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Don't know but be careful with the jugs, I pour mine back into the jug after stripping a body. I have had two one gallon jugs of Purple Power develope leaks. One brand new jug and another that had stripped four or five bodies, neither was ever dropped while in my possession, both drained dry. Has any one else had this happen? I now store the stuff in the jug in a five gallon bucket, secondary containment system.

Love those colors Rich, like most '56 model cars are. Saw a hot rod black '56 running around today. Cool cars, but make my class of '56 either Chev or Ford in that order. I'm a '56 model as well, not quite a barn find but unrestored and not quite stock running gear. I have a couple of light weight titanium parts so can't compete in box stock anymore! You need to print up a little bumper sticker for it "Yes It's Got a HEMI!" those had the "little" Red Ram Hemi didn't they, like I said I'm not all that Mopar knowledgeable. Hemi's are cool in any shape of size.

I've bought stuff from them off the website and eBay, they always ship quickly on the eBay stuff, the stuff of their regular sales site is as quick if not quicker than some of the resin houses here in the States. Quality is always great, I'm getting ready to place another order soon.

Design "B" please, pristine but used. Pumped gas in a design B style Texaco station in high school, supported my GTO's drinking habit!

I see the female figure is into "Extreme Body Modifcation", cutting off the toes to get into such a cool ride must have been a fair trade off in her book! Like this one a lot.

You need to act on your Mom's behalf. What the neighbor has done has in fact damage her property that she and your Dad built up. In most states if this continues beyond 7 years (fewer in some states) constitutes acceptance on your (mom's) behalf. You must approach this from an estate protection point of view, at some point hopefully not, this may be the assets that get used for her health care. It is illeagle in all states to damage another's property, don't allow the neighbor to get away with it. First you need to make the neighbor aware that the runoff from their property is causing damage to your Mom's property, they may not be aware that there is an issue. There are lots of remedies to water runoff, French drain being one to alleviate the runoff. Almost all communities have set back ordinances, they are in place for fire protection in the first place, then runoff and privacy. The fact that the individual in question is an inspector (are they a building inspector or civil construction inspector, big difference) makes this an abuse of power situation. No matter how you approach this do it carefully, you don't want to create any more hostility than absolutely necessary. If you can't get anywhere face to face with the neighbor then go to the city/county building department for their investigation into possible zoning or setback violation and illeagle discharge of surface water onto your mom's property. If all else fails consult an attorney, if it goes to court it won't look very good for the neighbor causing a water mess on a poor little old widow's property. (Not an attorney, engineer who deals with this type of stuff on a larger scale every day.) My mom is in the same situation, she wouldn't want to make waves with the neighbor either; I wouldn't hesitate to step in to protect mom!

Already looks ready to go Auto-X'ing! I'll be watching this one to see what you come up with.

Yes, that's why I didn't use the word outright. Some people get a little bent out of shape when sniping is brought up. Oh we'll it works for me, I don't use a sniping program, just nerves of steel!

I followed a friend to a car show in his Trabant, it's a two stroke, so the whole front of our Mini was covered in unburnt Castrol "R". Two stroke oil! We spent quite a bit of the morning degreasing. He wanted us to go to another show with him and his buddy who has a two-stroke Saab 96, I told hi only if you guys follow me. Nice looking Trabant by the way.

I've built the Revell Nomad a couple of times back in the day when it was molded in cream colored off white. It was a pain in the posterior then too! When it's built right it makes a nice model. If I were to do it again the door, tailgate and hood gaps would get a bit of attention. That's one gripe with Revell's Tri-five kits, doors opened but the gaps were sometimes a bit hideous at times. The front end is a little on the wobbly side, try closing the holes in upper and lower A-arms with some superglue and redrilling or even pinning the spindles to tighten things up a bit.

Same here, but look what good wages were back then; somewhere around $2 - $3 an hour was big money. Most of the stuff that I buy off of eBay I wait until the last millisecond to bid I get better deals most of the time. Another good part of doing it that way is that I bid at an honest price, takes a lot more self control doing it that way. Then again I haven't paid stupid prices for anything either!

Sorta looks like its missing the headlight lenses and maybe a few other doo dads. Probably the reason Blair didn't put it in the "Under Glass" section. Beautiful Deuce Blair, looks like you "Cherry Picked" the best parts for your model. Did I mention I like it!

Suggest picking up a copy of the Rod & Custom "Little Pages" 2011 No. 1 the '27 Ford has the most common lowered front end method that I've seen on Model T Speedsters. It uses a 3/8 to 5/16" strap iron attachment to stretch the front perch ahead of the front crossmember, not certain why they did it this way other than stretching the wheelbase by an inch or two. Also do a web search on the "Multi Aldrich Model T" I believe he used this setup on his Dry Lakes T. I have seen a couple of Speedsters that use the traditional Hot Rod spring perch, they look a little odd almost not period correct. The only "technical" part of fabricating this type of frame extension would be the 90 degree turn in the strap iron then a 90 deg bend, the wishbones (radius rods) will need to be lengthened accordingly. Think of it this way, a Hot Rod spring perch requires welding, many Speedster builders wouldn't have had access to welding equipment back in the day, so the bolt on crossmember would be the most common way of lowering the front end. There were a few dropped front axels produced, they would have been out of the average builder's budget though.

Most fiber glass will be a pale orange-ish yellow with even a hint of white, it's the color of the cured resin, more dark than light. Not just a Corvette thing it's pretty common to all production fiberglass, to get it really correct one would also squirt some sort of matte clear coat over the color coat(s). The resin makes the backside have a slight sheen. The outside of the part/body is not the same as the backside, what you see there is the gel-coat which acts like a primer coat.

As Arte Johnson used to say, "Veddy Interresthting!!!" Ira I know you're seasoned enough to remember Laugh In, me too, until my folks decided it was warping my brother and my minds, then off it went! As always I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing more of your creative brain childs.

Just blew the picture up, those are canning jars look for them in housewares around the other canning stuff.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/22578403/2013/06/13/nascar-jason-leffler-obit-bridgeportnew-jersey Just heard on fox sports that Jason Leffler was killed tonight at Bridgeport Speedway in a sprint car heat race. Too bad was hoping to see him back on the sprint cup again. 37 years old' way too young, sprint racing has claimed a whole lot of drivers over the years. Unfortunately will claim more, just the nature of open wheel dirt racing. Thoughts and prayers out to The Leffler Family, especially his five year old son.

If those are glass like they appear to be then they should work pretty well for longer term storage as long as the lid screws on tight enough to keep out air.

Skip, really cool site, brought back a memory or three of cars family, friends and I've owned.

That's what I have and love it! The spray booth I have is a Paasche , works great for model work as well as some of the sign work that I do. Another good booth to look at is the Pace Spray Booth. Both are sheet metal construction. Some of the guys on here have built their own, just make certain the fan motor is explosion proof with sealed brushes.

I have a set of the Halibrand Salt Flat wheels that I'm going to be using on a project, they are very crisply cast. Those will look great on your 'Vette"

Karl is correct on the '70's Pro Stocks, NHRA started the Pro Stock class in either '69 or '70 season.

Skip, again I like using jars with screw on lids for used X-Acto and s ingle edged razor blades. When full I toss it in the trash. Kind of "old school" I know, something learned in high school graphic arts then reinforced in sign shops long ago! I asked the (garbage)/recycling pickup guy about recycling the blades in the jar; he thought it would be safer on their end if they were trashed vs. recycled. Because there would be less chance of someone grabbing a blade at the sort facility. He was also very appreciative that I thought of their safety as well as recycling.

Yes on the ABC fire extinguisher, plus a flammable kick can for solvent, thinner, paint rags. You can also use a gallon sized paint can or glass jar anything that will seal off air intake. Working in Sign Shops before vinyl sigs were around; fire safety was one of the first things that got driven into an apprentice's thick noggin! A lot of what I learned there is very transferable to the model building corner of my hobby room. Another thing to think about is if there isn't a working smoke alarm in your hobby room and paint area is adding a surface mount smoke alarm onto the ceiling. Should actually have two extinguishers, one inside the hobby room and one outside, since my garage is just feet away from the hobby room that is the back up location.

Your bilge blower is the best non-commercially built spray booth idea that's come up on this forum, it's specifically designed to exhaust flammable vapors out of an enclosed area. As long as it pushes / pills enough air to do the job it's a great idea! Thanks