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The stance is looking good. I'm looking forward to seeing where you go with the rest of it.

My Blaney is on the way.

Sweet ride. It looks like the kind of car that sets off car alarms when it drives by.

Beautiful cat.

Damn, more kits for me to buy but never build.

Just got a notice that my Joey Logano kit has shipped.

Very nice. I like it a lot.

I don't know what I could say that hasn't already been said. Great build ??

Warning: Long, boring story ahead. Read at your own risk. Since I helped this go off topic, I'm going to try to get this somewhat back on topic. I say somewhat because I'm going to discuss just one type of chip. I worked for a semiconductor producer for 10 1/2 years. The company was Qimonda, which was spun off from Infineon, which was spun off from Siemens. Qimonda made nothing but DRAM on 200mm wafers initially, at least in the US. Infineon made other types of chips. Memory chips are a commodity so the price is set by the market. When the market is flooded, prices are lower than the manufacturing cost. When I first went to work for the company in June 1998 a full boat of 25 wafers was valued at roughly $500K when fully processed. That same boat of wafers was valued at $35K when the plant ended production in Feb. 2009. Because technology marches on, there were many more chips on that wafer in 2009 than in 1998. Sometime around 2007 a 300mm wafer fab came online. For those that don't know, a wafer fab is the area where blank silicon wafers are turned into chips. Most manufactures had moved to 300mm from 200mm at this point. The problem with our 300mm fab was that we were many generations behind the other fabs within the company. We were doomed once chip prices hit rock bottom. Qimonda only made memory, so there was no other product to take the pressure off while we waited for the market to turn around. Cue the announcement that our 200mm fab was going to be closed in Jan. 2009. There went the best job I ever had, and will likely ever have. Less than a month later the 300mm fab was shut down with no notice. This facility was only open from Jan. 1998 to Feb. 2009. The company filed for bankruptcy protection 2 days before the unexpected 300mm shutdown. That also happened to be 2 days before my severance was to be paid out. After lawsuits, I ended up with about 5 weeks of the 16 weeks of pay that I was supposed to get. The useless employees that were let go in the first round of layoffs received all of their severance along with the few jobs that were available in the Richmond, VA area. It just doesn't pay to be a good employee anymore. I'm telling this long and boring story to say that the current shortages are due more to a loss of manufacturing capacity than the reason that keeps getting repeated. C19 exposed it, but is not the cause of it. Many other facilities closed over the last 20 plus years.

My wife's 2021 Honda CR-V has that 'feature". It doesn't shut off if you only put enough pressure on the brake pedal to keep the car from rolling. I don't know if Kias work like that, though.

Could it be from the Revell '69 Shelby? I know there was a version with Centerlines.

My cheap Harbor Freight digital calipers tell me that the tires from the Tamiya McLaren MP4/8 are 32.2mm for the fronts and 32mm for the rears. This is a 1/20 scale kit and represents the 1993 season.

It's good to hear from you, Casey.

I'm just going to copy and paste my comment from Paul's post: My all-time favorite Ferrari race car. I'll definitely be following your build

My all-time favorite Ferrari race car. I'll definitely be following your build.

Justified ranks in my Top 3 of favorite shows. I've re-watched it many times. I'm looking forward to Justified: City Primeval coming sometime in 2023.

I mix my leftovers all the time. Haven't had any problems... knock on wood.

The Las Vegas Raiders beat the New England Patriots on the craziest ending of a game that I've ever seen. And on my birthday no less.

Harvey Korman played Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles.

This pops into my head everytime I hear or read Hedy Lamarr.

Congrats Anton. You built a killer truck.

Looks like another great issue.

I will definitely be following this build.

Glad you got it sorted.

Just like last year, I didn't get mine done. Congrats to everyone that made the starting line.