Ace-Garageguy

Seems like if you shoot it a single color and go with period-correct dog-dish Mopar hubcaps and blackwall Goodyear Polyglas tires, you got it. Oh yeah...bench seat. Dog dish hubcaps...

It's so the car can't run off with the pool boy, right?

Actually, I dated 3 of those. Had to stop seeing the Intelligent Whale when Greenpeace started camping on my lawn, threatening to sue me for cetacean abuse. Thunder Crester was the big-thighed sister of Magic Ravure, a well-known exotic "dancer" who often appeared with Dearborn Diamante. Good times.

Dragfreak (Jason Brunelle) recommends a Sharpie for black window trim. It works for either representing a rubber gasket, or blacked-out metal trim. This is black applied to a molded gasket which is part of the clear windshield on the Revell Willys.

A couple years back, we had some local entrepreneurs stealing copper from LIVE power lines. For a while.

Glad you made it through without anything major. I was having symptoms of unstable angina back in 2001 or so. Lost a good bit of weight, got rid of some other stressors (a job I hated and a girlfriend who apparently made it her life's mission to make me miserable), and 13 years later I feel pretty good for an old fossil. Still can hike 15 miles without too much bother (well, my feet hurt afterwards), so take care of yourself and you'll do fine.

Yeah, and even though a LARGE part of my career has consisted of UN-doing stupid stuff done by stupid people, it's still sometimes hard to look away. Kinda like watching a train wreck. Oh, the humanity.

Mo' debinitely be lookin' like a Miata win'shiel' frame, fo' sho'.

It looks like really nice craftsmanship...buy why ??

Sometimes maximum lowered is really really cool... ...or... ...and sometimes it's just stupid... ...or really really stupid...

Yes, I know... one of 56 built by Traditional Coachworks of Chatsworth, Ca. ...as I posted with the pix. Still, just because a shop has a sign out that says "coachbuilders", that doesn't automatically make their work world-class.

Years ago (mid '80s) a friend of mine with a limo service took an old black Caddy stretch, flamed it and put a blower through the hood, thinking he'd get some rock-star business. Not a big seller.

Scott, I like those Caddy wagon conversions MUCH better than the green one I posted. It did actually look a little back-yard not-all-that-pro, and is reputed to have cost about $30k in 1976 bucks. Lotsa $$ back then.

When I was a kid, we made model rockets that used balking soda and vinegar as propellant, specifically BECAUSE they produced a gas when mixed, at significant pressure in a closed container. We learned about it in science class, but because today's early education seems to feel that science is irrelevant (along with most of the American public) I guess it's news to morons like the one in the clip. Here's a 6-year-old making a vinegar/ soda rocket.

Sorry. I couldn't resist. Cool project.

I'd love to have that little Stude truck. I wonder if he'd trade for an old worn out GMC and an equally worn out Silverado.

Hey man, the horn-honking IMPATIENT JERKS who actually need to get somewhere are in the wrong !!! Life should always stop and accommodate bozos.

All the time. Some moron's gotta be connected every second of every waking minute, doncha know.

I thought it was a green hearse, and green means Irish, so I figured there was an Irish wake somewhere, and Irish wakes ALWAYS have Irish whisky, so... Actually, the cemetery is across the street from the hardware store.

'76 Caddy "Castilian" custom wagon conversion, one of 56 built by Traditional Coachworks of Chatsworth, Ca. Spotted in the hardware-store parking lot close the the shop.