Ace-Garageguy

Wiggly pigglies all greased up are hard to catch.

No.

King Kong was a hairy old ape, and a hairy old ape was he.

Any chance it was this? Beechcraft Starship, a rare bird indeed. https://vintageaviationnews.com/vintage-aviation/the-last-beechcraft-starships.html

But ackchooally looking behind you is just SOOOOOO passé today. Cameras and screens and software and cabling and stuff make stupid mirrors and looking over your shoulder totally obsolete. Get with the 21st century, man.

I smell a class-action suit coming.

Appeal of a banana can be seen either as Greate Arte, or if you have more sense than money, fruit fly bait. "Look at this greate arte, mommy"

Character flaws have a bad habit of showing up at the worst possible time.

Building inspectors who are power-mad, on the take, or are too reading-challenged to comprehend the codes can make you think about...never mind.

There are elements I like a lot, some I don't. You can dump the huge lift-inducing front opening, for starters. And an EV doesn't need scoops and ducts in places that would be necessary for an ICE-powered vehicle, either. I imagine the designer probably intends all the scoopularity for some "aero" gizmology, but as it's shown, there's not apparently much room for a real-world battery pack...unless it's only supposed to have a 5 mile range, or unless it's built with some kind of ultra thin and compact battery that doesn't exist yet. All that said, it sure as jell would be a head turner...even if it was built of bondo-clad plywood and only had a few lead-acid batteries to run it around a parking lot on a starter motor.

Hard part there is getting him to stand still long enough to scan.

Only thing I recall is that extreme care is required to remove some parts from the trees, particularly the wheels, without damage. Also, the plumbing is kinda springy, and can interfere with the rear body panel fully closing. It's easily remedied by substituting soft wire of the right diameter that will stay in position once it's formed, or...possibly...using a little directed heat to "set" the kit plumbing in a non-interfering shape. EDIT: One more thing. The tubs on these cars were made of aluminum sheet with an almost polished surface. Silver paint isn't very realistic. Something like Alclad or the old Testors buffing metalizer looks much better.

Build skills by pushing yourself to do a little better every time, and trying new things.

DEW Line was a network of early-warning radars built in the frozen north during the Cold War.

There once was a lass from Nantucket.

Nice save of a kit somebody apparently really tried hard to bugger. Friendamind owned and raced one when he was stationed on Okinawa decades ago.

Resurrect a model that was assembled with a whole tube of glue, painted with a dirty pinecone, then smashed and most of the parts thrown away if you want a challenge.

Looking at Can-Con's build and review above, I kinda wonder if the two kits I bought from feePay were actually from Vic himself or poorly made ripoff copies. It would be nice if more people with actual experience with his product would chime in. I'd hate to see a guy get a bad rap because somebody sold nasty ripoffs, claiming they were his. It wouldn't be the first time...

Pennsylvania still had old-school steel mills with blast furnaces, and they'd light up the night sky for miles when I was a little kid.

Slipped the leash yesterday while some epoxy was curing enough to handle for the next step in assembling the custom instrument panel for the DeLorean project, and drove up to the Savoy Automobile Museum outside of Cartersville for a couple of hours. First time I've been there, though I've known about it since before they even broke ground. Very nice. I particularly wanted to see the exhibit of fiberglass kit cars before they went away. Couple of mistakes on the info boards with the cars, kinda surprising for such a professionally turned out venue. But then I lived, ate, and slept kit-cars for a while, and not everyone knows some of the esoterica...and they had one I'd never even heard of before, so that was cool. They also had an exhibit of early US-made small cars like Crosley and American Bantam, a gallery full of Studebakers from the teens through the '60s, some locally owned restored and customized cars, and cars from their permanent collection...plus a good selection of automotive art and memorabilia. Overall a very pleasant experience, well worth the $17 admission fee, and I'll be going back when the exhibits change. Displayed outside is the abandoned 1954 Plymouth Savoy found on the property as it was being cleared, and that inspired the name of the museum.

This repair would have entailed dropping the fuel tank for access to a "failed module" according to the scan-tool, would have cost the customer many more hundreds of dollars, AND STILL WOULDN'T HAVE FIXED THE PROBLEM. This is the difference between a guy who's highly competent and conscientious, who understands computer-aided AND old-school diagnostics, and the clueless majority of folks "fixing" cars today. To paraphrase Smokey Yunick: Best Damb Garage on the Internet.

Very nice. Real fabrication. "Doing things right the first time" and saving stuff most would throw out to make cool stuff floats my boat.

"Box lunch" is a light meal like a sandwich sometimes offered on or included in touristy trips like steam-train excursions.

More sane grocery prices at Kroger. Whole hot roast chicken for $5, and a loaf of really good in-store-bakery crusty multi-whole-grain bread for $3.58.

Sandwich making is a valuable survival skill, and costs a helluva lot less than relying on Grubhub, UberEats, and DoorDash.