Ace-Garageguy

One geezer (and old model railroader) to another...welcome back. Congrats on your enduring marriage, too.

Especially if the real object of going electric is to "save the planet" by reducing energy and material use all through a vehicle's life-cycle, and not just posturing with virtue-signaling, ignorant hypocrisy? This little car is perfectly adequate for what most people do with their cars most of the time...carrying one butt from point A to point B, on short trips (like to work, or the store, or general errand-running, etc.) Leave your energy-guzzling heavy pickup or 4+ passenger car parked when you don't need its much larger carrying capacity, which is most of the time. EDIT: Take me, for example. I often need a truck in my daily life, but not every day. Driving a full-size pickup for daily transportation is, frankly, wasteful. I'll be the first to admit it (and that goes for gas OR electric). This little car would serve me perfectly on most days I don't need a truck, but just need to get myself around. Relegating my petro-burning dinosaur to occasional use when I actually need it would have nowhere near the negative environmental impact of replacing it with a 6000 pound electric truck, and continuing to use it for daily transport.

Uses that are new, for an old invention, can sometimes be patented.

Aloof rearranged is a fool.

Exactly what I was going to suggest. And the real '34 had separate lights, not on a crossbar. What's the issue with the running boards? I thought the ZZ Top car had black ribbed ones, like stock. There are several versions of the kit with louvered hood sides. EDIT: Or the AMT '34 5-window louvered hood sides can be reworked by adding a little material fairly easily, too. I just pulled the kits to check.

"Thinks critically" can't be said of many people.

Small tiny itsy-bitsy intellects are running things, which is why everything's going off the rails.

Algorythyms...hmmmm...think I'll sit this one out

Real nice save. One of my favorite things to do in this hobby is rework somebody's bodged mess into a decent model. I really like what you've done here, and appreciate the reminder about the Q&D Silly Putty/Bondic parts replication trick.

The Franklin Mint model in 1/24 is absolutely beautiful, and can occasionally be found slightly damaged, and cheap enough to hack up.

Correct. I almost went down that rabbit hole, but thankfully, a seller posted the dimensions of the model, which were clearly well under 1/25.

Nicely browned on the outside and bloody pink on the inside is the way I like my beef.

Line up for your bug-based "animal" protein and plant-based Gates-burgers, coming to a not-too-distant future reality already available near you.

Like shotguns wired to the doors, but sadly, illegal.

When I was building my first business, I was plowing as much of my income back into top-line tools and equipment as I possibly could, something I'd done from day one working as an apprentice mechanic after I left Tech. I neglected to keep enough insurance coverage to replace what I'd accumulated, and was dead in the water, business-wise, until I could buy enough tools to open the doors again...mostly with used stuff to maximize bang for the buck. Immediately after the '77 theft, the only tools I had left were what was in the emergency box in my car, and it was tough being taken seriously when I was applying for work with so few tools. I never replaced my beautiful SnapOn stuff, or the dozens of special tools I'd made for obscure operations, or the exotic OEM tools like a set of engine assembly fixtures for the NSU Ro80...special tools that most likely ended up in a dumpster, or as scrap, when the thieves couldn't pawn 'em. Did I say I have a really bad attitude about theft?

"Shock and awe" got replaced with disorganization and platitudes.

For any grown-ups who appreciate animation, I'd heartily recommend Studio Ghibli's "Porco Rosso". I first came across it on late-night cable at a hotel back around 2005, and was blown away. With a beautiful score by Joe Hisaishi, it's one of my all-time favorite films. From Wikipee: "Porco Rosso (Japanese: 紅の豚, Hepburn: Kurenai no Buta, lit. 'Crimson Pig') is a 1992 Japanese animated adventure-fantasy film[1] written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is based on Hikōtei Jidai ("The Age of the Flying Boat"), a three-part 1989 watercolor manga by Miyazaki.[2] It stars the voices of Shūichirō Moriyama, Tokiko Kato, Akemi Okamura and Akio Ōtsuka. Animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Japan Airlines and the Nippon Television Network, it was produced by Toshio Suzuki and distributed by Toho. Its score is by Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi. The plot revolves around an Italian World War I ex-fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing "air pirates" in the Adriatic Sea. However, an unusual curse has transformed him into an anthropomorphic pig. Once called Marco Pagot (Marco Rossolini in the American version), he is now known to the world as "Porco Rosso", Italian for "Red Pig" or "Red Pork". A first English-dubbed version was made for Japan Airlines and included in the Ghibli LD Box Set and on the first Region 2 DVD releases in 2002. The film was later redubbed by Walt Disney Home Entertainment and released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States and Canada on February 22, 2005. GKIDS re-issued the film on Blu-ray and DVD on November 21, 2017, under a new deal with Studio Ghibli."

Always a pleasure and an inspiration to see your uber-clean craftsmanship.

The model shown above is based on this 1/25 scale kit from AMT, that's been reissued in several different boxings, not all of which are shown below. Decals available here: https://smpdecals.com/shop/ols/products/scotto-blivens-1955-nomad-nhra-record-holder

Great looking model. Thanks to whomever for bringing the thread back up. I really miss this class of racing too.

Kicker down the road if she comes in at 09:00 after a night out "with the girls".

Which advocates even more for the wood-chipper/buried alive punishment as a deterrent to those contemplating a similar crime. My shop was hit in '77, I was under-insured, and I had to work for other people for years to get back to where I'd been. Until you've lived through it, you probably don't really understand how it feels.

Ya spose there might be some financial reward? Nah, that could never happen.

"Time is flowing like a river to the sea" according to Alan Parsons.