Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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Should I get a screaming chicken decal for my Pontiac Vibe? Yeah, probably…
In my opinion, all Pontiacs that are left at this point should be Screamin’.
Do it!
*Gazes at lofted garage lustfully*
Love the garage workshop!!!
Looking forward to more Chicken content! My first car was an 86 Chicken with the beastly 2.8L V6. I loved that car and am still bummed that rust took it away from me.
Can’t wait for the SWG story, they are always incredible
And please can Mark write about his RC stuff? His collection, building them, modifying them, presumably racing them?
I think Uncle Adrian also races an RC car (some of his reviews had an RC car in the boot/trunk) so maybe could provide some input.
I did write one article ages ago, about scale trucks, and a few other bits and pieces here and there. I seem to recall doing at least one RC-related Shitbox Showdown. I certainly would like to write about the hobby more. I’ll talk to the powers that be, as soon as all this moving and house renovation hullabaloo dies down.
I don’t race competitively anymore; I know Adrian does. My thing these days is restoring vintage/classic RC cars, or building complete custom jobs, and running them around my own property. I plan to build a track in my new backyard as soon as I have time, hopefully this summer, and eventually a bunch of trails for the scale trucks.
Until then, if you’re interested, I’m pretty active at Tamiyaclub, and a bit less so at the Scale Builders Guild. I’m markbt73 in both places.
My goodness, that series III Land Rover is incredible!
I’m really interested in these as well. Where I live there isn’t a dedicated outdoor location to run them, so I’d like to hear where others who enjoy the hobby like to use them.
Count me as interested too. It’s not my hobby, but looking at your collection I think I want it to be!
SWG got a chikin? We need a story!
It made its site debut here!
More Chicken content coming soon, and thanks Harv!
How did I forget! Looking forward to MOAR CHIKIN
Mark, I love your toy store. Stephen, I have a soft spot for 3rd generation F bodies. Look forward to reading more. Also, you know how to spell Stephen. Bonus points.
SWG: best of luck with the LH0. It unfortunately doesn’t take much to make fixing the 3.1L turd not worth doing, which is a shame because those late 3rd gens are the best looking of that generation.
I wish my turd gen was a 91-92 (92 especially since my birth year). I have debated about getting the 91-92 front end and the side skirts and such.
There’s an Eddie VH guitar lick playing in my mind just looking at those Firebird pics.
I enjoy how SWG’s after hours pursuits…still involve trying to save cool cars.
I’ll admit to watching Shifting Gears…I can take or leave Tim Allen, but I’d happily watch Kat Dennings pitch aluminum siding on infomercials if that’s what she was doing. Anyway, there’s a funny bit where she tries to get Sean William Scott’s mechanic character to do something while he’s working. “What are you doing right now?” “Car stuff.” “Okay, what are you doing this weekend then?” [Pause] “Other car stuff.”
Thanks Jack.
It’s tough only having evenings and weekends to wrench on a 13-car fleet (and even harder to find time to write 6-8 essays on the stories for this site!), but I enjoy it and it feels good to save cars from the crusher.
Thanks as always for reading and for Commenting, my friend. It’s always great to see your User Name show up.
I know you likely won’t hang onto her b/c yours is a MOPAR heart (I imagine you’re forever after an elusive fixer upper Conquest), but whomever ends up with that Firebird is going to be incredibly happy.
To say they don’t make ’em like that anymore is an understatement, and for one of such platonic Firebird-ness to be saved from oblivion is truly an act of justice.
TL/DR: yes please on the full story soon!
This “clean workbench” concept is unfamiliar to me. I generally wind up with two messy workbenches and completing my builds at the dining table.
That would make the dining table the “clean table”, which is exactly what I hear from my wife immediately after (and during) my projects.
When putting together my shop, I thought I’d add more work bench to ensure I’d always have somewhere clean to work, nope just more cluttered bench. Maybe I’ll add another bench instead of working on who I am as a person.
<– literally just disassembled an instrument cluster on the coffee table.
All horizontal surfaces end up covered. It is law.
When I built my work bench I put a draw underneath that I could just sweep the clutter in to, leaving the bench clear and saving my projects from getting dusty. Genius idea.
It didn’t work. That draw, and the work bench, are now constantly full of crap.
This post does not actually seem to be limited to members…
More Screamin’, more Chicken, for the masses!
Seriously though, thanks for the heads-up. I’ll inform Management.
Is it supposed to be
Whoops, forgot to check that box. Free sneak-peek for non-Members is OVER lol
A friend of mine in high school had a gorgeous dark green ’91 Firebird with the 3.1 and T-tops. It wasn’t a screaming performance machine but it looked so freaking good.
100% agreed. It’s such a beautiful design. It’s growing on me as the years pass.
In high school (Class of ’98) these cars (F-Bodies) were not cool at all and usually driven by the asshole jocks that didn’t mix well with my posse of wrenching musicians.
In these middle-aged years though, with high school far in the rear-view, I can see them in a totally different light.
Thanks for reading and for the comment, my dude!
I was ’99 and weirdly only that one friend had an F body and he was not the asshole jock type!
What the H about those cars was so synonymous with Asshole Jock and so attractive to those jerks in the late 90s, right?!
At my high school it was the Foxbody Mustang crowd that was intolerable. They weren’t jocks, but they did think the ability to do a burnout in the parking lot made them school royalty.
I feel the same way about C4 corvettes. I’m a similar age (Class of 01). While there weren’t any in my high school parking lot I think they were old enough at that point that they weren’t new and exciting, but not classic, just old.
Woot! Shout out from a fellow ’98er! I did my first two years at a private school. Them: Lexus or BMW. Me: ’83 Grand Prix. Then I moved over to my local crappy public school, apparently I wasn’t the private school type. My ’83 Grand Prix fit right in.
Jeeze – apparently your friend traveled in time to be a friend of mine in college in the early 90s. He had the exact same car, and completely agree, there’s absolutely something about that color.
I sort of want to put a screaming chicken decal on the hood of my yellow Maverick. Only thing stopping me is that I’d probably put it on lopsided and with air bubbles.
A Screamin’ Mav would be so, so wicked badass.
The universe needs this.
My wife says she’d never drive it again. I asked if she was trying to encourage me.
Ha, I just realized we both sent in pictures of yellow Firebirds. Check out the Radio Shack Car Crusher on the top left shelf…
I thought that might be a Firebird.
Firebirds FTW (no bias at all)
I was wondering what that is! At first I thought you had a Kyosho Hi-Rider Corvette
I have one of those too! Baby blue, on the bottom shelf next to the Clod Buster. The wheels are off of it.