bobss396

I got to rub elbows with some giants of NASCSAR, Winston Cup and pavement modifieds. I did travel briefly with a BGN team and did chassis set up with them.

^^ What he said. I did a flat red Nova recently and the decals did silver somewhat. Hindsight is 20-20.

Thanks gents. I think I will be okay, the heart doctor has taken a good interest with me, since he helped bring me literally from the dead in 2016. He calls me one of his miracle babies... Getting the Belair and what I'm doing around the house and yard is great for me. I finally got past my lower back pain that plagued me from March to May. I had to walk around the house holding onto furniture and counter tops on the bad days of it. I feel a lot stronger than I have in a long time. I got badly hurt by a chiropractor in 2021, that took a long time to heal.

I used to paint in the boiler room, I would spray down the floor with water before I started painting. Scuffing the feet is a great was to raise dust.

Mine are still around, I had 6, see only 4 as of late. I hope they are okay. I went out to put out nuts and seeds this morning, found a dead Bluejay just over the deck rail. These are notoriously tough birds.

Nice work, who makes the wheels? I have a love-hate relationship with these kits.

I still see some builds that look like they were built in a dust storm, it covers EVERYTHING. I have asked guys at shows if this is an old build... figure they grabbed it off a shelf... but no, it was just finished. Don't be that guy. I pretty much paint outside and bring it inside. Most of the time, dust in the paint comes from YOU. I wear old cotton shirts, avoid anything that picks up a charge.

Funny, I'm more tolerant of cold weather now. I can work outside when it is 45 in a t-shirt and no jacket. I did work outside for a long enough time, I never got used to working inside. The procedure is now changed to the 23rd.... gives me more time to work on the Belair.

Saved too... they got Flexi File refills.... these I used to get at shows all the time, now they are scarce.

It showed 2 areas of limited blood flow, new areas. The bypassed parts are still good. I feel okay, but can no longer get by with 5-6 hours of sleep. I do get my 8 if the cat lets me. He likes to sit in the window and howl at things outside at 5 AM... So I'll probably get a stent or 2. I've been with this heart doctor since 2016, he made the right call when I coded in the ER back then. My brother had 2 stents done last year and he is fine. I was waned after the bypass to avoid temperature extremes. I definitely do not feel good in very hot weather.

That is the same car I believe. It goes outside on nice days. That year was when the SCPD started, they were Town of Islip (and other towns likely) Police before that. My uncle patched over at that time, he was SCPD badge #11.

Nice, thanks. I have enough of these to experiment on.

When he wrecked this car, the track crew started to cut the window net, the 1st time the F word was on TV at a race. Schrader was concerned that the owner Junie Dunleavy would have a canary about losing a window net, he was known to be frugal. Great build BTW...

The black and white one I see parked outside of the Pistol Bureau over in Yaphank. Exit 57 on Sunrise.

I use other things as a paint stand. Hard plastic bottles with a loop of tape on the top is pretty good. Aluminum beer bottles are great too and fit inside the body most of the time. Old pill jars, I'll tape a couple together. I use water in the vessels so they stay upright.

Micro Mark. Their catalog just came in the mail.

I have to try and channel my next one like that.

I smooth out the firewall and fill the hood "hinge" holes on all of mine. With some surgery I have lowered the rear to match the dropped chrome front spring assembly. I did a '39 sedan and the one side, the rain gutter was 90% gone. I used some 1/2 round .030 stock to make a new one. Looks like your hood fits okay. I like the nailhead in it. I have a '40 in the works with a '56 Ford engine. I HAD to use the stock stubby transmission, but it went together well.

Mixing brands/paint types... like starting out the evening with wine and switching to scotch. Be careful....

Yesterday was cool in the morning and overcast. I got the oil changed. It was already converted to a spin on filter. Interior is vacuumed. I have to clean the rear seatbelts next. I also put new wiper blades on it. Also have new mats on order. The carpet is clean enough and now smells good. I'm waiting on the new sill plates, transmission filter, gasket and 8 quarts of ATF.

Early Corvair down the block from my heart doctor.

I built one maybe 10 years ago. A ton simpler than the 1963 issue

I read something on g-forces in crashes a long time ago. Things like the heart are unsupported, they rely on the plumbing to keep them in place. So things like major arteries can be torn. The brain can be scrambled with the head hitting a hard object or getting a "shaken baby" injury to it. I have had a concussions or 2 and they are slow to heal.

Go slow with it, pin as many parts as possible. One kid I grew up with did one, he was around 11 at the time and it came out excellent. He was way ahead of anyone else I knew back then. He got the doors working flawlessly. Keep in mind that things like plastic stock and using metals was unheard of.

My son's girlfriend works at a library where they design and print stuff. She mentioned Tinkercad, which I tried out to draw something. I have to ask her is they give classes in it.