How about all those times a story is set in Florida and something happens in a “basement”? Florida houses DON’T HAVE BASEMENTS. It’s impossible to build them that way because the water table is so high in the ground. The Disney people learned this the hard way when they started building Walt Disney World—they wound…

This Cadillac Eldorado I talked my father into buying last year. Initially he liked it but there were too many things wrong with it and fixing all the glitches would have cost us more than it was worth. Two weeks ago Dad traded it in on a Camry. For all we know the dealer probably chucked it on the first truck to the…

SkyRC and X-Rider both make motorcycle models their size. Just soes ya knows.

These are a good deal bigger than Barbies. At 1/4 scale they’d probably take over the pilot’s seats in remote-controlled airbatic planes!

Robosaurus was built for the 1992 TV series pilot Steel Justice. The concept was that it was a toy possessed by the spirit of a murdered child, the son of a Police Detective. It was a dreary thing from a generation of dreary things.

How about that Thunderbird in the video for Alphabet Street?

This picture is of the Ciera I had for most of the Nineties. My father got it for my mother to replace a horrible Ford Crown Victoria she’d had...and then she lost her driver’s license to poor eyesight. It had been a rental car before we acquired it.

A few years ago a Kia dealership took over what had previously been a Lowe’s location and gave it a multimillion-dollar makeover for their new showroom in Morristown, TN. They had a daycare center on the second floor, and a art gallery on the side.
I went there for a promotion and it turned out to be the absolute last…

You Only Live Twice
Once when you’re born
Once when you look Death in the face—007

Looks a little like the teaser comics DC made for Person of Interest. Same artists?

We tried to paint racing stripes on our Vega station wagon. Nuff Said.

The “Nacy L. Courey’s Age-Dated” beer cans provided by the Earl Hays Press (http://www.theearlhayspress.com/index.html ) have shown in literally hundreds of movies and TV series episodes over the decades. You could do an article on just THEM.

Nothing at all wrong with Cobra Daytona coupes. But I’m a Seventies/Eighties guy.
I know a couple factories for sale. Anybody want to start a shop called “Malaise Aforethought”?

A view of a display shelf in Aoshima’s in-house museum of products. The blue box on the bottom of the second stack from left? Super Soldier Red Fighter? That’s Turbo Teen in his original packaging!

Monogram repackaged a number of Japanese transforming robot model kits under the Gobots brand circa 1984~’85. Two of these were IMAI pieces from the Mospeada series (known here as the third portion of Robotech). Another was Aoshima’s Trans-Am transforming car—which became Turbo Teen!

4 T Record: The Japanese origin of Gobots was Machine Robo, which was the corporate follow-up to Godaikin, which we knew as the Shogun Warriors. Whereas the Japanese origin of Transformers was MicroChange, which was the corporate follow-up to MicroMan/The Micronauts.
Machine Robo didn’t have a cartoon until Hanna…

Even though HELL’S ANGELS was a box-office smash, Howard Hughes made even MORE money from it by selling or leasing the action OUT-TAKES to other studios who also made war movies! By the time WW2 came along, more than a dozen other feature films were made by reusing HELL’S ANGELS footage.

I sorta haven’t had that problem, but when I “inherited” my mother’s Crown Victoria while still a college student (she lost her driver’s license due to failing an eyesight test, and my brother wanted my Tercel so HE could drive to college) it was quick for me to see that it wasn’t going to work, long-term.

I talked my Dad into buying this “character fortified” 1998 Eldorado a few months ago, and while it’s basically a Monte Carlo that’s been dolled up, it’s still a special car to us. Dad’s usual car choices were Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles, and those aren’t made anymore, so I thought it was time for him to get this.

My first problem with the franchise is the math. Late Thirties plus thirty years is Late Sixties. Vietnam War. The 1967 War between Israel and the United Arab Republics. Nigeria & Biafra. The Chinese Cultural Revolution. Not a very romantic time and I doubt audiences would care to see that.
My second problem is that…