Ace-Garageguy

"Kit and caboodle" always made me wonder just exactly what is a caboodle?

Very nice. I'd be really happy with that one.

One of the main reasons diesels replaced steam as railroad motive power was the constant labor cost of keeping the steam engines running properly. This British film from the 1950s is one of the best I've seen to go into detail about the regular work required to maintain the boiler, firebox, and smokebox...and this is only a small part of the loving attention that was routinely lavished on these beasts.

Raise you a Porsche 917K...

Holland is home to the Donkervoort company, makers of a series of Lotus Seven spinoffs.

Here's the tow-behind sports car... ...or maybe a little eco-box grocery getter...

"Norms", while always somewhat subjective, seem to become more so every day, with the perspective of the person making the observation being the primary determining factor.

Latest result from the constant fiddling with the site's functionality has removed the time-zone-specific end-times from auction listing pages, displaying only the PDT end-time now. What's so dammed hard about leaving things that work just fine as they are?

Probably need to string guy-wires to keep it from blowing over if parked in a windy location, but what happens if you corner at over 5 MPH? Do training wheels deploy from the sides?

"Flake" was once a pejorative term for a fool who knew little, failed to understand anything, accomplished nothing of merit, and was in general useless, but those characteristics seem to have become what members of a particular societal element now aspire to...all while maneuvering for the power to control what OTHER people do.

Yup. There's always that guy who can't reason out that you really shouldn't turn the mower upside down when it's running and grab the blade, and even though that is clearly printed on a label on the machine, he does it anyway.

Library books from closed branches can often be purchased for pennies on the dollar for one's personal reference collection; that assumes one can and will read, however, and isn't learning-limited to YouTube videos.

Down, up, sideways...all determined by your point of reference.

Yup, guilty as charged...and I've bought several repopped retro-boxed kits that I either built, lusted after, or at least noticed on the shelves during my decades-long hobby-modeling dry spell. But I haven't been disappointed by more than 2, my own fault, where I didn't do my due-diligence research prior to purchase.

Exactly, and the continuously variable trans that holds the engine (theoretically) at its torque peak most of the time is a good way to achieve that. It's pretty cool engineering to boot. But it's simply not something for spirited driving (as in "precise car control"), or with anything like a "high performance" level of power.

Now...if only they'd hire a team of "expert" reviewers to help label each specific kit as "junk that's not worth my precious time" or not.

Uranus is where your head might be if you're perpetually missing the point in spacetime.

Uranus is probably not the place to seek the meaning of life, unless you're a card-carrying space cadet.

Spot my cat could go for some chili-cheese fries too, but sadly for us, the Krystal down the road succumbed to the "economic downturn" brought on by the virus that can't be named.

Agreed, but for your basic low-T consumer who gets as involved with the function of his vehicle as he does with his fridge, they have their place.

I'd surmise it's simply to trigger the want-reflex among geezers who remember building (or desiring) the model at some time in the pre-deluvian past, and loosen their grip on their wallets by appealing to their sense of nostalgia. EDIT: Of course, whether the particular box-art chosen for replication has a net positive or negative effect on the want-reflex is going to be determined by the geezerliness of the particular geezer, and the time period the art reflects. Sadly, marketing often seems to alienate as many in the target demographic as it inspires.

Chessy is often the typo version of cheesy.

Ever wonder what's inside a CVT, or how it works, and how it's different from other automatic gearboxes? Wonder no more. Here's a look inside Nissan's unit. And while this is quite a brilliant piece of engineering, it's generally considered to be NON-REPAIRABLE because parts, specs, and procedures aren't available...but that's not exactly the reality.