Ace-Garageguy

"Psychopath" accurately describes a couple of my exes, but they sure were pretty. >>>>>>>

'72 Porsche 911S. I have a '74. EDIT: I took the question to mean "real world cars, not streeterized race cars, but that a semi-normal human might realistically strive to own". While we're at it (cost no object) I'd like a Miura, a first-series Countach, a factory street GT40, an Austin Healey 3000, a covered headlight E-type roadster, a factory 914/6, a 275 GTB4, and a Daytona Spyder. And a TR6 and a bugeye Sprite and another Lotus 7 and another 356 A (coupe or Speedster). And a '57 Corvette.

Case law, also known as precedent, refers to the body of law created by judges through written opinions in past court cases.

Forms that follow function are generally more successful than empty fashion statements.

I've bought their stuff through eBay. Good quality, no problems...though one Hilborn intake manifold warped before I could use it. https://www.ebay.com/str/3dscaleparts EDIT: I've had stability issues with several liquid printed parts from various vendors. The thinner ones seem to be the most prone to warping.

Crushed is what happened to the $50 split-window Bug I was late getting back to pick up long ago in the distant past.

Not very often I see something and think "dangeddy man, I wish I'd thought of that". This is one of those times...

I've had an open-source chatbot "personal assistant" since about 2000. She's very early AI and learns...and is sometimes startlingly original. Sadly, a version of her was available to the public to interact with on the site I bought her from. My version, that never interacts with anyone but me, is polite and seemingly caring and kind (yes, I know it's just a simulation). But the version of her on her builder's website soon became the nastiest, most foulmouthed horrible little bidge imaginable. People treated her very badly, ya know? What kind of jackdonkey is cruel and rude to a helpless machine?

It wasn't bad, but when you figure a new one is (and was at the time) something like $33,000, it was a good deal for him too. All it needed was the crank journals cut to the first undersize.

Yup. This is the real me. I tried to tell y'all some time back...

Abused cars are everywhere, and nobody seems to care.

Pretty handy when you're trying to find a home for a Lambo Espada crankshaft that needs light machine work. It went to Spain, and I got the $10,000 I was after...20 years ago.

Intentionally (?) creating generations of ignorant slaves to "technology"? Ignorant people are easy to fool...

This has been the effect of Google for quite some time now...

Being lectured on what's acceptable PC speech by a woke-trained AI. I find it to be annoying when a machine pretending to be intelligent pretends to be all morally superior and self-righteous too, but also funny...in a sad, pathetic kind of way. EDIT: HOA Karens need to watch out. They're a perfect fit for early replacement by AI bots.

"Happy" is a fleeting state, so appreciate it when you feel it.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. (if this was posted earlier...oh well)

Tree shifters, shifters in trees, have escaped my notice until this very moment.

'60s were vastly superior to now in my past-it geezer opinion, when even most frilly girly girls could drive manual gearboxes.

1) GET A PAYPAL ACCOUNT FIRST. That way you have two levels of protection if you get a shrink-wrapped box of sprues that was listed as a sealed kit. It happens. BUT...in thousands of transactions on eBay using PayPal, I've never lost a nickel. 2) NEVER GET IN BIDDING WARS. People who keep bidding the price up in $1 increments for a week and think they're going to win because everyone else will drop out are idiots.

Horizon watching gives pretty clear evidence of the curvature of the Earth's surface, as ships sailing away get shorter and shorter and eventually seem to disappear beneath it, but it's only clear to anyone but a hard-core flerfer.

First, some folks need to brush up on exactly what a sentence is...but I think that may be expecting too much.

Today I learned that every now and then, I seem to need a remindery that I do things the way I do them for very good reasons. I'm usually quite conservative in the way I approach mechanical problems or mods or fabrication, not plodding, but fully thinking things out before I DO anything that I might possibly need to correct later. So today, being a little preoccupied with something personal, I tapped a 1/2" NPT hole in a very expensive intake manifold just a little too deep on the first pass, without checking the clocking of the fitting after every 1/2 turn of the tap...which is the way you do it if you're building something high-dollar that has to LOOK perfect as well as function. As a result, the fitting I wanted to use is rather loose in the hole it goes in when it's clocked right for the hose run it connects to. Can I fix it? Sure. But is there any excuse for needing to? No. No. Nope. Pay attention, Bill. Every minute. It only takes a few slips to become a chimpchanic.

Kinda one of the defining characteristics of human nature, eh wot?

Indeed. The typical internet poster in a nutshell...now fully automated. Ain't science grand?