Ace-Garageguy

Researching the shape of the top of the block, to get the valley cover in the right relationship... ...and aluminum 3X2 manifold detail. This stuff matters to this build, as a real 250 GTO would have been not competitive as a race car by about '67, might have become a street car, could have had its engine blown, and a junkyard-sourced Pontiac GTO engine and gearbox installed...but an alloy intake manifold and tubular headers would have been important weight-reduction items.

Butter from poor downtrodden and exploited cows to fry eggs from poor downtrodden and exploited chickens makes me so happy to be at the top of the food chain.

Very nice. Stock cars from this period still had some relationship to actual "stock" cars, which I found to be much more interesting.

Yes sir, very nice indeed.

Good tool to know about. Thanks.

I really like that a lot. Seriously mean looking competition car. Did you thin the panel edges at the wheel openings, hood scoops, etc.? I ask because the body gives the best impression of thin sheetmetal hung on a purpose-built race chassis I' ve ever seen.

Genius is occurring less frequently in the population as average general intelligence continues to drop, fostering the rise of the midwits.

Sizes of heads have little relationship to the functionality of the brains within.

If something was running around on your roof at night, it wasn't squirrels. Rats, cats, raccoons...but squirrels go sleepybye at dusk. Far as critters in the house go...I put a cat door in the basement of my last house. One morning about 2 AM, the cat jumped on the bed to wake me up. It seemed pretty obvious she wanted me to follow her, kinda like a feline Lassie, so out to the front of the house we went. Three juvenile racoons digging in the trash in the kitchen. The cat sat down and looked at me like "they're not MY friends". I propped open the front screen door and chased two of them out with a broom, but one ran the other way, to the back of the house. Try as I might I couldn't get it to go out the door. I finally cornered it in the bathroom, and shut it in. I went and got my fire tongs, then caught the thing by the neck, and dragged it out the front door. Needless to say, the cat door stayed locked after that.

"Lady" as used today rarely has anything to do with a sense of decency, decorum, and dignity, but of course the concepts of "decency", "dignity", and "decorum" are now largely deemed to be irrelevant.

Borrow, so the saying goes, is what good artists do...and goes on to say that great artists steal. https://medium.com/coffee-time-1/good-artists-borrow-great-artists-steal-inspiration-that-is-b763630ff731

I understand entirely. The hard drive on my old Win7 machine is just about full of photos, and several bookcases are groaning from the weight of reference and idea material.

That is also exactly part of my outlook. I'm much better stocked than any imaginable hobby shop, and have almost exclusively things that I am personally interested in and really want to do something with, as opposed to random acquisitions just because they were 40% off.

This seller has several different sets of Jimmy Flintstone truck wheels and tires, though she's away until Jan. 27, and has nothing up right now. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=stiffkitty&store_name=nancysresinlounge&_oac=1&_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2562

...and three pedals on the floor.

Sure. But air traffic controllers' responsibilities fall under the notion of "mission critical", and the mission itself is one of the most "critical" there is in the civilian sector. ATCs need to be held to a much higher standard of proficiency and competence than, say, baristas or emoji designers...and ARE, for the most part.

The part of the air traffic control system involved in alerting pilots of potential hazards that could affect a flight failed on January 11, resulting in most flights being grounded for several hours. The NOTAM system is based on 30-year-old software, and isn't scheduled for an upgrade for six more years. But hey...the name NOTAM, originally an acronym for "notice to airmen" has been changed to stand for the more inclusive "notice to air missions". That certainly should make everything OK. It's always gratifying to see effort and expense put where they'll do the most good...you know, the really important stuff.

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The body shop I work with puts a lot more effort into sourcing repair parts than the average, often locating and shipping in parts from out of state that we were told locally were "unavailable" for whatever reason. While many of our suppliers are quite content with "I can't", then blaming everything but their own incompetence and laziness, our shop manager operates from "I'll find it, get it, and we'll get it done". No doubt his extensive Navy experience in military aircraft support, his hot-rodder mentality, and the fact he's from a more self-reliant generation (trigger old man shouting at clouds insult) has something to do with it.

Coming soon to college campuses everywhere:

IN CASE OF POWER FAILURE - BREAK GLASS

"Subject to change without notice" appears frequently on all kinds of stuff.

Experiences shape our worldview, and sheltered normies often don't really have a clue about the dark side of human nature or global reality.