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And your last photo above is of Bruce McLaren (oops) Chris Amon immediately after winning the race, clearly on Goodyear rubber. Gold wheels, by the way...and you can't trust the color balance to be accurate on decades-old photos that have been endlessly reproduced.

Have you seen this? The videos partially document the teardown of the real car prior to its last restoration to race condition http://gt40.rkmotorscharlotte.com/restoration/

Budget constraints can be maddening.

Traits defining personality, the "big five" of openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, are now believed to be at least partially heritable.

Day of the Triffids is good for a timeout for mindless sci-fi entertainment...and it's British.

Top builders, or top producers in every endeavor, usually spend more time doing what they do than online posting about it.

You might have a look at the thread below. Some of us here actually have pretty extensive experience with every catalyzed filler on the market, and there are very cost effective alternatives to Evercoat that are 100% as good.

Involved, well-reasoned explanations of reality are often flagged TLDR.

Always makes me happy to see something brought back like that. Thank you.

Finally bit the bullet and acquired a 1/16 Revell VW split-window Bug. Already have both of the 1/16 Revell Porsche kits, just need to snag a Microbus and some Fuchs wheels now. OK price, but not considering the body shell is badly warped...which I can fix, of course. Looks like I'll be buying some 3D printed 911 and 4-cam 356 bits as well.

Conclusively proven isn't, unfortunately for a certain class of rebleater, the same as consensus.

Bar-based romances rarely end well.

And the probable reason is that most flathead real cars built today get equipped with much later-model 5 speed manuals, or automatics. The later gearboxes greatly enhance real-world drivability in 2023, but lose much of the old-school flavor. Yup.

Also same basic tooling as the Ivo Showboat and parts pack versions, but with stock-ish valve covers and the obvious blower, blower drive, front cover, and manifold.

Kits have come a long way since I was a kid; back then all you got sometimes was a block of wood and a picture of what the model was supposed to look like...and you had to hike 3 miles uphill both ways in the snow to get it from the hobby shop.

Thanks for the link. Those look good.

Here's an FYI about wet sanding I learned from doing many many real cars: Every time you change to a finer grit sandpaper, wash out your water container (if you use one), get fresh clean water, and wash the model too. The reason is that abrasive particles will come off the sandpaper and get suspended in the water to a certain extent, or stay on the surface of the paint. You don't want to be trying to get a 1500 grit surface finish with any loose 180 grit particles in your water. I've had "inexplicable" scratches appear miraculously in an almost ready-to-polish surface because a couple of course abrasive particles got under my ultra-fine sandpaper. You're welcome. NOTE: It's obviously not as much of a problem if you're using a hose or squirt bottle on a real car (which should still be washed between successively finer grits), but modelers tend to use an open container of water and dip the paper in it (at least, I do). I used to use an open bucket for wet sanding real cars, to conserve water, which is how I became aware of where deep scratches were coming from when I thought I was almost finished. Once I started changing the water, and washing both the bucket and the car between grits, no more problem.

The 83 car is another restored Lotus 38, not Clark's Indy winner. I chose that particular photo of a 38 as I felt it best illustrated the square shoulders and wider treads of the later tires.

You did a fine job fitting the hood to that beast. That's often the downfall of anyone using resin bodies and kit hoods. Nice work indeed.

Understatement of the week.

Inquiring minds want to know...if a radio station isn't supported by another institution, be it government and corporate donors (NPR/PBS), a commercial station, a university, or whatever, just exactly what is the business model? Even if the DJs work for nothing, or the system is entirely automated, you've still got stuff like a building to house the equipment in, the lot it and the antenna are on, and energy to run it...things that have to be paid for. Seriously...how does commercial-free FM cover operating expenses, other than soliciting donations, or fees, from listeners (SOP for online streaming and over-air "commercial-free" stations) ?

Lumping unrelated things into the same category is often a symptom of mental midgetry.

Otherwise known as "take the money and run", an increasingly popular business model, leaving you in permanent flushed mode. Guess it's time to go back to pouring your water through sand and chunks of charcoal in a coffee filter. Seriously, I feel bad for you getting stung, but these days, so much of the "health" and "energy saving" and "green" and "safety" and "environmental" stuff out there is either smoke-and-mirrors, wild exaggeration, or just flat outright lies, it's becoming par for the course.

Belt failure in a tire makes you go down the road thumping.

12:55 PM, Thursday, just dropped the package. I assume my hanging huge yellow signs on either side of my mailbox this AM that said UPS LOOK HERE helped somewhat.