Harry P.

Is that a setup for a joke? I don't know. Why can lawyers eat garlic?

I know there's always the chance I'm dealing with an actual psychpoath. But so far so good. But you're right... probably better not to intentionally rile them up. I just can't help myself sometimes...

Yeah... just look at that clutch car go!

They also carry a nice selection of sharp wooden stakes and garlic necklaces...

I find that if I tap my brakes just enough for the brake lights to go on, that usually makes the tailgater back off. There have been times, though, where I have dealt with "aggressive tailgaters" who don't back off when they see my brake lights. In those cases I hit the brakes hard enough so that they also have to brake. Man oh man, they do not like that maneuver! Most of the time when I do that, they'll swerve around into the other lane and blast past me while they give me a dirty look (or a specific finger arrangement)... I love making morons mad!

You'll get used to it...

Yeah, I guess we have different ideas of what "major surgery" is. To me, that's a walk in the park compared to what I have done with some of my models.

Thank God you got out alive...

To differentiate from an electric motor car... Gas engine... electric motor.

Not everyone got the memo...

Wow! That's a real nice... um, car.

Welcome, Juuso...

That explains your avatar. Now explain your screen name...

Looks like the water has been given the all clear. What a nightmare. Toledo is a fair sized city... but imagine if that would happen to one of the really big cities on the Great Lakes like Toronto or Chicago. Panic city!!!

Lovely...

A one-in-a-million sequence of events doesn't justify the Hummer's existence.

Also the 1/8 scale Monogram Jaguar XKE. Super accurate (aside from the missing underbonnet bulkhead structure and cooling fan), very nice level of detail, and it goes together flawlessly. A very well engineered and designed model kit that still holds up today despite having been tooled over a half century ago. Add some detailing to this kit and you have yourself a museum quality model.

But it's not only here. It's on facebook, it's all over the internet, with current comments... as if it was a new story. Andy posted this story here after he saw it on a Hot Rod blog page, and that blog was written July 29, 2014... just one week ago! But the accident took place two years ago. Weird. Something fishy going on here...

I wondered the same thing. This supposedly happened two years ago... why is it making the rounds on the internet now? It's on a bunch of blogs, forums, on facebook, etc.

So... what are you going to do with it? It's more decorative than realistic... so it wouldn't make a very good diorama.

Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Same here.

Dark green 1956 Buick parked in the lot of a corner auto repair shop.

Yeah, who needs Photoshop to misrepresent reality, anyway?

Use a small round grinding bit in a Dremel to remove the molded-in trim rings... glue a piece of sheet styrene onto the back (inside) of the rear panel with liquid cement... fill in the existing holes with discs cut from sheet styrene glued to the new "backer plate"... add Bondo... sand the rear panel smooth... drill new holes for lights in the correct size and location. Use rings cut from aluminum tube for the bezels. Another way to go: Use a Dremel to remove the entire existing rear panel, make a new one of sheet styrene, drill for lights, glue in place, Bondo, sand, etc. A bit of work, but not "major surgery" at all. An even easier way to go: fill in existing holes, smooth the back panel, put BMF on the back sides of the light lenses... then just glue the kit lenses and new aluminum tube bezels in place on the surface using clear acrylic as your "glue." No need to even drill new holes. Super simple.