Ace-Garageguy

I would dearly love to own that. Ought to be an easy one for some of us.

I spoke with Bill Cunningham at length yesterday at the Atlanta ACME show, and saw the XP-87 model up close, as well as some development parts, one of the early vacuum molds, etc. He will be selling repops of his work after he gets it fine-tuned just a little more. Look at the ACME Facebook page for info and updates. He's currently offering a first-generation Chaparral you might find interesting as well.

I saw some parts yesterday at the Atlanta ACME show that had astounding resolution...made on a $350 machine. If you want specifics, let me know.

Lotsa good stuff going on here...

It took a couple of tries to get the first one to you, and yes sir, I did get your response. Thanks.

Two knockouts.

I just tried to send you a PM regarding : (I could be talked out of these bodies, too, BTW.) Got 404'd. I'm interested, very.

11:07 PM EST. Tried to send a PM. It just hung and wouldn't go through.

'Sposed to...but it can really ruin your day if you blow a rear-end.

Now there's somethin' ya don't see every day. Pretty cool.

Big suck, but it happens more and more frequently. Guy I work with bought a perfect 2014 Caddy CTS wagon (not the V, just the 6...but it was like a new car) from one of our clients who decided he had too many cars. Absolutely pristine, and the first owner sold it to my friend for well under market. He had it 2 weeks and some uninsured illegal slammed into the back of it, shortening the poor thing by about 2 feet. Total loss.

Good on you for appreciating professional to-the-point service. Yup, it's rare. And it sure is nice when you get it.

Nice photos, Rob.

It would appear as though you have a solid handle on the technique, sir.

Very sorry to hear that. I learned a few things from him, and will always remember him as one of the good guys.

10:17 AM, EST. Thread about "tubing notching". Photo from this site, uploaded by me from my own files on another thread, failed to copy, hung indefinitely, could not cancel the photo copy, and could not complete the post. Though the photo was uploaded as a jpg, the box indicated the "hung" copy was a png (and I have no idea if that's significant).

Exactly. It seems a little tricky at first, but I've found that, like a lot of things, after you build a few cages or axles, it gets to be second-nature. One thing is critical though (if you want symmetrical parts, anyway) and that's careful measuring and thinking-through how much length you'll lose when you file your notch or fishmouth. You may occasionally get it wrong and cut a piece too short. Stuff happens, no matter how careful or experienced you are.

Mickey Thompson's Challenger I by Revell, backdated to the non-supercharged body configuration. Finished to represent bare alloy, fresh from the shop, as it appeared at its press introduction in 1959.

Yup...that's why I didn't. It's getting real old.

I've been trying to post a single photo copied from this site with NO TEXT for two days, on the General thread "what makes you say cool" or whatever.

Can't post a single photo with no text.

This kit has about the best set of 427 SOHC cam covers ever done in styrene, and they're faithful to the real engines. The smaller recess for the rearmost plug on the passenger side is right where it's supposed to be.

I'm a lunatic, no question. Have my card to prove it, too. And I'd certainly buy these things to do just exactly what Mr. Goch referenced.

I'm sorry to see so many posts like this and Tom's relating the poor conduct of some kids these days. There's no question that concepts like "manners" and "fair" aren't getting as much air time as they did when I was a kid. And of course, it's not the kids' fault. Children don't come with embedded software that tells 'em how to act. It's the adults' responsibility, and it's largely being ignored. It's across all social strata too. I know a family where the mother is a pediatrician, the dad is a high-powered attorney, and the 3 teen kids are the rudest, most self-centered and nasty little maggots you could imagine. Not too long back, a couple of my-neighborhood young-teen girls were smashing bottles they'd found on the street (thrown out by the recent crop of neighbors) at the end of my driveway, and photographing the adventure on their phones. And yes, I followed them home and told their parents. These days, at Halloween, I turn out the front lights, pull the cars on the lawn as close as I can get to the house, and turn the motion-detectors all the way up. So far, it seems to have stopped the keying that was occurring previously.

Note I am not quoting yours in entirety either. Yup, the same ones in the bank lines who have no idea how to make a deposit, or that you can't cash any old check at any old bank, or bring in their kid for something oddball on a Friday afternoon when the lines are longest with the "but WHY can't I cash my check here?" types, or business owners who don't bother to count their cash and change prior to trying to deposit it. These same folks used to be the ones in the car-tag lines who had none of their required info, nothing to write on, and would get argumentative because their own idiocy prevented them from getting a plate. Thankfully, we now have a well thought-out system for getting tags and titles that really speeds the process up in spite of the inevitable idiots. And before all you hot happening high-techy folks tell me I'm a dinosaur Luddite and that if I was hip and with-the-times too I could do it all online...bugger off. The nature of my business requires that I still conduct some of these transactions in person.