It’s Tuesday. One of my readers saw that I was building the LEGO 1966 Batmobile and sent in photos of one of his own builds—A 1963 Corvette Grand Sport by Mattel. I wasn’t aware that Mattel had its own Brick Shop, so I was very pleased to see these two kits. I briefly checked Amazon and eBay for them both, but was only able to find the white kit. Sadly, no one seems to carry the blue kit. So now, after I finish the Batmobile, and then the Ford Model T kit, I’ll definitely pick up the ’63 Grand Sport for my next project—at least the white one, anyway!

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Keep, Looking forward to the Batmobile completion, I looked up the Model T, I didn’t know they made that. You might be interested in my build not Lego but very similar. Could be fun for you since you love corvettes.

Mike

It’s Monday. I had a wildly successful bachelor weekend—every objective was met with flying (and slightly greasy) colors. Junk food intake? Impressive. Gaming hours? Borderline heroic. Horror movie marathon? Let’s just say I may never sleep again. Meanwhile, the girlfriend had a great time visiting her son in Tempe, soaking up those glorious temps in the upper 80s and low 90s. I was only a little bitter while shivering back home, where we’re apparently negotiating with the sun just to crack 60. Damn.

Anyway, I’m working on the LEGO Batmobile while watching the NASCAR race in Texas and snacking on a bag of heavily salted butter braid pretzels. I love Sunday afternoons!

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It’s Friday! Well, the girlfriend is off to Arizona for the weekend to visit her son. He’s been living in Tempe for a few years now and seems to be loving it. Meanwhile, here on the home front, I’m predicting a weekend filled with loud music, periods of excessive gaming, horror movie marathons, and an irresponsible amount of junk food—heavy on the pizza.

I had MRIs done on both shoulders last week, and the results confirmed partial tendon tears in both rotator cuffs. Oddly enough, even though the tears are about the same on each side, my left shoulder is giving me way more trouble while the right feels mostly fine. The doctor isn’t recommending surgery at this point, so the plan was to try a cortisone shot in the left shoulder to calm the inflammation and ease the pain. I got the shot a few days ago, and it’s already helping. For now, the plan is to just let it ride and see how things go.

Today’s post features a small gallery of vehicles courtesy of Brian, a reader who attended the twice-a-year tractor show near Werley’s Corner, Pennsylvania. Along with the cars and tractors, the event had a country store, a museum, antique farm equipment, food vendors, and even pedal tractor pulls for the kids. Big thanks to Brian for sharing his photos from the show—enjoy the pics, along with the double babes and double jokes!

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Keep, Been a while since I sent you something, today I went to the twice annual tractor event a few miles down the road from me at the town of Werley’s Corner. It’s a rural area and guys bring their tractors in twice a year and there is a country store, museum, old cars, farm equipment, food, kids tractor pulls in a peddle tractor. Over 100 people there when I visited today with good weather, as yesterday was a rain out, but everything was polished up again.

Brian