Ace-Garageguy

Films of the bio variety are what cause the little sweaters on your teeth if you don't brush for a few days. (SEE: biofilm)

Heart problems have mercifully spared me so far.

Agreed.

"Smith" can be used as a word ending to describe someone who is a practitioner of an art or skill, as in tunesmith, wordsmith, blacksmith, and tinsmith.

"Notions" is a word with a definition we don't see much today, meaning sewing supplies and small tools used in the sewing process.

"Minute" pronounced min-OOT means "very small", and AI video voiceover narrations often get it wrong when used in that context.

Camel and Lucky Strike cigarettes with no filters were my brands until I hit my early 60s, when I quit.

LP (liquified petroleum gas) is what my point-of-use propane-fired shower-water-heater is labeled to run on.

I "got" finished with my Christmas shopping. Done and dusted. Fini. Concluded. Etc.

Buy War Bonds...

Friday and Saturday nights: home made pork tenderloin tikka masala with seasoned whole-grain brown rice w/peas, lightly toasted flour tortillas standing in for naan, apricot preserves standing in for chutney, Sutter Home screw-top Merlot (cheap but pretty decent, especially with hot taste-bud-numbing dishes). Fresh blackberries for dessert.

Pet the living things you love; research has proven that besides being comforting for the object of your affection, it has health benefits for the person doing the petting too, like lowered blood pressure and stress-hormone levels.

Avoid juggling porcupines.

Very nice. I really like seeing hard working trucks modeled so well.

Scrambled eggs and brains is a hearty, protein rich breakfast.

Life is what gets in the way of hopes and dreams.

Part of the reason I liked styles in the '50s was because you could usually tell in an instant, from any angle, if people were women.

Are you referring to the 1964 Chrysler powered Tork Master Special driven by Kenny Safford? Do you need pix of the trans or the fluid coupling or the car? Just trying to get clear in my mind. EDIT: Daddyfink beat me to it.

Models of the 1950s, and the clothes they wore, appealed to my aesthetic sense much more than today's do.

It is often less difficult to actually do something than we worry it will be, but it is also sometimes much harder.

For dead-flat, I tend to rely on SEM self-etching black primer, mostly because I always have some in stock for real cars. Only problem is that it's pretty hot, and will easily craze SOME kit plastics. To get a little "sheen", rubbing it with skin oils from your fingers or a little fine compound will do well in some cases. I did some testing with Tamiya XF-1 flat black acrylic fairly recently, because I've never been happy with the black washes I've tried. It works great for me as a brush-applied wash for grilles and similar things, and with their X-20A thinner it airbrushes nice too. I bought some F-1 acrylic gloss black to try mixing custom semi-glosses, but haven't tried it yet. Dumbguy me ruined a nice brush though, with only half my brain in gear thinking I could clean out a "water based" paint after it dried. Nope, and no excuse, as I've used lotsa acrylics for painting paintings, and knew better. EDIT: As an aside, though I haven't tried Tamiya's rattle can semi- and flat-blacks, I've been pretty happy with everything I HAVE tried.

WWII ended shortly before I began.

Constant whining about the same old thing, practically every day, sometimes several times a day. I'm NOT referring to anyone here, but some people it seems would rather wallow in self-pity and waste time placing blame on others for relatively minor issues that any adult should be able to take in stride. 'Bout the only place I whine is right here, where I know nobody's day will be spoiled by me letting off a little steam.

I've been driving for something like 60 years, and this has been going on for as long as I can remember. I've only seen one spectacular head-on as a result, and barely avoided getting caught in it as the car shot off the corner of the oncoming semi like a billiard ball.

Cars and trucks made fairly recently often have door hinges that are welded to the body, and are impossible for the majority of DIYers to replace.