Tim W. SoCal

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MCM deserve a huge show of appreciation for continuing to sponsor and administer this forum that we're all so much enjoying

You know, Pete, that makes PERFECT sense!... I don't block spam phone calls for this reason. I'm ashamed and embarrassed that I didn't figure that out for myself...

Especially not the

Pudding, you must eat your pudding, if you don't eat your pudding you can't have any meat!

I received an unsolicited email a couple of weekends ago informing me that I am preapproved for a HELOC of up to $200,000 and instructed me to click the included link to see my interest rate. I did, was not favorably impressed, decided that I was not interested, found and used the "unsubscribe" option and assumed I was finished with it. This was from ONE specific lender. Since then, my phone has been blowing up with computer generated calls and I've been bombarded with emails from numerous prospective lenders soliciting my business. It is well beyond the point where it is not only obtrusive and invasive, it is down right annoying.

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QED, the Latin quod erat demonstrandum literally means “what was to be demonstrated,” and It is actually a transliteration of a phrase ancient Greek mathematicians placed at the end of logical proofs—a kind of stamp that says “I proved what I set out to.

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apparently it is warm enough for the snow to melt because the mountains in the distance aren't nearly as white as they were yesterday

They were typically fiberglass bodies and whether the inside was painted or just raw fiberglass depended on the weight of the finished car and the car owner's personal taste.

Yeah, if your package wasn't insured or sent with a request for receiver's signature upon delivery, you're pretty much screwed... HOPEFULLY, with Luis DeJoy on his way out and the current administration and DOGE breathing down the USPS's neck, things will improve in the not-too-distant future...

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Coaster brakes on our Sting Ray style bicycles were easy to lock up by slamming the pedal crank backwards, the gum-shoed friction brakes on our Ten-Speeds would overheat and melt when we raced down the small mountain located in the middle of our town.

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nap or night, both are times to get some sleep and possibly enjoy good dreams

O'clock is a phrase we don't hear used any more, and it drives me nuts to constantly hear the now common utterances like "8 a.m. in the morning"

The GT350-H Hertz Rent-A-Racers were mainly black with gold stripes, but a limited number were also produced in Sapphire Blue, Ivy Green, Candy Apple Red and Wimbledon White, all with gold stripes. One of my bucket list projects is to replicate each color, plus a "Tim's Dream Car" GT350-H in Emberglo, and another in Corvette Inferno Orange, so I have several of the Monogram / Revell '66 Shelby GT350-H kits in my stash. We just learned that AMT-Round2 is going to release their '66 Mustang in a Shelby GT350 version in the not-too-distant future. I'm curious to see how it will compare to the Monogram / Revell model kit...

internet surfing in no way compares to the fun of surfing the ocean's waves

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Them are fightin' words, are you gonna skin that smokewagon or just stand there and bleed?

It took a few days for everything to arrive... Bob Shane of the Folk Group "The Kingston Trio" told Carroll Shelby that if Shelby ever produced a GT350 Convertible, he'd be in line to buy one. Caroll built 4, 6S2377 was Candyapple Red, whicch Bob purchased. The remaining 3 were Guardsman Blue, Ivy Green and Springtime Yellow. When I recently learned of this, I was inspired to kit-bash and build my own 1:24 scale replicas. Technical details of each car are next to impossible to find on the web, but I DID learn that the Ivy Green car was an automatic and the Guardsman Blue car was a 4-Speed. (I believe that there were 2 Four Speeds and 2 A/Ts, the Red car was a 4-Speed and the Yellow car was an A/T) My project cars are the Guardsman Blue and Ivy Green editions. To build these, I got 2 each of the Revell '65 Mustang Convertibles and the '66 Shelby GT350s, a Small Block Ford C6 transmission, A/T shifter from the AMT '67 Comet Cyclone, Jay's Resin wheels, Cragar GTs for the blue car, Shelby 10-Spokes for the green car, decals from Keith Marks.

All of the current Revell kits in 1:24 scale with the possible exception of the 2017 Ford GT were originally Monogram kits. They have few to no build options, but are pretty well detailed ans easier to build than most of the kits produced by the other manufacturers. Also, the AMT craftsman Plus kits are curbside and easy to build.

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Butt joints are generally weak and are a method of coupling materials that you should almost always stay away from