Ace-Garageguy

"Dentist, schmentist!" said the guy who was afraid of pain, just a few years before he could only eat mush.

Science! Actual definitive repeatable empirical evidence, with documented proof! You sir, are a great American. But beware. Being a proponent of giving credence to observable reality goes against the grain today.

Airstream trained a lot of men who would later go to work in the aircraft industry in riveted aluminum construction .

Fine looking model. I've always been attracted to the spare, purposeful lines of subs, and your added detail really brings this one to life.

Ladies these days frequently aren't.

Acuity flirted with me today in the checkout line, and said I reminded her of her great great great great grandfather.

Many thanks.

I vote for this one (below). Love that chopped 3W too. Perfect rubber rake. Did you do the chop?

There's also the Hallock windshield, kinda similar but very different, that lotsa folks mistakenly call a "Duvall" too. https://www.motortrend.com/news/1131rc-hallock-windshield-history/

Attitude is a major influence on the success or failure of every endeavor; Henry Ford said it best: "if you think you can or you think you can't, you're right".

We have a winner, folks! Well done.

"Hello Engine. I'm J--- H-----." If I gave you the name, you'd have it in 20 seconds from Google.

I can explain it, but I'd be banned forever.

Generic auto parts stores usually carry a pretty good selection of Duplicolor rattlecans. The ones labeled "metallic" may have obviously too large flakes, but the ones labeled "pearl" or "mica" are smaller. This hood was shot with a Duplicolor green mica...

Really liking this. Every time I see a heavy-ish older truck in reasonable restorable condition, I think of building something like it for real. The slab side gives it more of a deco feel, which works well with the cab, so how about round, full skirts that mimic the size of the actual tires? Sure would make it easier to change a flat.

Sounds like a good deal all around, and I understand your position entirely.

I can't imagine being so complacent that I'd pass up an additional $30-50K per year...unless somebody was already paying me so much that that was pocket change. Congrats on what must be a truly fabulous salary.

Wait...wait...I have to stop laughing. That must be why, when I reported a water main leak under the road adjoining my property to the Cobb County Water System, they said "thanks, but we're so far behind because we're only at 50% staffing, we have no idea when we can get to it. We have worse leaks all over the area that will have to take priority". An interesting conversation with the county Utility Maintenance Superintendent brought up the same quote from him I'm hearing everywhere: "We can't get anybody. I don't know how people are living, but nobody seems to want to work anymore". Hmmm, I says to myself. There seems to be a pattern emerging. This tallies with the fact that C.W. Matthews, the 70-year-old contracting company that does a large part of the road work, building bridges, etc. in this area recently had to send recruiters to Mexico, with promises of green-cards, to get laborers because they didn't have enough people or applicants to perform their existing projects. But we all know the most popular way to deal with problems today is to insist they don't exist...which works great for everyone who's not directly affected.

Absolutely beautiful. Nice work indeed.

I'd be more than happy to help you recycle some of that old cash.

Thanks for your interest. The model build never got much farther than the last mockup shots. That's when it struck me that this was the '32 I'd been looking for, and that I wanted to build it full-scale. The model was close enough at that point so I could start getting the parts together, knowing everything could be made to work and keep the look.

Thanks for the Edelbrock carbs-on-the-blower tip. Far as running a non-functional blower just for the look, that's just not me.

Thanks, and more thanks for the head sources.

Superman has shrugged.