Ace-Garageguy

"Knows nothing of any practical value, or how anything works in the physical world" describes a staggeringly large percentage of the population.

Haven't seen one of these in a bazillion years. Love what you're doing with scale guts under it. Sure has the potential to be over-the-top cool.

I used to love watching Indy at the end of the "roadster" era, and on into the Lotus mid-engined cars, the turbines, the eventual obsolescence of the venerable old Offenhauser engines, etc. But over the later years the similarity of the cars and the vastly increased breathless hype kinda turned me off.

Great little trucks, and frankly, just the way I'd want one.

"Wise" has much less to do with formal education than with broad experience, thoughtful observation, and innate analytical ability.

I support several one, two, and three-man information providers with $5 to $10 monthly payments via Patreon, because their content is routinely "demonetized" by YT for various politically-correct reasons. I, and many other regular supporters, value the effort they put forth to make factual information available. We value it enough to PAY for it. Their content is still available free on YT to non-supporters, and nobody gets their little knickers in a knot because those who choose to help the producers defray their expenses might get access to private comment sections, etc...and in some cases the supporters get NOTHING other than the feeling of doing the right thing. But of course, I'm talking about responsible adults who aren't looking for something-for-nothing. Still, I understand it's always easier, and pretty much SOP everywhere, to belabor the "reasons" something won't work than to just DO it. Pretty odd old world when you can't get somebody to take money for something you value, but whatever. It's not my dog.

Like what you're doing.

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Thanks for posting this. Great kid, great car.

Looks to me like crazing, when the lacquer topcoat solvents are just too "hot" for the primer and plastic underneath. This is a prime example of why we harp on and on and on about TEST FIRST before committing to painting a model with a combination of products that aren't designed to work together, by the same manufacturer.

OK. I should have said "entitled to what somebody else's effort produced".

I would suggest that management crunch a few easy numbers, work out how many $$ per member the ad revenue generates, and then establish a VOLUNTARY payment scheme so those of us who despise intrusive advertising and run adblockers can pay to play, without feeling guilty...at least those of us who have a functioning conscience. Perhaps interestingly, the Photobucket debacle didn't affect me much at all, as after I started running an adblocker there, I also began paying for the service. It was only the freeloaders who lost their photos, or had them "ransomed". What's kindof a shame is the number of people who seem to believe they're somehow entitled to free anything.

Poor little Ford...

Worked on 510s when they were new, loved them, great little cars...and your OHC V6 (VG30E?) swap takes it to the next level. Great project.

Bottom line is pretty simple, and it applies equally to ALL the phone, email, and text scams. NEVER GIVE ANYONE ACCOUNT NUMBERS, PINS, SS NUMBERS, PHONE NUMBERS, EMAIL ADDRESSES, PHYSICAL ADDRESSES, OR ANYTHING ELSE A CON CAN USE TO IMPERSONATE YOU TO HIJACK YOUR MONEY. And never respond to phone calls or texts purporting to be from a bank, govt. agency, or retailer, or click on links in emails, no matter how legit they may look to you. NEVER !!!

A whole lotta people are, or they wouldn't keep scamming...something like 8 BILLION dollars annually in the US is taken by these scams.

Why don't you just send 'em $20? There are several online providers of information I support with a monthly fee because "the income is important to the site", and I value what I receive from them enough to pay for it.

Is it 4WD?

Hit a wall on this one, as none of the headers I have here are even close to workable. I don't want to use solder, my alloy welding rod that works great for under-car exhaust parts is too hard to form the tight bends for headers, and so far, nothing else I've tried is really acceptable...including insulated 16 gage wire that almost does it, but won't hold bends permanently. I started making up some primary pipes from hot-bent styrene rod, and it looks good so far. Problem is, the area I have to fit the pipes into is difficult to access for full-scale hands, they have to be quite accurate to do what I want, and I don't want to bugger up the engine in the process. But I think I have a solution. I'm in the process of making a fixture that represents the engine, with the heads at the right angle, drilled to slip the styrene rods into during bending, a rod that represents the frame tube they have to clear, as well as a target where the pipes need to terminate to hit the collector correctly. PITA, but pretty much like building custom headers on a real car where I would have good access. We'll see...

Jacket patches adorn both the real-deal guys and the poseurs, but the ones with the merkins usually fall in the latter category.