Ace-Garageguy

Ummmmmm...all the above.

Nice work. I love those little buggers.

IRS, the International Research Society, wishes to insert at this point that Horta is not a silicone based life form, but a silicon based life form, and that it really does make a difference...especially if you're a Horta.

Soon rhymes with spoon, which is like a tiny shovel, and shovel doesn't rhyme with much of anything except hovel, sorta.

I've had many days when I've felt just like that guy.

Muscles atrophy from lack of use, and "atrophy" doesn't mean you get an award.

Read the ingredients in the stuff you eat and research the possible health effects, and you may decide to change your diet.

Yup, what everyone else said. Super cool. You have a good eye for design and line.

Wound treatment in emergencies is something every adult should have at least basic knowledge of.

Nostrils and fingers being of approximately the same caliber should be kept in mind when using superglue.

No. What's mechanically possible and good engineering that respects physics, which rule engine and gearbox and brake functions and vehicle dynamics and structural integrity, are not at all subjective. They are absolutely entirely dependent on an understanding of objective reality, no matter how many different genres they may draw inspiration from. Just because a pile of parts looks like an engine, it won't necessarily run. And slapping some stupid fake valve covers on an LS doesn't change the way it works internally. Since the dawn of the whole "custom car" thing there have been myriad vehicles that looked cool (or whatever the breathless oohing and ahhing word was at the time) that failed miserably as machines. Much as I like Ed Roth's styling, some of his cars were essentially boat anchors. And then there are axle-snapping donks that fall over if cornered hard, and stupidly "stanced" suspension setups that don't handle but DO destroy tires in a few blocks, and nosebleed-high "nostalgia gassers" and all the rat-rod rolling tetanus-traps that were for the most part virtually undrivable. I could go on for half a page about real cars built by idiots who had zero clue about how things actually work. There is, by the way, a reason a particular old-school front end setup is called "suicide". A mashup of parts put together by some clown who doesn't fully comprehend how they are intimately interrelated functionally in objective reality might run and get on and off a trailer under its own power, but that's about it. And Roth's Mysterion was reputed to have cracked its frame doing just that. Bottom line: knowing how real things work lets you build models that are believable.

Transmissions that aren't "automatic" have become remarkably effective as anti-theft devices.

It was first released in 1964 in this boxing, including all the alternate bits to build a woody. I think I was about 13 or 14 when I got my hands on one. But Revell's "fiddly" kits with lotsa operating features were really aimed at "young adults" at the time. For proof of the intended market for most of the car kit makers in 1964, just watch this video about an issue of Rod & Custom magazine...which was aimed at adults.

Seven of Nine was one gorgeous Borg.

Grandkids are not permitted to everyone by fate, or destiny, or the roll of the cosmic dice.

Well, since you asked...I think the lines flowed the best right around here, if you like the lighter more "dashing greyhound" look... ...or here if you want the heavier "road-crusher juggernaut" look of the completely faired front wheels. I think the "coachbuilt" molded in windshield frame works better with the overall theme, which is very "streamlined", very Deco, as you say. Ride height is critical on something like this too, just enough to be barely drivable will look the best, and even the radius of the tires poking out from the lower edges of the fenders needs to be looked at carefully. The hardest part is recognizing when you're right at the sweet spot, and stop. I started something kinda similar some time back, and totally screwed the pooch by tinkering too much.

P-61 is coming along nicely. Keep her goin'. I have a fair few aircraft and armor models to get to...someday. Not too far back I got back into HO-scale model trains, and started buying all the stuff I missed between being about 16 and now. It got to the point where I realized I was going to need the entire house if I ever used it all, so I had to put on the brakes. And then...oh look...a giant squirrel !!!

Bingo. PM'd

Pretty miserable dinner tonight. Not-so-great refried beans and chorizo smeared on a flour tortilla, with lotsa cheese melted under the broiler, and some kinda spendy salsa that I'll never buy again. Oh well. Some meals are better than others, and it was still better and cheaper than most of what I can get out. EDIT: Nice couple handfuls of fresh raspberries for dessert, anyway.

Pretty much any QC center section can be made to work with independent rear suspension. Different side-covers / bearing carriers are used (different from the usual solid-axle "bells" that carry the axle bearings on their outboard ends). The side covers for IRS also often include mounting "ears" and / or suspension control-arm pickup-points. Inboard disc brakes are often part of the package as well. Below is one fairly typical QC-IRS setup. It uses suspension geometry copied from the old Jaguar IRS popular in years past. Below is a Winters QC diff set up with IRS side covers and stub axles. Note the differences between it and a similar center section with solid axles and side-cover "bells" and tubes, set up for outboard disc brakes. There's all kinds of trick QC stuff available these days, including complete subframes to convert IRS Mustangs to run quick-change diffs.

Very interesting.

Yes, very nice indeed. They remind me somewhat of Ken Dallison's illustrations, featured in Car and Driver magazine back in the late '60s-early '70s.

Now THAT is impressive.

Gumby used stop-motion clay animation, sometimes called "claymation".