Ace-Garageguy

Beautiful work, Steve.

One seriously flashy car. Beautiful.

Great concept, clean execution. This is one I'd like to see done full-scale.

That's not a toy, sport. And people in general are only too happy to post every detail of their personal lives online. The "man" doesn't have to dig very hard to get anything. Privacy hasn't been "taken" from the American people...it's been mindlessly given away.

Kool kool kool. X2

If it's supposed to be raised above the surface, 1/4 round or 1/2 round styrene strip. Carefully.

No worries mate. It's just Chinese heavy-metal sludge from recycling American electronics mixed in with the plastic to stretch it a bit. It's only a little toxic, really.

I agree, but where there's a well thought out deer population management program in place, and the animals culled are actually eaten (as opposed to being put in the freezer 'til the meat is so old or freezer-burned as to be inedible), I don't have a problem with hunting (though I know a few "hunters" who'd pee their pants if anything pointed a gun at them).

Nice technique. Quick too, if you use a Dremel for rough shaping after the glue sets hard.

Nope. Taking the bike (pedal variety) next week.

Interesting. I wonder how many consumers are totally turned off, just like you were, by this marketing "good idea".

The A-10 Warthog lawnmower would help to keep my neighbors in line, for sure. (A-10...best damm ground-support aircraft in the history of flight)

At least some of it became venison too...mmm...deer burgers!

Amazing how much of life we miss sealed in our climate-controlled boxes. I walked the 4+ miles home from work yesterday afternoon and smelled flowers, freshly mown grass, newly-turned earth in a garden, bread baking...heard lots of birds singing, saw a young hawk up close...pretty nice. Saw a couple old cars I would have missed otherwise, including a nicely restored, bright orange '69 GTO Judge.

Yeah...compost it !! Seriously, apple cores and banana peels do zero environmental damage, don't have to be cleaned up because they disappear, and critters (birds, squirrels) can get some benefit from them.

Very nice experiment, Mike. Hmmmmm.....

Looks like the Atl freeways after a 1/2 inch of snow.

I like pie.

Great idea ! Soon as I read "Skipjack" my little brain lit up. Perfect lines for a belly-tanker.

Decided to walk home from work today (about 4.5 miles). All the trash on the side of the road was really irritating. Seems like some people still think the world is their own private garbage dump. This county I live in used to be really clean, and I think the roadsides were cleaner in general when the "keep America beautiful" campaigns were running. I'd like to see littering fines of $5000. That oughta stop it. Or just let it be open season on litterers. Catch 'em in the act, shoot 'em.

Huge flake looks pretty cool when it's supposed to be over-the-top like this. I like it. Lotsa fun.

Language and word usage change over time. When I was a lad, in this country "car design" pretty much referred to the aesthetic specifics. Function of US cars was often very much secondary to aesthetic appeal, and getting all the greasy bits and passengers to fit under the skin was sometimes more afterthought than not. These were the days when critics of American cars made comments about "tortured sheetmetal", "chrome laden barges", etc. "Vehicle design" has come to include functionality and fitness for a certain task or market segment, but it's obvious from looking at cars like the Juke and Aztek that form doesn't always follow function when the marketeers get their fingers in the pie. I'm sure they're both reasonably competent "transportation appliances", but I always wonder how many clowns are going to get out whenever I see someone parking one. The best designs combine exceptional functionality with visual appeal. A Ford GT-40 is stunningly beautiful as kinetic sculpture, but fares rather poorly as daily transportation. Does that make it a poor design? No, not if you have part of the '50s mindset that "design" refers primarily to appearance. The best of the hot-rod designs are fast, handle well, and look good doing it. You ask "so how did Norm, Tommy, and all the rest figure out a way to do it and make 'em look good in the process? " Talent and years of experience, plus a willingness to experiment and change things that don't look "right".

Truly great picture, Greg.

The XR2 was a new one on me. I just looked it up...cool little car. I had no idea. You know, now I think about it, what a fine pair of sleepers you could build with a Pinto and a Fiesta.

Most excellent. I sold a not-too-bad Fiesta I'd bought for $100 (sold for $250) a few years back, had been thinking of much the same thing. Seemed like it would be fun to smoke some of the fart-can boys with a ratty old Fiesta. Should make a great little autocrosser too.