Rodent

I don't want to bring up the "paint ain't real chrome" debate, but this '59 Ford Galaxie rear bumper and the two '68 Thunderbird bumpers were in pretty good shape, but the chrome was thin in a few spots, especially the top of the '59. A couple of light puffs of Revell "Chrom" and they look pretty good and will be fine on the shelf. Spazstix clear doesn't seem to dull the finish either. The stuff is expensive, but it works for me for this kind of work. I would never have enough parts to send out to a plater, and that T-Bird taillight is never going to come out anyway.

no glue required

Honestly? If the boots aren't ripped and spewing grease a few pops when turning won't hurt anything and won't leave you stranded. A decent set of axles installed will cost you around $1k +/- and that car isn't worth it IMHO. I bought a cheap Honduh a bunch of years ago from a friend that bought it from a friend. I had known the car from new. The CV joints made noise, but a pair of decent axles at the time was $600 if I supplied the labor. Didn't do it. Before Bill wades in, I am absolutely NOT advocating driving a car until it quits. I take great care of my cars. My first new car was a 4-eye 5.0 Mustang that I sold with 187k. The heads or pan had never been off, it smogged, and all the electronics worked. I just choose to pick my battles, and axles that aren't spewing grease wouldn't be something I would worry about unless the CVs started sounding like they were going to grenade.

It is sad that Ford has stopped selling "cars" in North America, except for the huge 2-passenger thing that the Mustang has become. Yes, I understand that it is an extremely capable sports car for the price, but they aren't for me anymore. The last year of the Focus here was 2018. Ford retooled the plant to build the Ranger and Bronco which I am sure enrich Ford's coffers much more than than the Focus did. Ford was planning on importing and selling the next generation sedan and Active crossover/wagon here, but the politics and economics around imported lower-priced cars got in the way, so they never made it here. I would so rock this one if it was available here. Power, looks, practicality.

Yeah, I didn't think about that. An incognito window looks like Kurt's, but with a little better contrast and a giant banner ad.. I will check on my work PC tomorrow and report back. I don't feel like remoting in right now.

full of Palmer

Interesting, mine looks like this:

for the mall

Kurt, you are going to spoil the notion that Aridzona lets you whatever you want, wherever you want, and where you want to do it. Their "Steal Unhappy Residents From California Board" is going to be really unhappy with you....... LOL. Hope you get through this.

Ya, that is the one I found. I absolutely am not slamming you, I (having known a lot of car salespersons, good and bad) attributed it to the salesperson spouting half-truths.

I found this car listed for sale online, unless more than one Subaru dealer in Syracuse has one. It is an xDrive M4 Competition, so it is AWD, but not with great road clearance. It has already had 3 owners per CarFax. It has 15K miles (low), not 1500. That said, I worked at two Ford dealerships in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Being close to Tahoe, you guys would be surprised at what "toys" we received as trade ins on Eddie Bauer Explorers and Broncos because someone needed a "practical" snow vehicle to visit the million dollar+ cabin in the winter. More Porsches than you can shake a stick at, Corvettes, a near new 93 Mustang Cobra, and various other things that looked weird sitting next to previous daily rental Taurus and Tempos on the used car lot.

Picky I can be when I wake up with a plethora of boogers.

Over the river and through the woods is not where my grandmother lived.

Get her recipe and/or have her teach you how to make them. You never know how long she will be around. My spouse's grandmother allegedly made the best pancakes ever, but her recipe was lost for 50+ years after she died. After quizzing the spouse and the SIL, I found a recipe online that they both agree is on point. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/42688/fluffy-canadian-pancakes/ Separating the eggs and beating the whites into almost a meringue makes them amazingly light and airy. They both remembered that she separated the eggs when I shared this recipe with them. It's weird to me that their grandmother cooked anything. Their Grandpa was an accountant / money launder for a couple of big name Hollywood types and the grandparents had live in help that did almost everything.

Thanks Greg.

I double the amount of lemon zest that the recipe calls for. We don't think they are lemony enough the way the recipe is written. YMMV.

Not sure how you can stir Vallejo, Mission, or the other acrylics in the squeeze bottles, but go ahead and try. I for one am experimenting with these for brush painting small parts. My LHS carries them, so I will give them a shot, although I am not thrilled with them.

Not dinner, but Sunday brunch. Lemon ricotta pancakes from scratch. fresh(ish) blueberries, butter and maple syrup. Fresh-squeezed orange juice from oranges that were hanging on the tree in the front yard about an hour before this photo.

Simple Monday night dinner last night, LOL. Crab and ricotta ravioli with lemon zest and dill (homemade pasta) in a lemon-butter sauce with a warm spinach bacon salad and some Grocery Outlet brown & serve breadsticks. And a glass or two of California Chardonnay.

he was neutered

and Wavy Gravy

and gas passed

We have a customer using a deprecated version of Firefox on a Win8 machine that can't figure out why PDFs in our product aren't working for him.

I personally would prefer the 1970 as well because I prefer the 1:1 over the 1972. 1972 was the beginning of the end with the compression ratio dropped from 10.5 to 8.5:1. 1970-71 were the high water mark of the 340 to me. I am not a Mopar fan at all, but I do like and respect the 340. That said, more is better. Someone will buy these kits and I am glad they are bringing some of these kits back / reimagined.

I would have to go back and look at the story I read yesterday, but for his guilty plea I believe he was given 150 community service hours related to the SoCal fires and made to pay restitution for the damage to the plane. I believe that amount is around $65k.