Ace-Garageguy

If it's been printed in SA, there is definitely a copyright issue you'd create by posting anything copied from it here; even just the text if you re-type it is verboten. If information (including photos) is available as "open source" material on the web, you can usually get away with re-posting pix and text under the "fair use" definition of copyright law, which allows limited un-licensed use of copyrighted materials for "teaching" purposes. Anything that's been printed in another magazine, scanned, photocopied, re-typed, or quoted at length and then put up by someone other than the copyright holder (without express written permission...especially something from the "competing" magazine) is asking for trouble.

Psycho, thanks for posting that one. I came across it in a book on the post-war Kurtis Indy cars, but I hadn't been able to come up with anything else. Kewl.

Glad you're back, Jarred. I apologize if I came off as a smartasss, and I really didn't intend to be picking on you, honest (though I can see that it may have looked that way). Anyhow, there are a lot of good people on this forum willing to help point you in the right direction, and to share a vast amount of knowledge and experience. Bill

Ah, but Yugos don't go, and therein lies the problem.

I wonder if product liability insurance or something similar helps to defray the massive expenditures GM must be facing with all the recalls. If not, I'm thinking the bottom line isn't going to look so hot compared to what it would have been if a few more bucks had been spent up front. I also wonder if they'll figure out that it's always cheaper to get it right the first time, or just spend so much time apportioning blame that the big message gets lost in the squabble.

Yes, Yugos were Yugoslavian (the ones that came to the States were based on the Fiat 128). The 128 was also a decent car (I've owned several) but again, Americans didn't grasp how much maintenance they needed. Fiat 128s consistently won their class in SCCA racing back then, and did well in international rally competition, but the Yugo derivative suffered from a lot of problems...the major one being crankshafts that cracked because of faulty material and heat-treatment. Interestingly, one of the fastest hillclimb cars in the world these days is a modified Fiat X1-9.

Not bad at all. Just different. Ladas aren't bad cars, and the Fiats they're based on were good cars too. They just took a little more maintenance than the typical American consumer was comfortable with. There was even a rotary-engine (Wankel, like the Mazda and NSU RO-80) powered variant.

Wow, we're sure gettin' a lot of thought police around here. "Dada dada" is a sarcastic reference to dadaism, a movement back around WW I, that rejected and was a protest against cultural and intellectual conformity (you know, like the concept that words have meanings and spellings that are accepted for clear communication?) and whose artistic expression appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality (rather in keeping with some of the vehicles presented in this thread, don't you think?) "Boom boom boom" is a quote from a philosopher who had a little more to say on a similar subject. Without the contextual reference it's completely meaningless and makes no rational sense whatsoever. Doesn't matter one iota, either. Rather like the whole "MALCOM" thing. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

Blade Runner, Laura, Ultraviolet, Artificial Intelligence, Gattaca, LeMans, the Thomas Crown Affair (original version), Bullitt, It's a Wonderful Life, Braveheart

I didn't mean to be a smartazz, belittling, or acting superior (as I've been recently labeled). I just thought it was relevant to mention this tech isn't actually being implemented at this point; it's only in the test-and-evaluate phase. It IS kind of a big deal that the testing is starting, and that a toughened machine has been developed for the space environment. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Okay, I lied. I have one more thing to say. It's obvious that in your little minds, anyone who tries to TEACH is doing it to prove his superiority. That's an unfortunate attitude you have, because TEACHING is done to make the person who's being taught rise to be better and smarter, NOT to belittle him. So if you guys attack me, damm right I'll come back being a "smartazz". And a little editing of YOUR posts might make it appear you actually were awake during English classes. No, it's not "to harsh". It's "too".

I use different techniques depending on the project. The track-nose master was made like zo, from kit parts and bondo... ...fitted to the car... Master on left, mold in center, and first pull on right. I learned from mistakes on this one, like compatibility of mold-release materials with model materials, etc. The ugly surface on the black part is because I failed to properly prepare and seal the surface of the master prior to laying up the mold.

Actually, it was sent up to evaluate the functionality of the current technology in zero-gee, and to get an idea if making printed parts in space might be a viable goal for the future. The supply ship is run by SpaceX, Elon Musk's (paypal, Tesla) company. Story here http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/09/21/spacex-launches-cargo-ship-with-3-d-printer-to-international-space-station/

So, why don't you pull up my 5000+ posts, read through them, and see just how much help I've contributed. Trying to get people to understand the correct terminology and function of things, and to call them by the correct names, IS helping. At least it is where I come from. Have fun bashing me fellas...there's nothing more I can say on this. (It's "focusing" by the way. )

Sure. Speaking of which, my original post contained relevant information, answering Jarred's actual questions. Funny how some people want to focus on a little good-natured correction and blow it into an internet troll-fest.

Yes, I'm aware of that. What I wasn't aware of until just recently is that typing in the symbols will produce the yellow smileys. I had typed ( A+B ) without the extra spaces, and I got (A+ when I hit "post". Not quite the same.

Now there you go, trying to make us pay attention to those pesky word meanings. Dada dada, boom boom boom.

How did you miss the drama? You started it, but anyway() you're a big boy and you can take criticism. Vince I can write English, too.

Drama? I missed it.

If you type B and a right-parenthesis, ) , immediately behind it with no space, you get this when you hit the "post" button. Same thing works with several of the smileys. I didn't know. But it makes you have to be careful where you use parentheses, or you get smileys in odd places.

Missing the point entirely. MALCO. Not MALCOM. That's what this was about...not absolutely correct grammar, punctuation or anything else needlessly pedantic. I don't bother to correct the widespread misuses of there-their-they're, loose-lose, et cetera, or the misplacement of apostrophes ('55 means 1955...55' means 55 feet). If Americans don't care enough to write their own native language correctly, it's not my job to teach them. But as usual, comprehension of the actual POINT is not widespread. The difference between MALCOM and MALCO is about as apparent as the difference between 3 and 8. They DO look a little alike, don't they? So I guess they must be interchangeable.

Yes, that's very important, especially in real-life. And ACCURACY is part of what it takes to accomplish that. It's M A L C O. Period. No final M. It's not about case or punctuation. It's about paying attention. A somewhat well-known quote in the hot-rod biz: "You want to build a car, but you can't even build a sentence?"

Not too harsh at all. I'm a big boy, and I can take criticism without crying and taking my toys and going home (or childishly calling people names with " a couple of S" in them). He specifically referred to plumbing the car, and pictures, and information. I supplied one plumbing photo to illustrate how EASY it is to get this stuff via google, and recommended the fotki link that had been previously recommended by another member (AFTER I'D CHECKED IT MYSELF TO SEE IF IT WOULD REALLY HELP JARRED). I also posted a short history of the car from a knowledgeable source. I'm so mean and not helpful, eh? But communicating ACCURATELY is important in life, and there's no such thing as a "Malcom" gasser. It's not an honest mistake, it's a careless mistake. See the difference?

Pretty cool. I'd probably prefer to not have to interact with its driver.