Ace-Garageguy

Saw a red-pearl-wrapped Cybertruck, and got to look it over close up. Liked it much more than I expected. It's huge and has a lot of presence in reality. Panel fit is excellent and most of the big flat panels are dead-straight, not an easy thing to get right from a manufacturing standpoint. Though people complain about the simplified interior, it works perfectly with the overall sci-fi-movie-vehicle feel of the thing. One of the quarters was a little wavy, and I suspect the reason this one was wrapped was because of mild body damage. There were other signs of kinda idiot abuse of something so expensive, too. Gotta give ol' Elon props for having the nads to actually series-build something so totally crazy-different. Anyway, once they hit the dead-battery used market, swapping real Hummer guts into one just might be the idea that keeps me from running out of steam. A multi-fuel diesel Cybertruck wearing camo, an external roll-cage, and huge lights blasting through the desert running on distilled cactus juice has a lot of appeal.

Calder was earlier I believe, 1975. https://www.bmw.com/en/design/history-of-the-bmw-art-cars.html

I don't know anything about the late-model "subscription" stuff, but I have several vintage 1/8 Pocher kits, a few virgins and a few gloobombs, and they're pretty nice for the most part. They can sometimes be found remarkably cost-effectively if you're not in a hurry, and if you have funds set aside to jump when one comes up relatively cheap. Concessions were made to absolute accuracy of some parts to allow them to "bolt" together, but with some extra work they can be top-line "museum quality"...and with just minimal upgrading beyond straight assembly, they're pretty close anyway. EDIT: Restoring somebody else's mess is always more difficult that building a virgin, and parts go missing...but there are suppliers for lots of stuff...including upgrade bits the kits lack. Some parts of building from a virgin kit are challenging as well, like having to lace the beautiful wire wheels on a jig, etc. Detail is generally very good to excellent, and as the body and other main parts are injection molded styrene, the procedures for dealing with them are familiar to the majority of more experienced modelers.

Great. And so what? If you're writing an article about the history of funny cars, or adding textual context/backstory material to help describe or justify a model build or a real replica, referring to this thing as "transitional" makes sense in the context of looking back. Otherwise, what's the point in trying to stick a classification on it? EDIT: I'm not trying to argue. You can call it anything you want. I'm just curious...

I've done something similar where I wanted a bare aluminum panel showing through worn, scuffed, and chipped green zinc-chromate primer. I shot the panel with Testors buffing metalizer (you could use some other product like Alclad since the Testors product is NLA), let it dry for an hour, buffed it up, let it dry for another week, then shot real zinc-chromate primer over it using the "salt" method, then rubbed the salt off. The results were exactly what I was looking for. Sorry...no pix, but I do have the test panel I can photograph and post if you really think it would be helpful.

Bingo. And if he was at the indicated 48 posts under his avatar and was still under moderation, all he needed to do was contact a mod directly and ask to be cleared. I've had to do that myself after having been given a "time out" and placed on "indefinite" post-moderation after I was allowed back in.

And there's a seemingly infinite crowd of rebleating "experts" who insist "gassers" were all nose-high stupid-jacked-up idiot boxes, which is simply not the case. Spare us from historical classifications by people who weren't there and have no real idea of what they're talking about.

AND...in most sanctioning bodies at the time it would NOT have even been a class-legal AF/X car either . It would have simply been an altered-wheelbase match-racer, an evolutionary step between AF/X and funny cars as we know them now.

Schedule time for hobbies or exercise no matter how demanding your life is, because you can burn out with resentment if you don't put yourself FIRST occasionally.

Great design. I really really like this thing.

Me too.

By that logic I'd guess you don't use Amazon or Farceborg or gm or Home Despot or a whole buncha others either...

Yup. But I'm kinda dumb, so it's understandable I don't get it.

Because I build real cars, one of my considerations when I choose a grille treatment for a model is whether it can hold enough radiator to cool whatever engine I'm using, and if not, where can I hide an auxiliary. Some cars with tiny T shells and big honkin' engines have to run radiators hidden in the tail or between the frame rails under the car (with electric cooling fans) if you want to drive them any farther than on and off the trailer. Just a thought...

"Educational" is a word that sends lotsa folks screaming.

Gov'ment mentions or even mild criticism can get you in hot water here, so tread lightly big fella.

Atlas has started to shrug.

Examples of ancient fossils can be found posting frequently on this board.

I did, but I didn't graduate. It's just '50s advertising illustration, a lot of ink and watercolor and airbrush work. https://www.pinterest.com/ideas/1950s-art/925379815750/ Corporate advertising art from the period was a strong influence on the "pop art" movement of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. Nice work on the build so far, by the way.

Yup. Workin' goodly.

Pee-emmed.

Dating using carbon-14 is what you'd need to determine my actual age.

Highway signs are there for a reason, so it's helpful if all drivers in the US can read English.

It's an altered wheelbase match-racer. They were called "funny cars" way back then because they looked "funny". THIS PARTICULAR CAR is a full tube-frame center-steer car, which makes it essentially a very early "funny car" even in a strict historical sense. But call it whatever you want. https://digital.allchevyperformance.com/issue/january-2024ru/tiger-ii-altered-wheelbase-1965-chevelle-funny-car-restoration/

Bones can lose strength as we age if we don't get proper nutrition and sufficient exercise, and vitamin D your skin makes from getting outside in the sun helps your bones absorb calcium better than supplements do.