Ace-Garageguy

Mine's a '74 S too, but a tired Targa I bought years ago specifically to do a widebody Speedster clone for a client who'd seen some of my other Porsche work. He ran out of money early on (divorce), I kept the car, and I'm glad 'cause I couldn't afford to replace it since the crazy rise in prices. Almost rust-free, faded color-change respray, daily driver condition. The current plan is to build it as a Singer-esque (long hood) Speedster, but chopped, concurrently with the '32 Ford roadster build. EDIT: NOTE TO THE DIGRESSION POLICE...I've been a very, very bad dog. My head is bowed in shame.

Jasco Paint and Epoxy Remover. Works as well as the now unobtainable (pretty much) original formula "Aircraft" stripper.

I know, and my unspeakably tragic disillusionment began when the slushboxes became pretty much unbeatable in supercharged gassers in the early '60s. I'm not currently concerned with track-days (nor are 99% of buyers I'd wager; they'll never experience anything like the potential 6-piston Brembos and P Zeros offer, either), and my old 911 has a lovely 5-speed that lets me play sweet sweet music on that 6-lunged instrument I love so dearly, with an actual mechanical link from my very own hand. What a concept. But then again, I like riding horses too.

"Said" is pronounced saa-eed sometimes when it's an Arabic-derived name.

I already had that moment when I found the current Tobette couldn't be had with a manual gearbox. But you gotta play to your low-T audience, I guess. Now I'm perpetually shaking my head, at least when I'm not shouting at clouds.

"Truth" could once be characterized with examples such as "A is A", or 1+1=2, but there is an ever more vocal group of "thinkers" insisting that a thing is not itself, and that arithmetic and math are not tools representative of (and thereby making possible the reliable manipulation of) reality, but are arbitrary constructs invented by one group to "oppress" another group; how these folks think an airplane flies by relying on arbitrary, meaningless gibberish is quite beyond my powers of imagination.

Is there only one objective Truth, or is it, as some would have us believe, entirely subjective...a gooey morass dependent on personal perspective and other irrelevancies?

Sources of "expert" information on the internet can be contradictory, and without a well of what used to be called "general knowledge", it can be impossible to tell the bull exhaust from the truth.

"Meaning" is becoming more and more in the mind of the beholder, kinda like they used to say about beauty being in the eye, etc.; sadly, when word meanings are changed to accommodate dogma, real communication suffers.

You might get a quicker response from management if you post apparent glitches like this under the "How to use this board" heading, as that's typically where site problems are reported. Your issue may be caused by your browser settings having been randomly changed for no apparent reason (which happens), and/or the fact that this site is not "HTTPS" equipped.

Hour after hour of "if it bleeds it leads" has been largely replaced with "if it whines it shines".

Hypotheses that aren't proven yet somehow get endlessly repeated as "facts" are one very seriously destructive behavior of mainstream and social media.

Doing a job poorly and thinking it's great...how is that even possible?

Kits to the left of me, kits to the right of me, I'm so confused...

"Again?" she said, "you can't be serious; that's five times today already".

"Meshoes" makes me wanna say gesundheit.

Gluebombs are my preferred starting point for building things that get heavily modified, and turning someone's bodged mess into a respectable model is immensely satisfying for some reason.

Not to take anything away from this exceptional work, but since you brought it up, Plastheniker, Codi, comp1839, StevenGuthmiller, Bill Cunningham, Chariots of Fire, and Randy Ditton come immediately to mind on this site. They work in very different styles, but nobody can deny they're all in the top tier of builders on the planet. Then of course there was Gerald Wingrove, who set the bar so high very few will ever even approach it. I'm continually inspired, and frankly awestruck, by all of them...including Scale-Master.

Very nice, very clean, great colors. Looks so good you inspired me to track one of these kits down for meself.

"Shore up a failing enterprise with empty promises, platitudes, and outright lies" seems to be an increasingly popular strategy.

ERA Cobra replicas are still among the best of the fiberglass knockoffs.

Top marks for...ummm...what was the question?

Ones and zeros have gone a long way towards replacing physical reality...particularly the zeros.

Thank you, sir. Those are certainly compelling evidence that that's the way to go...

Thanks for posting this. I have IMC and Monogram kits, but need to follow up on those others...