Ace-Garageguy

I (and others) had similar issues years ago, and the solution at that time was to compose the text in Word and copy/paste into the post.

I was in the grocery store last night, and it looked like the TP-hoarding has started again. Because of the dockworkers' strike? Geez. You really can't fix stupid...or even reason with it.

Bentley S1 Continental... ...especially the R-type.

Do what you like, but you can't tell if an engine is a 454, a 427, a 396, or a 572 by looking at the outside. I'm building a real '66 Chevelle with a 572 right now, and if someone wasn't told it was a 572, they wouldn't know if it was any of those engines.

More Google AI misinfo: The main differences between the Chevy 572 and 427 blocks are that the 572 is a big-block engine, while the 427 is a small-block engine: Engine type: The 572 is a big-block engine, while the 427 is a small-block engine.

Eckchooally...the Chevy 572 looks pretty much like the familiar 396, 427, and 454 externally. The displacement differences are internal. IIRC, with appropriate valve covers, intake and exhaust manifolds, and other minor detail differences, any Chevy "big block" in the family (not "W" 348/409 engines) can pass for any other up through generation VI in 1/25 scale (excluding the ZZ632, which has evenly spaced intake ports and very different cylinder heads).

So many beautiful cars. So little time.

Date palms aren't native to the Great Frozen North.

UPDATE: The MIA shipment arrived today, though the tracking number still says it was delivered in Arkansas. Nothing like "not at this address" or "return to sender" on the box either. Zero evidence it took an extended week-long trip. And this was a shipment from a few counties away from me, in my home state.

Can you say "screwed", boys and girls? There seems to just be a thing all over now that, if you don't constantly watch and question any aberrant charges, whoeveritis will just keep piling stuff on. I sometimes wonder if the new management style isn't "see how many bogus charges we can tack on until we start losing revenue, and then we'll back off just a tiny bit". Too bad class-action suits don't usually do anything but make the lawyers richer, while returning pennies to the abused customers.

Any hot-rod is a good hot rod. I bet it's fun plowin' the lower 40 with that.

Beautiful car. Hope your dad gets to take a lot more rides in it.

Bench presses do fine for your delts and pecs, but nada for your glutes.

Am I going to blithely accept everything I'm told?

Can the extra vegetables you grow in your garden.

I also knew the base car, but found scrambled and conflicting info on the "Twin Cam" variant, so I let this one slide.

Better to start a vegetable garden than complain about high prices..

Delicious fatty snax made from things that moo and oink and bleat have universal appeal to carnivores everywhere.

I recall being extremely impressed with IBM's Watson's ability to find and interpret information, one of Ray Kurzweil's treatises on modeling machine reasoning on a particular cascade theory of how human minds work, and the Google search engine used to be absolutely wonderful. For a short time, there was even a "personal assistant" that was loads smarter than Siri waiting to be deployed. I tested a beta version and said to myself "self...if these wizards can merge the natural speech capabilities of this PA, Google's ability to find information, and Watson's ability to interpret and contextualize it, by gum, AI will be the best thing since tires on horses". But unfortunately, the Google search engine has been dumbed down to the point I HATE to use it, that really smart PA never hit the market, and Google's AI is really really stupid as far as I can tell. I'm kinda thinking Google's people aren't the sharpest tools in the hammer box, even though Kurzweil is apparently their spiritual leader. Stupid people build stupid machines.

Alive or not, little Jonnie might be second choice for a quick snack to the Chupacabra, who supposedly prefers goats and cattle.

Dauphine.

Really good to think that Google's miraculous AI...the source that loads of people are going to cite as gospel...has as much trouble with letters and numbers as recent products of common-core "education", and my local PO carrier who can deliver to either the right street number or the right street name, but not both. I'm more and more impressed with our brave new world every passing day.

1/25 Testors/Bburago diecast and plastic Ferrari 250LM kit. Bought primarily for bits to contribute to an upcoming 275P full detail build based on the old Monogram slotcar-body-based kit. Pretty nice kit, really too nice to just gut for parts (even though it has way-wrong wheels and tires), at a great price.

The Ferrari 275P is a mid-engined prototype developed from the 250P, and the 250LM is an upgraded full coupe version, also developed from the 250P. I have a stalled 275P curbside build going, and recently acquired a Testors/Bburago 250LM that seems to have lots of bits that would be appropriate for use on an upcoming full-detail 275P build. While doing a compare/contrast search for similarities and differences of the Ferrari 250LM and the 275P, Google's idiot AI Overview popped up with this: "The Ferrari 250LM and 275P are both Ferrari sports cars from the 1960s, but they have some key differences, including their engine placement, body type, and racing history: Engine placement: The 250LM has a mid-engine layout, while the 275P has a front engine."