Ace-Garageguy

Prose be da wunze gets paid fo what dey do, and armatures duz it fo free.

Facts are routinely twisted, suppressed, or faked to suit the narrative.

Holy k-rapp. The real one was yours? Damm man. Nice.

Beyond "well done". WAY beyond. When you really have to look carefully to determine a model IS actually a model, that says more than anything.

Two real beauties.

Immense women don't appeal to my sense of proportion and line..

Another instance of old-school diagnostic skills finding the root problem, after the car owner had "fixed" it with a counterfeit part bought online

Mechanics are completely different animals from parts-changers, and most folks don't understand the difference.

Scan tools are usually necessary to diagnose and repair today's cars that rely heavily on electronics. But the scan-tool can only tell you so much. Old-school knowledge and skills are often required to get to the root cause of a problem, and not all "technicians" have them. This car was torn apart by a chimp who just didn't understand the basics, and was repaired by someone who did.

"Tools" listed in the factory service manual that came with my first 356 Porsche included "two mechanics".

Sorry fellas...no phony drama or no-talent hackers here. Just a competent crew doing things right, with a whole lot of knowledge.

"Faze" was the second word of roto-faze, a manufacturer of ignition systems and other performance equipment. https://phscollectorcarworld.blogspot.com/2016/02/vintage-muscle-car-tech-roto-faze.html?view=classic

'Twere it me, I'd make a fiberglass mold, and make a very thin repop from glass in that. But since, far as I know, I'm 'bout the only person doing that, it's probably not much help to you...and most people just don't have access to the materials I use. Normal mold making and part casting, below. Free video how-to library from a company that makes the silicone for molds and the resins for parts. https://freemanvideos.com/Moldmaking-Casting/

Entirely true...but it used to be a quality product that would give a very nice finish in the hands of a non-moron. Now, not so much.

Perhaps the "new math" is of some benefit after all.

Yeah, but the Sears catalog was a definite luxurious step up from a corn cob.

With a handle like "yo mama" and such a non-specific question, it should come as no surprise.

Excellent...as well as the insane push to add more and more processing power to vehicles for features that are absolutely unnecessary in something that primarily drags a fat butt to work or to the grocery store and back.

Where the stop-start system makes sense is in stop-and-go rush hour driving. Back when I was a poor student commuting to school, usually running on fumes, I'd routinely shut my engine down when the traffic stopped. It really bites to run out of gas in the center lane of an interstate, with long lines of cars on either side of you. Stopping the engine during prolonged idling can indeed save significant fuel. Far as normal driving? I'm not convinced. 1) The starter motors in cars so equipped are insanely expensive compared to the old school units; 2) there's just that much more stuff to fail in control circuits etc.; and 3) while driving a rental not too long ago, I would have been smashed flat by a semi had I not disabled the system, allowing me to nail the throttle to get out of the way without having to wait for re-start. Hundredths of a second can make the difference between life and death, and I'm not the only one who's experienced similar almost-disasters. Some cars now do not allow for the system to be disabled, so pay attention.