Ace-Garageguy

Nice save of a kit somebody apparently really tried hard to bugger. Friendamind owned and raced one when he was stationed on Okinawa decades ago.

Resurrect a model that was assembled with a whole tube of glue, painted with a dirty pinecone, then smashed and most of the parts thrown away if you want a challenge.

Looking at Can-Con's build and review above, I kinda wonder if the two kits I bought from feePay were actually from Vic himself or poorly made ripoff copies. It would be nice if more people with actual experience with his product would chime in. I'd hate to see a guy get a bad rap because somebody sold nasty ripoffs, claiming they were his. It wouldn't be the first time...

Pennsylvania still had old-school steel mills with blast furnaces, and they'd light up the night sky for miles when I was a little kid.

Slipped the leash yesterday while some epoxy was curing enough to handle for the next step in assembling the custom instrument panel for the DeLorean project, and drove up to the Savoy Automobile Museum outside of Cartersville for a couple of hours. First time I've been there, though I've known about it since before they even broke ground. Very nice. I particularly wanted to see the exhibit of fiberglass kit cars before they went away. Couple of mistakes on the info boards with the cars, kinda surprising for such a professionally turned out venue. But then I lived, ate, and slept kit-cars for a while, and not everyone knows some of the esoterica...and they had one I'd never even heard of before, so that was cool. They also had an exhibit of early US-made small cars like Crosley and American Bantam, a gallery full of Studebakers from the teens through the '60s, some locally owned restored and customized cars, and cars from their permanent collection...plus a good selection of automotive art and memorabilia. Overall a very pleasant experience, well worth the $17 admission fee, and I'll be going back when the exhibits change. Displayed outside is the abandoned 1954 Plymouth Savoy found on the property as it was being cleared, and that inspired the name of the museum.

This repair would have entailed dropping the fuel tank for access to a "failed module" according to the scan-tool, would have cost the customer many more hundreds of dollars, AND STILL WOULDN'T HAVE FIXED THE PROBLEM. This is the difference between a guy who's highly competent and conscientious, who understands computer-aided AND old-school diagnostics, and the clueless majority of folks "fixing" cars today. To paraphrase Smokey Yunick: Best Damb Garage on the Internet.

Very nice. Real fabrication. "Doing things right the first time" and saving stuff most would throw out to make cool stuff floats my boat.

"Box lunch" is a light meal like a sandwich sometimes offered on or included in touristy trips like steam-train excursions.

More sane grocery prices at Kroger. Whole hot roast chicken for $5, and a loaf of really good in-store-bakery crusty multi-whole-grain bread for $3.58.

Sandwich making is a valuable survival skill, and costs a helluva lot less than relying on Grubhub, UberEats, and DoorDash.

Garden vegetables can save you a lot of money, but OMG OMG OMG you might have to get your hands dirty.

"Together forever 'til death do us part" is what I signed up for, but the ladies involved apparently didn't...much to my dismay.

Good representation requires your attorney to be very well grounded in applicable law, capable of reading and understanding complex documents, and an innate strength of character so he'll keep going when the battle becomes more than just filing papers and making mumbling court appearances.

Results similar to what the firm of Ditcher, Quick, and Hyde achieves are what you really want from your legal representation.

Stock market fluctuations causing widespread panic and news and social media hysteria. You don't lose actual money if you don't sell. It'll be back.

"Altogether, in the" is an expression meaning devoid of clothing, like Gort, who went everywhere in nothing but his metallic skin.

Kids need role models, and they'll find someone's behavior to copy, one way or another.

Fake or not, that's a beautiful car.

Nice work. Interior colors look great with the bronze. I always loved that thing, and really hoped Chrysler would build it in limited production, like they did with the Viper.

Congrats. That's quite a score. Envy envy.

Good outcomes don't result from endless dithering and indecision and posturing and empty promises.

Back to the past is where I'd like to go; the way things are going, I don't have a great deal of confidence in the future.

Turtle is as turtle doves.

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Looking like a good build. I think that particular OBS Chevy is the last really good looking pickup GM built. Clean styling, nothing forced or gimicky, just a truck that isn't stoopid huge, is at the right height to actually work out of, and isn't trying to be a luxo ride. I must like 'em. I have 2 real ones, a '92 extended cab Silverado and an '89 GMC longbed fleet stripper.