Damn, I'm bored :)

Building a model is intrinsically a good thing. Building two and giving one to a friend is better. Building three and keeping one, selling one for three times kit price and giving the third to a friend is even better.

Sitting on 300 kits and never building any of them is sick, sick, sick and reminds me of my wife's obsesive Beanie Baby, Comic Book and Ginny Doll obsessions.:-)

Cheers,

Jim Klein

Don't feel bad! I've had the desktop processing drawings all afternoon, so all my estimating stuff is tied up. This darned laptop is slow as molasses, but at least I can check the newsgroups.

Rick Going home and gluing something

Only 300??? Piker!!

Bill Shuey

Well, for starters the '55 through '57 Thunderbirds were two-seaters. Starting with '58 the T-Bird became a four-seat car....

AMT has had a pretty nice '57 in its line for years and I think it's currently in production.

What you need is a good ship model, something like Hellers 1:100 HMS Victory. With 2107 pieces in the kit, plus bashing and changing things here and there you have an easy 2 year project on your hands. Mind you there is over 300 yards of rigging in the kit too, at least thats what the instructions say.

Or maybe the large RMS Titanic kit, then outfit it with fiber optics.

Grandpa John

Rob Gr> I can't believe I've just read ALL the posts on the ng today. Even the ones

He's obviously not trying hard enough.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

IIRC, there was an early two-seater clay for '58 that you could convert it to. Of course, it was never produced in steel.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

That's right; it was a totally different body, widened and lengthened. I once had a pipedream of kitbashing the two together to make the two-seat concept Thunderbird that Lee Iaccoca destroyed. His reason was he didn't want the T-Bird to "only appeal to the 'belt-in-the-back' crowd" (an early form of Yuppie), so he converted it into another semi-luxury barge err, car. He was a tollerable engineer, but he had the heart of a beancounter.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

According to what I've read, maybe a half-dozen copies ~were~ hand-made in steel, but all were destroyed when the design change was approved. That was, I'm told, a pretty common practice in Detroit. Pity.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Don't feel awkward...I had almost a 100 kits stashed away and then the house burned down...now I got buying fever to max!! But I am just gonna do these couple of kits first....and other lies....Bill knows what I am going on about :+)) Mike IPMS

Sounds more like a Macnamara-ism. He pretty much killed-off the two-seater. Sales figures went way up for that first year and Thunderbird was one of the few cars in '58 to increase their market share. Iacocca always seemed to be a car guy and salesman. Hoping we have good weather next Saturday as the International Thunderbird Club is having their convention locally. I can go out there with digital in hand and drool over the big birds. I'll also studiously ignore those marketed after 1982. :Þ

Bill Banaszak, MFE

I'll have to check my Collectible Auto with the Squarebird story in it. Did you know that at least two were done in stainless?

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Any suggestions that I'm a known supplier are...uh...probably true.

:)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Well don't let them out there. They may get wet this weekend.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Bill,

IF they do get wet I've got MORE to worry about then a "couple" of models getting wet. It's an enclosed porch, so IF they get wet then it means something MAJOR to deal with.

Digital_Cowboy

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Let's hope that none of us have a major problem. If mine get wet it'll be because one or more of these big trees lose their grip in a soggy Mother Earth.

Bill Banaszak, MFE