Ace-Garageguy

My guess: a nearby alternate universe, or A-line (also known as alternate line of probability). This is where socks mysteriously go when you KNOW you put only matched pairs in the dryer, and car-keys, when you KNOW you hung them on the same hook you've been using for 15 years. Things sometimes just 'slip' a little, and I believe your roof is "from elsewhere".

Geez...it just sank in that these two cars are in the 11s in factory, non-lumpy idle, emissions-controlled, street, go-to-the-grocery-store trim. Really impressive, especially as heavy as they are. High 10s blows me away. Last car I drove that was honestly in the 11s was barely streetable. Pretty obvious I haven't been going in a straight line for quite some time. Man, I gotta put an LS in something really light.

Man, those are wild. I've never ever seen them. Man. Crazy, man, crazy.

Kewl. I don't read the current production car mags any more, so I haven't seen these numbers. Pretty impressive for both of them (the weight is impressive too) but for $60k to $75k, I'm pretty sure I could build a hot rod something that would eat their lunches, and have at least $20k left over for gas.

Admittedly, it probably wasn't a real side-splitter, but I thought it was worth a little smile, at least.

Funny...he sounds to me like most of the people who ARE in charge.

Nice job on a pretty primitive kit. I picked up one of these at a clearance sale and was less than impressed with the poor scaling of the nose details, but then again, it's exactly the same as it was when first released 100 years ago. I've got some non-blobular gluebomb C1 chassis, and my build of this will most likely be a modified sports gas-class car as well, but with a flip nose with molded-in details. Yours looks great though.

I love this thing...

I like this one better... ...or this...

RE: I'm sorry. I'm not always the quickest wit. Sometimes I need the joke explained to me. I assume this is meant as a joke of some sort? Or am I missing the point completely? Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------ And the answer is... Southpier was referring to the guys sitting on the wing eating noodles, as opposed to the usual connotation of "ricers", referring to Asian import tuner cars. And then, from Wikipee: "Noodling is fishing for catfish using only bare hands, practiced primarily in the southern United States. The noodler places his hand inside a discovered catfish hole. Many other names, such as catfisting, grabbling, graveling, hogging, cat-daddling, dogging, gurgling, tickling and stumping, are used in different regions for the same activity." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Then, we get the completely out of context picture of a noodler from Greg.

Don't think of it as leaking oil. Think of it as marking their territory. Crossword clue: A five-letter word for "electrical problem". L U C A S

Exactly. The Jag coupe had nice proportions. Spoiled on the 2+2.

I prefer this application.

Ah yes, the reason for always testing on a hidden part of the particular model you're working on rather than just assuming it will be OK and going ahead and painting. Well done, grasshopper.

Yeah, I hear a lot of that.

ferrarijoe (Joe Long) used Art's / Longbox55's method. " The winch cable is just the thread that came with kit. I dipped it in x10 gunmetal then ran it between 2 fingers to get rid of excess paint."

Crazy as bats*it. Love it.

Cross noodling and wings...

I get it. Took a second or so...

Built by the shop where I work, recently finished, now for sale. The video is also posted at the end of the in-progress thread on the same car here. Built by Josh Mills Paint by Josh Deavers Interior by Bert Litton

And it's just as beautiful up close. Josh Mills (Mills Customs) built most of it, including the top chop and all the mods, fabrication, assembly and electrical work. Josh Deavers (Customs and Colors) painted it, along with a lot of help from Mills himself. Burt Litton (Hot Rod Interiors) did all the stitch-work, all leather. I had nothing whatsoever to do with it, but when I saw it in-progress in Mills' shop after the chop had just been completed, I knew I'd found a quality rod-shop, finally. It was gorgeous in bare metal...about as good as it gets.

220 is WAY too coarse for anything other than heavy bodywork. You need to chemically strip it. Click here... Paint Strippers - What to Use? http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83153

Hmmmmm...... "By the early sixties, front air dams and rear spoilers were appearing on racing cars, and no one exploited the possibilities more than Jim Hall with his highly successful Chaparral racers. The 2B above shows the first fully functional use of front and rear spoilers and fender vents, all specifically to generate down force. They made the Chaparral essentially unbeatable in 1964 and 1965."