Rodent

Chili, cornbread, and a local (50 miles) IPA.

I bought some 1:1 Calypso Coral for a Mustang around the same time I was working on a Challenger in Testors Hemi Orange. Other than the metallic-ish finish of the Testors, the shade is almost exact. I will try to get some pics.

I have the promo, an in process GT/GTA kit, and an unstarted 427 kit. I just need to dig them out and look at them.

Stumbled across a recipe for "pesto" that uses an avocado . EVOO, lemon juice, salt, pepper, cilantro, basil, parmesan, and an avocado in the food processor. It was amazing, very creamy!

cropdusting the office

I have been following Paul on eBay hoping that he will start selling the Ford wagon kits. No luck on that yet, but he has had both the Imperial and '59 Chevy wagon listed from time-to time.

Old spaghetti western?

My house originally had a wood shake roof. They would get up there and peck and it would sound like someone at the door. Haven't had that issue since we have had the concrete tile "shakes" installed though.

Controllers are furloughed

let's make smores!

I wonder about the future of Buick cars. They have already pulled the plug on the LaCrosse. The Regal and Cascada are Opels and don't look like they have much future either. They have already announced that the Cascada won't be replaced with a new model. I have heard that the Regals are very nice cars, but they seem to be failing to attract an audience. I know a few Dart owners, and they are all sorry they bought them. FCA dealer service around here is pretty awful as well. Resale value is nonexistent as well.

BOP transmission crossmembers are different than Chevrolet. Maybe the separate crossmember is further evidence that we might see some non-Chevrolet A bodies in the future?

for ice cream!

These are all great tips! This is a generalization, but early Mustang underbodies were red oxide primer. Whatever body color got underneath during the painting process stayed. My 1:1 experience is almost 100% San Jose built cars, and Ford's processes notoriously varied from plant to plant. Most of the cars I have seen had pretty complete body color over the sound deadener in the rear wheel wells. Any outward-facing vertical surfaces like unibody frame rails were pretty well covered as well. Not much body color made it much further than that. All of the underhood sheetmetal was semigloss black. Front unibody rails typically have some black coverage from the underhood paint. Leaf springs were bare steel. Rear axle housings were semigloss black, but the dropout section was red oxide primer with a black bearing housing. Exhaust is bare steel, as were tie rods and the sway bar. Spindles were bare iron. Upper control arms were black. Lower control arms were originally dipped after the ball joint was installed, so the inner ends were black and the outer ends were bare. Fuel tank was galvanized steel. 1966-later engines were Ford blue. A Shelby most likely had an aluminum intake manifold. Most Ford automatics have a bare aluminum case and a steel pan. The exception in the early Mustang (69-73) is the FMX, which has a cast-iron case. Manuals (top-loader) have an aluminum bellhousing, bare iron case with an aluminum tailshaft housing. Driveshafts were bare steel. Most of the cars you see in the internet are over-restored, but you will get ideas from looking at them.

Maybe some bench time with dad building a model might be therapeutic? Couldn't hurt.

only Swedish Fish

Santa told me that there may be one under the tree for me

Yes, a very nice 327 with a Powerglide.

Noticed a bright LED light on my front walk this morning around 6 AM and realized it was attached to a human. I waited a couple minutes and opened the front door. I heard the unmistakable sound of a GM 2.5L grinding to life and saw the USPS truck it was attached to in the street. Looked down and there was a package from Barnes & Noble on the porch.

Better call Saul

made from dynamite

Not a planet

Actually, you will need a Trumpeter Nova and probably some scratch building to make a 230. Not at all like the 235 in the 1960 kit. Probably easier to swap a V8 into your 1:1.

all sit down

Not peanut butter?