Ace-Garageguy

Tyrants grasping for power, even the petty ones, have always done their best to keep people with decent hearts apart. Human nature has some really horrible elements, and until or unless we evolve spiritually as a species, nothing will get better. External systems of governance or technology alone are insufficient to overcome humanity's destructive tendencies without a corresponding internal moral or ethical transformation.

Overnight it may rain toads and cumquats, or drizzle dragon snot, but the reality will most likely be something more mundane.

Sunshine is the source of the energy liberated by burning hydrocarbon fuels.

ER nurses, 3 of 'em, that took care of me after a chimp-orderly injured me pretty seriously really knew their jobs...and they were all pretty, too.

I disagree. Car marketing has convinced the buying public that they need every imaginable gadget and comfort and "safety" enhancement, gigantic pickups that never get used to haul anything, and that you should only buy black, white, and silver because nothing else has any resale value. A lot of the money is in options, and the stuff manufacturers want to sell are the vehicles they make the most profit on. Period. They don't care what the "public" wants, and they've done their dambdest to brainwash consumers to want what the manufacturers want them to want. Marketing works, and the widely touted "focus groups" only give us stuff like the Edsel...because consumers in general have no clue.

Never mind.

It was delivered somewhere. Just not to you. UPS did the same thing to me on an expensive parts order that my week's work depended on not too long ago. I had a devil of a time getting a replacement from the vendor, had to jump through hoops like providing photos of our shop front, address, etc., as the photo the driver-chimp sent on delivery wasn't anything like our place...and there's only the one street with the particular name in the entire city. Did I ever mention how effing tired I get having to do work other people got paid for...paid well, with benefits?

"Home again, home again, jiggity jig" say the animated toys when J.F. Sebastian enters his apartment in Blade Runner.

Specially if you sit on one...

I'm with Mark. That's beautiful just the way it is. If it were mine, I'd just try to find photos online of what it's supposed to look like, then make some headlights and a hood ornament, a simple chassis, and wheels and tires (if you don't have them). Trying to make a serious model with opening panels from that great old toy is almost guaranteed to destroy it, especially if you don't have well-developed miniature fabrication skills.

Headache racks are like totally tubular.

Yourself might enjoy taking a flying leap at the moon, or not.

Getcha pretzels and weenies while they're hot !!!!!!!!

I've never used it, as I rely on smelly old-school solvent-based finishing materials. I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ACRYLIC PAINTS FOR HOBBY USE (OTHER THAN ARTISTS' COLORS) HOWEVER...this company manufactures a line of acrylic paints for leather, and ALSO offers two hardener additives for enhancing adhesion to hard plastics and increasing film toughness. I have no idea if they'll work in whatever acrylic paint you're using, but they're not very expensive, so some experimentation might get you what you need...or not. https://angelusdirect.com/products/gac-200?srsltid=AfmBOooCnYg9JaWbADqBDMVScF1Ld1SZSlc3oGzoC6KWWIiOw2oaNX-o&variant=4842818693 https://angelusdirect.com/products/angelus-2-hard-film-hardener?pr_prod_strat=e5_desc&pr_rec_id=e5c5d9e52&pr_rec_pid=5528926725&pr_ref_pid=1575865733&pr_seq=uniform&variant=17396484549

Went out for a pack of cigs, I took a look at the open highway, then left on a quest to see what was over the next hill, and the one after that, and the one after that...