Ace-Garageguy

Most excellent. Thanks !!!

I have several of these, one as a WIP Chevy-powered Bonneville contender. That's NOT a "mold mismatch" around the rear wheel-arch. It's a flange put there specifically to mount the fender skirts. After you file down the body side parting lines, you'll need to re-scribe the door opening lines. The best way to deal with the hood gap is to file the body on the front to allow the hood the slide a little farther back. Don't overdo it. And there's some variation from body to body unfortunately. The hood hinge slots in the firewall are huge and klugey too, and really need to be filled so as not to show...with smaller more prototypically correct hinges fitted. The body is very well proportioned though, and responds beautifully to some metalwork...and the flanges for the rear skirts can be removed entirely OR minimized to the point they're almost invisible but still allow mounting the skirts with rubber cement or white glue if you want them to be removable for some reason. One more thing...I'd recommend a self-etching automotive primer for the metal parts.

"Do be do be do" sang Frank.

Beautiful model, well deserved recognition.

About time for logic, rationality, and common sense to make a big comeback.

"Retirement" means different things to different people, and it's not always unlimited free time...depending of course on an individual's personal choices.

Rite spling duddnt seam ta bee tot inn skool no mor.

Basement layouts are great if you have a dry one, attic layouts are great if you can keep them cool in summer, but garage (or in another dedicated building) layouts at ground level are the best.

Even logging in and out are starting to hang up now, on both Chrome and Firefox, and photos are taking longer and longer to display...sometimes not at all. No problems with ANY other sites or forums.

Kits of railroad equipment manufactured in the '40s and '50s, mainly of the "craftsman" variety that are close to scratchbuilding, are the subject of much of my collecting interest at the moment.

Sense of the common variety is remarkably uncommon.

Both the old 392 Chrysler hemi and the later 426 have even exhaust port spacing, and the heads are about the same length. Unless you're a real nitpicker, the 426 headers should look just fine in 1/25. Big-block Chevys and many Fords also have even exhaust port spacing, so something made for those might work for you.

Co-worker shirking and hiding somewhere with the smartphone is becoming ever more common.

Results of human/chimpanzee hybridization attempts were supposedly never successful...

Get a cat that will lick up spilled chemicals. It may take several hundred generations of selective breeding to get one that will survive, but think of the long-term marketing potential of a thing like that.

Came from a long line of pontificating procrastinators he did, and became positively petulant when questioned about his penchant for pompous platitudes and platypi.

"Waste not, want not" may be prudent advice, but if you always eat everything they pile on your plate at most restaurants in one sitting, your waist will certainly show it...so is turning food into useless poundage a waste or not?

"Opinion leaders" (otherwise known as "influencers") effects on the general populace really make me question whether average IQ is much over 75 these days.

Getting some weird glitching when trying to leave "likes" now too...

This was waiting when I got in, an almost-new HO scale Proto 2000 Alco PA power-chassis and body shell, never assembled. Looks like the earlier Athearn D&H PA shell (above) will be pretty much a drop-on swap once the front coupler is removed...pretty much as I'd expected. Maybe a small bit of clearancing inside the shell, as well. BIG THANKS to Steve Grantham for those photos of a PA with her innards exposed, too.

"Head to the border" and get me a 10-pound bag of Taco Bell sorta-Mexican food seems to be a good way to kick off this long weekend...'cause I don' feel like cookin'.

For what it's worth, my real '63 Olds Dynamic 88 convertible has another oddball and unloved GM slushbox, the "Roto Hydramatic" known also as the "Slim Jim". Parts used to be hard to find. Now they're probably impossible. Unfortunately, because of its small size, the Olds tunnel won't accommodate a TH350 or 700R4 without sheetmetal work, and the later boxes won't bolt to an Olds 394 anyway. I've always wanted a manual box in the car since I drove it in high-school, so whatever it takes to make that happen...

Yes, in a torque-tube setup the tailshaft and housing would be different, but many gearboxes over the years were used in both open and closed driveline configurations. Far as what American Motors products used it, known technically as a "controlled coupling Hydramatic" ("Jetaway" was a GM marketing name), according to the trans reference site I linked to, the basic design was built from '56 through '64...and WikiPee (which I never take as definitive) lists these cars as being equipped with GM Hydramatics (which are, of course, entirely different from Turbo-Hydros): 1950–1957 Nash 1951–1956 Nash Rambler 1957 Rambler 1958–1960 Rambler American (AT&T associated company fleet units only)... so basically, who knows whether a particular car had the earlier Hydramatic or this one? I've done all the searching I'm going to.

"Intriguing" is what I generally call something that I really think is idiotic, but I'm too nice to say it...or too afraid of the censors.

Sandwich making is beyond the ken of many folks today, but never fear going hungry as long as you can pay ten times the cost to make one yourself for one delivered by DoorDash.