Ace-Garageguy

Very very nice, and a great reminder of what a truly outstanding kit this old dinosaur STILL is.

Favorite things o' mine include cherry pie, dark chocolate, and hot strong black coffee.

Cool project. I love seeing work like this, 'cause it's all the same challenges and changes as building a real one...just a little smaller and not quite as expensive. PS: Your Coyote-powered post really has me jonesing for a real one. Looks great from the rear with the fat meats, and the stance is absolutely spot-on. EDIT: There's a coupla guys around here with hotted-up Falcons, but nobody's really got it right.

Man, that is nice. I'm in love.

Had to buy an old-school Chinesium HSS boring bar to make a part for the '66 Chevelle on the lathe in the other shop. Last time I had my own big machine tools set up was over 10 years ago now, and everything small, like indexable carbide cutters, is still packed from the last move. The part I need to make is too large for my little Unimat, the Sherline would do it but it's still packed too, so the el-cheapo cutter ought to get the one part done on the shop lathe...which unfortunately needs some work before it will ever make anything nice again. It's not good for machine tools to let non-machinists use them.

"Hassled" is something that would be nice to live without, but there's little chance of that if you try to accomplish anything outside of the norm.

Do you run chains or studded tires on that, or are the grippy M&S tires enough?

I bought a Pocher 1/8 scale Ferrari engine/gearbox, as usual well under list and online asking prices. Cool (unexpected) thing is that it came with the sprues having TR suspension control arms, uprights, and axles. So If I can snag some 1/8 brake calipers and rotors, I've got just about enough 1/8 stuff to get a good start on scratch-bashing this 1/25 scale mockup I did years ago, but in 1/8 scale.

"Hands" are a matched pair of interface devices allowing your mind to connect to the physical world.

Duh. Me not reed so gud.

Looks good. What scale (or did I overlook it) ? EDIT: Never mind. You say you used a tag from the Galaxie Chevy, so it must be 1/24-1/25.

Great concept, fine execution. Very nice indeed.

Arizona, along with several states with deserts, is subject to flash-flooding in some areas when rain in high country accumulates rapidly in gullies and washes, which can inundate short sections of roadway with little warning. The flooding can be deep, fast-moving, and powerful enough to knock over something as large and heavy as a bus, or carry it away in the stream. Traditionally, desert dwellers were familiar with the danger of trying to cross flooded areas. Unfortunately, not all humans have the common sense of a coyote. So in 1995, Az. passed a "stupid motorist law" that holds drivers financially responsible for the cost of their own rescue if they drive into a flooded area.

Simple pleasures don't necessarily appeal to simple minds.

Pretty simple. Big ol' bowl of homemade cheese/chorizo/black bean dip, hot corn tortillas, salsa, guac, and a Yuengling. Fresh raspberries for dessert. Now for a cup of strong black coffee and an old film noir.

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.