Ace-Garageguy

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.

Eleven days for a small envelope of documents to go from AZ to GA. Really glad I had the sender get a tracking #.

"Reality Bites" should be the name of little psychotropic candies that impart common sense and respect for objective truth to anyone who eats them.

"Chaos" describes a lot of things happening over the last few years, but I'd best not elaborate.

I agree with you about those old Monogram kits. Their first-gen '34, before the de-contenting and top-chopping etc., is absolutely THE best '34 Ford ever done in scale, by a wide margin.

"Opinion" and "feelings" are often seen to be superior to verifiable facts in today's "information-centric" society.

Dead picture link, can't edit that far back, so here:

Yup, that is mo' debinately some pretty work by somebody. Those billet-look wide-5 rims are pretty trick too.

Indeed. But hey...EVERYTHING now is WAY better than it used to be, or haven't you heard?