Ace-Garageguy

Kid gloves with string backs used to be de rigueur for sports-car-driving poseurs as well as real racers.

Useless offshore-made garbage seems to me to be most of what WalMart and Temu and Amazon sell.

Answer the question "what is the meaning of life?" and you win a rubber duck.

"Want to see Mick Jagger looking like he's wearing lipstick and makeup?" (above) is a question I never thought to ask.

And one more...1/24 Heller Jag e-type cabriolet. So far I think these Heller kits are the best proportioned of all the E-types out there in 1/24. Also IIRC, Revell (the recent release) molded the cam covers into the head, which makes it unnecessarily difficult to do them in the polished alloy finish that's a huge part of the visual appeal of the early Jag XK engines. I have two Heller coupes as well (one missing suspension parts) but this one is sealed in the original shrink wrap...which I'm about to open because it looks like another one that's had something heavy sitting on the box for some time... Yippee. No crush, no warp, complete and sealed inside.

1/24 2005ish Revell Ferrari Superamerica, 1/24 Italeri Lancia Stratos HF, and 1/25 Union/IMC Lola T-70 spyder. For starters, I didn't really want the Superamerica, but to get the deal I had to take all three. I've always thought the late model SA looked more like a $60,000 "personal luxury car" or a Ferrari-ish body kit for a Camaro or 300ZX than a $300,000 exotic. So it'll be a donor for something else...either a Ferrari-powered hot-rod or a full rebody that looks more Ferrari to me. I already had a couple each Italeri and Hasegawa Stratos kits, but none had a good decal sheet for the particular rally version I want to do with one of the Hasegawas. This one was fairly inexpensive, so I'll feel a little better about hacking it into something even more outrageous...with an LS sitting sideways, possibly AWD. I also have a couple of the Lolas in original IMC and Union repop boxings, and it's a pretty decent looking model with a few de-kluge mods and a stance adjustment. I LOVE early Can Am cars. But to the best of my knowledge, there's no static coupe version available in 1/24-1/25, so this one is slated to get a rebody based on a clear slot-car shell. I did rather a lot of work on a real T-70 (Chevy powered) coupe eons ago. This particular kit was also kinda "reasonably" priced, so it won't much bother me stretching the tub a little to accommodate the somewhat larger 1/24 bodywork.

One of the more annoying things in life you'll realize fully over time is that even if you're the good guy who's careful and responsible, you will always pay a significant price for what the idiot-lowest-common-denominators do. ILCDs are the reason many seemingly-unfair-and-unnecessarily-restrictive laws and policies are on the books.

Possible outcomes of any given situation are not always positive in reality.

Yes, but if you're considering using the kit engines as stand-ins for other displacement first-gen Pontiac OHV V8s, have no fear. The popular 326-389-421 engines are all outwardly visually identical, with only bolt-on parts being different appearance-wise from 1955-1981 Quoting Wikipee: Pontiac differed from other GM Divisions and most other manufacturers in producing only a single sized V8 casting, rather than adding a larger big block to its line-up. The external dimensions of all their V8s, from 326–455 cu in (5.3–7.5 L) were the same. EDIT: Though there some short-deck oddballs in later years, and the early engines featured "reverse cooling", the basic engines will interchange visually in 1/25 scale.

Time travel isn't for folks who can't deal with change.

PM'd...but It needs "FREE CANDY!!!" spray painted on the side...

Google probably knows way more about you than the gubmint does, and so many people seem to have no problem with that...or posting the most intimate and private info on social media. I really don't understand most things people seem to "think" most of the time.

Nothing worth carping about yet...but it's early.

Work is hard and sweaty and icky and in general should be avoided, so become a rich yootoob influencer.

Enthusiastic employees are nice, but competent employees will let you get more sleep.

Successful business owners often work many more hours than their employees.

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"Don't make this any harder than it has to be" he growled as he tightened his grip on a short length of rebar.

Yeah, this time of year my house usually starts to get overrun with the little ants that smell like formic acid when you squash them. I've found a non-toxic (to humans and pets) liquid bait containing boric acid that gets rid of them in a few days. It works better than anything else I've ever tried. This year, I've got the big black ants that are almost large enough to be pets. They go for the boric acid bait too (not all ant species will), and at the moment the house is pretty much ant free...but we're having a lot of rain, and that's usually when they get worse.

Tall chickens tell no tales.

"About 5 pounds" is the punchline to a silly joke that posits the question "what's a henway?".

Before everybody's phone had GPS and access to Mapquest and Google, it was much harder to find your way to Boldlygo than it is now.

Football-stuffed turducken gives another layer of chewy leathery goodness to Thanksgiving dinner.

Potatoes would have to be pretty big to be stuffed with a turducken.

School ain't what it used to were, speshly when it comes to teachin reedin and rytin and rithmetik and jograffy and spellin and syunse and stuff.