Ace-Garageguy

Just a few old standbys, too cheap to pass up... The Fords are obviously the fairly recent repops of kits that went away for some reason, and it'll be interesting to do a close comparison with the originals I have. As for the Pontiac, I have several other '61s as kits and builtups, but I didn't have this one.

Brains are entirely overrated, as evidenced by how many rich and powerful people seem to have none at all.

OK...here's the illustration, with some masterful design input, that Chris Drysdale did for me eons ago: Oopsie-doopsie...gone again.

Rochester 2G / 2GC specifically. The "C" is the center carb with the choke. Tonsa photos on the web from different directions, w/ different linkage options. Engine starts and idles on the center carb, the primary, and the secondaries both open at the same time somewhere around 1/3 to 1/2 throttle, all three fully open at full throttle.

Products that say "Made in the USA" are pretty rare these days, other than from a few "cottage industries" catering to niche markets.

I need to do something creative to keep from going the rest of the way crazy. I think getting this mockup farther along might do it...no need to get all involved with scale-engineering like I usually do, just some fun. Sadly, the photos of the rendering are unalived, and we're not allowed to edit older posts anymore. Hmmmmmmmmm... Pretty sure I have it on a drive around here somewhere.

OMG OMG OMG !!!!!!! TIK TOK ISN'T ON THE APP STORES !!!!!!!! But it's OK. There are alternatives. Only $50,000 for a phone with it already installed. Whew. That was close. https://www.ebay.com/itm/335781064516?

Roaming buffalo is a wild-animal problem we don't have here in the swampy Southeast...though I'm gettin' a powerful hankerin' fer a bison burger over 't Ted's.

I must like 'em. I have 2: an '89 GMC 305-5 speed longbed stripper (fleet truck with GM's self-stripping white paint) that was on its way to the crusher (bought it for $100, fixed most of the mechanical stuff, still running like a champ 14 years on), and a '92 Silverado that was a clean-looking older truck that had been "worked on" by just about every chimp in town. Bought it for the cost of the trans that had just been put in it, as the owner thought it was becoming a "money pit"; again, I fixed everything wrong with it and drove it for years until it shed a roller lifter at 250,000 miles. She'll be running again by spring.

"Welcome home" is a phrase I've never heard, but when the semi-feral cats run to greet me, it's OK.

You're not alone.

Yeah, you get used to bigger cars pretty quick. The photo displays fine on my end, so I dunno...

Postwar Dodge Power Wagon, '53-'55 Fords, '40-'41 Fords

"Blamed for stuff other people did" is one of the most vexing injustices, as no amount of logical, factual, verifiable argument to the contrary will change some people's minds once they're made up.

Sunday alcohol sales were verboten here for a long time, but fairly recently they've been legalized after noon.

This thread is becoming an excellent resource for anyone wishing to build a more accurate model of these cars. Your work and taking the time to photograph it, explain the photos, and post it all is much appreciated.

Be a strong, stable, calming influence on those around you in a crisis.

A Watts-link setup would of course not function with the bellcrank on the diff housing and the link ends attached to the leaf springs. In that case, the entire Watts assembly would simply move up and down with the axle, accomplishing nothing. I have the kit, but it's 2000 miles away, so I can't check it at this time. One unfortunate problem with model car tooling designers is that some of them really don't understand the function of what they're looking at, so odd problems like this crop up...though without looking at the kit myself, I can't make any kit-specific comments or recommendations.

Yup. Biggest problems are too much "forehead" over the windshield, and an inflated-looking too-tall hood. AMT's '53 pickup, the same body as the '55, got the proportions pretty much dead-on. Measuring is hard.

I average two pieces of actual mail weekly, and average five pieces of junk daily.

Oopsie doopsie...

Super Bowl halftime-show "wardrobe malfunctions" are the total extent of my interest.

"Familiar" is the word used to describe a warlock or wizard or witch's close animal companion.

Just kinda rediscovered this guy...great for driving up the PCH at sunset.

Mushrooms are growing in some folk's heads apparently.