Ace-Garageguy

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Always one of my favorites, great actor, wonderful voice. But 93 years is a pretty good run. I'll miss him. He was an intelligent, articulate, and thoughtful human...and the world needs as many of those as it can get.

"Airbrush Junkies" probably wouldn't make a great rock group name.

I did not know that. Hmmmmm... Looks like more research is in order. Thank you.

Looks like good clean work. Great color too.

All the above. And a set of junkyard steel rims to keep your snow tires mounted on. And a set of snow chains. There are situations where there is just no getting around without chains.

Just put an aftermarket HEI distributor in the Nova. A good one is dead reliable, eliminates point adjustment and replacement, and stays "tuned". But the real bottom line: ANY old car is going to have problems at some point. The Lincoln is a lot more complex, with more stuff to break, and the complexity encourages the parts-cannon (throw parts at it until it works) repair approach, as a lot of shops today just don't mess with OBD 1 vehicles, and the ones that do often don't have the best diagnostic capabilities. The Nova is almost as simple as a car can get, but finding someone who understands carbs and anything pre-OBD can be difficult these days as well. Old cars are a great way to learn about mechanical stuff if that appeals to you, but relying on one as a daily driver with no backup vehicle isn't for everyone...and you never know what kind of chimps have been "working on it" in the past. In fact, MOST of the problems I see on old cars come from poor previous "repairs". Good luck.

Wife material doesn't come along very often.

Shape-shifters who pretend to be your wife can cause problems in even the most stable marriage.

While still "available", most of that stuff is offshore-made now, and I've had nothing but problems and early failures from non-OEM aftermarket electrical and electronic parts and sensors...even for cars a lot newer than the Lincoln. Your experience may not be the same as mine, but most electronic bits will fail, and the offshore replacements are very often total trash. EDIT: Every single electronic system in my '89 GMC truck has failed, starting with the EFI. Replacement parts were such crappola I quit trying to fix it "right" and put a 57 year old carburetor on it. It runs great, but the radio, the wiper controls, and the heater/AC/defrost controls, all electronic, have all ceased to function. Ah yes...the brake light switch just quit too. The wiper modules are relatively easy to replace, fairly inexpensive, and at least packaged as "American" components, so that's not a big deal. The heat/AC/defrost, on the other hand, did not respond to the apparently common connector issue "fix", leading me to believe the ECM is toast. I've already sourced a much earlier and simpler all mechanical control head and cables, but swapping it in is hardly a job for a novice...or the vast majority of "mechanics"...because it requires precision fabrication and re-engineering of the entire system. What I'm saying is that the '88 Lincoln has a whole lot of electronic gizmology that's just waiting to quit at the worst possible time.

Option lists are where car manufacturers make a fair bit of their money, and one reason why stripper entry-level vehicles are relatively rare sitting on dealer lots.

Today is a really good day to put off doing responsible things until next week, so you can sleep late, play video games, and watch stuff on (insert favorite platform here) while pounding down chips and soda and cookies and cake.

Long-term upside on the Lincoln is that, even if it rusts out to nothing over the years, the 5.0 V8 engine and 8.8" diff with disc brakes are potential hot-rod parts. If it has the trailer towing package, it will have a limited-slip diff, also helpful in snow. The AOD automatic trans doesn't have the best reputation for reliability, but it's not anywhere near as bad as many people would have you believe. Don't flog it and you should be fine. Two warnings: the TV cable has to be adjusted properly (and IIRC there's a little plastic clip on it that gets brittle and breaks, and causes slipping, a $5 part that is often diagnosed as a failed trans), and if you live in a hilly area, it's best to leave it in "D" to eliminate constant shifting in and out of overdrive, which can lead to early (and expensive) failure. The as-is engine is kindof a slug, with only 150 HP or so (160 w/factory dual exhaust), and it'll be a gas hog, but it also responds very well to performance tuning if that's your thing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upside to the little Nova is that's a much simpler car, which means less stuff to break. It's also smaller and lighter, so should return better fuel economy. I can't imagine why driving it in winter would be a problem, unless you just want to protect the body from road-salt-caused rust. Millions upon millions of winter miles have been put on similar cars.

Interesting. It's working fine for me. At the moment... 11:20 AM EDT

Plot twists are apparently very hard to follow for a rather high percentage of commenters on YooToob.

Amen.

Wow. As popular as the Moebius Hudson Hornet kits are, I'd think #2 would have been easy. And as many Mopar guys are around, #3 and #4 should be easy too. #3 was obviously a wagon with the chrome-rimmed rubber bumper on the gate, so it was just a matter of looking for something from the 1960s that had the body line defined by the chrome strip, and then finding the wagon version.

"People, people who need people are the luckiest people in the world" warbled Ms. Streisand way back in the dim recesses of time, but in the future it might be that people who eat people are called "survivors".

I have seen "let's make fun of zoomers" vids with plenty of them who don't even know how.

In some circles, this is known as "deficit spending". Pretty funny that's it's idiocy if an individual does it, but "sound financial policy" if groups of "responsible" people who should really know better do it.

I remember. Too many people assume all "plastic" is the same. But there are some plastic spoons that won't even dissolve in MEK.

Rear crossmembers are not hard to make if you have one for a pattern. Trace the sides on .020 styrene sheet, above. Cut them out and tack them to a strip of .040 at the right width, as a fixture, below. Skin the top with a strip of .020 bent to approximate shape with your fingers, and let it set up hard, below. Trim the excess, then carefully remove the crossmember from the fixture, below. Glue it to the chassis in the correct position, below.

For tests to be completely valid, you need to spray exactly the same paint materials, the same number of coats, in the same order, allowed to dry the same amount of time, on the plastic THE KIT IS MADE FROM, not on spoons. The substrate CAN have an effect on how paint materials behave. Spoons are fine for looking at colors, but that's about it.

Vehicle dynamics is either an unknown concept or is intentionally ignored by a lot of "car builders".

It's a vast improvement over what you had before, so be happy.