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I almost bought one! Fresh out of college my younger brother (by 18 months) and I were looking to buy a new car. Our interests leaned toward the new 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang but we decided to wait for the full year 1965 models to arrive. In the dealers showroom next to a beautiful green 1965 Mustang convertible was a shiney dark blue street legal 1964 or 1965 (?) Cobra, 2 seater (i.e., 2 person) with 3 point racing harness seatbelts, , 4-on-the-floor manual, don't remember which engine probably 8 cyl. Sticker price was somewhere around $8,000. The sticker price on the 65 Mustang, 3-on-the-floor manual, 6 cyl engine, 4 seater, was around $3,000-$3,200. (For reference starting salaries for newly graduated Accounting majors was about $6,000). The dealer let us take the Cobra for a test driver with a salesman along to "supervise". It handled beautifully 😍. But we both decided on Mustang convertibles; the Cobra was just impractical for two single guys, only 1 female passenger, very limited luggage space vs 3 (maybe 4) passengers in Mustang, ample luggage space. We ended up getting the Mustangs for around $2,500 each.
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You can also substitute numbers for letters in words. Number 0 for letter O, number 1 for letter I or L (both upper and lower case), number 5 for letter S, number 3 for letter E, dollar sign $ for letter S . Example: Ph1lad31phia = Philadelphia. Or Pennsylvania as P3nn$1tuck3y aka Pennsyltuckey. With all the logon accounts we have to maintain, for banks, doctor's patient portals, insurance, investments, Social Security, et al, you want to follow the Kiss principles and not get too carried away. 😉
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Come ride along! I'm the guy with Pentax camera at about 3:05. Whiff and Vixen on Hudson River 2005 - movie by Bob Wills past Commodore HRIYC.
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Quality of Model Shipways Skipjack Ship
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I built the Model Shipways skipjack Willie Bennett some time ago, the build log is Here -
Thanks! Yes Christmas has been good 👍 health still okay. Just hoping for some ice for sailing. And getting my ambition back so I can get to work on finishing the Constellation build finally.
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I'm lurking in the shadows, Alan, looking forward to following this one
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Nice way to store and carry the Veritas line of miniature tools.
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Build log titles
Jack12477 replied to Jim M's topic in Using the MSW forum - **NO MODELING CONTENT IN THIS SUB-FORUM**
Go to the beginning of your build log, post #1, click on the 3 dots next to the post #, select Edit in the drop down, this will let you edit the title. Click Save when you're done.
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