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Sounds a bit optimistic, but boy is it refreshing to read. Much better than the "anything I don't like is stupid (and con not possibly improve from where it is today)" point of view.

Nice work on the butcher bird.

Whoa. That's neat. It's all for a model idea that has been in my head for a while. I've seen photos of small sand rails with motorcycle engines and chain-driven I.R.S., but no diff (it's in sand. No wheel hop there). Thanks.

Specifically, trikes with chain drive and a simple solid bar for a rear axle. Is there such a thing as a chain drive IRS that allows the inside and outside wheels to rotate at different speeds in turns? Just curious.

The shop working on my pickup. It's a project truck, getting customized. A 1986 Ranger supercab, having the frame stretched to drop a long bed on it. (The factory only put short beds on supercabs). He has had my truck since MARCH. The shop is far from home, and my schedule makes trips there virtually impossible. The one time I went out there, the only thing he had done was take the bed off the donor truck, roll it into his shop, and use it as a dumpster. This after saying the frame work was complete.

No. Zombies aren't real.

Is it Olivia Wilde??? :-)

Does that apply to books written by Glen Beck?

I read Catcher In The Rye a few years ago. I was bored out of my mind and I figured...why not? I didn't get it. Nothing ever happened. My brother got a good laugh out of my summary of it: "It's a book about a loser, written for losers".

Good lord. How has Honda managed to stay in business when all they make is lemons? Working parts wearing out at 15 years? Headlights falling out after 250,000 miles? Shameful. Yes, I'm being sarcastic.

Years ago, I warmed up a can in hot water...on the stove top. The bottom poked out and got near-boiling water on my face and chest. Obviously I'm more careful these days.

Car magazines. Including, but not limited to Hot Rod, The Rodder's Journal, Car Craft, and Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords. Model magazines. Mostly military types. Scale Auto maybe once a year. It went downhill after Kalmbach bought it. I can't get MCM in Austin. I should subscribe again. Hobby machinist magazines: Home Shop Machinist,...and its sister magazine (I can't remember the title right now), and Model Engineer's Workshop. I don't have electronic subscriptions to anything. I like to read it the old-fashioned way.

Use the engine out of the Tony Foti LAPD Camaro. It's a big block, it has replica Milodon cast aluminum valve covers (super rare in the real world), it also has a blower. Who could ask for more?

Oh hey for all the talk how it could never work, Chrysler built a V-16 aircraft engine during WWII, bit it was too late to see production. I believe it flew in a P-47 prototype; the XP-47H. From an engineering standpoint, there's no reason a car-size version couldn't be built. Just imagine if they had wanted a world-class luxury car after the war.

If it's based on kit parts, he could use the experimental DOHC hemi heads from AMT's '70 Dodge Coronet. I believe the current release is the "Dirty Donny" issue.

That is really wild and imaginative. I can't wait to see what is next...I think it would be really cool to see what you would build if several people donated kits from different genres; auto, armor, aircraft, sci-fi, etc.

A 32-plug V-16 would be awesome. A company called MMR (Modular Mustang Racing) does a mod for Ford's 4cam V-8 in which they drive a distributor off one of the overhead cams. They drill a precisely placed hole in the front of one of the valve covers and the distributor lays down horizontally in front of the valve cover. I think a DOHC V-16 Hemi with a twin distributor setup on each side of the engine would be wild.

I remember that guy's ads in Houston, when I was there from 1988-1992. I thought he only operated in Houston. I remember Arsenio Hall making some kind of reference to him and thinking..."Same guy?? Nah. Couldn't be". I wonder if he was the guy being parodied in the TV ad from the Weird Al movie UHF; the "I'll club this baby seal to make a deal" ad?

I'm working on a system to change water at the push of a button. It will involve a 10 gallon tank under the 55 and a pump. The old water will be pumped into a bucket that will be poured into the garden. I just need to get it all figured out.

Yeah I may watch them again, too. I don't even remember the ricin cigarettes or the "logic" in poisoning the kid. Did you catch Vince Gilligan's interview on...ugh...I don't remember if it was the Daily Show or Colbert, but one of them asked if there really is such a thing as blue meth. He replied "There is now". LOL

For the turbos, try TDR. They have 3-D printed turbos in lots of different sizes. They even offer "handed" turbos (left and right handed). This is not just a thing they dreamed up. There is at least one engine shop offering such a thing. There was a pair of them on the cover of Hot Rod a while back. You will need to know the inlet size when ordering. I have a pair that I believe would be great for a 1/12 street car, but they're going on a 1/6 motorcycle. No idea for the Lambo hinges.

Who else is hooked? I figured there was no way out for Hank and Gomez. They were just plain outgunned. Now I'm wondering about that teaser scene from a month ago, when Walt showed up in the old Cadillac to get his ricin. I think what will hapen is that he becomes the subject of a huge manhunt (hence the neighbor's surprise). He goes back to Albequrque and goes after the guys who killed Hank and took his 70million bucks, with the help of the M60 in the trunk. I was talking about this with a friend who thought that Walt was out of character because of what he said over the phone, but I think it goes along with the idea that getting involved in the drug trade made everything spiral out of control, and Walt has been kind of irrational all along. In earlier episodes I thought his dedication to Jesse was just dumb. Jesse was too unreliable & unpredictable.

Studapalooza

Oh yeah- something else that irked me today was my first service call (I'm a plumber). It was a warranty call. Short version: a coworker didn't feel like doing it right at 5:30pm, 30 miles from home. I had to tell the homeowner that she needed a more expensive repair (minus what she already spent). I've seen this before and it always blows my mind. YES, it's a PITA to get a call at 5:30pm, but if a plumber doesn't like that, he should get a job that ends at 4pm. It's not fair to the homeowner who has to take more time out of their schedule to get it fixed again. It's not fair to the employer who loses money paying a guy to fix something for free or at reduced cost. It's not fair to the coworker who has to stand there and get berated/apologize profusely for something that a lazy coworker did.

I miss the old Discovery, TLC, Court TV, and History channels. I remember people referring to History as "The Hitlery Channel", but at least WWII is history. Ice Road Truckers? Some show about taxidermists? Ridiculous. Discovery...oh brother. Amish Thugs? I recently looked into getting rid of some channels. I may just do it anyway. I don't think that the few programs I watch are worth the price. Maybe I could spend that time constructively, like building models or working on my real car.