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Ace-Garageguy

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  1. Yup. I quit building models as a hobby in about '69, didn't start in again until somebody gave me some that were on the way to the dumpster in '95, didn't actually do anything with them until 2005, and then ramped up very slowly. Perhaps interestingly, I found the skills, basic knowledge of cars, and pursuit of quality craftsmanship (the requisite self-critical feedback loop) I'd learned early in life were a big influence on my real-world work, and then decades later, the additional skills and knowledge I'd picked up "working" translated back to model building.
  2. Fine, fine, fine. Love the trash, too. I've noticed over the years that paint on industrial and municipal equipment loses its factory-new gloss after a couple of years in service, and your finish and slight weathering is a perfect representation of a well-maintained truck that's not very old.
  3. Much respect.
  4. "Experienced" doesn't necessarily mean competent, or skilled, or knowledgeable...or even fully conscious.
  5. Internet expert, advanced class.
  6. Minds continue their headlong race to smallness.
  7. This is the only thing I've ever seen from Bad Chad that's not immediately puke-inducing.
  8. Bazillionaire money is something I'd put where my mouth is, and demonstrate how you actually FIX things...like building a new-tech low-energy demo desalination plant in sunny SoCal, before the taps run dry from dithering.
  9. Thanks for your interest and comments, gentlemen. They're much appreciated.
  10. Arthritis used to be an ongoing source of pain for me too, but the more exercise I get, the less pain I have; even my hands feel as good as 20 years ago, and that's almost a miracle.
  11. Unfortunately, Scenes Unlimited appears to be down. But Jimmy Flintstone has several sets available on eBay. These for instance, could be re-drilled for 6 bolts after plugging the existing holes. They're $14 including shipping. Or these look good too...
  12. All the period black and white photos show the engines as being a light color. Then there's this of the car in its museum home...
  13. "Unbelievable" is indeed what I think when I look at Norm's work, but Casey's Forward Resin wheels are every bit as good.
  14. I love to see fast Gremlins. This ought to be good. One of the crowd favorites at the 2021 Rt.66 Street Drags in Kingman, Az. was a green Gremlin that looked like it had just been pulled out of a swamp. SBC with two fours on a tunnel ram, IIRC. Little car hooked up consistently and pulled like a freight train.
  15. Norm Veber was at the Atlanta event Saturday, and I traded lotsa greenish paper for his virtuosity.
  16. No need, thanks to reality. "...As an aside, my 99 Tahoe that hasn't moved in almost two weeks fired right up and got me to work with no drama at all."
  17. Saying black is actually white often enough makes it true, apparently, in the minds of media's talking heads.
  18. Then keep buying those tickets, Tom... Of course, you probably make enough so a few bucks a week is no big deal for a one-in-a-billion chance. The ones I can't quite understand are obviously living on minimal fixed incomes, and spend most of the monthly check on cigarettes, booze, and cat food, the rest on the lottery. But maybe it's the only way they have to keep a flicker of hope alive.
  19. Or an interesting take on "wealth redistribution". Take a little from each of hundreds of thousands of hopeful idiots, and give it all to a few idiots who'll squander it in no time.
  20. Ah yes...gone are the days when you could take a sample to the old bodyshop supply store, and the color match wizard could hit it dead on in about half an hour, and in tiny, affordable amounts of lacquer or enamel. Yes kiddies, this was a real thing when Uncle Bill was a young man. But today, they need a multi-thousand dollar scanner, and software to hit around 90% accuracy...a mismatch you can see in a black and white photo. We have a top-line PPG color-match-camera system at the shop where I'm building the Chevelle https://www.pcimag.com/articles/110296-color-matching-camera-and-software-from-ppg But the reason they have such a great rep for undetectable repairs is simply that our painter starts by shooting the color with the camera, but his old-school decades-of-tinting knowledge and obsessive sprayout regimen gets him close enough to panel-paint almost every time. Just one more of those dying skills...
  21. "Situation reports" (the cool kids call 'em sitreps) for all kinds of interesting stuff...like today's bat-flu numbers, or voter turnout...are available online, usually updated frequently.
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