Ace-Garageguy

I only use "heel-toe" in manual gearbox cars, blipping the throttle for clean downshifts while braking, particularly with non-or-weak-synchro boxes. Pedal placement in mushomatics doesn't really lend itself to heel-toeing...at least in my experience.

Tent-pitching, being beyond the ken of many not-so-happy campers, has resulted in the invention of self-pitching tents, app-controlled and internet-connected.

Starting to hang again, and now sometimes pages just go completely blank.

"Read" is unfortunately not the same thing as "read and comprehend".

"Man" is another of those terms that can really get you in hot water.

The even intake port spacing isn't like any Olds I know, or SBC, BBC, Caddy, Pontiac, or Ford either with the paired center exhaust ports (which a Y-block has, but which also has very different paired-and-stacked intake ports). Looks like some inaccurate blobular mashup to me...but I could be wrong.

While there's some truth to that, depending on the car and specific pedal placement, I'll often left-foot-brake when driving an automatic...but I never ride the brakes as so many seem to do. In the hands of a skilled and practiced driver, tests have verified that the reaction time is significantly quicker hitting the brakes with the left foot, as opposed to lifting the right foot from the gas pedal and moving it over to the brake pedal. A guy who I knew racing slaloms decades ago was amazingly fast in automatics, and one of his tricks was left-foot braking. Using it to advantage is, of course, rarely the case with the average dozy incompetent behind the wheel.

Use the talent you were born with to develop skill that'll allow you to build a career you can enjoy instead of just getting a job.

Ace of Spades was the name of one of the Vietnam war field-built gun trucks. https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/the-ace-of-spades-and-the-story-of-vietnam-gun-trucks/

Are we having fun yet?

Meat-and-potatoes still does it for me; nothing beats a pot roast or a thick juicy ribeye and a baked spud.

"Beef" on the menu in some parts of the world bears a striking resemblance to dog when it's on the plate.

Famous never appealed to me, but being rich is acceptable.

"Comma" is occasionally confused with "coma" by the brain-dead.

At around 18, it's time to start at least trying to behave like an adult...but with fewer and fewer role models, it can be difficult to know what an adult behaves like.

"Insured against being stupid" is unfortunately not a thing.

"Confidant" is defined as someone with whom you share secrets; it is NOT the same as "confident", which means self-assurance.

Thanks for taking the time to post all the additional info. VERY much appreciated.

Simply the finest model of anything in any scale I've ever seen to date is Bill Cunningham's scratchbuilt 1/24 Birdcage Maserati. Not only has Mr. Cunningham mastered all the traditional modeling skills, including carving masters, but he's gone on to embrace 3D design and printing, and has developed methods to allow him to print 1 millimeter thick body shell parts...and he keeps improving. The Maser has to be seen in person to be fully appreciated.

I appreciate the mention. Glad you like it. I like it too. But it's so far from finished it takes somebody with more-than-average vision to get it. If I live long enough...

Personally, I dislike driving slushboxes. I think they remove so much of the "driving" from the driving experience, you might as well be sitting on the couch stuffing your face, watching a video of driving. Which I guess is sorta the point. Most people seem to want as effort-free and intensity-free a life-experience as possible. I'm really glad I'm not one of them.

Peemed...

Cream on a bowl of crumbled Oreos used to be a favorite meal of a corpulent friend.

Yup yup yup.

Thanks for the heads-up on J&P. My plan at the moment is to build an oddball "cafe racer" based on old Kawasaki EX-500 leftovers from another project, a Norton tank, other junk, and a vintage Sportster engine/gearbox. I've never laid a wrench on a Harley anything, so parts source info from somebody who knows stuff is great to have.