Ace-Garageguy

Sorry to hear that. I just finished a bag of burritos, nachos, and tacos...and a Killian's Red. Feel stuffed, but good.

I worked hard and ate healthy all week, so tonight I'm going to load my gut down with Taco Bell. Yes...I really like Taco Bell. Must be the chihuahua in me.

Only real interest I had in that series was the engines, which I managed to snag long ago for not-insane money. Had to get 'em both so's I could do a blown 392 in a '34 Ford drag car. Kinda wish now I'd picked up the chassis and bodies too, but they're not anything I'll be after in the foreseeable future...

Don't ask me why, but I finally sprung for a reasonably priced Gunze 250 GTO with the engine. There are 3 versions of this kit, one purely curbside with a molded shut hood, (but with PE wheels and cast metal chassis and bits), another version with an opening hood but no engine (and all the parts rendered in plastic), and the full-detail kit, again with PE wire wheels, various detail parts, cast metal chassis and underpinnings, and a cast metal engine with separate spun metal velocity stacks, etc. The two engine-free kits I've already started as American V8-powered hot rods, but this one I think I'm going to do as it's intended. I haven't built a challenging multi-media kit since my last HO scale locomotive decades ago, and this thing looks like the build will be a gas.

Spectacular, as always. I believe you are one of the best modelers alive today. Very inspiring...as always.

The parts pack chassis is naked rails, and includes the Corvette's independent front suspension...with no floorpan.

OMG !!!! OMG !!!! Skinning cats or any other kind of cruelty to animals like eating them just isn't something to be joked about !!!! OMG !!! I'm so OFFENDED !!! OMG !!! I TOLD MY MOM AND SHE AGREES !!!! I'm literally DYING !!! OMG !!! OMG !!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry. I couldn't resist.

Yes...if you're not particularly concerned with accuracy, both AMT's '32 Ford Tudor sedan and their '33 sedan (virtually identical to a '34) can be built stock...though they show rodded versions on the boxes... ...though to do the '33 sedan "stock", you'd need the interchangeable guts from the '34 5-window coupe...and some interior work. EDIT: Just a warning...stay away from this kit. There's almost nothing in the box that's usable (at least from a somewhat accurate standpoint), other than the body shell as the basis of a race car.

Cool project. We rarely see the first-series Corvettes done as any kind of race cars. It's a natural, as the Miss Deal frame is actually a first-gen Corvette.

There seem to be more and more instances of sloppy business practices and general incompetence with each passing day, and it can be costly and maddeningly frustrating when you're trying to make a living but have to be constantly cleaning up other people's messes to get anything done. But sometimes, you get a pleasant surprise: happy ending to my "irked" rant...I got a great customer service guy on the horn at Jeg's who went well out of his way to get the issue resolved, even calling the warehouse while I was on hold to make sure a human was aware of the problem with the order, and then sent me a pre-paid FedEx label to ship the wrong stuff back. Everything's looking good...and two sticks of the right stuff came in yesterday, which lets me move forward with the build while I wait for the rest.

Happy ending...I got a great customer service guy on the horn at Jeg's who went well out of his way to get the mess resolved, even calling the warehouse while I was on hold to make sure a human was aware of the problem with the order, and then sent me a pre-paid FedEx label to ship the wrong stuff back. Everything's looking good...and two sticks of the right stuff came in yesterday, which lets me move forward with the build while I wait for the rest.

Yup. I got my last several tags renewed at the kiosk in Kroger. Never anybody seeming to use it...but the mask-wearing supplicants still line up faithfully at the county tag office.

Agreed. Drifting a car in the process of getting through a turn as quickly as humanly possible in a race is one thing. Smoking the tires while going in silly circles is something else entirely.

The Revell '32 Ford sedan is WAY more accurate than AMT's offering, but you'll have to do some engine, chassis and interior work to build it stock.

These big kits have huge potential (pardon the pun). This should definitely be worth watching.

Next irk...somebody I've done online business recently apparently sold my email address. I'm being constantly deluged now with crapp I have zero interest in, and the email provider will no longer allow me to mark unsolicited junkmail as spam.

Back to my parts debacle gripe...after 2 hours blown out of the middle of my work day, one of the issues might be getting resolved. I'm currently waiting for a pre-paid FedEx return shipping label to show up in my inbox. And waiting, and waiting...

Yeah, I know. But back in the '70s we called the Kaw H1 and H2 "rice rockets" with no "slur" intended. We all looked at the performance of those things with awe, they were Asian in origin, and that's it. Of course that was long before it became fashionable to have perpetually wadded panties and every word uttered potentially "offensive" to somebody. Stone-Woods-Cook, one of the winning-est drag teams in the history of the sport...and among my heroes at the time...was just about as "diverse" as you can get, and nobody in the sport really even noticed. All I saw was three guys who knew their stuff and made their cars work consistently. Sure would be nice if we could get the rest of the way to only judging people for what's in their character and their accomplishments, and get beyond childish hypersensitivity.

I sure would like to see the triple-Weber-twin-turbo-fuel-injection setup. Must be a real triumph of engineering. EDIT: Just for the record, "ricer" isn't necessarily a derogatory term applied to poseur idiot rides. There's a 240Z around here running 700RWHP from a turbocharged and intercooled 2JZ Yota motor. The owner/builder of the car is Asian, and his tag reads RICER.

As is questioning blathering idiocy, "consensus", outright lies, or saying much of anything involving logic and rationality. EDIT: ...or objective reality and verifiable science with reams of empirical evidence to back it up.

First thing I did was get on the horn with the Customer Excuse Making and Diversion Call Center. The tubing order was split into three separate FedEx shipments, and nobody knows where the other two are, in spite of the fact that prior to ordering, the website stated the material "would be drop-shipped from the manufacturer on the 12th". There's other work I can be doing on the project while I wait to see if, when, and what materializes on the other two order units. But it's screwed my plan and fouled the logistics on the thing, as each step depends on the one before it, and I need what I need to design and fit in-place.

Yes. One of the pictures of "hot rod" in the dictionary...

http://www.deflyer.nl/news.asp BUILD THREAD...

Probably time for me to lay in a remainder-of-lifetime supply.

Sounds good. Shouldn't be any problem getting the water hot.