Ace-Garageguy

This is the only thing I've ever seen from Bad Chad that's not immediately puke-inducing.

Bazillionaire money is something I'd put where my mouth is, and demonstrate how you actually FIX things...like building a new-tech low-energy demo desalination plant in sunny SoCal, before the taps run dry from dithering.

Thanks for your interest and comments, gentlemen. They're much appreciated.

Arthritis used to be an ongoing source of pain for me too, but the more exercise I get, the less pain I have; even my hands feel as good as 20 years ago, and that's almost a miracle.

Unfortunately, Scenes Unlimited appears to be down. But Jimmy Flintstone has several sets available on eBay. These for instance, could be re-drilled for 6 bolts after plugging the existing holes. They're $14 including shipping. Or these look good too...

All the period black and white photos show the engines as being a light color. Then there's this of the car in its museum home...

"Unbelievable" is indeed what I think when I look at Norm's work, but Casey's Forward Resin wheels are every bit as good.

I love to see fast Gremlins. This ought to be good. One of the crowd favorites at the 2021 Rt.66 Street Drags in Kingman, Az. was a green Gremlin that looked like it had just been pulled out of a swamp. SBC with two fours on a tunnel ram, IIRC. Little car hooked up consistently and pulled like a freight train.

Norm Veber was at the Atlanta event Saturday, and I traded lotsa greenish paper for his virtuosity.

No need, thanks to reality. "...As an aside, my 99 Tahoe that hasn't moved in almost two weeks fired right up and got me to work with no drama at all."

Saying black is actually white often enough makes it true, apparently, in the minds of media's talking heads.

Then keep buying those tickets, Tom... Of course, you probably make enough so a few bucks a week is no big deal for a one-in-a-billion chance. The ones I can't quite understand are obviously living on minimal fixed incomes, and spend most of the monthly check on cigarettes, booze, and cat food, the rest on the lottery. But maybe it's the only way they have to keep a flicker of hope alive.

Or an interesting take on "wealth redistribution". Take a little from each of hundreds of thousands of hopeful idiots, and give it all to a few idiots who'll squander it in no time.

Ah yes...gone are the days when you could take a sample to the old bodyshop supply store, and the color match wizard could hit it dead on in about half an hour, and in tiny, affordable amounts of lacquer or enamel. Yes kiddies, this was a real thing when Uncle Bill was a young man. But today, they need a multi-thousand dollar scanner, and software to hit around 90% accuracy...a mismatch you can see in a black and white photo. We have a top-line PPG color-match-camera system at the shop where I'm building the Chevelle https://www.pcimag.com/articles/110296-color-matching-camera-and-software-from-ppg But the reason they have such a great rep for undetectable repairs is simply that our painter starts by shooting the color with the camera, but his old-school decades-of-tinting knowledge and obsessive sprayout regimen gets him close enough to panel-paint almost every time. Just one more of those dying skills...

"Situation reports" (the cool kids call 'em sitreps) for all kinds of interesting stuff...like today's bat-flu numbers, or voter turnout...are available online, usually updated frequently.

Good question.

Nah, probably some guy living under a bridge. Now he can afford to build a desalination plant for LA.

Thanks. Guess the little yellow car will get to play after all.

Or maybe I'll just go with finishing this. The nailhead Buick was intro'd in '53, and they're not the forbidden A wheels.

All kinda depends on the age and weight rating. First thing that comes to mind are these "Divco"...maybe...they're 19 inchers. Might need taller tires. https://www.ebay.com/itm/133070322564?hash=item1efb9bfb84:g:pnUAAOSwsq1cgp0N&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAkEwUBvHGvU6Nb86QU9KGp5ajRkoNLCXbnKt%2FdCSnnET%2FOFIYsLSxPj9CJh4AafzPD5Mk8kfLZ8sxzeNRgNyIY8X9SXbxOjuh%2BaKL4ppHIbX140nLG9XHy5fsKmIq7sny6nrib2bWbH7cEKqLHD7nvKXszIyt2z2fHTDjknWMQlBRZ2jJJ0qWtT9KrJAhUTs5bA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR_TTyISLYQ I think Scenes Unlimited has something like these...

More techie dweeb incompetence: my cell carrier set the time back an hour correctly when Standard Time resumed early Sunday morning, but apparently just to make sure, it was set back ANOTHER hour last night.

Seems odd, as full-fendered cars were routinely drag raced in non-pretend reality. Guess I'm out.

Read the rules on the first page. They're not forbidden, and I've always interpreted that to mean something's OK.

The first-gen Olds OHV V8 is visually similar to the Caddy of the same period because they were both GM designs done concurrently. But there's no shortage of good engines to accurately represent the Olds "344", which is built from an early member of the 303-324-371-394 family. Revell '50 Olds kits have nice ones, as do the original Revell SWC Willys (already 6-71 blown, too), and all the Revell Anglia-based drag cars.

And while it's true that a very few top-tier builders are more motivated by adulation than the pleasure of doing the work, the majority of even the most talented and skilled do it for themselves first...but it's always nice to have one's efforts appreciated by others who get it, no matter how self-motivated and secure one may be.