Ace-Garageguy

Man, I really like that concept illustration. If you can pull it off it'll be one seriously cool build. Good luck.

Man, some of the stuff on the web would gag a maggot.

Engine sounds of every kind appeal to me, from steam locomotives to Merlins to Pratt & Whitney J58 turbojets.

Face the music.

Parked on the beach a little too long...

"Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war !!!" cried Orange Julius.

Kinda feel like ----, head hurts, can't focus, tired. Think I'm going to knock off early, go home, have a bowl of soup, and take a nap.

Checkout shock will become a thing if grocery stores follow restaurants and quit putting prices on items.

Favorites of mine include cherry pie, Laphroaig single malts, air-cooled Porsches, Indian food, and fit 5'3" brunettes with blue eyes...not necessarily in that order.

Better, really. 'Cause everybody knows that "a heavy car holds the road".

Poor little car. Can I bring it home and save it, Mom?

Days of Blunders might make a good title for a Tom Cruise movie about current events.

USPS is working pretty well for me lately. Maybe all those complaints I made to supervisors and supervisors of supervisors and big muckety mucks actually had some effect in my region. Nah. Just random chance.

Lucked into one of these a while back, not complete, but two bodies in the box...

Sick animals tend to hide and rest until they feel better, kinda like me.

Here's the thing. I have pretty well calibrated eyeballs from decades of doing what I do. For example: lotsa people have dumped on all the '34 Fords in the model-car-kit world, and for good reason. Not a one of 'em looks 100% right to somebody who's been looking at the real ones for 50 odd years. Some years back, I had access to a nekkid '34 3W over several months. I measured it quite accurately (+ or- 1/8") and took extensive notes and photos. Without exception, what looked wrong to me on the various models looked wrong because the actual measurements were not scaled from a real car correctly on to the models. Some things on some of the models were too narrow. Almost none of the hoods were long enough, though the closest looked the best. Some of the grilles were not tall enough. Lines and curves of fenders and other panels were wonky, and in incorrect relationships to each other. Etc. etc. etc. In the final analysis, the ancient 1/24 scale Monogram '34 Ford kit is by far the most accurate of any '34 Ford ever kitted, from a hard numbers standpoint. And it's pretty much universally accepted that that old, old kit just flat looks more like a real '34 Ford than any other '34 Ford kit ever marketed. There's a reason for that. Numbers don't lie. EDIT: That's also the reason the AMT and Johan annual models derived from dealer promos that were scaled from factory blueprints look so very very good from a proportion and line standpoint. They are numerically accurate scaled-down representations of the real cars, not subjectively "artistically interpreted" by well-meaning but misguided designers.

"Crowd-sourced is only as smart as the dumbest guy in the crowd." Too bad more folks don't realize that. Googli's AI hasn't figured it out yet either. EDIT: For those who missed it, shortly (within minutes) after I posted jokingly on another thread that "budge is an adult budget", Googli's AI picked it up and repeated it.

That makes me cold(er) just thinking about it.

This is baloney that's been circulating for decades, attributed to various people. If it's true, explain to me why a small photograph of a real car looks just exactly like the real car (assuming there's no weird lens effects like extra-long focal lengths or fisheyes). A perfectly-scaled model looks right when viewed from a similar angle and scale distance as the real one. Subjective oogie boogie "artistic interpretation" doesn't cut it.

Ummm...yeah. I think that anyone who operates as complex and potentially lethal a machine as a car should have at least a basic grasp of how the thing works. That used to come under the heading of "common knowledge", but not so anymore. (EDIT: Even the frilly little girls in my 6th grade class had to pass the same science tests as I did, including operation of IC engines, jet engines, wings, electric motors, how electricity is generated and distributed, etc.) Obviously the majority of the "tech savvy" but in reality woefully technically and scientifically ignorant don't agree with me. But that's OK. Nobody has to. Just please don't crash into me as a result of your willful refusal to understand physical reality (NOT directed at YOU Lenny, just to be clear).

Laziness probably could qualify as a hobby all by itself.

Exactly, sad but very very true. Many beautiful cars were run into the ground by people who had no clue, and not just 308s and Panteras and Maseratis and Jags when they got cheap. There was no shortage of American thoroughbreds like Corvettes and GTOs and Trans Ams and Mustangs and Challengers etc. senselessly destroyed or driven to death by (word I can't say here).

Looks good. I like stripper trucks too. Actual trucks, not symbols. Pretty cool headlight trick as well.

Hmmm. Looks like a drag car to me, nothing at all like an "Indy racer". But what do I know? If the interdwerbs say it's true, it is.

Shock value notwithstanding, nowadays a spoiling banana taped to a wall as "art" can bring really big bucks ($6.2 million)...and probably lotsa little flies...so you'd best eat it before it rots.