Ace-Garageguy

Fella walked by my house yesterday during the event with an open umbrella over his head. Guess he didn't want to get exposed to any of the deadly eclipse rays. I couldn't tell if it was tinfoil-lined.

And yet another easy one. Thanks. PM'd.

"King" doesn't often carry any real authority these days, and is likely to be nothing but a celebrity maintained in spectacular style.

Variety shows like Ed Sullivan had acts like Elvis and acrobats and Topo Gigio all on the same bill.

Looks great, like something Bertone would have done, especially the somewhat Montreal-esque headlight eyelids. I like the 2X3bbl Weber carb setup too, which could be done in reality with some machine work. The stock one- or two-throat manifolds were milled off and Crown Mfg. 3-throat castings substituted.

Pretty baby. The real ones never looked that good until they were restored many years after last turning a wheel in battle. Are the seat ventilator rings PE or paint?

Hamster hands.

Beautiful car, though I'm not a fan of all the complication. Anyway, a fella I work with bought one like it, one owner creampuff, a client of ours for many years who was downsizing his fleet, super price. Was rear-end-totalled just a few weeks later by a texter, made decent money on the deal after the insurance payout. I'm sure you'll enjoy it, 'cause they ARE really nice.

...nine months afterwards.

Golly gee willikers. I got so excited I hyperventilated, threw up, and wet myself.

Just an FYI for folks buying pre-printed parts...there is a lot of poorly designed, poorly scaled, and poorly printed stuff out there, so look critically at what you're buying. EXAMPLE: there's a "Ford FE" on feepay right now that looks as much like an FE as I do. The plugs are on top of the heads, and he's got the intake manifold feeding into the block. Pathetic phoned-in garbage, but somebody's going to buy it.

Well, it got a little dark out, and I watched it with a pinhole in a piece of cardboard projecting on a white sheet of paper. About 60% totality here in Atlanta. Now it's getting lighter again. We had an almost total one here back in May of '84.

I'm a simple guy. Watched it with a pinhole in a piece of cardboard projecting on a white sheet of paper. About 60% totality here in Atlanta.

Polished plastic can look quite good, assuming there are no visible flow-swirls in it, and that all flash and parting lines can be removed and all traces polished back up as well...but it always looks like polished plastic to me. Just one old geezers opinion.

Taking the afternoon off to sit outside at a local establishment and have a cocktail while the space-dragon eats the sun. As good a reason as any, right? Mustn't forget the shades.

"Home alone" is a state I enjoy immensely, so don't bother me with trivial talk and requests for help doing things any adult should be able to handle solo.

Numbers are hard.

Thanks, and yes, I'm aware of that. The thing that struck me yesterday was how immediate the effect was. I've been somewhat sedentary most of the winter. Standing and moving while working doesn't really count as "exercise". Consequently, I've been having more of the kind of joint and back pain I get when I'm not active enough for a while. After 45 minutes sitting in in the sun in just shorts, the pain was very noticeably reduced, still was last night, and is so far today.

Very pretty. Never too many GT40 iterations, and a little history is always appreciated too.

Same as any other carrier. And I've flown Southwest for decades without a minute's hesitation. But you simply can't reach all the engine cowling panels from the ground without a ladder, and climbing around airliners on ladders isn't part of a pilot's pre-flight. Nor can you always tell by looking if quarter-turn latching fasteners or retainer screws are properly engaged. A pilot has to be able to trust the ground crew to be putting panels back on correctly (or noting any panel-fastener defects), just like he has to be able to trust the workers who build the things to put all the bolts in. Just for some perspective, the rear body panel on Mark Donohue's Porsche 917 opened up at 180MPH here at Road Atlanta in a testing session back in 1972, rendering it uncontrollable. It subsequently left the ground, flipped over on its back, and was destroyed in the resulting crash...all because a body mount fastener wasn't properly secured. (Donohue, by the way, walked away from that one because the car was engineered so well.) EDIT: The point is that even though Donohue was an engineer himself and the ultimate professional development driver, and Roger Penske's car prep was probably the most meticulous on the planet, somebody didn't catch a loose panel latch before the car went on the course. But in that case, Donohue was the only one whose life was at risk. Airliners flying at over 500 MPH with hundreds of souls on board are orders of magnitude more critical as far as mechanical double-checks go.

Rest assured, an airliner losing an engine cowling in flight would have been "news-worthy" any time in the past. HOWEVER...what the idiot, ignorant media IS doing is beating the "Boeing bad !!!" drum. Poor maintenance procedures on the part of distracted or incompetent ground personnel have zero to do with the aircraft manufacturer. Aviation incidents are indeed becoming more common. Another airliner missed an ILS landing approach just a few days back, and almost hit the control tower at the airport where it was attempting to land. Investigations are ongoing as to whether it was equipment failure (the ILS...instrument landing system) or human error.

"Basis points" is a term we hear a lot these days when the talking heads start going on about the Fed manipulating interest rates.

Freezing intermittently all day long. Surprised I could post this.

Went out and sat in the dangerous and terrifying cancer-causing evil sunshine at noon to get some natural vitamin D, and because tanned wrinkly old men are nowhere near as gross as pasty-white wrinkly old men. I honestly feel better both physically and emotionally when I'm getting regular moderate UV exposure, and my research indicates it's probably NOT a figment of my imagination. Besides your skin making a form of vitamin D that the body can use more easily than supplements, sun exposure raises your serotonin levels too. Ain't nature grand? https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-minute-how-change-in-sunlight-can-affect-your-mood/