Ace-Garageguy

Having bought those by the case a decade or so back, when nobody really wanted them and they were unbelievably cheap, and having originals to compare, one thing that's apparent on the '90s issues is that many of them border on being "short-shotted", with pretty bad sink marks in places where they're the absolute devil to correct. Looks like the top of the Potvin intake manifold on the chrome Atlantis Chevy tree above still has a nasty divot at the forward end of the fins.

Few people have a firm grasp of quantum physics, and even fewer can explain it in terms comprehensible to normies.

Show me the money trail, and I'll show you a map of corruption.

"About face!" yelled the drill instructor, just in time to stop the platoon of new recruits from marching off a cliff.

Glance at a blind horse, nod, or wink; it's all the same to the horse.

It never ceases to amaze me what people will believe if they're told it often enough, no matter how far from the truth it actually is.

Cool little "repurposed" machines. Everyone over a certain age (?) has probably seen Ts and As converted to farm implements, stationary pumps, sawmills, etc,, but I've never seen anything like the detailed conversion project documented here. Gotta love the shots of Mr. Gentleman Farmer in his white shirt, sleeves rolled up, and tie too.

Wow. That's a lot of photos. Most appreciated, particularly the Mirage shots. I have a slow-burn project converting an earlier GT40 to Mirage bodywork.

Are you making the best of every day?

Project your shortcomings, failures, various -isms, and nasty nature on others, always find someone else to blame for whatever mistakes you make, lie about pretty much everything, surround yourself with gibbering sycophants, and you can live in blissful denial of being an awful person yourself.

One of my favorite US cars. Great color for it, good wheel choice; they work well with the design.

Great pix. Thank you.

Hills are good places to be during floods.

Hair balls are the bane of those who lick their own fur.

The save looks very good.

Earth is a planet that's home to almost 8 billion individual members of a species of barely sentient, self-important (and largely not self-aware) primate.

If you decide to test the waters on Etsy, let us know in a non-selling kind of way.

Mmmmmmm...pecan tarts.

What...you're supposed to actually read threads? Dude...this is the internet in 2023.

Sad but entirely true. It's a real (and unusual) pleasure when I get a client who knows more about his car than what he paid for it.

Today is a good time to be as well-informed as possible, seek the truth (and don't believe everything you're told), but not to let the results of obviously incompetent idiots running things get you down.

I'm in the market for some new airbrushes. Sure would like to see some examples of the work these produce for you...maybe start a thread somewhere else?

Humor has to walk on eggs these days, as most anything laugh-worthy can be construed as some kind of hateful "...ist" remark, only funny to mean folks with "a particular point of view".

Not yet, but I run pretty serious security measures.

Yup, 20 years is a pretty good run for just about anything that's in constant use. And just a thought...another possible factor contributing to the demise of the company just might be the increasing difficulty of hiring anyone with physical skills to do anything. I personally know heavily-skill-dependent business owners who are winding down, preparing to walk away, because it's becoming almost impossible to continue with today's labor pool. Every time I mention this fact, I'm shouted down by the peanut gallery...but interestingly never by anyone who depends on employees with hard physical skills to stay in business. Pointing a phone app at a broken machine won't fix it.