Ace-Garageguy

We're seeing more and more of that. Things that used to be easy to get are becoming harder and harder to even locate, and we're often forced to scour the country to get used parts for almost new cars. Then the insurance company will drag their feet, the only part available gets bought by somebody else, and the wait begins again while we look for another one. This is NOT an UNUSUAL occurrence these days. Yeah, tell me again about how much mo' better this high-techie world is. I've been in the car biz for over 5 decades, and I've NEVER seen anything like the way it is now.

Thanks. Odds are it won't happen. I'll have to liquidate a lot of stuff to pull it off, and they might not even be willing to sell anything but a complete kit, which I can understand, but that would most likely kill the deal. A full kit is about $100 grand, and there's no way to finance these things...normally... Still, it's kinda nice to have a dream even at the ripe old age of 146. Anyway, I still have the '32 Ford to build as soon as I get settled in Az., and a few others to get running again, so I can't really complain no matter how it goes.

Often, people can be critical of things they don't understand.

Park your car close to a cliff edge in Cali and it might fall into the ocean before you can say "Jack be nimble".

Fear is natural and OK, as long as you don't let it hold you back.

Return those Coke bottles and look under the couch cushions to encourage the winds of loose change...

Time out, because empty pockets can be remedied.

Well fellers...I just emailed the company to see if they'll sell components separately...like a bare chassis, suspension uprights, and body panels. I already have a 944 Turbo gearbox, enough SB Chebby stuff to trade for a decent LS, and I can fabricate the rest or buy it stateside. We shall see... https://www.gdcars.com/t70spyder

Up is a Disney film I'd never head of until just this minute.

Kinda like fully competent non-CNC machinists, fabricators, body men, painters, mechanics... Yup...any endeavor that's "hard" physically (translation: requires intelligence, talent, skill, precision, attention to detail, and a high degree of personal commitment to getting things right the first time) is going away.

Yup. And unlike a lot of replicas and kit-cars, this one appears to be entirely capable of turning in some impressive real-race-track performance. Imagine going out and driving something as rorty and competent as a real 1960s Can Am car that's in good nick whenever you felt like it. Oh yes.... EDIT: This guy can drive, too. He's right on the edge all the time.

Soon you'll be having to re-tune your delicate sensibilities to eat nothing but bugs and seaweed.

Bootlegs are where we find calves.

Bentley S3, circa 1964

These are very nice. Meant to comment earlier. People who handle watercolor well have my deepest respect.

All my life I've wanted a streeterized '60s prototype car, but real ones are unobtainable now, and every one of the kit-built offerings I've been able to drive, though beautiful, fast, and tons of fun, have come up short one way or another. But I think I may have finally found the one. Time to start saving my lunch money again...

Operation Crossroads made two big booms.

Futurama sold me on the idea that a cyclops babe could be hot.

Sidewalk games like hopscotch don't seem to be played much in these days of everything-anyone-could-possibly-want-to-do right there in the devices clutched in all the little fingers.

One doesn't have to look far to find equally absurd beliefs and lack of understanding of physical reality.

"Jul 12, 2023 — State air regulators recently banned a toxic chemical commonly used to produce a shiny metal finish on classic car parts." https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/business/2023/07/12/california-bans-chrome-plating--impacting-decorative-platers-and-metal-finishers The world won't be safe until humans do nothing but sit in the dark, eating their fungus (or Soylent Green) raw, while trying not to exert themselves, so as to limit breathing and exhaling deadly carbon dioxide.

I like heem. Never heard it or of Moe before, so thanx for broadening my horizons.

"Round" was probably a pretty big deal when the shape was applied to make the first wheel, but lotsa antediluvian pre-Luddites probably screamed "if Gowom had wanted things to roll, he would have put ball bearings on trees" or some such idiocy.

Seat-of-the pants navigation might get you to your desired destination, or you might wind up over the Paducah ocean.