Morven

Owned this for some years before I gave up on ever having either the time to fix it properly or the money to have someone else do it. 1967 Ford Thunderbird 4-door with rear suicide doors. 7 liter engine, fuel consumption around 9mpg.

Film photography is going through a bit of a trendy moment right now, so if you have any old gear you no longer want you might be able to make a pretty penny -- especially medium format or older, mechanical SLRs from reputable manufacturers, or high-end compact cameras (popular with the instagram set, it seems). Meanwhile 80s and 90s SLRs are still cheap as dirt.

What I do like about Sam: he buys his own models, so no obligation to be nice to a manufacturer who gave him a free one; he's critical of qa failures, a manufacturer in 2022 should have higher standards; and he's unflinchingly critical about poor running. But he knows nothing about the prototype and is over critical sometimes about stuff that just doesn't matter much. And, ye gods, does he witter on endlessly. His videos could be half the length and miss nothing.

Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives: The giant Q2: https://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=355163&nseq=180 Biggest and most powerful non-articulated locomotive worldwide, tested at almost 8000 hp on PRR's locomotive dyno, and a decent success in service except for costing more per mile than a J1. The E6 Atlantics: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/791074/ It's between these or the Milwaukee's streamlined class A for best American Atlantic, and the PRR one wins for me. Classic lines, and a great brutish machine at the same time.

I had one of those early Bachmann peaks; the biggest flaw to it is that the buffer beams were attached to the body, not the bogies as is correct.