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We used to get those dittos with numbers 1 to 9 vertically and horizontally. Practice made perfect. I had OCD, ADD and dyslexia working against me. I had to learn how to learn on my own. I took those skills all through school and into college.

People believe what the idiot box in their living room tells them to do. Save the world, buy an EV. Although some come with rebates and so on, they are no bargain. The news and manufacturers gloss over what it really takes to make an EV battery. Virtually tons of raw ore is mined to make that 500-700 lb battery. Then it has to be processed and refined.

I have a couple of resin 3 window chop tops for these cars. One was made by Norm Veber.

Coughed and missed.. thanks.

I have one 5 window version started (BACK IN THE BOX!!) and got as far as getting the top section on and sorted out. It was a bit of work.

I used to talk about how I perceived flaws in my work back around 2000 when I was back in the hobby. One very experienced builder in the club took me around at a contest. He showed me some builds of highly respected builders and pointed out the flaws in those builds. FB builders run the gamut from the novice to real artists. I have gotten some ideas that I would have not seen otherwise.

Bleu and Brie in my lap play-fighing.

I heard about this "new" product and picked it up on Amazon. I have not read any reviews so far. Has anyone tried it?

I think that certain current political "files" release nonsense was based on the Oak Island model.

I saw one meme... 2 sports betting junkies were betting on how many rings it took before Gamblers Anonymous picked up their phone call...

I lost a steering wheel for a '59 Chevy, on my kitchen floor. I crawled all over looked under the radiator... nothing. Months later we were doing the kitchen over... I took great pains to dissect the entire area where the part was lost. I never found it. Sometimes I work barefoot.. I can feel dropped parts carom off my foot. Or in flip flops, I have found parts in them. I'm at the point now where I need to vacuum my work area, on carpet. My plan is to crawl under the table first... I will try a loop of packing tape, press the sticky side into the carpet and see what comes up.

I had worked with guys who had worked at places like Sperry Rand and Bulova (as in watches/delicate instruments). These were the guys who did the insane small stuff. Small wonder that some of them drank on the job!

I was referring to a Malco Willys, SWC gasser era. But you are right. There are still gasser classes today, no straight axles and the high suspensions.

I have phobias that will hinder a good build. I just conquered one... 2 tone paint jobs, using Tamiya tape. In general, I'm happy with my paint skills. Then there is BMF. I first tried some Testors stuff... it curled like an eel on a fishing line. Then I got some real BMF, night and day difference... BUT... vent windows, ugh. I'm not the only one, I see builds on contest tables where vent windows look like chewing gum wrappers were used. I've been using the AK paint pens, mostly black and I did a recent stock car with their silver. I have a new liquid chrome foil I want to try next. Those Molotow pens, I have had 2 dry up before I got much use from them. Forgotten projects: I have those too. I was doing a '64 Fairlane stock car using a resin body that needed a ton of work. It went BACK IN THE BOX! for about 8 years, I stumbled on it by accident and finished it in 2023. In some cases, better parts have emerged, like the 3D stuff in recent years. So I jump back into something once I find the RIGHT part for it.

My oldest son was in grade school and wanted help with a math question. It was involving "how many of each coin" is required o make some arbitrary sum. Or something like that. I saw it as a big trial-and-error exercise... or create a simultaneous equation to solve it. Which i did, drew it out to show his teacher that this was well beyond a 6th grader. He never showed it to her... I had a learning disability that was never diagnosed while I was in school. On my own, I learned the times tables, took it into the twelves. So I could do it all in my head eventually. Making change, I had little tricks to help me with that. At the store, I'll tell the cashier what my change for a $20 will be, before they know it. They just look at me. I have a brother, real close to a Rain Man brain. We would test him, what is 34,899 x 7,563 for example. I would enter it on a calculator as I called out the numbers. Before I hit the = button, he had the answer. He is also banned from some casinos in AC for some reason 🤔.