remember that. Good info.
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    These Lindberg built-ups arrived today too. I've been using another one as a practice base for the Archer rivet transfers, and was just about to start one, opening the major panels and swapping in guts from the poorly proportioned Aurora/ Monogram E-type. There was a real kit-car of the D-type built on E-type guts, so it's a reasonable idea. With two ratty ones to hack up, I can keep the nice ones nice until inspiration hits...or I die.
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    Pretty cool. I've never seen a Loewy Stude raced anywhere but Bonneville, but after you mentioned it, I did some digging. Lotsa racing Studes out there for inspiration...
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    That's a thought...hmmmmmm.
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    Starbird was one of my sorta-heroes. I thought it must be really cool to make a living building custom cars. I had one eons ago, but it got away and I never really thought I'd get another one. This one's nicer than I'd ever expected to find, but I have no idea what I'd ever build from it...though that bubble top is calling to me...
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    If I said I had a plan for it, somebody would just make a comment about me never finishing anything. And anyway, I have no plan for it whatsoever. Never thought I'd find one complete and un-buggered, so I never thought too much about it. For now, it's joined the ranks of the very few kits I bought solely for nostalgia's sake to take out and look at occasionally, and let my mind go back to a much better time. Whatcha gonna do with the aqua one? It looks to be in pretty good shape.
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    You're doing it wrong. You're supposed to look INTO it, not AT it.
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    At least 98% complete, unmolested, with only minor tire burn on a couple of parts. This is a "grail" kit I've been after for years.
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    Just got another Testors (Italeri) CCKW water truck to do an aircraft fuel service truck.
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    Engineering an auxiliary tank arrangement isn't difficult, and they are common on this series of truck. The pinched bedside on your wercker photo would tend to preclude mounting tanks outboard of the frame rails, but there's plenty of room under those trucks to mount tanks inboard of the rails, between the rail and the driveshaft. That's where the OEM tank is in my '89 GMC. The auxiliary filler would be in the side of the wrecker bed in that case.
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    Wow. They shoulda done a "signature version".
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    Does your Saab still have the ignition switch in the console? The last Saab I drove was a 99 (not model year...a Saab 99) and that's where the switch was.
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    ^^^ And people think I'm just a crazy old Luddite because I have little use for new cars...
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    Yeah...could be kinda thrilling if you got punched in the side... The next year, GM mounted the tank outboard of the frame rail behind the cab, and later still, inboard of the frame rail behind the cab.
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    The cabs with the filler in that location, I believe thru '72, had the tank behind the seat...IN the cab. The tank is installed on-edge, as below. The hole in it is for the sending unit that drives the gauge.
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    Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Even gladder I bought those slick Tamiya panel scribers now...
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    Yeah...I'm looking for info too before I get spendy.
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    Anybody have any experience with Vic's Resin?
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    Glad you're saving her. It's insane what repairs cost now (even though I'm in the business), and it seems like every body shop is looking to retire on every job these days. I just saved a '96 Miata that totaled at close to $7000 for less damage than you have there. LOTS of nice old cars are getting gone because of that, and the insurance companies not wanting to pay. Stated-value insurance is getting to be a viable option, especially if you have multiple vehicles. The annual mileage limits used to be around 1500-2500, but there are some policies that go as high as 10,000. If you have 3 old vehicles, that's plenty of annual mileage, and it can be cheaper than insuring just one "real" car.
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    Got a screaming deal on a box of vintage HO scale Kadee couplers, enough to refit 20 cars, and a nice selection of Details West, Tichy, and Cal-Scale super-detail parts. I've been collecting old-school "craftsman" ho kits for a while now. To me, they're great fun to build, because of the "difficulty", and the subject matter (the steam-to-diesel transition era, when I was a kid). Done right they look great, but are somewhat lacking in detail and function that becomes apparent when used with today's rolling stock...but nothing that a little retrofitting won't fix. Cal-Scale
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    Yeah, I really didn't want to buy them right now, and I probably overpaid a little, but I haven't seen any '62s up for sale in quite a while...and they're not getting any cheaper. Watch R2 repop 'em next year.
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    A couple of AMT '62 Pontiac Tempests. One will be Mickey Thompson's first FX/A car, something I've wanted to build for decades.
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