Ace-Garageguy

Sorry fellas...no BLANG BLANG music in the background, no gee-whiz idiot commentary, no sound at all for that matter. Home-movie style footage of the first run of 'Vette bodies being laid-up and assembled.

Semi-annoying commentary, questionable provenance, but a pretty cool car anyway. I like it.

Obviously PhotoShopped...

And this is it finished...

And here, boys and girls, we have two clear examples of why most governments aren't fit to govern. Civics 101.

Sounds like most of the shops I've ever worked in...or visited.

As Richard says, you can try sanding and polishing it out. Even if the damage is relatively deep, it WILL work with effort. Start with 400 grit sandpaper and plenty of water. Use a sanding block to avoid getting waviness in the window. Be sure to eliminate all the pits from the solvent with the 400 grit. It will be perfectly smooth, but very dull looking. Progress through the grits (600, 800, 1600, 3200 and on up to 12,000). At 12.000 you should have almost perfectly clear plastic. Use some polish to bring it up the rest of the way.

1907 "I Think I Oughtn't Auto Anymore"

How 'bout Woody Guthrie? Considerably pre-rock.

This is the car. I'm putting all the pix I've downloaded from the camera in the reference section. There will be more in a couple of days. Click here http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=93355#entry1258194 [url=http://[/uR And that's the car's new owner, Josh Mills.

I would have to think the Olds song is surely the first "hit" popular song about cars. Which reminds me how sad I still think it is that GM thought apparently nothing about having under its corporate umbrella the OLDEST surviving American car brand (as well as one of the oldest in the WORLD) established in 1897. Oldsmobile had the first assembly line, and established Detroit as the "Motor City". But of course, why bother to retain a link to the founding of America's automobile industry anyway? People who know and care about old stuff are useless codgers, right? Mercedes makes a big deal out of being a car company with ancient roots (Benz's 1886 vehicle) in the automobile biz, but GM couldn't care less about its history, or so it would seem. Also interesting, as Oldsmobile used the melody from the 1905 song in its '50s commercials and promotional material, like this '51 factory tour.

You have done a very nice job with a kit that generally leaves a lot to be desired. Good work. You've also convinced me I may need to get a couple of these.

Yes, it's an unrestored car. It's been "worked on" a lot over the years though. Let me transfer the pix I already have to P-bucket and then I'll put them up on the board.

Looks to me like what some young guys did before they had smart-phone apps for entertainment and to do their thinking for them. I can't identify the car, but it's obviously being dis-assembled (or re-assembled). The cowl panel to the left, with the louvers at the bottom and an obvious fender line would normally be attached farther to the right, to the cowl-support hoop just ahead of the steering wheel at picture center. The way it's built looks vaguely European, kinda Allard J2-ish, but not. Also kinda vaguely reminiscent of this Dick Kraft roadster, but again, not...

Maybe that's Darth's dark little secret...the REAL reason he wears a long flowing cape.

Do you have ANY idea how much of HIS OWN money Mr. Tesla, Elon Musk, how many MILLIONS of $$ of his OWN money the man has spent trying to change the world (to fix things that greedy moron businessmen and idiot politicians have almost hopelessly screwed) because everyone else just talks and talks and talks...and does NOTHING? That battery plant and Tesla's associated solar collector plants will make THOUSANDS of jobs for AMERICANS in AMERICA. GOOD PAYING JOBS. MAKING STUFF IN AMERICA. I guess you'd prefer we just keep pumping money into the CHINESE economy, eh??

See if the answers you seek are in this thread. If not, we'll try to help. (click the link) http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=93118

We have a 1:1 stock '25 tall-T in the shop right now. Any other detail pix you need?

And the matching date...

Yes, as they say, "vote early and vote often".

Looking really good, sir.

Very interesting. Its inherent resistance to detonation and toleration of high compression ratios make it a good candidate for gaseous fuels like CNG and hydrogen. Their lower energy-content-by-weight (and volume) than gasoline requires a higher specific-output but smaller engine design to enable reasonable range on a full tank of fuel. But if I had a dollar for every "revolutionary" engine design, I could take a couple of days off. In the mid-1990s a company I had some dealings with poured millions into R&D on a multi-cylinder / swashplate design. They've given on that one and are now pursuing another "revolutionary" design, a warmed-over Wankel... Here's a few more interesting ones.

Boy, don't let the Fed find out that trucks make jobs. Congress will pass a law requiring EVERY business, no matter how small, to buy at least one tractor-trailer rig. Or pay a fine.