Ace-Garageguy

Easy enough to find with Googli's reverse-image-search (now Google Lens), which I'm sure nobody ever uses 'cause that would be cheating. I had absolutely no clue as to what this one was. I'll pass.

Unless he forgets to put the bowl out, and then pours the milk on the counter while wondering why his feet feel wet and cold suddenly.

Notification that I'm losing the storage of four cars I had to move away from MY OWN PROPERTY when some neighborhood Karen-car-counter called the county...because a recent tenant in the industrial area I've been storing them at (they're in the parking lot of a huge vintage car shop that I subcontract with) has some kind of Karen-esque problem with "cars with no tags". Kinda like moving to a neighborhood next to an airport that's been there for decades, and complaining about the noise from the nasty loud airplanes going over OMG OMG OMG!!!!!! Unfortunately, the vintage car shop rents their two huge buildings, and the new tenant, rather than dropping by and asking US about the "dead scary cars that make our customers uncomfortable" (a Neon, a Jag XJ6, a PT Cruiser that needs paint, and an '89 ASC Celica convertible, all clean on aired-up tires) went to the PROPERTY OWNER, who went to one of the shop managers, who is apparently too nadless to talk to me directly and got another manager to call ME. I'll deal with it, but dambety ding dang dumb, I'm getting sick of getting hosed pretty much every time I turn around. There's a lot more to this situation that I'm not going to go into, just because, but it's really starting to suck to be me.

Very nice. First impression is that of a real car.

Drink one for me, fellas.

It already exists. Go to your own page, click "see my activity" in the upper right, and then select "topics" on the LH side of the screen. Every thread you ever started will be magically displayed by the last date anything was posted on it. I'm closing on 40,000 posts, and it's not hard to find a thread I started years ago.

Yup. And why it was so helpful when the instruction sheets called out the names of the real parts...which is WHY I knew a lot more when I was a kid than a lot of these guys seem to know now. Of course, yootoob is full to overflowing with hobby vids where the presenter/producer seems to in fact know very little about the subject he "models", trains being one particular example...

Reorganizing the competition car topics into groups that make more sense and have more in common wouldn't add any topics. A lot of comp cars that go mostly round in circles or ovals have absolutely nothing to do with NASCAR, so under the current grouping where does one put IMCA or DIRTcar builds, for instance? Or historic pre-NASCAR (1948) asphalt cars? Dirt trackers are the still-very-much-alive granddaddies of all roundy-round motorsports, including Indy cars. Drag racing classes evolved directly from dry-lakes classes, that also evolved into LSR cars. They all go fast in straight lines, and have a common heritage. Road racing and Formula cars mostly have to turn in both directions in competition, and also descend from common ancestors. ----------------------------------------------------------------- As for the rest of the topics, I'd probably go for something like this: A section for US or "ferrin" showroom-stock (including "day 2") cars, light trucks, and vintage or "classics" like the occasional Duesenberg or '31 Caddy. A section for rods and customs, pretty much anything modified very much beyond "day 2", including light trucks, "ferrin cars", and full-on no-go showboats. A section for heavy trucks/equipment, including the very rare hot-rod or custom, as I believe these have more appeal to the big-truck guys than to the average car or small truck guy. Dios. Motorcycles...and everything else. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, this adds one topic to the total, by essentially splitting the "model cars" heading into two, where the subjects would have more in common: (1) pretty much stock or close to it, and (2) modified beyond wheels/tires/paint/spoilers/graphics. Just my dime's worth (2cents adjusted for inflation).

"Solvent" takes in a wide variety of materials that will dissolve other materials, as sugar and salt are dissolved by water.

Yeah I can. I just did. See?

Curd from milk is used to make casein glue, what Elmer's used to be and why there's a cow on the package, but today Elmer's is polyvinyl acetate (PVA) glue.

Only irk today is my lack of get-going energy. Time to just drag myself out the door and get on with it... ...but sitting at the computer feels like doing something, even though it's actually nothing but escapism/procrastination.

Makes sense, kinda like putting drag cars with LSR cars...straight line performance/competition. Another competition section for road-racing and rally cars, anything that turns in both directions while racing, should round out the competition selections nicely.

"Beauty is an ultimate value—something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given." Roger Scruton

Trade school enrollment has been reported to be at a record level, with some sources reporting it's TWICE what it was in 2020. This is also said to be largely a knee-jerk reaction to the doom-and-gloom projections that AI will replace workers in many sit-behind-a-keyboard jobs, and the reality that many college degree programs leave graduates facing crippling debt, but essentially unemployable as anything but baristas, Walmart checkers, and dog-walkers. Whatever the reason, it's a good thing, because a "developed technological society" that has few qualified and competent plumbers and mechanics and HVAC techs is in serious trouble. The problem, of course, is a shortage of really well-qualified teachers, as "blue-collar" employment has been on the decline for so long. I have worked with licensed A&P (airframe and powerplant) aviation "mechanics" who were trade-school grads, and who were, frankly, grossly unsafe if given any technical responsibility whatsoever. But...it's a step in the right direction.

Yup...

Letter bombs may contain explosive words.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a nice long word, but is, frankly, puny compared to pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

I know what you mean, but there are plenty of more-or-less contemporary models being manufactured too. Still, as long as there are pining-for-the-past geezers like me with plenty of disposable cash to burn, it only makes sense for the US manufacturers, at least, to cater to their interests. We won't be around much longer, so get our money before it's tied up in probate, waiting to be dispersed to our rainbow-haired descendants who'd much rather call Uber than own and drive and insure and maintain a yucky icky smelly greasy planet-destroying automobile of any description. Another point: a large number of kits represent timeless classics that transcend generational interests. A GT40 or a Miura is every bit as appealing to a younger motorhead who actually knows something (rare they are, but they do exist) as some twin-turboed late-model Asian or Euro rocket...and I say that because I have a fondness for contemporary performance cars as well as the old stuff, and find them to be just as "relevent" in my own life as '32 Fords, '49 Chebbies, '50s dragsters, '60s and '70s Can Am cars, etc. It works both ways. I actually know one 18-year old who thinks Cords are the coolest cars ever built. But there is the very real and undeniable truth that, because of a variety of factors, a large number of younger people simply HAVE NO INTEREST IN MACHINES, cars, planes, or anything else that goes vroom vroom. Having shelves full of white-bread Nissans and Yotytos and Teslas and Buick crossovers and whatever Stellantis builds probably wouldn't change that fact one little bit.

"Topolino" is a baby Fiat's nickname meaning "little mouse".

"Popular" was the name used by Ford of England for its post-1953 version of the Anglia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Popular

After seeing the hyper expensive models of the old Honda F1 car posted elsewhere on the forum last week, and somebody mentioning that Hasegawa made a 1/24 kit of it, I went in search of one. Miraculously, a 1996 issue popped up for a little over $23, delivered. Nice Mr. Postman dropped it off today. I'm happy. EDIT: It was sealed.

I wonder what kind of inverted-intellect logic-challenged gubmint official thought if the speedo didn't go over 70, nobody would drive that fast. I guess if you can't see an indication of high speed, it ceases to exist. Wait...I used "gubmint" and "logic" in the same sentence. My most sincere apologies.

Road trips are some of the things I really miss, being pretty much chained to the Chevelle and DeLorean projects because I promised I'd get MY parts done before walking away.