Ace-Garageguy

The potential safety issues are why I withdrew my recommendations above. ONE possible (probable) reason for removing chrome is that there MIGHT be mold-lines present under the chrome. Manufacturers NEVER remove these lines, and they usually appear on the ends of plastic model car bumpers in highly visible locations. And while it is usually possible to design injection molded parts without any surface-visible mold parting-lines, it's not going to happen in most kits due to additional costs and the desire to put the bumper on a conventional sprue with many other parts.

Now that you mention it, a few things do seem out of kilter.

1930 was just a little before I got here.

Ummm...no. Chlorine is NOT sodium hypochlorite, which is a chemical compound made up of sodium, oxygen, and chlorine, NaOCl. Chlorine is a chemical element; it has symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly intermediate between them. Chlorine is a yellow-green gas at room temperature. Accuracy in science matters.

Consider the Lobster.

Churchill Arms Pub was my nightly stop on the way home for enough years to see the owner's son grow up from a small boy to become the bartender.

I'm reasonably sure feePay requires a shipping method that includes a tracking number, as there's no shortage of scum-sucking bottom-feeders who will claim they never received their purchase, and put in for a refund otherwise. The default USPS shipping method has been "2 Day Priority" for a long time, but "Ground Advantage" is considerably cheaper, doesn't usually take much longer (though it can be considerably longer) and comes with tracking as well. More and more sellers are using it now. AND...as Len mentioned above, if you can arrange your purchases so that you get multiple items from the same seller, you save a worthwhile amount on shipping, usually. Of course there ARE those sellers who won't combine shipping, and then everything arrives in the same box anyway, where the seller paid less than half of what he charged...and I'll never buy from them again, and I hope the negative feedback I leave for them will dissuade others.

If I tried that and then complained about the results, I'd need to start an "I'm a moron" thread.

Welcome to the forum. Hope you'll find lotsa good stuff here.

Heard back from Gardner-Douglas, the builder of these things, and they're amenable to a spread-out build-stage program, as opposed to requiring purchase of the entire kit. They seem like a good company to do business with, so we'll see what we'll see...

PM'd. I want one.

Revival meetings in big tents erected in fields were a big draw in a little town where I once lived.

Yup. Any thought of serviceability today is pretty much dead.

It's shaping up to be a windy, rainy day, perfect for doing paperwork.

No irks today, but I'm sure as soon as I finish my first cup of coffee I can think of something to whine about.

Overrated, overheated, over blown, and over-and-out are all over, Rover.

Very nice models. Love the old ones. Wonderfully balanced, tossable little cars. The advertising phrase "nothing handles like an Alfa" was entirely true. They even managed to smell different from anything else. The newer one is attractive, and I'm sure it's competent, but with a different grille it could be anything from anywhere.

Sensibilities of the delicate kind can lead to screaming hysterically, running in circles with your hair on fire, and complaining to moderators on social media platforms several times every hour.

My understanding is that slammers don't have any interior, just blacked out windows But anybody...feel free to correct me.

Wow. That's...utilitarian.

Day can be the opposite of night, but it's not necessarily right to assume that's always the case, because everything is interpreted and therefore governed by lived experience and feelings and personal perspective and not repressive objective reality.

"About time!" barked the employer as his least favorite slacker schlepped in at noon.

Hobby-shop browsing was my favorite rainy Saturday passtime, starting when I was about 11.

Hot Rod magazine in the late postwar era and all through the '50s could have just as well been called "Hot Rod Engineering". I have a fair collection of mags from the era, with in-depth articles on the various types of ignition systems from battery/coil to magneto to early electronic setups, the theory and practical application of supercharging and its effect on volumetric efficiency, modifying and tuning Hilborn mechanical injection for the street, carburettor theory, design analysis of American units, and practical mods and tuning, theory and practice of header design...much of what anyone could need to know to become a competent and knowledgeable car builder...or just a good mechanic with a firm grounding in basic concepts...was covered at one time or another. In the last years, most of that stuff would have been nixed by the dumbed-down editorial policy, binned in the TLDR can. It's a shame, because much of my engineering interest was inspired by periodicals like Hot Rod, and the tech stuff lit a fire in me to learn as much as I could absorb into the workings of automobiles and machines in general...and by extension, the workings of the physical world we all inhabit. From what I've seen lately, I can't imagine much of what's out there now having the same effect on a young person. EDIT: One of the earlier magazine flags to fall was Sports Car Graphic, whose tech editor was Paul van Valkenburgh, author of the classic Race Car Engineering and Mechanics, a tech wizard if there ever was one. One standout article I vividly recall took a DeTomaso Mangusta from a relatively unreliable, overheating, typically finicky Italian exotic, corrected a multitude of smallish issues, and turned it into a useable daily driver you could actually go someplace in. How cool was that? SCG folded in 1971, and later my entire collection was lost along with the contents of a storage unit when I was occupied elsewhere.

"Specialist cars" is a term that encompasses primarily British low production and kit cars.