Ace-Garageguy

Subjects like "readin', ritein', and 'rithmetic" are being poorly taught in schools today...which partially explains the lack of understanding of "scale" among some modelers.

Agreed, with a few notable exceptions. For the most part, Hollywood's understanding of and use for cars is primarily 1) showing expensive vehicles as a means to flaunt wealth as an aphrodisiac, usually by characters lacking any other attractive qualities, and 2) things to be run off cliffs, blown up, or otherwise mangled in the apparent goal of providing vicarious thrills for the lowest-common-denominator, short-attention-span, blissfully-ignorant target audience.

Staggeringly wow.

"Palate pleasing" wouldn't most likely refer to fermented vomit.

The point was: if you're going to make a movie about a major league car guy who built some of the finest cars on the planet...get the damm parts about the cars RIGHT. It's not really that hard. EDIT: Or maybe it is...

Beautiful.

Lots of technical info for those of us who don't know much about rigs like this, but would like to get things right. Thanks for posting. Looks great.

Liver and onions: mmmm mmmm good.

Very nice. I've seen a few rough ones for practically nothing, tremendous potential, but just don't have the time to take on anything else. Great to see this one get a new home where it'll be taken care of. Happy motoring.

Cream of the crop or whipped topping, one man's cheese is another man's rotten milk.

Paddle ye rowboats while ye may.

Hobbies just melt in Furnace Creek.

Somehow, I think you may have missed the whole point of the cars...

If it wasn't for the dammed cars, there wouldn't be any point in making a movie about the guy.

Yeah, but why would a non-car-person see a movie about Ferruccio Lamborghini anyway? I was somewhat similarly disappointed over the holidays by the book McLaren Sports Racing Cars. Though it has some fine photographs of Bruce and his cars in action, I wanted it primarily as a reference work, mistakenly assuming it would be heavy on technical information. Nope.

Too bad. Sounds like the non-car-enthusiast production people just phoned it in. Think I'll pass. I bet the crew was ethnically and gender diverse though. Everybody knows that 3rd rate trash is OK as long as it's made by wokesters, no matter how talent-free or ignorant of the subject.

Furnace Creek has some hot, sweaty people.

"With your shield or on it" has a nice ring.

Congrats

Entirely true. And just try to hire an entry-level person with sufficient mechanical aptitude, intelligence (particularly reading comprehension and some math ability), and conscientiousness to ultimately make a good machinist, mechanic, bodyman, whatever. Try it, and let me know your outcome. I'm in a major metro area in the Southeast, and we have found exactly ONE young guy with those qualifications since 2016.

There's two BIG problems with "craftsmanship" that I've also had hammered home over 5+ decades, and the major reasons it's getting even harder to hire help than it was 20 years back. You can NOT teach mechanical aptitude. It's a God-given talent, just like playing the piano. Someone lacking it in sufficient quantity may become a reasonably competent technician, but will never be a true craftsman. Nor can you teach someone to CARE. Conscientiousness is now recognized to be an inborn personality trait, and without it in sufficient quantity, you'll get, at best, a slacker who CAN do good work but won't, and who'll always take the easiest way. (There's nothing wrong with "working smarter", thinking through more efficient procedures etc., but the fact is that much of "craftsmanship" is simply being willing to put in the hours, sometimes, on mind-numbing work until you get it right.)

Not saying this is your issue, but a lot of great craftsmen are poor business managers. They'll make the mistake of bidding a big job with a lot of unknowns to get the work, then get in over their heads financially and have to divert to short-term stuff to maintain cash flow, keep the doors open. It becomes a constant game of catch-up, and if they take an advance on the work, it can get totally out of control. I learned this the hard way, having done it myself on several occasions. The ONLY way to run a shop doing non-standard work (which means not crash work estimated from databases like CCC, or straight component replacement with "book time" readily available)...IF YOUR QUALITY CAN JUSTIFY IT...is to refuse making bids, and insist on an hourly rate for what is actually accomplished, billed monthly at the longest, with scrupulous record keeping (I keep stopwatch time and document everything with copious notes and photos). I was hesitant to do the no-estimate and progress-billing, but since I began, I still have inquiries for more work than I can ever do (or will, as I'm done forever after these last two big jobs), content clients, and cash flow has ceased to be an issue. For what it's worth, it was Chip Foose who made me see the light. When he was asked "how much will it cost" to build something, he smiled and said "I can tell you to the nickel what it will cost: however many hours it takes to do it, at the shop rate, plus materials". Smart guy.

I came across this... ...which is another way of saying that the more you learn, the more you DO know, the more you realize you don't know squat.

Today's primary irk, as always, this guy...