Ace-Garageguy

I've always kinda pined for a full-detail kit of Dean Jeffries' Mantaray, but that's about as likely as me growing a set of horns this afternoon.

Office girls at happy hour used to be among my favorite hobbies.

I'd guess that, 'cause it's a drag event, the propensity for tearing the centers out of the old wire wheels isn't something to be encouraged. Original Model A wheels, both the '28-'29 version and the '30-'31 version, are prone to cracking the center hub. Improper installation on drums not originally designed for A wires can also aggravate the hub cracking problem. Just as an aside, I built a client Stag with a 365 horse smallblock Chebby, and the first time I nailed it (not even a clutch-dump), it destroyed one rear wire wheel...and those were OEM production wires made in the 1970s.

They're both great kits, depending on what you want and your skill level. The Revell kit is the more "modern", with crisper engine and suspension detail, and much separate chrome trim that eliminates the need for extensive BMF work. The AMT kit has opening doors that can be difficult for some builders, but it has loads of optional custom parts. Either kit can turn out a show stopping model with enough effort.

I didn't know that. Thanks. Exhaustive research to follow...

Movie remakes and sequels get more lame with every generation, often seeming like the producers just didn't understand the plot of what they were copying.

Day after tomorrow, I might start getting to the things on my list for two weeks ago.

Excellent.

"Away team assemble in transporter bay six" sounded over the ship's address system.

Home made chicken cacciatore & brown rice, with a hearty but cheap Merlot. Raspberries for dessert.

Another couple stacks of '50s and '60s hot-rod and sports car mags for reference...

I don't know what it is, but it sho' be good lookin'.

Creations based on the bat-flu have been developed by a Boston lab, and they're supposedly 80 times more deadly than the original.

"Barkeeper, there's a fly in my martini, so I guess that means either you're out of olives, or this is the new improved Bill Gates and Little Greta edition", said the cranky old geezer who'd just spent the entire day shouting at clouds.

Yeah, when everyone has shiny new degrees in useful things like emoji design and gender studies, it's hard to find anyone qualified to deliver appliances without destroying them. Too bad there are just some jobs that can't be outsourced to China.

Yeah, I tried that, but nobody in the little town had anything in stock, though I'd tried to buy the display unit off the floor. Almost everything had to be ordered. Happily for me, when the water heater quit a week later, they had exactly one of the type and rating I wanted...which I also installed myself. That was another weird deal. To get the thing delivered, I'd have had to pay $75 more and wait a week, taking cold showers, for their contract people. I went to U-Haul, rented a pickup, moved it myself and installed it the same day, then used the truck to haul some vintage machine tools I'd bought at a flea market, and some sheetrock and plywood for the shop.

I had to buy a new fridge for the Az. place about a year ago, and it took something like 7 weeks to get it. I just used the old one like an icebox in the interim, no big deal. Then when they delivered it, Mr. Numbnutz contract deliveryman and his idiot assistant managed to put a gash in the door when they knocked the corner off the kitchen counter. The store's response was to offer to replace the entire unit, which I argued was beyond stupid, as they wanted to pick up the damaged one while I waited...again...for the replacement. I finally convinced them to just ship me a door, which came in a week, and I installed it myself in about ten minutes. Of course the store had initially insisted they send out the pair of bozos who'd trashed the door in the first place to do it, and I argued them down, being pretty sure they'd probably strip every screw on the hinges if I let them do the swap. Anybody who thinks the idiocracy isn't here just isn't living in reality.

Cool project. I really lusted after one of those when they were new...a kinda dark metallic cobalt blue IIRC. I'd about forgotten how much I liked 'em.

Do what you want, but be willing to suffer the consequences.

Exactly.

It'll work on any frame with straight or straight-ish rails, though more work is required on some, like the rear rails on this 1/8 scale build...and its real big brother I'll be building shortly.

I'm well aware that one of me is way too many for some.

Snack food consumption can make it seem like it's impossible to lose weight.

Matzo balls are good in chicken soup.

Exist is all we do after our dreams and passions are dead.