Jim N

Boeing wrote the book on how NOT to build an airplane. How they come back from this is beyond me.

To answer the original poster’s question. The article I read stated that this was nothing more than a test. The current Cup race car was designed to accommodate an EV power plant if the NASCAR racing community ever chooses to go in that direction. The article also stated that NASCAR officials watched a race in Japan with hydrogen powered cars as they were guests of Toyota. Toyota appears to be a big proponent of using hydrogen to power cars instead of batteries. Lastly, NASCAR officials in this article clearly stated that they have no intention of moving away from the internal combustion engine for the foreseeable future. Yes, one can argue that the foreseeable future is a relative term; however, team owners at all three levels of NASCAR are struggling with costs. This includes some of the big teams. It will be very expensive to move to this technology, and overnight make all of their drivetrain equipment obsolete. This includes the equipment they use to build and test the drivetrains.

Great work! J.D. McDuffie was one of the unsung heroes of the sport.

This is a great tip and I have copied it for future use. Many thanks. I have a question if you do not mind. The coaxial cable has a wire going through it that you remove and replace. Why replace the wire in the coaxial cable?

Taste is certainly subjective, but I find this to be a very uninspiring looking car. I remember the 240, 260 and the 280's were very, very cool looking. It seems to me that each successive generation has become more and more bland. I really cannot remember the last time I saw a Z on the road.

Looks very good.

Great work Bill! Looks superb.

Looks spectacular! Very impressive build.

Very impressive work in such small scale.

After about 60 years or so, the concept of free trade is collapsing. It's going to take a very long time to undo what has been done.

Modelroundup.com has them too.

I saw on the news the other night that a poll was done about this. The people who wanted permanent DST or standard time split evenly. 8% liked the changing of the clocks. The enticement of DST is the extra hour in the evenings. It is a lot easier to get yard work done and such when not fighting the clock. Kids can play outside longer. There are benefits. Keeping DST permanent was tried in the mid 1970's as a way to save energy. It was argued that with the extra hour of daylight, homes would consume a little less energy, and in the aggregate, it would help a lot. One of the problems was that there was a record number of kids hit by cars walking to school in the mornings because of the darkness. After one year - maybe two we went back to changing the clocks twice a year. A lot changes in nearly 50 years. In my area, I don't think many kids walk to school. I will not comment on other cities or towns. The U.S. is a country that splits 50 - 50 on almost every issue. To have 92% of the population say they do not like changing the time twice a year, the politicians will get this done. Most who favor the other time will adjust. And then there will be boards like this for people to vent about how they were in favor of the time standard.

I had the same thing happen, and I think it is because I put the second coat on a little too heavy. I got to two points and did not move the can quickly enough and the paint built up a little bit. This is where the paint wrinkled.

I saw that, and while I am not much of a baseball fan, there are a lot of common folks who earn their living at the parks. I am glad they will be earning money soon.

Great looking models and pictures!!

Absolutely gorgeous!!! Really outstanding work.

Very cool! Excellent work!

Excellent work! Looks great.

Great work! Looks really nice.

That is a very cool kit. You did a great job!

When I was young, one of the biggest conspiracy theories was that the car companies were in cahoots with the oil companies. I don't know how many times I heard that, and from people who were intelligent. At least back in the day that was the way to sell these things as the car companies had no vested interest to improve gas mileage because they are in bed with big oil. With that argument being very prevalent, it was easy to find an audience for these things. I am a little surprised that there is still a market for these things with the fuel economy of today's cars.

Very nicely done. The lighting effect are outstanding!

Great looking model. This one gets trashed a lot, but it builds up really nice. Great job.

Very nicely done Michelle.

The “good ol days” of racing are old, and they are not very good. I have read about the supposed halcyon days of F1 when you could look at a group picture of the drivers before the start of the season and KNOW that 1 or 2 of them would die before the season concluded. I remember reading about drivers being crowned as champions posthumously. Those are not good ol days. I could not understand Jackie Stewart’s almost fanatical demand for safety, until I read about the time he raced, and then I understood his point of view fully. Dale Earnhardt, Sr. is not with us today because the good ol days were far too dangerous. Some of it was Earnhardt’s lack of understanding of safety. A driver seat that was not suited for racing and his insistence on wearing an open faced helmet, but car design, more specifically, front chassis design had changed to the point where the front ends were so stiff that a driver could not ride out the collision. The race cars looked like a 60’s crash test where the car crumples to the front wheels and then bounces back. I remember the 2000 season where a truck series driver, Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin, Jr. lost their lives. I remember members of Congress telling NASCAR after Earnhardt Sr’s death to get their act together and fix their safety problems, or Congress would gladly fix the problems for them. Reading about or seeing race car drivers in caskets far before their full number of years have elapsed is not a cause for celebration in my book and is why I will never view the good ol days as being anything but old days. Today's racing is very real, and thank God, not as openly dangerous as the good ol days.