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"Movie" was pretty much synonymous with "drive in" when I was a little feller.
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Ah yes. Few things in life as much fun as cleaning up after morons, especially crooked morons.
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Country music on the radio goes well with long drives across barren plains.
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"Specialty of the house: meatless burgers!!!" on the menu will get me out the door pretty quickly.
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The Official EBay Discussion Thread
Ace-Garageguy replied to iamsuperdan's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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Yup. "Vibrasonic". https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/04/motorola-vibrasonic-something-i-dont.html I seem to recall there's a reference to "Vibrasonic Sound" in the Beach Boys Custom Machine. EDIT: Yup.
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Autoquiz #599 - Finished
Ace-Garageguy replied to carsntrucks4you's topic in Real or Model? / Auto ID Quiz
Even if you didn't know it right off, the resemblance to an Aston Martin DB4 with a different face marks it as most likely English, and the styling is late '50s early '60s, so a logical starting point is searching images of that period English car builders. I plugged in the image-search term "AC cars 1960s" into floogle, and an image of this thing came up about halfway down the first page. -
You might try the Tamiya engraver tools, as they "scribe" by taking a very fine curl of material out of the cut, rather than brutally scratching like the "backside of a #11 blade" does. Used very gently, they MIGHT work for deepening panel lines post-paint, but they're not cheap. They are, however, worth every penny to me for the beautiful pre-paint scribing they're capable of delivering once you learn to use 'em.
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The Official EBay Discussion Thread
Ace-Garageguy replied to iamsuperdan's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
I've cut WAY back on buying model cars on feePay, in large part due to exorbitant shipping. But if you shop carefully and don't get in a hurry, you can still usually find deals with reasonable shipping. The actual cost of shipping via USPS has increased recently, but nowhere near what some folks are charging. And it's not always what the auction site estimates. I've also encountered some sellers who have voluntarily refunded part of what they considered to be "too high" shipping costs, and it's nice to know there are still people who aren't out to gouge every last nickel. -
I put either a Muntz or a Lear Jet 8-track player under the dash of my mother's '63 Olds that I often drove in HS. The car got away after her death in the '80s, but I tracked it down in Texas and brought it back here to restore. I think it needs an 8-track again, but only if I can find the oh-so-cool Pink Panther and Bond movie tapes that were my dating background music.
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"Sanity" is definitely a stumbling block when trying to rationally comprehend some recent goings-on.
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1/20 MFH Ferrari 248F1 Chinese GP
Ace-Garageguy replied to okazaki0511's topic in Other Racing: Road Racing, Salt Flat Racers
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Round-2......One of These?
Ace-Garageguy replied to StevenGuthmiller's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
There's a resin '57 Buick, Modelhaus IIRC, the molds for which were pulled from an almost perfect promo many years ago. They come up online occasionally for around $300. I recently found an acetate promo in pretty decent shape that I've pulled epoxy panel molds from to save the data as well. So it's hardly an impossible or even really difficult task.