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Ace-Garageguy

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  1. Interesting that you seem to think everything I post is all about you, Bob. I assure you, it's not.
  2. Model building doesn't necessarily have to be about completion, particularly if the process is where one finds the real enjoyment.
  3. Obviously, lots of folks still think denial is a river in Africa, while they insist on conflating apples and oranges.
  4. Xanax won't, unfortunately, raise your IQ.
  5. Attitude be hanged; the world is going down the toilet, and pretending it's not, or looking the other way with your fingers stuck in your ears while you go "la la la la la la la..." does nothing to save it.
  6. Spoken English is apparently just as hard to comprehend as written English for a particular kind of "educated" idiot.
  7. "Silly rabbi, kicks are for Trids" is the punchline of an old joke.
  8. Nice car. I worked on 'em at a dealership when they were new, really came to like them. Owned a couple, and built a few for clients: one with triple Weber 40s, cam, headers, suspension tweaks, etc., one with a Ford 289, and one with a Chevy 327. The smallblock Ford-powered car was my favorite. Though it ended up about 50 pounds heavier than stock, the engine setback improved the weight distribution and handling. There's one here in town with a Yotyto 2JZ-GTE, extremely well done.
  9. Hurt is just another part of life, and it's up to us to allow it to ruin our time here or not.
  10. Weekends with alcohol and regrets sounds like my last ex's favorite recreation (EDIT) until she met Raoul the pool boy.
  11. People who live in glass houses need lots of Windex.
  12. About damm time we had some self-appointed "One Sentence Game" response-police around here.
  13. Well, it's an "R" word actually (a scary "G" word thingy), but getting things straight and accurate has no place among the hysterical reactionaries I want so desperately to emulate.
  14. OMG!!! OMG!!! SOMEONE MENTIONED THE "G" WORD!!! CALL OUT THE HALL MONITORS!!! IT'S POLITICAL!!! OMG OMG OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  15. Hobby horses don't whinny.
  16. I love cats. Big cats too. Sad news.
  17. I fell in love with these massive road-crusher wagons, and started working on a way to model something like them. I'm also kinda thinking about going for a phantom 2-door with a Nomad-flavor raked rear gate. I snagged the best '57 Century promo I could find, here compared to an AMT '58 body shell. The bumpers of the promo are styrene and have no warp or shrinkage, but the acetate body shrinkage is very obvious. Still pretty straight though. Body masked, prepped for molding one side in f'glass, holes clayed, coated with PVA mold release. RH mold layup Popped off... ...and everything cleaned up, first mold trimmed. The plan, for now, is to copy individual panels and build them up on a cut-down '58 clone, adjusting dimensions as necessary. It's pretty obvious the '58 Century is very similar to the '57 under the skin, so I believe I'll only be doing what GM did, just backwards...and smaller. The '58 chassis is typical AMT period blobular, so a clone of it will get hacked into a more detailed representation. The LH side is warped worse, so I'm going to be doing individual panels.
  18. I just posted pix and it worked fine. Interesting...
  19. Engine's moving along. Molded plugs were removed from the heads and the holes sunk to appear more like the real thing. Longblock color is close to some 1:1s, intake manifold is Testors buffing metalizer, looks better in person, nice shiny new-cast aluminum. We're pretending it's an aftermarket alloy unit, and there's a nice valley cover coming to finish the top of the block. "Welded up and redrilled" stub axle hole location is evident below, necessary to dial in the ride height with the taller offroad tires. Sitting on her wheels with the stance I was going for, not 4X4, just as high as she needs to be to clear the tires and steer, without major suspension mods.
  20. Always nice to be able to maneuver a slacker into a position where the boss catches him with his pants down, so to speak.
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