Quoted from cottonm4:If that Tiger Tank is your build you do some amazing work.
No. Those were the pics they used to show what you are getting. It wasn't actually cut away like that. Timaya did take model building to new level.
Quoted from cottonm4:If that Tiger Tank is your build you do some amazing work.
No. Those were the pics they used to show what you are getting. It wasn't actually cut away like that. Timaya did take model building to new level.
Quoted from o-din:Timaya did take model building to new level.
Still do! They have a "full view" line of models, I've done many of them. Here is the Lexus LFA, normal and full view.
20191010_095143 (resized).jpg20191010_095150 (resized).jpg20191010_095153 (resized).jpgThe Super Blackfoot was a great platform, but the body was too rigid for excessive jumping. So my buddy taught me the trick. K-Mart sold cheap soft plastic toy cars of the same scale, so I picked up a #43 Richard Petty special and used that body. Now it was good for jumping 20 feet.
Quoted from o-din:I started out with a 1968 AMT AMC Ambassador I believe. Most model kits in the 70s were under $5.
This is a rare item now, but was the swan song of my model building career in the mid 70s.
A Tamiya 1/25 scale Tiger 1, fully detailed inside and out. So intricate, each track was a separate piece that snapped together and had fully functional torsion bar suspension. Came in a big box.
Price $17. Half my month's paper route money.
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That is too awesome. I had the King Tiger tank that had 2 motors so you could control and turn it. Tamiya was the best model maker by far. I had a whole Japanese navy of Tamiya ships in my room. Aircraft carriers , battleships and all the way down to destroyers. Me and my best friend would have wars against each other.
I never built models, but I did get an erector set as a kid. There was a book with ideas in it and I built something from every page. It included a motor that worked and I was always building something.
Quoted from Dent00:but I did get an erector set as a kid.
I had that. And a chemistry set too. Combined you could build stuff and blow it up too, or at least light it on fire like Lincoln logs.
LTG : )
Quoted from jhanley:I had the King Tiger tank that had 2 motors so you could control and turn it. Tamiya was the best model maker by far.
That thing was super cool but a little rich for my blood at the time. Not sure but I remember it being north of $30, perhaps close to $50. I did have some motorized tanks though.
I also remember if you built a Revell tank like the Walker Bulldog, it would come with defective men in the goofiest poses. One even had a hole thru his gut, that looked like a cannon had blown a hole right thru him. lol
Quoted from LTG:you could build stuff and blow it up too
What do you think happened to my tank models?
Quoted from o-din:What do you think happened to my tank models?
They lost the war. They should have picked a better side.
LTG : )
Quoted from LTG:I had that. And a chemistry set too. Combined you could build stuff and blow it up too, or at least light it on fire like Lincoln logs.
LTG : )
I never got a chemistry set, but I did have access to Draino, tin foil and a gallon glass coke bottle. Just put about 4 tablespoons of Draino in the bottle and fill with a sufficient quantity of tin foil with water. Draino mainly creates sulfuric acid and the reaction with tin foil gets rather hot, so we put the coke bottle in a bucket of cold water to keep it from exploding. The chemical reaction creates hydrogen, which can be collected with a rubber balloon on top of the coke bottle. Hydrogen is both lighter than air and flammable, so we would play with that. Typically, people would gather in the area to see what exploded. No one ever got hurt, but we did damage some coke bottles.
When I was cleaning out dad's house after he passed away, I found a very old beat up piece of furniture in the garage. I took it to an antique store and the guy said it dated back to the Civil Wa. I asked North or South?
He said "South obviously, can't you tell it lost?"
Quoted from Dent00:I never got a chemistry set, but I did have access to Draino, tin foil and a gallon glass coke bottle. Just put about 4 tablespoons of Draino in the bottle and fill with a sufficient quantity of tin foil with water. Draino mainly creates sulfuric acid and the reaction with tin foil gets rather hot, so we put the coke bottle in a bucket of cold water to keep it from exploding. The chemical reaction creates hydrogen, which can be collected with a rubber balloon on top of the coke bottle. Hydrogen is both lighter than air and flammable, so we would play with that. Typically, people would gather in the area to see what exploded. No one ever got hurt, but we did damage some coke bottles.
Quoted from pinfixer:How many of you have been collecting pinball machines for more than 40 years?
I can't say I've been collecting them for more than forty years.
I've been working on them for sixty years. I've been buying them for my business for slightly over forty years. I do still have the first pinball machine I ever bought new.
LTG : )
Quoted from LTG:I do still have the first pinball machine I ever bought new.
Ballyhoo?
image-1 (resized).jpgIf you tie a string to a balloon about 2 feet in diameter, filled with hydrogen and lite the end before you release it, you can watch the fireball similar to the Hindenburg, about 20 feet in the air. Typically, the fireball is about 3-4 feet in diameter. It is rather loud and impressive, but it only lasts for a brief moment. Kind of like a big firework.
Quoted from Dent00:If you tie a string to a balloon about 2 feet in diameter, filled with hydrogen and lite the end before you release it, you can watch the fireball similar to the Hindenburg, about 20 feet in the air. Typically, the fireball is about 3-4 feet in diameter. It is rather loud and impressive, but it only lasts for a brief moment. Kind of like a big firework.
Hmmm. I may have to see about developing a 2nd childhood and check this out.
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What will they do in '32? Play Ballyhoo, Ballyhoo......
Quoted from Dent00:If you tie a string to a balloon about 2 feet in diameter, filled with hydrogen and lite the end before you release it, you can watch the fireball similar to the Hindenburg, about 20 feet in the air. Typically, the fireball is about 3-4 feet in diameter. It is rather loud and impressive, but it only lasts for a brief moment. Kind of like a big firework.
Oh the humanity!!!!
I am in no way condoning this activity with hydrogen. Acid is dangerous. Hydrogen is dangerous.
If you choose to do these things, take proper precautions and keep clear of other flammable objects and people.
Explosions can easily happen and glass is sharp if it breaks due to heat or explosion and it is covered in acid...
This activity is dangerous.
I can tell you this from first hand knowledge, a couple friends of mine took a large balloon and filled it with gas (type use for welding) and then tied a book of matches to it, taped a lit cigarette to the matchbook. When it went off it was about 20' away from their house and garage, the resulting explosion blew out the windows in both structures.
Quoted from RWH:I can tell you this from first hand knowledge, a couple friends of mine took a large balloon and filled it with gas (type use for welding) and then tied a book of matches to it, taped a lit cigarette to the matchbook. When it went off it was about 20' away from their house and garage, the resulting explosion blew out the windows in both structures.
Acetylene on its own isn't explosive, just burns, but if you add basically any amount of oxygen things start to get very explosive very quickly.
Quoted from HHaase:Acetylene on its own isn't explosive, just burns, but if you add basically any amount of oxygen things start to get very explosive very quickly.
Yes they used both tanks and believe me they never did that again.
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And I'd take Bailey over Jennifer ANY day........................
Quoted from RWH:Yes they used both tanks and believe me they never did that again.
I wonder if insurance covers busted windows due to a science experiment gone wrong...
Quoted from Dent00:I wonder if insurance covers busted windows due to a science experiment gone wrong...
The only insurance was more assurance that Dad was going to go off the deep end. These were times when it was still politically correct to discipline your kids, ie. still using paddles in schools. lol lol
Quoted from RWH:The only insurance was more assurance that Dad was going to go off the deep end. These were times when it was still politically correct to discipline your kids, ie. still using paddles in schools. lol lol
To me, that means that insurance was not in action...
The payment was made in flesh. Lesson learned. No more explosions near the house.
These days, someone would be calling child services to report some type of abuse...
What have we come to?
Quoted from o-din:Who needs acetylene when you can own one of these?
That is a very cute horse.. I had a friend that owned a Pinto and he painted it bright orange with black racing stripes. Replaced the motor with something probably illegal with a supercharger. It was scary fast to ride in and he made the most of it. I thought he was nuts and I also thought the motor would explode at any moment. Also had a nitrous bottle on it that he would play with occasionally. He had a budget and made the most of what he had.
To be fair, the Pinto was way better designed than the standard Vega of the day, and with time would well outlast it.
Speaking of which, call it a glorified Pinto if you like, but this was one sexy looking machine when a buddy of mine showed up with one in high school. I rarely got to ride in it as the passenger seat was usually occupied by one beautiful girl or another.
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Quoted from o-din:To be fair, the Pinto was way better designed than the standard Vega of the day, and with time would well outlast it.
Speaking of which, call it a glorified Pinto if you like, but this was one sexy looking machine when a buddy of mine showed up with one in high school. I rarely got to ride in it as the passenger seat was usually occupied by one beautiful girl or another.
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I have been told a few times that the only unit body part that is the same in a Pinto and the Mustang II is the spare tire well in the trunk. All other unit body parts are different.
Quoted from o-din:Not sure if that was just a California thing or not, but at one point it came to be. I could fix it!
I was big on Fords but never owned a Pinto or a Mustang.
But I did have a car with a Pinto motor in it.
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I remember the Ford World Headquarters sign along I-94 with the big dot matrix incandescent two line display proclaiming "Mercury Capri, European Flavor".
Quoted from o-din:Some chassis similarities, but I never saw a Pinto with a 5.0 V-8 with one of these beauties on it. Another fine Ford product of the 1970s.
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The variable venturi. Vacuum operated Nightmare? I never worked on one of those. I sort had a love affair with Quadrajets.
Quoted from cottonm4:The variable venturi. Vacuum operated Nightmare? I never worked on one of those. I sort had a love affair with Quadrajets.
I had a 79 mustang with one. Yup. Worst idea ford ever had. Or one of the worst.
Quoted from MrBally:I remember the Ford World Headquarters sign along I-94 with the big dot matrix incandescent two line display proclaiming "Mercury Capri, European Flavor".
It was a handling champ. The German Pinto 2.0L might have been a forerunner to today's rice tuners.
Quoted from o-din:It was a handling champ. The German Pinto 2.0L might have been a forerunner to today's rice tuners.
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I graduated high school in 1970. I don't know when that car hit the streets (1969?) , but I had 2 classmates I saw sitting in one at a stop light. "B" said that had been riding around town all day on a dollars worth of gas. That was the brag for them. Good gas mileage.
Quoted from mrgone:I had this when I was a wee lad.
Holy crap, I remember that thing! It's the "gas pump" that jogged my memory!
Quoted from pinzrfun:Holy crap, I remember that thing! It's the "gas pump" that jogged my memory!
That's the Sizzlers "Juice Machine".
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