Ace-Garageguy

He looks well-fed...but still hungry. Very nice indeed.

Steel is one of the most useful materials known to man, and frankly I've always been amazed at how cheap it is whenever I buy it, considering what you can do with the stuff.

I believe Pico Elgin has modeled one in 3D and printed it, but I don't know if it's available anywhere.

Lambo 350 GT. Never happen.

Churned up grass and deep tire tracks from where somebody turning around in my yard almost sank up to the axles in the low spot of saturated ground from the recent days of rain.

Services like dog-walking and latte-making provide gainful employment to thousands of holders of useless degrees.

"OK boomer" is one of those idiot comebacks that make me want to knock the utterer across the room...which would be awesome.

For what it's worth (not much) I'm currently watching the tracking on several packages that are models of "logistics" incompetence and inefficiency, traveling back and forth between the same incorrect zips and distribution centers multiple times, at one point one of them even being listed as "out for delivery" at my local PO, only to have it scanned back in and whisked away to another incorrect zip. At the same time, there are packages that mysteriously manage to avoid all the idiot rigamarole, and get here in pretty much a straight shot from the point of origin. It doesn't seem to matter what the origin is either, as I've had shipments from the same vendor arrive in two days, and others travel around the country for two weeks. Very obviously there is NO PROBLEM with how the packages are addressed, because if there was, they wouldn't show up correctly addressed on the USPS tracking site. The problems are with individual humans putting things in the wrong pile, or on the wrong truck, period. And there's not a thing any of us can do about it...other than watch for the "DELIVERED" notice and head to the local PO if it's not at your house. EDIT: UPS used to have a local live tracker running off of GPS transmitters in their trucks. You could see your whateveritwas getting closer and closer all day long, finally a block away, and then see the truck head in another direction, back across town, taking your shipment with it. The feature seems to be no longer available. I wonder why.

Cool project, and I always enjoy a good backstory.

^^^ All the above please.

I suspect it was moved simply to consolidate it into an existing thread on essentially the same subject. If there was an issue of it crossing any "political" boundaries, that would have been mentioned specifically. Several of us have been disgruntled with the USPS and other package handlers from time to time, some seem to get excellent service every time, and some just don't care either way. Bottom line is that they're all unreliable sometimes, and USPS is the lowest cost.

Here's a Hudson Terraplane sedan cut down with a pickup bed from something unknown.

How about a ute?

Desert living suits me, as the neighbors are far away and don't much care what you do as long as you're not a complete yahoo.

Yup. Injection molded styrene, possibly ABS (which is just a tougher grade of styrene)...but I'm pretty sure it's just garden-variety styrene.

Made around 1965, so about 59 years old.

A rough but fairly complete 1/24 Cox Cheetah slotcar. Not a too-bad price for what's there. The body will serve as the basis for a static build, assuming I don't have the HRM kit I think I have but can't remember for sure.

Even Duesenbergs got chopped down into trucks. Howard Hughes built the one below to tow a glider. Duesenberg J-model, converted from a limo, below Duesenberg Model A, 1924, below

Radiator Springs in the movie Cars was inspired by a real Az. town on Rt. 66.

When Testors dumped the Model Master line, I bought up every bottle and can of "buffing metalizers" I could find before the prices went insane. I'm pretty well set until the end of the world.

Waiting for the PO delivery and watching your tracked packages travel all over the country for no good reason (yeah, I know, it's complicated "logistics" I'm too stupid to understand) is a great way to train yourself not to let idiotic things you have zero control over ruin your day. I used to get incensed regularly watching the moron-moves via tracking, and it never made anything get here one minute quicker. A few things HAVE been mis-delivered locally by reading-challenged carriers who apparently aren't too good with numbers either, but if/when that has occurred, to date I've always found somebody reasonably competent at the local PO to sort it out. Yeah, it can be maddening...but only if you let it.

Crankcase oil will keep your spiffy Mr. Cool hair in place if you run out of gel.

Some people like cake, and some people like pie, and some people like limburger cheese milkshakes. https://www.dishgen.com/recipes/savory-limburger-cheese-milkshake-m0fopcup

OMG OMG OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice work, great project.