Ace-Garageguy

Crosby, Stills and Nash (and Young later) were among my favorite groups way back when.

MythBusters managed to present real scientific investigation into the truth (and falsehood) of endlessly rebleated baloney in an entertaining format.

Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand, is about a man who refuses to compromise his integrity to achieve financial success and public approval, but lives instead on his own terms, both aesthetic and moral.

Luminaries seem to be diminishing in brightness.

Sheets of styrene can become beautiful scale models of physical objects in the hands of those gifted with talent, and who have developed their skills.

Great historical ref and loads of build ideas. Thanks for posting it.

I've been looking for a pretty little brunette who could work tape for quite some time.

Again and again, we see timidity as the default setting of many, while temerity is the choice of others; rational courage lies somewhere between.

"Scary" immediately makes me think of a plethora of things I'd probably best avoid posting here.

Commandment 11: Thou shalt try to keep a sense of humor, for if thou dost not, thy head will surely implode.

Neighbor love thy, but get caught not.

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?