Russell C

PM'd a guess, but likely I'm wrong.

A nomenclature correction, if may offer it: CO detectors -- carbon monoxide, single carbon atom / single oxygen atom combined, deadly to breathe in large quantities. It's what folks do to take themselves out when parked in a garage with the engine running and a hose directing all the tailpipe fumes into the car. CO2 has two oxygen atoms, it's what we breathe out, and when there's too much of it in a crowded room with everyone talking, the air begins to just feel a bit stuffy.

Interesting - my profile page "Activity" that I'd never looked at before has at least partly returned, going back to October 5th.

Didn't see any problems before, don't see any now. But additionally, I don't think I ever looked once into my profile page "Activity", so whatever was there - nothing now - I don't miss it. If it helps with any diagnostics, however, I'm using a version of Firefox that is at least two years out of date, due to my iMac's OS being obsolete* enough that it can't load any new browser updates. *(Accepting donations to help me buy a new used iMac, just remember to make the check out to "Cash.")

My mom, a child in the late 1920s/early '30s, spoke more than once about her mom being technically a huge advocate of "People for the Ethical Treatment of Horses," where her mom was one who gladly advocated for the use of motorized vehicles because she saw way too many instances of horse owners - probably mostly delivery wagon guys in the big city - who were very abusive and/or careless with their horses.

Would the lights in your neighborhood dim momentarily if you turned on all 4 at once? ?

Wasn't initially convinced about Bill's answer since the Franklin engines I found in an image search didn't have exhaust pipes, but then I figured out what the caps in the tops of those cylinders were. A little more searching finally turned up this Pinterest page of what sure looks like the same dragster. The tell-tale is the circle thing at the front with all the bolts in it.

https://getadblock.com/en/ Wipes out all ads on my iMac. Youtube included, where that site tries to first load ad videos, but when I hit the play button for the video I want to see, no ads ever play.

Perfect!

Looks like the Albuquerque Model Car Club is still going. I don't live there now, but I was one of the original members way back starting in 1990.

Leapin' Fairlane! Won this as a single bidder on eBay for cheap, it's really arch-warped, but certainly not at the end of its shelf display life yet! I vaguely remember mentioning this idea to our MCM builder Brizio years back, this kind of thing can be salvaged by turning it into a caricature wheelie burnout dragster, complete with the exaggerated oval-shape tires out of the 1:32 scale Tom Daniel Snappers series of caricature dragsters, (or the Polar Lights repop variants) and with a double-blower intake sticking out of the hood from one of the old MPC Zingers kits, along with other requisite dragster bits.

Pearl turquoise / yellow scallops with the open trunk lid -- Kurt Womack, known as "89AKurt" here at MCM. I had fun with my "Snoopy steals the Red Baron" build.

At the grocery store before lunch.

Never knew those existed. Quick search for that vintage turns up, among other results, that somebody makes a diecast of 'em.

All works fine for me, no page viewing problems, can leave all the 'Likes' I want. I'm using iMac / Firefox / AdBlock.

Less frog-eyed Thames Panel dragster Sacrilege to Thames Panel Purists, of course. Unlike some of my other 'redesign' ideas involving mostly unobtainium-priced kits (at least for my thin budget), this is just a single affordable kit. However, I lack the time to do such a project in the face of so many other projects I should get to first. Same basic idea for the Anglia Gasser kit, although it could use a mildly chopped top and fatter back fenders ...

No offense to Revell, but these tires are quite an improvement - at least for my own personal tastes - to the basic look of that kit.

'Fraid so, although my encounter with such modelers was more than two decades back. But I don't doubt for a minute that the deadlines still apply today. I applied for a job at a couple of places like that in the mid '90s thinking it would be right up my alley. One guy told me straight out he needed either a guy who could slice out window walls from thick cardboard with an Xacto blade as fast and accurate as he could, or he was going to have to invest in a laser cutter to bash those out. Man, my fingers hurt after the test run he gave me, but the thing that prompted me not to pursue working with him was his attitude - all work and no joy. At least the second place had a manager who expressed some joy in doing what he did, but the deadlines he spoke of were the deal killer for me. Some guys thrive on that, but I sure don't.

Ya learn something every day. Never heard of Morley before.

Heavy sigh. My daily driver MkII GTI is pretty much right in the same weight range .... and down more than 250 hp. If only I could afford to experience that fun there. Scenic roads, too.

The blue & white is what I favored for my late '80s phantom Mercedes NASCAR build. I figured if the car make and engine could not be correct along with the car number, then the main sponsor ought to be a bankrupt-by-then railroad. Fits the "technically correct" overall theme, but the one liberty I took was with the lettering on the hood spelling out the whole name in case some folks had no idea what "The Rock" was.

Yesterday, I was standing out in the gravel backyard, trying to hang a wet rug up to dry on the edge of my shed roof, while standing on a tippy block. Block tipped over when I hoped it wouldn't, and down I went. Nobody is pleased about having a sprained wrist or a jagged bleeding rock cut. What pleased me today is that the pain was way less than yesterday, plus I'm even more glad I hadn't broken anything, and the cut shows no sign of infection. This could have been much worse.