Ace-Garageguy

Well, I guess little Timmy's just going to have to stay stuck in the well. Always thought she was very pretty, in the classic, understated '50s kind of way.

To the best of my recollectory, the panel van was introed first as a custom street-rod truck with a 289ish smallblock and a host of other non-stock features. The pickup was an offshoot of the panel truck tooling, also not at all stock. Bear in mind that these kits have some pretty blatant proportion and line issues with the bodies, the most prominent being the 'forehead' over the windshield, and the height and shape of the hood. EDIT: https://www.sprue.xyz/articles/monograms-1955-ford-trucks

Pretty much my life philosophy, but I haven't always taken heed of a couple other really important directives: 1) Pay attention 2) Never trust anyone else 100%. Though someone may not intend to hurt you, your outcomes are not their primary interest. 3) Develop long-term plans and goals and stick to them. Don't rely on luck for things to just work out. 4) Be willing to change or modify long-term plans and goals as situations change. 5) PAY ATTENTION

Another one's in the books. Great turnout, club and organizational upgrades worked well, lotsa super models, and probably the best vendor turnout ever...one of which was Norm of Replicas and Miniatures, who looks good and seems to be doing very well. Great guy to talk to too. As many photogs as were there, I'm sure the YT coverage will be up in not long. Didn't spend as much as usual, but a few things followed me home. Now to find time to build something...

This is the kind of stuff AI at its current level of development is really good for. Really really good. But it's not ready for prime-time on medical diagnostics or legal work yet, or anything else mission-critical, and every day the news is full of the proof. Nice work, gentlemen.

98% sure I have one. I'll have to do some digging... You have a PM incoming too...

Another fearless warrior kitty...

Great looking models, great looking composites. Really really cool.

Nope. This one.

It occasionally hangs and does a bunch of other weird stuff. But I realize it's all a figment of my old-man Luddite delusions. Tech is all perfect and wonderful...just like AI...so I just deal with it as it comes up.

Sunday's forecast is for rain of burning frogs mixed with brimstone hail, but hey...at least I'll be able to sleep an hour later.

"Works" race cars referred to those fielded by the factory, as opposed to independent teams.

Mind where you pee and queue.

"Walmarts", as they say, was the only place within miles of the shop Wednesday afternoon where I could get hot-glue sticks, which I use extensively for CAD (cardboard aided design).

Yessir, that photo right there is one of the main reasons I love AZ. I haven't given up on the dream yet, but it's gonna take a while...

According to the BBC, France only accounts for 1.8% of goods imported into the US, and the blanket tariff is 15%...which I'd very happily pay if that's what it takes to get wheels from this guy. Glad this topic came up, as I'd kinda forgotten how beautiful his stuff looks. I need vintage '30s-'40s-'50s race-car wires (like Pierre's, above), as well as seeing if he'll do a run of dragster front wires...plus sets of everything he lists as stock items. Time to try an eBay order for a start, I guess.

Where'er ye be, letcher wind blow free.

Really really really like that. Big smile-maker.

Pretty much swore off buying anything on eBay unless absolutely necessary, but tried it today and the stupid tinkering and "fixing" things continues unabated. I will never understand why so much effort by idiots with no clue is put into "improving" things that worked just fine before... But that seems to be pretty much where we are as a society now.

Here you go. Bed underside details start at about 3 minutes in. Heavy longitudinal wooden planks laid over wooden transverse supports, assembly through-bolted to longitudinal wooden spacers clamped on top of the steel frame rails. I'd guess the side members of the perimeter bed frame itself are steel (to better support the two bolts on every hinge), but the rest of the bed members appear to be wood.

This later model Bedford shows a bed where the heavy longitudinal planks are apparently laid over transverse steel cross-supports (welded to a perimeter steel floor frame), in turn supported by wooden longitudinal spacers laid over the top of the frame rails. This was a common way to do it back then, but I don't know if your prototype was built that way.

Commodity traders once inspired no end of jokes involving pork bellies.

Depending on whether you have any taste or design sense...or not.