Ace-Garageguy

Beautiful car, definitely worth the effort you're putting to get such fine looking results.

Yup. Building somebody else's vision is what most professional real-car builders do most of the time. Like the man says, quality is quality, whether you're personally on fire about the project or not.

Very nice. Not over the top, but aggressive in a subtle, confident sort of way.

Figger one with screwed electronics ought to be easy to find too. Gut it, put in stone-age stuff that lasts forever. LS fits well, but it's been done already. I have a little 302 Ford looking for a new home though.

It's kinda coldish here for the end of March, so I made a pot of sweet-hot Middle Eastern-inspired potato, tomato, apple, and bean stew. Had to use up the last of the fall apples, and a big potato that wanted planting more than eating. Kinda like chili, but not. Heavy with cinnamon, cardamom, turmeric, and nutmeg. Coconut-ginger basmati rice and hot butter-smeared pita bread for accompaniment. Washed down with a cheap but remarkably decent California Merlot. Excellent.

Did he elaborate as to why he's quitting?

Monogram '59 Impala up-top should do for all of them. EDIT: The shape of the front bow may need work to fit the '58 windshield frame.

I missed this one. NICE !!

Testors 1/24 Chrysler Crossfire. Kinda surprised to even find one in a scale I wanted, and it's a pretty decent model to boot. Though it seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it design, I like it. A lot. I'll be looking for a real one with a blown engine soon as I get moved entirely.

9.5 points. They are indeed aviation locking nutplates, 10-32 to be exact (stainless, with silver-plated threads to prevent galling seizure) but are a generic MS/NAS number, similar to the proprietary Boeing parts.

That may not be an option... https://www.si.com/fannation/racing/auto-racing-digest/nhra/nhra-wildhorsepasstocloseafter2023event

Nope. I understand. But I can also look past a style I don't care for and admire superior craftsmanship.

Yup.

I know heem.

Very impressive old-school craftsmanship.

Close, but no cigar.

According to Elvis, so is "mistaken". Of course, seein' as how he's dead, his opinion is subject to a variety of interpretations. But then, so is "dead".

I'm gunna to go get me a fried-peanut-butter-and-banana sammich with Elvis. See yas.

Yup. That's exactly what all my almost 25 thousand posts have been.

What thread have you been reading?

I tell y'all what...to the best of my ability, I'll never bring up anything that could possibly be stretched to be of a political nature by the most creative interpretation of the term "political". Guess I need to brush up on my dead-celeb-du-jour knowledge...but OMG OMG!!! What happens if somebody dead once expressed a political opinion on some website decades ago? Well, that's right out. Looks like it's down to kitty pix and what I had for dinner yesterday. Seems like even building model cars could be construed as supporting a particular position relative to some political idiocy or other, so that might be a shaky-ground topic under the right circumstances. Some days you just can't win.

Straw-man much?

Having them is OK. It's just expressing them that's verboten.

So, rather than arguing for adult, rational discussion, we should just submit to being governed by the behavior of the lowest-common-denominator, and keep our heads down to avoid incurring the wrath of the gods? Speaking of purile...

I just got a bag of these. 10 points (worthless and not redeemable for anything) to the first respondent to correctly identify them.