Ace-Garageguy

Lucky car to have found an owner who'd take care of her so long. Wishing you both many more happy miles.

ERTL / ESCI 1/24 BWW M1 (Procar competition version) in Marlboro livery. Much more detailed kit than I'd expected, with an engine and decent suspension, should be buildable as a really nice piece. Missing one clear quarter window, which isn't bad for having been rattling around unsealed for decades, and bizarrely the instructions, though clearly correct for the kit, state it's 1/48.

"Cool" is a side effect, and is never achieved by chasing it directly.

Life choices I didn't consider carefully enough got me to the point where I am today, which isn't where I'd be if I'd really been paying attention from day one.

Sorry to hear that. There are a lot of publications out there now that are "print on demand" or available only on digital storage media. I almost always buy "used" original copies, very often indistinguishable from new, of anything that's out of print. Here in the US we have rather a lot of sellers of salvaged stock, library copies, etc.

With enough applied effort to skill-building comes perhaps not mastery, but certainly competence.

Yup, and today the cost is staggering. IIRC the Barris Ala Kart came in somewhere around $15,000 in 1958. Figuring gas was around a quarter a gallon then, multiplying by 10 gets us close to today's inflated fuel cost. Multiplying $15,000 for an AMBR winner in '58 by 10 gets us to $150,000...and unless you built almost the entire car by yourself, that wouldn't even get a car in the running today...especially not one built to this level.

Only irked at myself so far today, taking too much for granted, not trying hard enough, and spending too much energy on negativity.

School is, sadly, where a lot of folks choose to stop learning.

porschercr sent me this link. Thanks Trevor. Beautiful car, surely inspiration for somebody here. It certainly is for me. https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/ross-myers-fenderless-36-ford-is-amercas-most-beautiful-roadster/?

Really inspiring seeing all these different new and old scratchbuilding techniques combined in another project of yours.

PM'd

"Feet don't fail me now !!"

Man...that was an image I didn't need in my head.

Just as long as he doesn't eat it...

"Too soon" she said; "not for me" I said.

There is historical precedent for that. Some postwar Japanese automotive engines were part-for-part copies of British engines, and except for the fasteners being metric on the Japanese parts, many things would readily interchange.

I had completely forgotten about this body style. Your inspiration shot looks great. I'll enjoy seeing this one come together.

Firemen were the official government book-burners in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

"Go soak your head" was a kid's expression of where to go (that wouldn't get your mouth washed out with soap) way back in prehistoric days.

From the day...first thing in the AM Hiking later...

Mascara may contain asbestos, so do your due diligence before applying your makeup.

Wow. Signed, eh?

Not necessarily...though as long as a dented can isn't swelling, it's probably OK. Contaminated or improperly processed canned foods, even in airtight cans, can harbor clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic bacteria that produces both the gas that causes can swelling, and the botulinum toxin that causes potentially fatal botulism. Never even try to taste food from a swollen can, or one with a top that "oilcans". Ingesting even a small quantity of the toxin can be deadly. Interestingly, it's the self-same toxin that people have injected into their faces to reduce wrinkles. Botulinum toxin is a potent neurotoxin that inhibits release of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction. Injection of minute quantities of botulinum toxin into specific overactive muscles causes localized muscle relaxation that smooths the overlying skin and reduces wrinkles.