Ace-Garageguy

Photo copies notwithstanding, I see we have a participant in the post above them who seems to be confusing the rules of the "one sentence game" with the rules of the "once upon a time" game.

I would have created a means to pin the windshield to the body before painting, then attached it with the pins and a little white glue afterwards. I've used that method several times. It just takes very careful measuring and drilling. EDIT: I pinned this windshield frame early in the mockup process, as it was integral to the look I was after, and it also had to be removable, but go back in exactly the same place every time. I didn't show the process though, as this was the first one I did that way, and I wasn't 100% sure it would work as intended...so I didn't photograph the process. The pins are literally that, short point sections of straight pins glued into the frame, fitting into corresponding holes in the body. Windshield still fits dead-on after all the bodywork and paint on the main body was finished:

"Pecans is sometimes pronounced "PEE cans".

From post-and-beam to pecans, pecan wood is great for woodworking, beautiful, hard, and strong, and the scraps work very well for smoking food.

Post and beam construction has always appealed to me.

Sumpin like this'll take care o' those pesky birds...

Brownies hot and fresh out of the oven, swimming in hot fudge sauce, with a big cold glass of milk would be nice right about now.

Never mind.

Toidi I goit a loit done, and mayboi I'll get moire done tomorrow.

"Number be too hard" is a sentence that might be uttered by an idiot.

The momentum of thoughtful, well considered suggestions seems to have pretty well petered out. While waiting for the powers-that-be to decide and announce how it will be going forward, somehow a little levity crept into the discussion. Can't have any of that.

Yeah. What's next indeed?

I like heem. Lots.

"Times" is frequently the incorrect interpretation for the letter "X", like when "journalists" write about magnification, where the right interpretation is "power", as in an 8x lens is an 8 power lens, not an eight times lens...unless you're 5, in which case it's an excusable mistake.

Be a big boy and don't cry over spilt milk when life gives you lemons.

I was always taught that was Porsche owners, but of course that can't be right, because I is one.

You know, I think that may be becoming a trope on the interwebs...that using the turn signals might damage the electrical system...as I'm seeing a lack thereof more and more frequently across every make and model of vehicle. Kinda like the two-car-lengths between every vehicle in line at a stop light has become almost universal now.

Gibber McGee was Fibber's brother, IIRC.

Friendamine just had to change the starter on his mid-teens BMW inline-six somethingorother he bought for $1000 (a real visual creampuff of a car) because it had a host of electronic issues that had deemed it an economic total, too expensive by far to be repaired by a dealership, so the owner dumped it for what she could get after pouring mucho dinero down the toilet. After he bought it, he got enough of the electronics back online to get it to pass emissions so it was taggable, and was happy. Anyway, he's been a Eurocar mechanic longer than I have, and this ridiculous thing listed book time as about 5 hours to do the starter. It took him every bit of it, working on a lift, indoors, with just about every handtool known to man. Pull the intake manifold to get at the starter on an inline six? REALLY?? One can only surmise the designers had never seen other inline sixes where a starter job takes less than an hour. EDIT: Apparently the same crew got their little let's-reinvent-every-wheel-we-can-find paws on the "new" Mini design process too. Way back in the dim recesses of time, I thought the original Mini was a royal PITA to work on, but due to the then-novel transverse engine packaging, and being British, well, it was what it was. Later developments on the transverse FWD theme, like Fiats and Geos and Toyotas and Nissans were easier than the original Mini. Each generation of designs got a little better there for a while, including from a working-on-it standpoint. But somewhere along the line, everything went to jell. Late-model Minis? Pure unadulterated nightmares.

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" Friedrich Nietzsche

Yup. I've never had a problem with electronic engine management as a stand-alone system. That and improvements in combustion chamber design and ports and manifolds enabled by CAD and CFD have enabled impressive gains in both efficiency AND performance. But that's where my interest in and acceptance of onboard "technology" ends, period. If you're too special to deign to look over your shoulder or use a mirror while reversing, or too weak and inept to adjust your own seat or close your trunk without a dozen processor-driven electric motors for help, or are incapable of maintaining vehicular control without "traction assist" and "active suspension" and ABS, I'd really prefer that you stay home. I'd rather not be sharing the road with you.

"Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do" isn't a sentence, at least in English.

"Si vis pacem, para bellum"

Series production of a specified number of units was necessary for "homologation" of some cars to be eligible to compete in certain classes of racing.

Yeah, I love that old kit too. Have fun. First model contest I ever entered, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.