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  1. Better than sending a rusty hulk to the crusher...I guess.
  2. Cool. I really like the tag, too.
  3. Ivanhoe comes immediately to mind from my younger days, for reasons you mention. And when I read The Fountainhead the first time at about 18, and a little later Atlas Shrugged, the truth of the themes resonated with the world view I'd already developed. When you write "...in our world today, those...virtues seem as outdated as those old pulp novels themselves. And it makes me sad", remember that those virtues are never out of date. There are many people who operate as though they are, but they are the foundations of civilization, and it's your decision and yours alone to live by them. But I'm pretty sure you understand that completely.
  4. Thanks Ray. I hope so too. In the interim, I took on a "quickie" project to fill the time while I'm waiting for stuff to finish up the '66 Chevelle build, stuff that used to be readily available. Since mid August, I've ordered the same structural sheetmetal Mazda part from 4 online suppliers who gladly took my money, and then sent me an e-mail cancelling the order due to "website difficulties" or "no longer available from the manufacturer" or "back-ordered indefinitely". I guess all these clowns use the same source, and nobody bothers to update the websites when a part becomes unavailable. I just got off the phone with an actual human who said the OEM does in fact have 7 of the things in the US warehouse, and she can get me one in about a week or so. We'll see. Sure am glad I'm getting out of doing this for a living. Between Covid, creeping dumber-every-day, and general widespread incompetence, I no longer have the patience.
  5. I got an e-mail today from a supplier stating my parts would be delivered by FedEx on Sept. 1. I guess they have time travel now...or maybe they mean next year.
  6. Yup, that's a proper hot-rod. You know you got it right when it looks good from every angle. Nice.
  7. I like cats too. Didn't much feel like getting another one after I had Spooky put down after 14 years, due to cancer. A couple years later, one of the local ferals abandoned a 4-week old kitten under the house, and after hearing him crying all night, I brought him in. 2 years later, he's a big 'ol black-and-white tom with a friendly disposition, but a real fighter for neighborhood territory. Yeah, cats are great companions and friends, with surprisingly different and unique personalities. Glad your little guy has found a good home.
  8. I'm sad to hear that, Carl. I've always enjoyed seeing your work, reading your comments, and particularly admired your painting skills. As others have said, please keep in touch.
  9. I was in a similar situation overseas. Really good food, but we all joked about the yard-lamb, street-beef, and sewer-chicken in the vindaloo...probably accurately. There was an ethnic restaurant in town here I used to frequent that served a thin broth with bits of meat and occasionally bones in it. Mighty tasty, but after I got a bowl with a little rodent-sized pelvis, I never went back.
  10. The Gates Bezos Zuckerberg foundation?
  11. "...we hereby offer you five ways to know you’re eating rat. 1. It smells like rat. Rats secrete an oil onto their skin that gives them their distinct "rodenty" odor. Some compare the smell to that of a warm tortilla, says Ginn, while others compare it to urine. Regardless, it’s distinctive. While it’s true that the odor lessens after the rat is skinned, and again after the rat is cooked, no amount of cooking can ever completely get rid of the smell. 2. It tastes like rat. The oil rats secrete gives them a distinctive taste as well. Ginn describes it as quite pungent and gamey — most similar to raccoon or rabbit. Blended with other meats, rat becomes a lot less distinctive, so you’d have to be rather discerning to notice it. 3. It tastes delicious when brushed with a moonshine glaze and barbecued. Of all the ways Ginn has eaten rat, this is her favorite preparation. A close second is smoked rat jerky served on brioche French toast. So, if you happen to be savoring a moonshine-BBQ dish, or think there is something slightly "rodenty" about the gamey and delicious jerky you are consuming, you might want to check the ingredients. 4. It looks like lamb. When it’s raw, pinkish/red rat looks very much like lamb. Unfortunately for the Chinese, when ground, rat can look a lot like any generic ground meat. When cooked, rat looks more like rabbit, Ginn thinks, just because of the shape of the cuts. 5. You’re in Asia. According to Ginn, rats are most commonly eaten in Asia because of the rice crop. In areas where rats feed off rice paddies rather than garbage, the rodents are considered safer to eat. Of course, it isn’t clear whether the rats marketed as mutton in China were healthy, rice-fed rats or sewer-dwelling, garbage-eating, Templeton-esque rats. The New York Times reports that the arrest announcement "did not explain how exactly the traders acquired the rats and other creatures." Rats are also disease carriers, so when Ginn organized her meal she ordered hers from a company that supplies specially raised, grain-fed rodents to zoos. Bon appétit!" And then we have this... "Rat meat really tastes like chicken. The tail, however, is not as tasty. It’s kind of crunchy — like a rat cracker."
  12. Waiting for a parcel from Kiev since July 22. First time it was returned from the USA as "undeliverable" because the label was damaged. Now the tracking number shows it's lost somewhere in England. I guess the USPS doesn't have a lock on incompetence.
  13. Here's some recipes for rat... https://bertc.com/subfive/recipes/cookingrats.htm
  14. Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice. NICE !!
  15. Good story. When I was a kid, apparently our garage was too narrow for the '55 Olds to fit through the door...some days.
  16. Yup. Fudd's in my neck of the woods is already gone. Went by there a few days back....one of THE best chain burgers I've ever had, now forever lost to the winds of time. Tragic. Somehow, soy and kale just don't get it. But hey...the UN will have us all eating bugs in not too long if things keep going the way a certain element is pushing. Yum. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-22508439
  17. The Eddie Dye roadster, which I think is the most perfect rod ever built, was broken up and the parts scattered. Last I heard, some of the bits have come back together, and it's getting a newly fabbed nose and hood. EDIT: Rodder's Journal #77 has the story..."Like so many other early hot rods, the Eddie Dye roadster lost its identity when it was updated to keep up with the times. More than half a century later, the pieces are back together again, thanks to New Jersey’s Tom and Jim Bobowski and Jimmy White of Circle City Hot Rods in Orange, California. In “A Roadster Reunited,” we tell the complete tale of the mysterious track-nosed ’29 Ford using historical photos, magazine articles and interviews with past owners—all of which nicely augment the baremetal studio feature."
  18. I dunno...but what's the story on the shot of the Futura, apparently recently? I thought the original was terminally modded into the Batthing by Barris. If somebody's built a full-scale replica, that's one of the very few things I'd tag as "awesome".
  19. These both look great...a lot better than I'd expected. I never paid much attention to smaller scale bike kits, as even some of the larger ones look klugey and toylike to me. The molded detail on the little chopper is really impressive, and indicative of why I was such a fan of Revell's work back in those days. Nice work, Mr. Boyd.
  20. It was partly (in large part, really) seeing your outstanding renditions of a lot of these land yachts that got me interested in collecting some to do myself when I get the time in another year or so...and once I master BMF. Did that Merc come with the up-top, or did you modify it from something else?
  21. Looking good so far. Nice job on the springs, getting the wheel openings round, and not going for the nose-way-high look favored by some "nostalgia" builders.
  22. Got this issue of Lindberg's GT6. Generally awful kit, but after purchasing a built up a while back, I saw it does have definite possibilities. The built-up was missing parts, so I figgered I'd see if I could get a complete un-molested kit. The prices have been getting silly high for some reason, but persistence finally prevailed. Really...a lot of it is horrible, like the engine, the window openings, and a host of other things discussed elsewhere. And the "racing" options are pretty funny..."wheelie bars" and a (I guess) gasser-style fuel tank hanging under the front bumper. Kinda unlikely a stock-engined Triumph anything will be doing any wheelies, but better safe than sorry, eh? And of course, the Minilite wheels shown on the quite nice box illustration are nowhere to be found. Plugged a hole in my 1/25 sports cars with this issue of AMT's 289 Cobra, another one I had only a gluebomb of previously. Not a bad kit, but definitely going to need some massaging to cure the too-wide track, exceptionally heavy windshield frame, and some of the underhood details. The general proportions and lines are pretty good, but it shares the unfortunate butt-in-the-air inaccuracy of a lot of the Cobra kits out there. It's immediately obvious to anyone familiar with the cars, and makes an appearance on some of the full-scale kit-car bodies as well. Oh well. Not too hard to fix. Last, a '59 Mercury hardtop built-up. Bought it primarily because I'd never seen one before, and this one is exceptionally clean. She's missing a couple of easily duplicated parts, but she has what I need to take molds from. Frankly, I have no plans or even ideas yet for this little car, other than as maybe just a straight resto back to stock, removing mold lines and replating bumpers, etc.
  23. Supposedly two '53's were built for evaluation by the factory. I saw a ratty, rusty one decades ago that had exceptionally well-made top frame and hardware bits, with the line of the top fabric very well integrated with the body lines...much higher quality craftsmanship, design, and engineering than the typical non-factory custom would have exhibited. The story was that the car was in fact one of the two...and judging from the professionalism of the conversion, I'd be well inclined to believe it.
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