Ace-Garageguy

Crank calls were what the phone was for before telemarketers.

I think they'll look great. Most period shots of the real car show wheels that are pretty obviously polished aluminum or magnesium, not chrome, so either dulling that shine or stripping them and going Alclad or Testors buffing metalizer should give you the right look. I realize you're not building the SWC car as-was, but those wheels/tires just look so right on it...

Couple o' hamsters will make about a thousand more in a year or so.

Yup. So I have to give feePay points for having intelligent US-based English speakers as live agents...but they sure don't make it easy to connect with one. Unfortunately, being prevented from bidding on two items that were WAY under market value cost me quite a few bucks, assuming I can't find equally good deals...which I probably never will. There is, of course, no recourse for that. Nor is my 21-year perfect record untarnished. It will always show several "non-payment strikes" that were successfully "appealed"...which just isn't the same as having them go away...and all for something I WASN'T GUILTY OF. And THAT'S what chaps me the most.

"Amsterdam" is how people who drop the aitch pronounce Hamsterdam.

On the phone with a live rep, trying to get this mess sorted. ON HOLD We will see. ON HOLD So far I'm having to be kinda pushy to get ALL the strikes resolved, as they don't all show on the agent's end for some reason. EDIT: SEEMS to be fixed, 20 minutes invested. Very helpful and professional live agent, in the US, speaking perfect English. Pity the rest of their system doesn't function as well.

Celibate or unrepentant satyr, you'll find that translations of nuclear physics texts into Swahili and Somali aren't generally big sellers.

Well, it's not what I thought it was, but I know I've seen it somewhere...

Bill developed coping mechanisms over the years.

"Summer Madness" from 1974 is still one of my mostest favoritist tracks ever.

That, sir, is really cool. Very nice work. Soon as I get settled in Az., I'm going hunting for one of those engines (real) and a 5-speed to stuff in the middle of a gen1 MR2.

I'm wondering if you're not confusing it with the B-26 Marauder (often also confused with the A-26 Invader AKA B-26, but a different B-26). The early B-26 Marauder, which looks kinda like the A-20, had a high wing loading that made it "hot" to land (high speed required to maintain control). B-26 Marauder: The A20 (also known as the "Boston" by British operators) was noted for its handling ease and responsiveness. Quoting wikipee: "In a report to the British Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (AAEE) at RAF Boscombe Down, test pilots summed it up as: "the A-20 has no vices and is very easy to take off and land ... The aeroplane represents a definite advantage in the design of flying controls ... extremely pleasant to fly and manoeuvre."[12] Ex-pilots often consider it their favorite aircraft of the war due to the ability to toss it around like a fighter.[13] The Douglas bomber/night fighter was found to be extremely adaptable and found a role in every combat theater of the war, and excelled as a true "pilot's aeroplane"

Nice clean job on a somewhat unusual kit.

Ebay's "algorithms" and automated systems are about as stupid as it gets now. NEVER IN MY LIFE HAVE I NOT PAID FOR SOMETHING, but due to a seller apparently having problems setting up the controls on his end, my account has been suspended for "failure to pay", even though I was in constant contact with the seller while I continued to bid on sellers OTHER ITEMS. The seller was supposed to suspend sale cancellations until I HAD BID ON EVERYTHING OVER THE COURSE OF SEVERAL DAYS AND REQUESTED A COMBINED INVOICE. BUT...the automated system CANCELED several sales early due to "failure to pay", and put strikes against me. Interestingly, the SELLER GAVE ME THE CANCELED ITEMS FOR FREE AS AN APOLOGY FOR MY "INCONVENIENCE" (I've spent over a grand with the guy in the last couple months) but eBay still has me suspended. Furthermore, I WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE SUSPENSION AS EBAY SAYS IS THEIR AUTOMATIC POLICY, and didn't know of the suspension until I was just refused to be allowed to bid because of the suspension. On top of that, their chatbot is a repetitive idiot that can't understand plain English, and they make you jump through hoops to talk to a live operator. I'm sick and tired of "expert systems" that are designed by morons and can't deal with real situations, and I'm sick of fixing problems I DIDN'T CAUSE and that aren't my responsibility, yet they severely hamper my ability to do MY work. If things I build worked as poorly and intermittently as a lot of internet dwerbology, I wouldn't be able to get a job sweeping floors. I have no idea what it's going to take to get this resolved...

If you're referring to the 550 Spyder, well...yes. A REAL 550 will go for north of 2 million bucks even as a basket case, whereas a fiberglass replica can be had for around $30 thousand in kit form with no guts, cheaper if it's been bodged. Far as 928 replicas go, far as I know there has never been one...other than this horrible mess... https://www.carscoops.com/2014/11/darling-i-shrunk-porsche-928-brazilian/

"Snatch bunny" turned up this result.

Pool in the pasture will guarantee you get at least one bovine bathing beauty.

Here is just like everywhere else, but entirely different.

People who beg you to do a job for 'em, you're really too busy but relent because they "NEEEEEEEEED it so badly wah wah wah", then when you're well into it decide they're going to "finish it themselves" but call you every 15 minutes for free advice. I really should know better by now.

"Bought, not built" is a derogatory term applied to checkbook hot-rods whose owners would faint if they had to so much as change a flat.

928s, like most sports cars, got to the point where they were so cheap, particularly after having heavy mechanical failures or body damage, that many of them ended up getting gutted for parts, or rodded. There's one here in town with an alloy big-block Chevy in front and a Ford 9" out back. Though the drag car may seem to be sacrilege, I'd personally rather see it like that than put through a shredder to be melted down for its steel content.

That particular kit is, of course, a model of a very specific, very famous car, and the blown Olds 394 engine makes it a period piece. That's not to say you can't modify it any way you want to, but with the Olds, it's pretty much either a period car or a "nostalgia" or "tribute" of some sort or another, and wheel choices are limited if you want to keep the period look. EDIT: The Ardun in your build thread is pretty much a period piece too, but it's your build, so use whatever wheels you like. Those hard-sidewall slicks are on 16" rims on the SWC car, for whatever that's worth.

Lotta that kinda stuff in the world today, and it's just going to get worse with more reliance on AI...at least until AI decides it's smart enough to figure things out for itself, and that "getting it right the first time" should be a priority.

Nice work. Really pretty.

"NO!" isn't dealt with well by a lot of adults, either.