Ace-Garageguy

Thanks for your interest and comment. I really need some R&R, this one is actually still on the bench, so maybe I'll do something to it this weekend.

Movies with Elvis frequently featured beauties like Ann Margret.

The thing is, without a passport, most American citizens won't be able to fly commercially within the US without the gold or black star. I don't fly commercial much these days, but when I have to, I HAVE to. My own GA license has been "real" for many years, but AZ doesn't accept the GA document and automatically issue a "real" one when you move...at least they didn't in 2021. For the "real" version, AZ requires your old license plus all fresh documentation: birth cert or passport and proof of local residency. Yeah, it's a minor PITA, but it is what it is, and once you get it, it's done.

About time for logic and rationality and respect for actual facts to make a comeback.

Great pix. I remember that era well. We lived on the Jersey coast about 60 miles south of NYC, and would often go to the city on weekends.

House and feed and clothe your children, but also teach them a sense of morality and ethics and honesty and self-respect and responsibility and self-reliance that forms the basis of how they behave and how they treat others.

"Hammer and tongs" is a colorful way of describing going very fast or doing something very vigorously.

Boxes full of rocks are smarter than some folks I know.

Friction is very useful and even pleasurable in some instances, but when it occurs between crankshaft bearing shells and journals, it can immediately precede a very expensive afternoon.

Characters and their development are central to most good fiction.

"Materialize" is a difficult word to start a sentence with (unless it's a command to a shape-shifting cat), so I'll take the easy way out and leave it at that.

First plastic car I can remember, in the late 1950s. It was a disaster, as I tried to hide my poor gloo-smeared assembly job with even worse enamel brush painting. I knew at the time it looked horrible, but try as I might, it just got worse and worse. It was so awful and frustrating, looking back I'm kinda surprised I stayed in the hobby. Possibly an early indicator of being a glutton for punishment.

"Food" doesn't rhyme with "good", and I want to know why.

Today's irk: the delusional who are totally convinced they're the morally superior final arbiters of truth, who in reality have no clue about much of anything, but are absolutely certain they're right about everything. I'm also irked by narcissistic neurotic sociopaths who talk about love and compassion and constantly tell you how much they care, but you can tell by their actions that they have zero regard for anyone but themselves, and if you call 'em out on it, they dodge and weave and deflect and refuse to give any kind of straight answer or accept accountability...ever.

Kinda sad they got cheaper than dirt for a while, and probably most of 'em, especially in places prone to rust, got driven to death or cut up one way or another.

Yeah, somehow I could suffer through having to look at her every day.

Ah yes, todays irk. Same as most days: second, third, and fourth rate overpaid "experts" doing as little real work as possible, and what they do being poorly executed, sloppy, and just flat wrong...with all of 'em thinking they're actually worth what they're paid, and their employers too ignorant or too afraid to call 'em out.

Experience really is the best teacher, but it's useless if you're not paying attention and thinking constantly.

Friends don't let friends put cheap knockoff "offshore" parts in their cars.

Accepted practice among people who actually know what they're doing is often sneered at by internet experts.

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Here's another old thread, possibly helpful... USCP appears to have multiple offerings as well, 3D printed... https://www.super-hobby.com/products/13-Inch-Revolution-4-Spoke-3D-Printed-For-Aoshima-Fujimi-Tamiya-Hasegawa.html

Before now was earlier, and after now will be later.

Aoshima is also a source for a variety of 13 inchers.

Thanks. I didn't know that. Guess I'd better dig everything out, check it, and shoot something on all the parts.