Ace-Garageguy

"Man" used to be such an easy concept to grasp.

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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.