Ace-Garageguy

It Takes a Thief was one of my favorite shows when the original series aired back in the late sixties.

Yup, much as I love this old kit, the effort it takes to get that seam looking right is definitely above-and-beyond, but we have faith in you.

Just about as good as it gets...

Looking good. I particularly like the pedestrian spike atop the rad cap.

'Twere a spectacular day, so I went for a long hike. 75 F, 45% humidity, a little breezy, and a brilliant burning blue sky. Picked enough wild muscadines to make a batch of jalapeno-muscadine relish. Simple pleasures.

Lemon meringue pie would be great right now, but I just passed on key-lime until I lose a little more lard.

Growing old isn't something most young whiney-babies could handle gracefully.

Yes. The 1935-1940 Ford car frames (and the '41 truck) were essentially identical.

Agreed. Sure wish there was a 1/24 kit (though there may in fact be one I'm unaware of).

1945 marked the end of WW II, a fact unknown to many HS graduates.

Yup, and the '34 X-member as well. In fact the '34 was the go-to part to use when building an early A-V8. X-members were generally taken from wrecked cars that had been written off, way back when you could source junkyard stuff easily. A frame with folded up rails could often supply a good X-member. But a facsimile is easy enough to do in reality or scale, as the photos of the chopped purple '34 I posted above clearly illustrate...but it seems that suggestions to scratch things these days fall on mostly deaf ears, both on real cars and models. EDIT: A "boxed" X-member doesn't even require channel to model realistically, and it would be stiffer in reality. The scratched X-member in my photos above represents a fabricated, boxed facsimile, with lightening holes closed up with round tubing.

"Fester, fester!" she cried, as I tried to place her accent.

Maybe we could get a bunch of folks to go in on a timeshare...

I scratch-built this frame some time back, with a center X-member similar to what the OP asked about, roughly copied from a '40 Ford.

Many of us who build period-correct rods have been saying exactly this for years, but so far, just crickets. Then again, scratchbuilding and swapping the necessary parts isn't really that difficult...and the new Atlantis repop of the old Revell "Roadster Chassis" parts packs is a great source for a lot of it. https://atlantis-models.com/custom-car-parts-series-roadster-chassis-speed-equipment-atlantis/

What's even more appalling is that nobody in the internal company chain of command caught anything earlier. Some of the stuff would be obvious to anyone who'd even built a birdhouse, but unfortunately, the value of "engineers" having some kind of real-world hands-on experience is no longer considered "relevant". Just fire up the "Letz Dezyn a Brij" app on the phone, and have at it. EDIT: It's heartening, though, that somebody in the Texas DOT caught the problems and spoke up before a failure like the cited Florida pedestrian bridge, but on a massive scale.

"It" was the name of a hairy cousin on one of the old TV shows...or was it Itt?

"Accompli" seems to be missing a few letters.

It ain't jack.

Zackly.

Life is, by and large, what you make it.

Real pretty little A-bone. I've got a couple of these in various states from new to gloobombery, now I have inspiration of what to do with one of 'em.

Wheels've probably been taken off by now and used for donkey carts, goats living in the fuselages, rotor blades for fencing and ramps.

"Jeopardy" is what one finds oneself in when asked "do these pants make my butt look fat?"