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Anticipated a productive weekend finishing up a couple of projects before the cold weather hits but didn't quite get there. The starter died on an old mustang I've been working on and I had one brought up from the nearest wreckers on friday while I was at work. Having dealt with this wrecker for years, I was not expecting any problems and foolishly bolted it on yesterday without doing my usual operational double check. Dummy, dummy, dummy. Didn't work, so I pulled it off and opened it up; lo and behold, it was full of water and grease from when one of their chimps pressure washed it and, of course, didn't bench test it. Stripped it down, cleaned it out, sanded the armature lightly and reassembled it. Still no go. 73 bucks out of pocket, two dead starters and a few hours wasted, and creative flow gone to heck 🤪

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Nice to finally see more accurate scale renditions of this truck series showing up (3D) to justify the time and expense involved in building one

Days that are good bring happiness and days that are bad bring experience.

No one needs our roses when the sun of life's gone down, if you're going to send a message of love, send it now... (paul overstreet)

Later sometimes becomes never... do it now

Looks like it may have roots in the the old revell custom van molds. The wheel and tire combo is kinda appealing.

in juicy repose

So much for our half dozen weeks of nice warm weather... beautiful sunny morning and 65 until about two, then the cool stuff moved in and it's adios to the warmth for a while. Kind of a strange pattern but it's that time of year when anything can happen and we're used to the 'wait five minutes, it'll change'.

'80s cars, early in the decade, showed the stirrings of a new horsepower race.

Size difference is mostly in door length; too bad there wasn't an improvement in the grill, a la amt '69.

Sentences can be more effective when they include logic, emotion, image and promise in addition to plain facts.

... or maybe 'This too shall pass'

If you're going through hell, keep on going.

As the 1:1 cars have identical shells, it's a safe bet they'll be using the interior bucket and chassis from their '65 comet for their stock version; with, of course, a '64 dash most likely heisted from the craftsman amt '64. The cad pics show that they re using the '66/'67 firewall copied from the amt comet/fairlane as well with the modified chassis plate. If someone wasn't taking advantage of the heavy lifting done by someone else, there's a pretty good chance we wouldn't be seeing the variety of new kits we are now 😜 ... not that it makes it right, but it's plain one manufacturer needed the boost when it became evident their design staff wasn't quite up to par on a particular truck project. Their other projects seem to be working out well.

Problems properly stated are half solved.

Kind of an unexpectedly profound line in an otherwise raunchy song

Brother Jimmy on the tv; Killer on the stereo, sayin' if you want to get it, you've got to let it go

The envelope and stance look great so in the end it probably won't matter as long as you are pleased with it

Cruising the back roads on a beautiful fall afternoon with the Dirt band on the stereo, gunning it through a carpet of golden leaves and watching them in the mirror swirl and dance in the golden sunlight.

Very nice layout You sure that toploader isn't 1/20 ? 😜 handy chart from summit for sizing... perhaps the designer's math was 'off' a tad...

She ain't pretty, she just looks that way.

Lest I appear to be just a chevy fan with my pics, it's really just a case of hardly ever seeing old Fords or dodges cruising around. Spotted near a road, getting ready to mosey on over to pick up a wedding party destined for an outdoor ceremony yesterday near the trees in the background. Ain't love grand?

Makes me wish I was closer sometimes. Got lured into another wee stroll doon ta tha crik last night... in another six weeks it may be a wee flounder through the drifts Got back and roasted a couple of smokies over a fire and then dug out my vintage pocket golden field guide to stars and laid back on my picnic table and tried to id all the constellations in sight. Only one meteorite showed up and about 8 satellites. They kind of spoil it. Sure happy the decent weather is holding.