Ace-Garageguy

I'm sure you noticed that, besides the stocker, they also make a flathead V8 equipped hot-rod version.

Today's fun summer toy. Sandblasting, outside in the sun, in a full protective suit, mask, gloves, etc. Yippee !!!

I'd really have to disagree with this. I have, let's say, a little experience, and to me, building a good set of custom headers in scale...or real...is one of the most challenging tasks I've come across. And if anything, it's harder in scale.

Cabriolet. Posted above. Different body style. But yes, 1930 and '31 Fords are almost identical...also posted above.

Control what other people focus their energy on, why doncha?

Choices in life often boil down to taking the easy way and settling for mediocrity, or taking the harder way and striving for excellence; guess which one is more prevalent.

Nothing in 1/24-1/25, But Minicraft did one (several versions) in 1/16. If you have to have one in a smaller scale, Monogram did a 1/24 kit with a cabriolet option, that can be converted to a roadster with some work (the 1930 and '31 Fords are almost identical). For 1/25, Revell did several kits based on this one, and a '32 Ford roadster body shell can be reworked into a very good representation of a '30-'31. The rear fenders will require modification to fit the roadster body correctly too.

Good to know. Thanks.

Accomplishments? Consistent ability to comprehend and communicate intelligibly? Understanding how things work in reality? There are lots of ways. But there's interesting psychological research that indicates stupid people are usually quite certain they're smart, and hold steadfastly to every belief (and swallow what they're told by "experts") without question, while smart people often doubt themselves...and everything else. And it's not a new idea.

For a good laugh...and some insight into why things are the way they are today, read the "hampster" story... https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/this-helicopter-mom-raised-a-daughter-incapable-of-normal-business-behavior-a-warning.html

Not just this country. Global general intelligence is in decline. Lots of "experts" disagree, but all they do is prove they're too dumb to understand the real data. And the internet just makes it easy for morons everywhere to prove to the world how stupid they really are.

Yup. Hard to find those qualities in older "experienced" guys too. Last self-styled "fabricator" the other shop hired tried to make a trans mount from old rusty exhaust tubing hammered flat, bent, and brazed. Geez. ?

First question is what are you interested in building? Whatever it is, I'd suggest you start with small relatively simple parts, to get a feel for working with the materials and making things fit together. Even very complex parts can always be broken down into simple shapes and assemblies.

"About face, for'd Harch!" shouted the leather lunged DI, and sent the platoon of crybaby momma's boys straight off the cliff; too bad it's not always that easy to be rid of 'em.

I would recommend a self-etching primer for maximum adhesion. Possibly overkill, but I really hate flaking paint.

Only the second time since 2016, one of the companies I work with has been able to find a young person who wants to work on cool cars, and who has the requisite mechanical aptitude and work ethic. Kid's 17, decided he wanted to learn about cars when he was 12. Started hanging around a family friend's resto shop, eventually got put to work part time sweeping, etc. By the time he was 15, after having learned the basics of a variety of shop operations, including welding, he bought a rusty basket case '70 Chevelle SS396 with money he'd been saving from the beginning. So far he's replaced all the rusty floors and done the bodywork himself, and our painter helped him shoot it in our booth. Not up to our standards, but for a kid's first paint job, it's very nice. The shop has him doing the entry-level grunt work, and he never complains. He works all the time he's there, and I haven't caught him once playing on his phone, or hiding. He's also polite without being a suckup, speaks well, seems plenty intelligent to do something "white collar", and offers to help everyone else in the shop in any way he can. Plus, he wants to learn...and when he doesn't know something, he admits it instead of trying to bluff his way through by pretending (which never works around guys who know their stuff from doing it for decades). Cool kid.

Times like these make me pine for earlier days when rationality was more common, "physical work" wasn't sneered at by legions of effete do-nothings, and the US still had a strong manufacturing base.

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Doubleplusgood.

"Utter Nonsense, Lies, and Propaganda Network" would be the new name for CNN if there was any respect for reality in today's world.

Cahoots be da ca-owls talkin ta each udder.

Waddya expeck frum too genurashuns dat cant make change frum a dolar w out a app, n school sistums dat teech arithmutick n gettin da rite anser an s--- is a form a o-pressiv scrinimashun?