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What Joe said^^^ And she was a stripper before that.

Was just watching HPIGuy Chris' build of this kit. Looks good, but (like the AMT/Ertl '67 Mustang) it appears to have a power steering ram cylinder, but no power steering pump. C'mon model companies, do a little research please. Or hire me as a consultant to help with this kind of thing.

and Palmer blueprints

I remember that. My folks had a pretty good antenna, and channels 36 and 44 usually came in pretty well in the Sacramento area. Of course, as young boys, we all thought that Carol Doda was working for the wrong one of those two stations....

Yeah. Helped my ex's ex repaint a 76 280Z in 1980-81 that had spent most of its (short) life outside in Santa Barbara. Needed a junkyard hatch due to rust around the window and a bunch of other repair around the windshield.

Looks sweet Rich. Glad I could help.

This is what you want. It used to be available at Wal Mart, but you may have to go to a parts store to find it.

I believe that the Ego Blast version uses an external water pump. Some of the NA 3.5L and 3.7L use the internal pump. I believe that the F150 has an external pump no matter which version of the engine it has.

If it was a Ford V6 (like an Exploder) with an internal pump, a typical repair is "replace with known good engine" due to coolant in the crankcase.

Under Palmer kits

walk and point

I was at the LHS yesterday. Their 1/35 stuff is quite near the cars. I couldn't help but notice this on the shelf.....

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-cadillac-1952-sewing-machine-1883837593 This was one of the few things I found about Cadillac sewing machines when I searched. They say that it says 1952 on their machine.

I don't know either. One of the links I found gave a year of 1952 for the machine in question in the post. I think that would have been too late for Occupied Japan. It's a good riddle! An ex of mine had an old Singer that her dad adapted a larger commercial motor to. With the right needle, it had the power to hem Levis. She made many wonderful things on that machine, including wedding dresses for some of my friends. She and I also reupholstered her couch using it.

JC, I love these builds. Thank you for the tutorials. Not to take this down a dirt road, but I owned a '68 hardtop from 1977 to 2001. In 1981, I put it on jackstands and disassembled it underneath. Having never been more than 200 miles away from its birthplace, a good scrubbing underneath with Fantastik and some paint on other parts was all it needed to look new again. The link to the (almost) Ken Miles car is almost exactly what my (also) San Jose built car looked like as far as overspray underneath. Can't comment on what the other assembly plants did because neither me or my dad ever owned an early Mustang from any of the other plants.

Never owned a car with cooled seats, but had two rental Cadillacs with them over the years. The DTS ones were meh, but the CTS ones were amazing and cut down the need for A/C. They were also useful for distributing farts to the other passengers in very short order.

Nice Bonnepile! The most impressive thing I saw on my trip to the grocery store was a Charger Hellcat being driven carefully and safely in traffic.

I didn't see much online about these. Was that a blatant trademark ripoff by the Japanese company that made them, or were they somehow tied in with a GM promotion or something?

Maybe a rebuilt wreck?

Thanks for the heads-up Guido. I am DVRing it myself and alerted a colleague.

Don't think we have hit the "political" threshold yet and I hope we don't. I have been remotely working for almost two years now and I feel very lucky to have a job that pays the same as it did when I commuted 60 miles round trip. My car gets pretty good mileage and I can afford $6 gas for the amount of driving I am currently doing. Don't get me wrong, I would much rather spend the money on something else (like kits). I feel sorry for the Uber drivers, pizza delivery people, super-commuters, etc. that this gas situation is going to be very difficult on. What it will do to the price of kits, who knows? It is definitely more expensive now to put that shipping container from China on a truck in Long Beach or Oakland and deliver it to South Bend.

I haven't left the house today, but the name brand stations were getting dangerously close to $6 for regular yesterday.

and everywhere else

And make sure to include some 1/24 scale dirty engine oil so you can make a diorama of what happens when the worn out rings make so much crankcase pressure that the front crank seal fails.

Ford and Mazda, for instance, connect to a driver’s cell phone for crash notification. We are fine. The spouse got in a minor kerfuffle in 2018 that left Focus 1.0 (a 2014) perfectly driveable, but the knee bag deployed. It called 911 using the cell as it was programmed to do in a crash. My 2016 Mazda3 has the Millenial Anti-Theft System (shown below), so it doesn't have the 3G-based remote start system that Consumer Reports seems to have overlooked in their panic article. When I saw my first GM OnStar system I thought it was dumb, and manufacturers like VW, Audi, and Subaru that have built this kind of baloney into their vehicles over the years were asking for it to be obsolete. GM went through the same thing not long ago when 2G went away. Several generations of OnStar became obsolete when that happened. I think it's short sighted to build these kinds of things into the car instead of using the customer's mobile phone. My 2 cents. I know that some of you miss manual drum brakes, window cranks, and 3-on-the-tree with unsynchronized first gear and I respect that. I have a 72 year old friend that has four running 56 Fords, one that needs reassembly, and a parts car. He just put a set of (used) radial wide whites on one of them and was amazed at how much better the car drove than on the bias-plys he has been hoarding all these years for replacements.