Tabbysdaddy

I've been wanting to work on something for a while now, so I finally did. I cut the hood off the Surf Shark. About to work on getting the transmission out of the chassis plate.

When my wife and I go places I almost always drive. I tell her I don't want people thinking I'm some unlicensed loser that needs his girlfriend to drive him around, which is what I think when I see a man on the passenger side.

Ah, a ten I see.

Because you didn't pay someone for the design and cost of printing, you only paid for the design.

You obviously don't get it. Ok, follow me here. People on Shapeways don't sell an $8 part, they sell an $8 design. Then you also have to pay for the creation of the part and the shipping of the part.

I do everything to my cars myself. Nobody does it as good as me.

I like to consider myself pretty good with a jack nowadays, but I did manage to drop a car or two off of one in my youth.

Yea, no more cigarette lighters. They're called power ports.

There's a certain scene with a hood and a dress that sticks to my mind.

I thought people used 1:1 specifications for that sort of thing.

Ollie's recently had the newest reissue of this.

Yea that's cool.

Amazing work, as usual.

Oh yeah, no more location. Orlando, Florida. I guess one must have escaped from Disney.

I see one around here all the time, driving on the road.

I agree, would love to have it in 1/25.

I don't see the Chevy Malibu on that 4 door list. 1/32, the forgotten scale.

I like that box, that's the one I have. I like when they have the actual built model on the box.

Here's the ones on my Chevy van. One missing the cover, lower left you can see the cover splitting from the rust.

Some of the more common stock steel or aluminum wheels would be cool.

Some of my GMs have two part lug nuts. The steel nut rusts under the aluminum skin, which distorts them or if you pull off the skin a standard lug wrench doesn't fit well.

I hold my breath. It works great until I pass out.

That could just be a sticker they had laying around that they thought would look cool on it.

The first junkyard transmission I got for the van was no good. They found me a replacement yesterday and I put it in today. It seems fine, shifting a little weird but it's low on fluid because I ran out. The S10 is off the road, I put the tag on my yard Ranger. I think I'm going to try my first transmission rebuild with it, or at least my first disassembling of a transmission and then head scratching.