Ace-Garageguy

Which is why I specifically added the qualifier "in the hands of a skilled and practiced driver" to my comment above about left-foot braking with an autobox. I also mentioned a slalom driver I used to compete against who was amazingly fast driving a slushbox, often posting FTD (fastest time of the day) in innocuous little shiboxes, and I mentioned one of his "secrets" was left-foot braking. If you've ever driven slaloms or autocross events, you'll understand why this could be a plus for a driver who'd trained to do it without thinking. Your basic dozy bozo, which covers the vast majority of drivers, is lucky to get anywhere without putting himself or others in the hospital...and just remembering which pedal makes the car go and which one makes it stop seems to be pretty much the absolute limit of their ability.

The cast in support bands on the case and the square pan identify it as a '59-'64 "Jetaway 315", used in some Pontiac, Olds, Cadillac, Buick, Hudson, and American Motors products. It's a 4-speed automatic, kinda like the Hydramatic B&M used for their "Hydro Stick" racing autoboxes, but different. https://www.charlietranny.com/315Jet.htm

Yup...definitely starting to hang again, photos in posts taking forever to load, etc.

NOS Athearn HO scale Alco PA1 locomotive shell in Delaware & Hudson livery. I'm pretty sure this shell is out of production, as more recent Proto 2000 PA models from Walthers are essentially vastly upgraded Athearn models, with separate handrails, knuckle-style couplers that are NOT truck mounted, etc. I have a new Proto "DCC-ready" chassis to go under this old girl. The new chassis is complete with all the upgrades to make this vintage shell the equal of a gennie Proto 2000 unit. The D&H is rapidly becoming my all time favorite of the "fallen flag" railroads because of their habit of buying some very interesting used locomotives and then rebuilding them, including four Alco PAs, plus saving the last two remaining Baldwin "Sharks" from the scrapper and returning them to revenue service. The model, carrying number 19, is representative of one of the four real PA locomotives bought used by D&H and rebuilt, shown below in 1978.

"Electricity is just, like, in the wires" said a very vocal proponent of EVs not too long ago when asked where the electricity came from to charge her car...and she said it with this incredulous expression and inflection that implied "how can anybody be so stupid as to not know that?"

I only use "heel-toe" in manual gearbox cars, blipping the throttle for clean downshifts while braking, particularly with non-or-weak-synchro boxes. Pedal placement in mushomatics doesn't really lend itself to heel-toeing...at least in my experience.

Tent-pitching, being beyond the ken of many not-so-happy campers, has resulted in the invention of self-pitching tents, app-controlled and internet-connected.

Starting to hang again, and now sometimes pages just go completely blank.

"Read" is unfortunately not the same thing as "read and comprehend".

"Man" is another of those terms that can really get you in hot water.

The even intake port spacing isn't like any Olds I know, or SBC, BBC, Caddy, Pontiac, or Ford either with the paired center exhaust ports (which a Y-block has, but which also has very different paired-and-stacked intake ports). Looks like some inaccurate blobular mashup to me...but I could be wrong.

While there's some truth to that, depending on the car and specific pedal placement, I'll often left-foot-brake when driving an automatic...but I never ride the brakes as so many seem to do. In the hands of a skilled and practiced driver, tests have verified that the reaction time is significantly quicker hitting the brakes with the left foot, as opposed to lifting the right foot from the gas pedal and moving it over to the brake pedal. A guy who I knew racing slaloms decades ago was amazingly fast in automatics, and one of his tricks was left-foot braking. Using it to advantage is, of course, rarely the case with the average dozy incompetent behind the wheel.

Use the talent you were born with to develop skill that'll allow you to build a career you can enjoy instead of just getting a job.

Ace of Spades was the name of one of the Vietnam war field-built gun trucks. https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/the-ace-of-spades-and-the-story-of-vietnam-gun-trucks/

Are we having fun yet?

Meat-and-potatoes still does it for me; nothing beats a pot roast or a thick juicy ribeye and a baked spud.

"Beef" on the menu in some parts of the world bears a striking resemblance to dog when it's on the plate.

Famous never appealed to me, but being rich is acceptable.

"Comma" is occasionally confused with "coma" by the brain-dead.

At around 18, it's time to start at least trying to behave like an adult...but with fewer and fewer role models, it can be difficult to know what an adult behaves like.

"Insured against being stupid" is unfortunately not a thing.

"Confidant" is defined as someone with whom you share secrets; it is NOT the same as "confident", which means self-assurance.

Thanks for taking the time to post all the additional info. VERY much appreciated.

Simply the finest model of anything in any scale I've ever seen to date is Bill Cunningham's scratchbuilt 1/24 Birdcage Maserati. Not only has Mr. Cunningham mastered all the traditional modeling skills, including carving masters, but he's gone on to embrace 3D design and printing, and has developed methods to allow him to print 1 millimeter thick body shell parts...and he keeps improving. The Maser has to be seen in person to be fully appreciated.

I appreciate the mention. Glad you like it. I like it too. But it's so far from finished it takes somebody with more-than-average vision to get it. If I live long enough...