Ace-Garageguy

100 times the talent of Bad Chad...

I think I'll have a banner printed of that to hang in the shop for whoever asks "why's it taking so long?", and I'll just point.

That would be from this...

Jus' pracisin' fo' a possble ka-reer in po-litics.

Man, I LOVE that thing. Funny...in the photo it looks like a mid-'60s southern moonshine runner. Badass car.

In case you guys haven't noticed, there are a lot of butts in the world, and some of them get their little jollies by provoking and then watching people on the internet give them free space in their heads while they sit back and laugh. Just sayin', as they say.

It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, birds are singing, air smells like wild roses and honeysuckle. I have too much paperwork to get through today to take a hike, but I slipped the leash long enough to walk the 2 miles to the store and back. Fixin' to have a tomato sandwich for lunch. Life is good. EDIT: I find it helps me deal with big, difficult things to be mindful and thankful for the small things.

Bingo.

"At this time, your call cannot be completed; please try your call again after we've replaced our huge crew of nitwits with a few competent people."

Power went out at about 11:23 AM local. Heard the transformer blow. They had it back on at 11:40. Pretty good response time.

LOVE it. Biggest smile I've had all week.

If you're serious, I'll gladly take it off your hands. Send me a PM if you want to work something out.

Heller / Union has a version too. More engine detail IIRC. I'd have a look, but I've moved all of mine already. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/heller-l744-porsche-917-k--157469 HRM offers an engine package for the Fujimi kit. Not always available, so check sellers like Model Builder's Warehouse frequently. They sell out fast. https://www.modelbuilderswh.com/collections/engine-kits/products/porsche-917k-engine-and-detail-kit

This is probably my real problem.

Beautiful car, sound system looks fine fine fine. The blue dots in the taillights are pretty cool too.

Cool truck I'd sure love to have. And it'll get done if you don't ever give up.

No.

Exclaimed on the phone the reason she was out all night was because her best girlfriend's mom was in the hospital and she was taking care of her friend's kids, but caller ID said she was at Raoul-the-pool-boy's; stupid girl.

I think it was a different kid. Those seemed to last forever. The ones on ethernet cables seem to fail after relatively few cycles.

Hee's working now. Did it blow a hydraulic line on the lift?

Not to pick on Ford vans, but the front door hinge pillar design on the current full-size vans is one of the worst I've ever seen. Not only are the hinges not in a line perpendicular to the ground, causing the doors to open at a wonky angle, it's clear the designer of the door pillar had no working knowledge of metal fatigue. One shop I work with has a bodywork contract with Lockheed Martin's Marietta plant, and we've been repairing fatigued hinge pillars at about 40,000 miles on their entire fleet of these trucks. The pillar skin is very light sheetmetal, the reinforcement behind it "floats" and does very little, the stiffening ribs are too far from the load point, so the washer behind the upper hinge attachment fatigues and pulls through the pillar skin. Our fix includes fabbing a 1/8 inch thick load-spreader plate inside the pillar, that does what Ford's sub-optimal design doesn't. They never break again. Only other pillar design I've seen fail like this was on the mid-1980s Isuzu pickups, when I owned a fleet-services company, and my repair then was almost identical. EDIT: And yes, they get used hard. But they're, you know...trucks.

Yup, and it's also just slightly underscale...which becomes apparent when you try to add speed parts to it.

Intervene when you see a friend indulging in self-destructive or addictive behavior and they'll probably hate you for it, but if you really care about someone, it's worth the risk.