Ace-Garageguy

We have seen the future and it looks a lot like us...

Thanks fer bringing this up, guys. I needs 'em too, and my local Wolmort's all show 'em in stock. Getcha a solar-powered charger to live on the windowsill and help save the planet.

That bites. Thanks, Mom.

I, for one, really appreciate your vast knowledge about your subject matter, your willingness to help by sharing it, and I very much like your build style and presentation.

Yes, the Porsche and both the Scarab shells are 1/24. There's a thread on this forum of a good looking curbside built from one of the Scarab shells, which prompted me to find one.

Couple more recent acquisitions, mostly inspired by builds on this and other forums: A pair of very old 1/24 Strombecker front-engined Scarab shells, one tooled as a slotcar hard-body, one tooled as a battery-powered toy, both based on the same master, in the same box, below. Much scratchbashing required to make nice models from these, but there's no shortage of reference material available, and the real cars still exist. Coupla cool things about front-engined Scarabs: 2 were powered by Hilborn-injected smallblock Chevys, and ran Halibrand QC rear ends...unusual in road-racing...with DeDion rear suspension and inboard rear brakes using Mercury drums. Definitely a hot-rodder's road-racer. 1/24 Protar Mercedes W196. Kit is only curbside, has some glaring scaling and proportion errors, but with some hacking and addition of Revell 300SLR guts, should make a beautiful piece An excellent Johan '61 Dodge Phoenix body shell for an ongoing long-term project (to replace a badly warped resin shell that I might be able to save), below. EDIT: It was my own stupidity, not paying attention, and not thinking that caused the warpage of a very nice resin body I acquired several years ago. Point being, I'm not immune to doing dumb stuff for one reason or another, but I try not to make it a lifestyle, and I most definitely don't see it as something to be proud of or to defend by making excuses. And a very old 1/24 Revell Porsche RS-60 slotcar body shell; this fills the last gap in competition Porsches I'm really interested in, and with some scratchbashing using Fujimi parts should make another beautiful model.

A couple of my list toppers: old Modelhaus 1957 Mercury Monterey, below And the ancient Aurora 1/16 Chrysler and Donovan engine kits, below

Done that, been there, and wrote an article about it on the t-shirt 'cause I had no paper at the time.

Does anybody really know what time it is; does anybody really care?

They made some 1/20 automotive stuff.

Looks good. I think that's the best color on that body design, bar none.

Now we have another non-sentence, which is "Cars, a necessary evil", and it would have been so easy to make it an actual sentence by writing "cars are a necessary evil"; I just don't get why this seems to be so difficult.

Sorry to hear that...really...but don't despair. According to the media and various statistics, the economy is booming and employment opportunities are being created at an all time high in the history of the universe. Again, seriously. I'm sorry to hear you got laid off. But what you're saying reflects a reality that's being downplayed or outright lied about.

I believe if there was a moratorium placed on the human manufacture of bovine exhaust and hot air, we would instantaneously solve the "existential environmental crisis". Just sayin', as they say.

River rocks make great looking pavers or walls if you can afford 'em.

Irrefutable evidence is readily available, but...

Deck the walls with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla Walla Washington.?

Facts: The Fear is All in the Presentation