Ace-Garageguy

I believe his name is Cerberus...

Bad breath is some folks' answer to fear of close relationships.

Paint never dries and gloo doesn't, and every time you think you might actually enjoy the next moment, some shrill authoritative voice tells you to change a litterbox or take out the trash. If you love to build box-stock, the only kits you can have are jumbled up messes of cherry-picked leftovers, and if you love to kitbash hot-rods and American customs, all you're allowed to have is one late-model 4 door Asian kit at a time.

Very, very nice. Few models capture "the look" of a real car built by someone who has a clue. This one ticks all the boxes.

Desirable women run screaming when I smile at them.

Man, that's pretty. I need that kit...

Wear and tear on my body after 70+ years has left me a little creaky some mornings, but I can still do a 15 mile hike.

Lucky man. One of my favorite parts of the planet.

Very nice indeed. Perfect colors for an era when people bought what they liked, rather than "resale silver". These were such friendly looking little cars. I wish I'd bought a real one when I had more money.

Crusts from my sammige bread I preferred to be removed when I was an idiot child. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/kitchen-notes/dont-throw-out-your-kids-uneaten-sandwich-crusts

Yup, great colors for that body style, and the wheel choice and stance are perfect. Most excellent.

Very nice. I really need to build one of these.

Power corrupts, and even minor positions of power are often abused by small-minded men.

Yes, the RH servo, pan shape, and the tailshaft housing and flange look OK, but I've never seen a ribbed bellhousing on a TH350. But smooth the ribs off the bellhousing, it could pass.

Good grief, Charlie Brown.

The white one also looks kinda like a mid '50s Fordomatic...

That's a reasonable guess, as the ribbed bellhousing and the tailshaft housing are both C4-ish, but the servos aren't right.

I'd say the silver one is sposed to be a Mopar 727 Torqueflite, judging from its characteristic one-piece bellhousing/trans housing shape and other details (servos, pan shape), but it's a pretty poor rendition, lacking a separate tailshaft housing and indentations in the bellhousing perimeter for bolts.

Well, there is that. But any road-racer is aware that there's a very fine line between finishing a race and ending up in a pine box. Which tends to raise one's general awareness. When the awareness of the possible terminal nature of the sport begins to intrude too much, it's time to hang up the string-back gloves.

Yup...one of the last real sports cars, with an absolutely wonderful high-winding engine.

Around 1400 pounds. And there's no more structure next to you than there is in a Europa...fiberglass door shells and pillars. Though the Beck has a tubular steel chassis just like its real Porsche granddaddy, as opposed to the folded sheet-steel backbone of the Europa, none of the steel is anywhere where it will do you any good when some mommy in an Excursion drives over you. EDIT: The dry shipping weight on my Seven when I brought it over from England was listed as 843 pounds on the bill of lading. Driving hyper-light sports cars has a lot of the same attraction as riding motorcycles, but it's different somehow. I don't personally find it to have anything to do with "danger" per se, just a much more intense and visceral experience.

My long gone Lotus 7 would challenge that title...and my current Beck 550 Spyder runs a real close second. EDIT: Though I gotta say that driving tiny fragile cars these days with the increased population density and the vast majority of dozy incompetent drivers multitexting makes me a little more "uneasy" in traffic than in days of yore.

Agreed...though I do wear a seatbelt simply for better car control.

I managed to acquire multiples of all of 'em when they were relatively cheap...except the notchback, which I stupidly assumed would remain in production until I got around to it...

Cookies-and-milk is a treat I still indulge in occasionally...but rarely.