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@mopacfirst wrote:

I used to want to build one of these, until I realized they’re a couple years too new for me. I have a question on the gray cars — when these cars were painted gray, did they all get the MPL buzzsaw? I presume the answer is yes. Then cars that got painted a second time probably got the screaming eagle, so probably relatively few did.

But, were all these cars delivered in bare aluminum? My recollection is that they were, and as they sat out in the rain during the summer heat, they gradually turned that very dark gray color that aluminum cookware gets when you put it in the dishwasher, which made the stenciling almost unreadable. is that why they were painted?

Unrelated comment: I can’t log in to the BB from my office, which I presume is due to my company firewall. So I always wait til I get home to read or reply to these messages. But, when I get notice of a post, which comes to me by email at my office address, I can click on it and I get right in.

RG7

Aluminum???
I thought they were just plain old steel-sided cars.

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