Ace-Garageguy

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Got my "staging tent" reskinned with new tarps just before the rain came. All it is is one of those cheapo "portable garages" that a freindamine gave me after his neighborhood Karen reported him to the zoning people. It lasted for several years in my back yard, and I've been storing not-too-valuable tools and parts in it prior to moving. Last windy rain storm, a limb came down, punched a hole in the top of it, and I didn't notice until last week. A few things got soaked and ruined, but nothing irreplaceable. Anyway, now it's watertight again.

That's IMC, who made some really cool kits of interesting, highly-detailed cars and trucks with lotsa opening features, widely bashed as "too fiddly" and "unbuildable", and aircraft. Many have been re-released over the years under other labels, including Lindberg, Testors, and Union. While they were indeed challenging, in the hands of skilled modelers, they could turn out stellar models.

The ONLY models you can have to work with were previously put together by 5-year-olds who used an entire tube of gloo to hold on every single part...kinda like a lot of what I used to buy on FeePay, listed as "adult built".

Writing 1984, the author thought he was creating fiction, not a handbook of instructions on how to do things.

Streets of Fire is, among other things, a film from 1984.

Last new fridge I bought quit after two years, just out of warranty. Opened it up, pathetic tiny components inside, sized for a small office fridge. Lotsa insulation was its only advantage over an old one with big fat clunky last-forever guts. Cheaper to buy another one than pay someone to fix it, and I didn't want to take it to the car shop to evac/recharge or bring the equipment home, then probably have it die again after another 2 years. Bought an older creampuff used, and it's still running fine 12 years later. A friend of mine has a fridge from the late '40s, still running on its original freon.

Fences in good condition make good neighbors, so it's said.

What search method are you using?

Abundance of sentences, as in more than one, is prevalent in a lot of these posts.

OK, but I've yet to see anyone pick up a model with a smallblock Chevy in it to count the freeze plugs. EDIT: There is also a 383 RB built in 1959 and 1960 that your reference leaves out. It's different from the 383 B.

The only real power advantage modern fuel injection has over carbs is that, IF IT'S SET UP RIGHT, EFI can maintain a more accurate fuel-air ratio over the entire rev range than a carb can, which translates to flatter power and torque curves, which CAN mean more usable horsepower at every RPM, rather than the particular rev range a particular carb setup is optimized for. Peak horsepower at a given RPM where any engine is pumping most efficiently will be the same, or very close, with properly tuned EFI or carbs. Note however that this is not always the case. The car world is full of as many poorly tuned EFI setups as poorly tuned old carb setups.

It is sad, but there are WAY more cool old cars quietly rusting away to nothing than there are people to save them, and more are sent to the crusher every day.

The 413 wedge and 426 wedge under discussion here are BOTH "RB" engines, along with the 383(RB) and the 440, and in 1/25 scale you can't tell the difference other than external manifolding, and accessories. Nobody but the most hardcore Mopar guy is going to be able to tell the '49 Merc optional "426-440" with the short cross-ram intake and the cast iron upswept headers from a 413 with the short cross-ram intake and cast iron upswept headers...and even then, it's not likely there would be any visible and reliable tipoffs in 1/25 scale. EDIT: Hardcore Mopar guys, feel free to correct me. NOTE: The 426 Hemi is a different animal. Far as the '49 Merc kit engines go...believe me, the tooling wasn't changed from the kit that says the optional engine is a 426 and the one that says it's a 440. All they did was change what they called it, because they look alike. EDIT 2: This is rather like guys who'll sweat getting "correct" 383-stroker smallblock Chevy engines...when in fact every basic smallblock Chevy engine can pass for every other one in 1/25 scale, other than the one difference in the very early (265) blocks lacking the oil filter mounting. EDIT 3: Here's the Wiki page regarding the 413/426 Max Wedge engines. I most certainly do not believe everything Wikipee says, but this seems right IIRC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Wedge