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Scroll halfway down to Art Anderson's post, below:: Photos missing on this one, but the text is good:

Wire is handy for all kinds of emergency repairs, from pants and button reattachment to field sutures in combat.

Only 21 cars by 2030, but hey...it's the coolest non-IC drivetrain going, with 670bhp and 664lb ft of torque. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/hybrid/joy-joys-hyundai-n-vision-74-confirmed-production

Beautiful beautiful. The story of the sad end of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow program still makes me sad / mad every time I think about it. What a waste.

Happened to get to one of the flea-markets after work, just after the "train lady" had restocked, walked out with a basket full of rescues, vintage craftsman kits, cars, and a ton of landscaping stuff including 7 rubber rock-molds, ballast, ground foam, Hydrocal, etc. Probably my favorite from the entire haul is this NOS HO AHM GP18 in Santa Fe freight livery. $12. These go used for anywhere from $35 to $55 online, including shipping. Some AHM locomotives are trainset quality, but this one is heavy with a semi-can-motor, all-wheel pickup and all wheel drive. And because of the way the drive is made, they're easy to re-motor and upgrade to DCC. The handrails are a little on the heavy side, but I've been experimenting on an AHM Alco RS3 of similar vintage, carefully scraping the side rails with an X-Acto to thin them, and replacing the end rails with formed wire in the original (drilled) stanchions. The results are definitely worthwhile. Rework the pilots, dump the truck-mounted couplers for frame-mounted Kadees, add air and MU hoses and other details, a little weathering, and they'll compare well visually with high-end current RTR models. And not a spectacular deal, but this Proto 2000 drop-end mill gondola kit in Ann Arbor markings is exactly right for a steel mill setting. These go fo $20-$50 online with shipping, so I'm pretty happy having paid $8.

Good grief Charlie Brown; did you fall for Lucy and the football AGAIN???

Wagon wheels on your ride certainly make a statement.

Assuming you don't achieve 100% "full hiding", white will make most colors brighter, red will make them muddier, and gray is somewhere in between. Best thing to do is a "sprayout card" to see what you like best. It's also helpful to shoot a checkered test panel to determine how many coats you'll need to get full hiding.

Read the tire sidewalls. 95% chance the nominal required rim diameter will be right there (on the front it will probably be 15...but that might depend on the age of the car; I've seen search results saying the current rule is 17, but all I've ever seen is 15). https://gonitrolink.com/shop/wheels/goodyear-frontrunner-funny-car-tires/ Get your calipers out and measure the actual diameter where the tire seating surface would be. It's pretty easy to approximate if you've ever seen a real wheel.. Divide the first number by the second number. That will tell you what scale it is.

I'm irked by supposedly "intelligent" adults that entirely miss the point of a statement, either intentionally or not, mis-interpret what's said, or take words out of context to turn the statement on itself with strawmen that have no relation to the point of the original statement. It's not just poor reading comprehension either, as it seems to happen with spoken words as much as written. Then there's the mindless rebleaters who parrot the misinterpretation put forward by whatever group or individual they identify with, never bothering to search out what was ACTUALLY said, and fail to think for themselves what the statement really meant. These behaviors occur about every subject imaginable, and make one wonder sometimes "what's the point of trying to communicate truth at all?".

Unused brain cells eventually become useless mush. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3191246/

Excellent reference pix of a stock frame. Thank you.

Anywhere there's standing water there will probably be green slime and mosquitoes breeding.

The reality: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/more-on-the-turbine-1957-ford-t-bird.1057028/

Weapons for self-defense can include pencils, pens, and car keys...but most important is situational awareness.

First thing I thought too, but I think the Turbine and the Bird as they were built are more successful designs.

Congrats, and thanks for the heads-up. Somebody else may have tried that combo, but it's the first I've heard of it. The old standard advice was "cheap hardware store lacquer thinner", and that left a lot of room for unknowns and variability.

Pet rocks never showed much affection, but they didn't chew your shoes either, so there's that.

Yeah, the big O's had one of those too. I couldn't get past the gag reflex long enough to even try to figure out if there might be anything useful in the box.

Testing some trans mods I made on the new-to-me '96 S10 Blazer, and needed a pretty good driving loop this evening...so I headed to Ollies, which is pretty much way out of my way normally, and traffic-congested both ways, every day. Not much traffic tonight at 8:30, and not much car kit selection either. Only thing I was even remotely interested in was the Barris T-Buggy, as it looked like it might have some decent wheels, tires, a Corvair engine...and I assumed it would have a Beetle chassis I could use, and that I could at least cut the hideous body down into something cool to put on it. Turned out to be about the most useless parts source I've ever opened, with the tires, wheels, and engine being all I'll probably ever find homes for. No Bug chassis, and there's not much hope for the odd Rolls-nosed body shell.

Animals usually make better pets than humans.

So many cars, so little time. EDIT: But if I could only pick one real-world car somewhat attainable by normal humans, I'd have to go '72 Porsche 911RS.

Looks like heaven to me. Cost-effective and functional. What's not to love? EDIT: It's a great reminder that it's not necessary to spend a ton of money on gear and a tricked-out 4WD to get out there.

Very nice sir. Looks like a capable piece. Congratulations.

It's interesting what appeals to people in different generations, and why. One of the most talented and skilled "traditional" hot-rod builders I've ever known was in his early 40s back in the early/mid 2000-teens when I worked with him, and he knew way more about '20s-'50s Fords and the way things were done in the '40s and '50s than most old timers in their '60s and '70s who grew up with the stuff. There definitely are "youngsters" interested in early cars, and one of the great things about the web is that they don't live in as much of an information vacuum as existed earlier, where you had to put out a whole lot more effort to get known, and you pretty much had to know someone personally who was already into rods and/or customs to get a foothold.