Ace-Garageguy

Fascinating. I scored a complete, virgin Beaver not too long back; something really weird like these to handle it might be interesting...

A big thanks from me to the OP; prior to this, I did not know that some AMC platforms were still using torque-tube drivelines well into the '60s. I have relatively little hands-on experience with anything AMC, and this new piece of info is fascinating. Now, down the internet rabbit-hole to get the rest of the story. Like I've said a bazillion times before, one of the things I like best about model cars is the opportunity to learn more about real ones.

Recently, I spoke with a purveyor of aftermarket parts who's getting into the 3D-printed manufacturing business...but who is also seriously considering buying an injection-molding machine, and setting up as an independent US manufacturer of stuff that just isn't available elsewhere. I saw a pre-production sample of one of their 3D products, and it's a knockout...a far better rendition of the subject than anyone else has done to date, and frankly, probably as good as this particular part will ever need to be to satisfy even the most discriminating builder for the foreseeable future. The target price is very reasonable too, especially considering the fantastic quality. If this is a true indication of what the company is capable of, the sky's the limit.

I've had one of these 1/12 Porsches for many years. I used the wheels and tires to build this wide-body 240Z convertible, but unfortunately, I left the Z-car sitting on its suspension in the very humid basement shop at the last house. The tires began to disintegrate and go flat, like the LF in the shot below. I've been searching for enough wheels and tires, for years, to complete the Z, and to replace the ones pirated from the Porsche. Finally found 'em...

More 1950s smokestack-America industrial background and support pieces... First, a working HO scale Bascule bridge kit from Walthers. ...and probably the crown jewel in my HO stuff, a discontinued, probably never to be reissued Walthers Hulett ore unloader kit. Standing like silent mechanical sentinels from another world in this photo, the real ones are all gone, cut up for scrap.

You're killing me. I need one. I've got most of the rest of the 1/24 warbirds, but I didn't know this existed.

The Olds and Caddy engines look a lot alike, and were designed along the same lines at the same time by GM...though nothing actually interchanges on the real ones. But it's not hard to mistake an Olds for a Caddy in 1/25 scale, especially when you're 12.

Why We Should Quit Tossing Fish Heads And Eat 'Em Up Instead. Yum! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/07/286881659/why-we-should-quit-tossing-fish-heads-and-eat-em-up-instead-yum

Coming home in the dark doesn't bother me, but I despise having to get up in the dark.

While I don't have the "Gas Man" issue on the shelf, the Cadillac induction options should be the same as earlier issues: three 2-barrels, or a blower. Cadillac parts on the left, below.

To be more precise, it represents a first-generation overhead valve (OHV) V8 Caddy, introduced in 1949 in a 331 cu.in. displacement. It was built in increasingly larger displacements of the same basic design (and all very similar visually) of 365 and 390 cu.in. through 1962 (the '63 390, though similar in many ways, is a different engine). It is the same engine represented by the Revell "354" Cadillac parts-pack engine.Though Cadillac never actually made a 354, the typo was on the original production packaging from Revell, and was never corrected. It was a very popular engine for swaps after its introduction, and more than a few "Fordillacs" were built.

Good of you to remember him and remind us all. He was a great guy, very talented and skilled, and put a whole heap of effort into this site as well as the magazine.

OK. It went through.

And another scam aimed at those who want to believe, but don't know enough science to be skeptical of unlikely marketing hype...

More pseudo-science-based feel-good voodoo snake-oil too-good-to-be-true baloney...

Ian Rankin's The Impossible Dead.

Most excellent. I always enjoy seeing bodged models brought back. Here's hoping whichever way you go is a relatively smooth journey.

Yup.

Thanks for the link. I've always liked Roth's cars, especially the Mysterion.

Thank you thank you thank you. I was there, but didn't take a camera.

I think I know what its mother was.

Boy...nice view though. Is that a Christmas tree farm?

Cool. Another one of the spectacular racing cars from the golden age. Looking good. I wasn't aware of that kit. Thanks for the heads-up too. I picked up a sad little Monogram 2D coupe for a dollar on Saturday, very restorable.

I would recommend against the engine in the Slingster. The scoop makes it look like Zippy the Pinhead. The engine in the Revell Miss Deal "funny car" kit is about dead on, and it's a beautiful piece. Still easy to find for reasonable jack. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Miss-Deal-Funny-Car-1-25-Revell-Complete-Unstarted/173619018057?hash=item286c7ff949:g:Cm0AAOSwYCRb22TN:rk:4:pf:0

Man, this just gets better and better. Turn the potato chip fish-head into a full-blown installation piece. Mount it all by itself and lonesome on a sheet of transparent material, with a continuous loop of the Fish Heads song running behind it. Then the critics could really get some traction, opining about how well the essentially non-music celebrating something commonplace but disgusting helps to break the old-fashioned bounds of traditional art, by rebelling against the concepts of "pleasing melody", "beauty", or "skill" when creating anything, and profoundly challenges the notion that any individual or group can actually "create" anything anyway, as everything is based on what went before it, and so every "creation" is really of no more lasting value than a stinking fish-head. And in typical today's-culture style, said critics would likely be completely unaware that the song dates from 1978, and would smugly assume it was of recent manufacture, judging from how the guy's pants-legs fit. Of course, if they DID bother to research and date the song, a case could be made that it was utilized to demonstrate that absolutely nothing of any value has occurred in the culture-free Western world, other than the continuing rapacious behavior of the evil profit-driven capitalist corporations represented by the potato-chip fish-head in the foreground. I see a Nobel Prize for Art in the making. Wait...there is no such thing. Well, it's about damm well time there was.