Ace-Garageguy

Beautiful work, sir. I missed it earlier. Much as I've enjoyed the real ones over the years, I've yet to even start a model of one. Seeing models like this makes me want to remedy that situation.

Mmm mmm GOOD !!! or

What you're actually gonna hear is that tortured front UJ snapping, the sound of metal twisting as those ridiculous shackles pretzel, and the resulting screeeeeeee-thump as she pole-vaults on the driveshaft.

Yeah, kinda like the guy who liked the look of a boat with lotsa holes in the hull.

If that's not a gen-u-wine engineering term by now, it surely otter be.

Pretty much the same runaround I've been getting from Comcast about frequent outages over the past few months. They discourage calls as well, carefully hiding the contact number. So while you're online with Rasheed in Calcutta, the dammed net goes down, and you have to start the whole process over again. My landline also comes in via the same coax as the net, and it fails at the same time as my web connection...naturally. So...I've now run out of cell battery twice while trying to get through to Rasheed and his buds in India too. Everything really is going to hell.

Absolutely outstanding. Real open lovers add immeasurably to the realism of any model. What you've done is to duplicate in scale the exact technique and tooling used in the real world, as you noted above. You must be channeling Gerald Wingrove.

I have yet to achieve that admirable state of maturity. In fact, I often find that a string of imaginative and highly descriptive profanity actually seems to intimidate whatever inanimate object that's aroused my ire into cooperating.

Agreed. And people who built cars that actually worked were every bit as critical of this style of rampant demonstration of stupidity.

Though afx did a very fine job with the kit (and has done a nice fender-flared conversion as well), the basic kit has several shape, line, and proportion flaws. Most noticeable is the odd kink in the rear edge of the sail-panel. The proportions of the front fenders are wrong too. There's more, but it's a great place to start, and just fine as-is if you're not a stickler for visual accuracy.

A little more attainable...

At least half the population are low-IQ, low-information, easy-to-lead sheep operating in monkey-see-monkey-do mode. Pardon the mixed-species metaphor, but it's the simple truth.

Why? When I did stupidly destructive stuff when I was small, it provoked lots of loud responses from adults. Maybe that's one reason I've always had respect for other peoples' property and boundaries.

Crazy as this thing is, it has good proportions. Unlike some other garbage we've been treated to recently, this is mechanical art built by people with talent and skill.

What Casey said. And I believe you need smaller wire.

Agreed. Mo debinately.

That'd be OK. He'd be a fun guy to know. I rather like his engines, and Lampredi's as well. They're all beautiful little mechanical jewels, a treat to work on, drive, or hear them when they're on-song...and lord knows they've made me some money. Still, it's hard to beat an old dinosaur of an American V8 for gobs of instant torque and the reliability of a stone ax.

Damm man...what do you want for a quarter million bucks? Geez...some people.

Yup, gorgeous car. Put a 5.0 Ford in it, with a 9-inch, and you could drive it more than you work on it.

Incompetent sellers who either have no clue as to what they're selling, or are unable to get the correct items in the dammed box. It doesn't matter if it's private eBay jacklegs or companies selling "performance" parts. Just this week so far: of two items in one box from a private seller, one was entirely incorrect; a company selling "performance" parts shipped 1/2" hard-line separators rather than 5/8" and wanted to argue endlessly because "the sku number says they're 5/8" (finally resolved with photos sent and hours out of my life lost to stupidity); 5/8" annealed stainless hard line AGAIN shipped as some bogus blue rubber hose; another "performance" parts company that listed fittings as "STEEL", which is what I needed, but shipped some Chinee cast potmetal which I wouldn't use on a lawnmower...and nobody on the "customer service" line could understand why it made any difference. So...so far this week, probably 4 hours I can't bill for...OR EVER GET BACK...dealing with a bunch of useless morons. IS IT REALLY THAT HARD TO DO AN UNDEMANDING JOB CORRECTLY?

Depending on how you read the dimple, it could go either way. These are front Ford backing plates of similar vintage. But in this case, I'll agree with blunc and dmthamade because the dimples on the model parts in question are on the opposite side of the backing plate from the wheel cylinder, which is where a parking brake cable would go in.

They're reasonably OK-generic for that general period backing plates on US-built drum brakes, and look Ford-enough to easily pass. I'd use the lower ones for the front because of the two extra dimples. Probably black as delivered, rusty, dusty, and greasy after a few years.

3 hour moderate hike yesterday with minimal pain. 6 months of physical therapy, working every day I could, and forcing myself to exercise when it hurt like hell over the past 3 years has paid off. Losing 20 pounds didn't hurt either (I've been losing 1/2 to one pound per week since I decided to). Still have another 15 to 20 to go.

I like this one...