Ace-Garageguy

Hour-long documentaries meant for broadcast often waste a lot of time bringing short-attention-span viewers back up to speed after every commercial break.

I bought a slightly damaged Danbury/Bordens 1/24 diecast some time back to pull molds from, but I'm running years behind on doing any of that stuff.

Story time with...wait...I better not go there.

I don't play much, but sure as h, if I wanted a golf cart, I know a place here where I can buy just a normal older one that's been rebuilt and painted, with all new batteries, for about $2500-$5000. For that matter, you can buy one for a few hundred $ or less that just needs batteries and a good cleanup. No way in h I'd spend stupid money on a pretend car that screams "I'm a dwerpderp with money to burn !!!!!" when I could spend it on a real somethingorother.

"Transformabile" refers to the sliding canvas roof panel, not that it becomes a crazy mech...but that'd be pretty cool.

That's a seriously bad--- looking bug. Sure glad they aren't as big as housecats. Or horses.

I like it just fine the way it is. I like pie too. ?

Here's more. And yes, his very early cars were made from scrapped refrigerators, but the really cool ones are made from virgin steel.

Hmmmm...

Beaver Scrapple and pancakes would be good this morning, but since I don't have any beaver or stuff to make pancakes, I guess it'll be eggs and Spam.

If you mean this guy, they're absolute works of panel-beating mechanical art, far far removed from golf carts. I actually met the guy in Oatman, AZ several years back, on the Rt. 66 Fun Run. (NOT MY VIDEO)

And...shortly after I moved last time, somebody here did a build of a woody with some pf the best wood effects I'd ever seen, describing the techniques and listing the materials. So I went out and bought all the stuff to try it on one I had on the bench at the other place, Lorena, a chopped Monogram '30 Ford. I was really fired up to try the wood look, but I could never find the model. I know I put her in a tin cookie box to keep all the bits together, but it's never resurfaced since the move. Of course, in the intervening years I've scattered or lost all the wood-effect materials during subsequent bench cleanups too. EDIT: Just this week I've lost the bright green box cutter I keep in the GMC, the red-handled X-Acto that's lived on my desk for years, and a teaspoon. Which is odd, cause I rarely misplace anything for more than an hour or so. Oh my...

Something else to consider here is that different computer monitors and screens will display colors differently. The color looks quite different on my main home laptop and my big desktop screens, for instance.

Bullets be hanged; get out the mustard and ketchup.

Microwave weapons have been around for some time, but I don't recall anybody cooking an enemy yet.

All very cool, love that big 'ol V2. And the FPP '58 Ferrari Ghia 410 on the shelf has me off on another rabbit-hole quest... It just never stops.

I usually use maple syrup or jam. I have some semi-sweet marmalade that needs to get used up, so that'll probably be it this time.

A little different, a little gamier than beef, but I go so heavy on the pureed habaneros you don't notice it much. This batch is pretty good, but a little one-dimensional. The flavoring needs some tinkering. Cumin, definitely, more garlic, and something to add a little sweetness.

Cold wet day, and as I accomplished a lot last week, I'm taking it off. Might even sit down at the model bench for a few minutes later. In the meantime, the elk meat a coworker gave me is simmering in a big pot of chili while I watch old movies. Life's pretty OK today.

Addiction to food and water is a terrible thing to suffer from.

Now it's in Montgomery, Alabama. Musta sent it to Alabama when it was already in Atlanta because of all of those closed facilities elsewhere, right?

Got the '05 Neon and the '89 Celica ASC convertible moved down to the vintage car shop so's I can work on 'em inside where most of my tools are...and avoid the wrath of the county inspector on the 14th. Neon's still in pretty good shape, and with the head rebuild shouldn't need too much more to be a daily again. I bought it from a "mechanic" who swore he'd just done the timing belt...so I overpaid a little because the job is kindof a PITA and I needed instant reliable wheels while I worked on my '89 GMC. Yeah, right. I only put 2000 miles on the Neon before it failed, bent every valve in it. The "mechanic" is nowhere to be found. So she's been sitting. Building a used head on the bench, and the head swap with timing belt, water pump, etc. is about two day's careful work. EDIT: The cost of the work to fix the Neon, if I had to pay somebody else, probably exceeds the "value" of the car (which is why most of 'em are in junkyards now). But since I can return it to like-new for a few hundred in parts, good for at least another 100,000 miles with no major issues, what is the "value" of a clean little car that's fun to drive and gets great gas mileage? Poor little Celica has really gone downhill though. LR brake was locked solid, wouldn't even break loose when I pulled her out of the hole with the GMC. Half a day of hammering on the drum with a lead hammer and flooding everything with penetrant got her loose, and my wrecker guy moved them both in one shot with no problems. I got the Celica free from a girl who was afraid of it after it failed its emissions, didn't even want to try to fix it. A $28 part got it clean, and I commuted in it to an aviation job in South Carolina for a year before it dumped its water pump. The crank pulley seal was leaking lotsa oil too by that time, so I covered it intending to get back to it ASAP. Life happened in the meantime, and even though I was pretty good about starting and warming it up every few months, I got lax and the electronics all went south. Anyway, both of 'em will make nice cars for somebody, and will go a long way towards financing the first round of upgrades on my AZ place. Finally today, I decided to walk the several miles back down to the shop to pick up my Blazer and cover the Celica, as the canvas top has started leaking, and I don't want to ruin the nice interior. Rain forecast next few days. Got home about an hour ago, tired and hurting, but pleased with another very productive day. Time for some salmon on the grill. Probably going to take most of tomorrow off, but I have a full day's work Monday finishing the house spiff-up for the county re-inspection on the 14th.

Coroner Creek is a great old western starring Randolph Scott...if you like films with no CGI, car chases, gratuitous you-know-what, and stuff blowing up every few minutes.