Ace-Garageguy

Yup. Kool with a capital K.

Beautiful work, heartbreaker on the paint. But you know...I've seen old lacquer jobs pulled out of barns looking pretty much like that, and you probably couldn't get that effect if you tried for months.

Wow. '69, eh? Sure would like to see it done. It doesn't get much more interesting than a twin-Studebaker-engined exhibition car.

Thanks Tim.

Good hunting. I'd respectfully suggest you try to find something with a timing chain as opposed to a belt. Well maintained chains will go 300k miles or more, while most belts need to be changed around 100k...and I've bought a couple cars that claimed the belt had been replaced, only to have it strip a few weeks later. EDIT: And if it's an "interference" engine, a failed timing belt will absolutely positively bend at least one valve, which requires removal of the cylinder head to replace. Not cheap.

Very interesting. I just checked, and the site functions fine on my version of Firefox. Hmmmmmm...

Things that go bump in the night, ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties, from all of 'em, good Lord protect us.

Pretty cool machine. I assume the batteries are in the one big vertical frame tube...?

Cincinnati really isn't the right word to follow up with, but since Lessness Lesman isn't a sentence anyway, who cares?

Muchness is wildly overrated, and unfairly discriminates against lessness.

Wonderland is probably somewhere over the rainbow.

Rhyme Thyme, with Parsley, Sage, and Rosemary could be the name of a poetry cooking show, though how one cooks poetry I don't know.

PM'd

At 1:45 AM, I'm even less fit for interaction with other humans than I normally am.

Mornings are better for me if I can get up with the sun; alarms at 0-dark thirty I can live happily without.

"Girth" is also the part of horse tack that goes under the horse and holds the saddle in place.

...or how to drive a stick, or change a flat, check their own oil, tell time on a non-digital clock, find Europe on a map (or how to read a map, period), how to figure a tip without an app, change a lightbulb, or cook a meal. And those are the "men". I recall when I bought my first 356 Porsche fifty years ago. Half the twinks with the shiny new ones didn't even know the cars were from the same manufacturer. Nothing much ever really changes. Lotsa geezers have always thought anything old is better, and lotsa younger twits who have no clue about much at all have always thought they knew everything about everything, and have always believed anything new is better...and have written off legitimate criticism of ignorance, mediocrity, and stupidity that transcends generations as the empty ramblings of "fogeys". But remember little fellas...in not that long you all are going to be fogeys too. Life is short, and karma can be a real beyotch.

Yup, beautiful. Pretty sure it's the Hasegawa kit #HC14

Up could be some other direction, depending on several factors.

Lotsa old cars looked the same. Lotsa newer cars look the same. What's your point? It takes real talent to design something that's striking and different but will still sell, and that kind of talent is rare....and "striking and different" rarely sell in large numbers anyway. The market for most manufactured items is the average Joe/Jolene, not the connoisseur of design, so bland rules...back in the wayback, as well as now.

Universe emperor-ing is just too much to deal with; I'll settle for being master of my own fate.

Boy howdy; there's some styling analysis right there.