Ace-Garageguy

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.

I loved those things...and several other small Hondas...when they were new, and would love to have one now as a gas-sipping but zippy daily driver. But I have a Neon for that. And I'm in my mid-70s. Cool cars are cool cars, no matter what era they were born in.

Clever reactions might be helpful if someone's chasing you with a cleaver.

Far as I'm concerned, this or this is every bit as desirable as this or this or this. From my own perspective there's no problem, 'cause I don't give a rat's rump what anyone else is interested in, and if the prices plummet on the older stuff, there's just that much more chance I'll be able to own something that was previously out of reach. EDIT: For what it's worth, when I was 19, my girlfriend loved the '50s and '60s Porsches and Jags (etc.) I sometimes got to borrow, but she saw hot-rods based on '20s and '30s Fords as "old timey cars"...until she took a ride. Then she was almost as enthusiastic about them as I was. Perspective and knowledge are everything.

Illinois has this big ol' beautiful windy city I really used to love.

Nobody is "lumping fat people into a monolithic block". Every individual requires specific evaluation and care. HOWEVER, "as someone who works in healthcare" you really should be aware of the volumes of accredited and repeatable medical studies providing conclusive evidence linking lack of exercise, poor diet, and overweight to the onset of T2 diabetes...and the positive effect lifestyle changes in these categories can have on a patient. "As someone who works in healthcare", you might also want to research the known and emerging side-effects of Ozempic and other medications containing semaglutide (even though it is "FDA tested and approved"). I'd like to know where the "shockingly ignorant and harmful" part comes in. I have rather extensive personal experience regarding the reversal of pre-diabetic symptoms and lowered blood-pressure as a direct result of losing weight and exercising...without drugs of any kind. It is "germane to the thread" from the standpoint that, even though clinically researched and verified lifestyle options that can markedly improve quality-of-life are readily available to anyone, many people refuse them because they're "too difficult"...which is the "excuse" for not using an airbrush that elicited my response. PS: Feel free to PM me f you'd like to continue this discussion off the board.