Ace-Garageguy

Nilsson did Everybody's Talkin' from Midnight Cowboy.

"Nowadays" triggers so many negative responses in my mind nowadays, I'd better just take a pass on this one.

Tournaments be sumpin ya ties on yo arm if yo bleedin bad.

Yup, but I still have a difficult time getting my head around why accurate measuring, scaling, and labelling seems to be such an elusive goal. I've got lotsa stuff marked 1/25 that isn't, 1/24 that isn't, ad nauseum...and kits that include parts in a couple of kinda close scales. I'd prefer to live in a world where numbers have absolute objective meanings, and not fuzzykindasorta gibberish. Must be one of those geezer things.

URP is sometimes used to indicate "Unauthorized Reproduction Prohibited".

Clean, clean, clean.

Elephant beer by Carlsberg is pretty tasty, assuming you like beer with character and full flavor, as opposed to Americanized frothy dishwater.

I dug out the kit. Its wheelbase is 85.73mm approximately, about 3 3/8", or 3.375" The real car's wheelbase of 92" divided by the kit wheelbase of 3.375" gives a scale of 27.26 to 1, or approximately 1/27 scale. No telling why such an oddball scale was used, or why it's labeled as 1/25. Still, it's close enough to be stretched to correct the dimensions with a reasonable amount of careful work.

Build a self-critical feedback loop, and be brutally honest in evaluating your own work.

Moon Unit Zappa is an unusual name.

WHEELBASE 92" LENGTH 162" HEIGHT 42"

Lovers, wives, and mothers will try to boss you around if you don't stand up for yourself once you're an adult.

Pretty cool project. I have a couple of 1/24 Dumas kits with similar works in mind, but will probably replace the visible planking with stained basswood for its finer grain.

Plans unravel rapidly once the battle begins.

Exactly. There are some kits that got so expensive as unmolested virgins, I really had little interest in acquiring them if they weren't real high on my subject-of-interest list, but the very reasonable prices (to me, anyway) for the repops have put kits on my shelves I wouldn't have had otherwise. And having acquired a few skills over the past 6 decades, I don't get frustrated and cry "it's junk, mommy" by any of 'em.

'64 Peterson (Hot Rod) gearbox and rear end book. Just more tech refs for fast geezermobiles. EDIT: Maybe I'll incorporate that in the sign over the shop door in Az.: Ace Garage...Fast Geezermobiles

Nice job of making lemonade.

Clean machine. One of my favorite kits and in full size. Few people get the roof install that nice, and the flippers are perfect for it.

Wanted a Divco for some time, looked at Flintstone's (blech), then this little guy came up significantly under market. Boxed, etc., but a few minor issues. 95 points overall...like somebody glued the headlight lenses back in with CA and fogged 'em, but everything's easily fixed. EDIT: Danbury Mint, 1/24

A tragic loss, but he went out doing what he loved. https://bangshift.com/bangshift1320/weve-lost-a-good-one-god-speed-pat-ganahl-hot-rodding-grew-and-flourished-with-your-help/ https://www.customcarchronicle.com/forums/topic/pat-ganahl-passed-away/

I didn't fall through my rotten roof. Always a big plus.

Hmmmmm...???

This has been the nastiest, wettest, buggiest, rustiest, most mildew and fungus infested summer since I first came here in 1969. Not only have the daytime highs been mostly in the mid-to high 90s, the shop temps have been consistently hovering at 100+ in the afternoons, with the humidity typically in the 90s too. Yech. I sure am glad I'm going to the desert. I won't miss this awful swamp-like environment one little bit. Spent most of the day on my roof, patching leaks, 'cause we have another forecast for heavy rains over the next several days, and the unrelenting wetness has caused more deterioration than I'd expected prior to vacating. Did I say how much I HATE it here now?

Stones aren't as prevalent in one demographic as they once were.

Stewart monarchs of Scotland began their reign in 1371 with Robert II, I believe.