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Every year, a few bumblebees get into a friends farmhouse. He usually finds them after they've wandered about til they're exhausted or starved but sometimes catches them alive and puts them outside to live another day. I scooped up one in the kitchen that was pretty weak and put on the bench outside. Nudged it to see if it had any life and it just fell on it's side. While wondering how I could give it some sustenance, I spotted a dandelion and put it right in front of the poor little guy. Well, it was on that thing like a hobo on a ham sandwich and you could see the flower moving as the bee vacuumed the moisture out of it

Not a whole lot, but it showed up frequently on cruise nights. Would make a cool project in scale. I'll find more pics. Unless he's sold it to someone out there, he'd better head home fairly soon or he might not make it across the Coquihalla

Was that taken in Victoria? That one was built in Red Deer.

Going through some old magazines and found this...

I'd bet the '71's a clone. You'd think he'd trumpet the 'one of 12' status if it was real but then you probably won't find a genuine article jammed into a tinderbox building with virtually nothing for fire suppression and no way to move the cars out if something did happen.

Seeing something like this always fires up the neurons into thoughts of how cool it would have been (as a teenager with a shelf full of Hot Rod mags) to have just pulled one of these out of an old widow's garage circa early fifties

That '65 ragtop kit is a fantastic parts source for the '65 Parisienne 409 conversion I've been picking away at

Take a closer look at this hood

Great looking decals! Think I've got a Triline buckle here somewhere.

Hey Mr Goldman, how about cloning the mpc supervan in 1/25?

Almost...

The 'Old Autos' website would be a good place to start. They also publish a bi-monthly newspaper for old car fans, with lots of articles on the north of the border variants along with other historical stuff.

Here's a side by side look at the two... The amt has the most accurate profile on the fenders. There's two things to contend with in back-halving the cab - the cab roof height above the rain gutters was raised about an inch in '64 and the body line on the door is sloped on the unibodys vs jogged on the reg cab, but they end up in the same place on the c pillar. I found out that the moeb bodyside has more curvature than the amt when I tried a fitting of the amt front clip to the moeb cab. Hope this helps.

Agreed

A drive through Wyoming a few years back netted (from the dealer, not someone's truck) this companion to my Maclin Ford plate... Bought an entire truck to get one of these labels and resold the truck a few months later, well recompensed for my time.

That's totally fair and I don't expect everyone to think like the guys that know these trucks. There's good engineering in these kits but they stand as an anomaly accuracy-wise compared to the rest of moeb and industry standard offerings. Good imagination being shown with 'lipstick' applied, by way of accessories like wrecker bodies, plows etc, to keep the sales and interest up.

Came out of the garage just in time to see a good sized spider sailing across the yard on a silk thread, probably launched from one of the big pines. As soon as I focused on it, a big dragonfly swooped in and nailed it Nature is awesome. Was disappointed not to have seen any fireflies this year. There really is something profound in the line from the old Dirt Band tune that goes 'city lights ain't all that bright compared to what it's like, seein' lightning bugs go dancin' in the rain'

Kudos on your optimism I was up to 8 or 9 of the variations at one point but reality set in when I realized how much time was needed to actually make something I could like looking at on my shelf. Down to two now; hopefully be able to motivate to a complete project before time runs out

Funny, I was thinking from the other side of things, as moeb's original tooling mockups had the dana and it was possibly intended for use in all variations of the truck just like they did with the one size fits all F250 hubcaps. This wouldn't have been totally inaccurate because Ford did option the semi-floating Dana 60 5 bolt in the trucks through the 60's (same basic diff as the Chryco hemi cars). Their 'interpretation' of Ford's 9 inch looks just like a kwikee fix to assuage the questionable impressions forming amongst knowledgeable Ford fans. Who knows...

Wouldn't that be nice to have plastered on a vintage Camaro Definitely a distant finisher in the ugly sticker award department compared to the old Lou Isfeld Lincoln (Abbottsford BC) viking head sticker; the head alone was almost 2x3 inches.

A cross with something, but not sure it's a dana Yes, that's how far off it is. The revell broncos and Model As have the best scale 9 inch center sections.

Sounds typical

As everything else points to a '63 raven black Ford 300 4dr sedan, red interior, with a six cylinder 3 spd, it's not out of the realm of possibility that it's just a simple stamping mistake. Not real common, but I've seen several examples on both door tags and body buck tags. Like this one on the cowl tag from a '67 Mercury M250 It shows an A(never used) in the assembly plant position when it should have been a C (Oakville).