Ace-Garageguy

Hamburger mixed with elk is pretty tasty for if you like game meat.

I would wager that nobody in the history of the universe has gone as far with this kit...at least while keeping it a midget in the scale it came in.

"Burger Booger" has a nice ring to it for a restaurant; apparently "Booger Burger" is already taken.

Boogers to the right of them, boogers to the left of them, into the valley of snotballs rode the 600.

You'll need to get a CD of the music from Miami Vice, a pair of Wayfarers, a white suit, and a collection of pastel T-shirts too.

It'll probably take a little extra care to get the doors operating properly, and overall it's a nice kit. Seems I recall the seats may be a little underscale.

Toast with beans on it is a resoundingly British inexpensive meal.

One whole day, no significant irks. Wonders never cease.

What a concept. You suppose it'll ever catch on?

Again this AM I felt like I was getting sick, but after working most of the day I feel fine.

You don't expect those to run for 100,000 miles, they're way more robust than these production belts, they're shorter and wider, and they don't run immersed in oil like the oil-pump belts do. Kinda different. I wouldn't have any problem trusting a Jones, Jesel, or similar setup on a racing engine that gets frequent inspections and maintenance. But on a daily driver on the street? Nope nope nope. Nope.

"Department of Corrections" is a name I always found misleading, as it seems like "detention and punishment" are what's provided, and considering the high rate of recidivism, I'm not too clear on just exactly what gets "corrected".

You reminded me that Caribou Coffee used to (still may) sell little bags of chocolate covered coffee beans that looked like...well, you know.

I read about that in one of he US model railroad mags. Sometimes it's hard to believe what kind of mindlessly destructive people there are in the world. I don't understand...

Toy sections of some drug and department stores used to sell models too.

Very interesting model. The Beriev BE-6 was a Soviet cold-war-era semi-copy of the American Martin PBM Mariner that was built about 10 years earlier.

Roll-on applicators were invented in the late 1940s, inspired by the ballpoint pen, and in 1952 the first roll-on deodorant hit the market.

3 more complete NOS vintage HO scale model train "craftsman" kits, for about the same dollar amount they sold for when new in the late '50s-'60s (typically 5 times that today). The top Ambroid kit is a composite plywood-side, steel-framed wood chip gondola, part of a later "One of Five Thousand" series. The center Quality Craft kit is an all-door boxcar built for Weyerhaeuser. The kit has very nice die-cast side framing, which I didn't expect. The bottom kit in the blue box is a second series "One of Five Thousand" collector kit, an insulated tank car built for Riverside Oil Company. Ambroid and Quality Craft began producing very high quality craftsman kits of unusual or unique railroad cars in 1958. Ambroid's were manufactured by Northeastern Scale Models (who still make scale lumber and wood parts to this day), and who later boxed and sold some of them under their own name. Carefully built, these ancient kits produce jewell-like models easily rivalling the mass produced high-end cars made today.

Away across the ocean is where a lot of "customer service" people are working for US companies, so you might want to pray you get somebody on the phone you can understand when you're trying to find the chrome framis you ordered from Amazon, but UPS keeps texting you "delivery attempted, address does not exist", or when your internet service goes out every other day for no reason, but you still have to pay the full bill.

Day in, day out, you can't fix thick.

Yup. 1/25 kit #2462 molded in tan-salmon. Clear red taillight lenses, absolutely positively.

"Thick as a brick" describes some of my past co-workers quite accurately.

"Elvis the pelvis" was one of the great one's nicknames.

Reach for your dreams and work hard to achieve them, 'cause they won't just materialize from wishing.