Ace-Garageguy

"Blamed for stuff other people did" is one of the most vexing injustices, as no amount of logical, factual, verifiable argument to the contrary will change some people's minds once they're made up.

Sunday alcohol sales were verboten here for a long time, but fairly recently they've been legalized after noon.

This thread is becoming an excellent resource for anyone wishing to build a more accurate model of these cars. Your work and taking the time to photograph it, explain the photos, and post it all is much appreciated.

Be a strong, stable, calming influence on those around you in a crisis.

A Watts-link setup would of course not function with the bellcrank on the diff housing and the link ends attached to the leaf springs. In that case, the entire Watts assembly would simply move up and down with the axle, accomplishing nothing. I have the kit, but it's 2000 miles away, so I can't check it at this time. One unfortunate problem with model car tooling designers is that some of them really don't understand the function of what they're looking at, so odd problems like this crop up...though without looking at the kit myself, I can't make any kit-specific comments or recommendations.

Yup. Biggest problems are too much "forehead" over the windshield, and an inflated-looking too-tall hood. AMT's '53 pickup, the same body as the '55, got the proportions pretty much dead-on. Measuring is hard.

I average two pieces of actual mail weekly, and average five pieces of junk daily.

Oopsie doopsie...

Super Bowl halftime-show "wardrobe malfunctions" are the total extent of my interest.

"Familiar" is the word used to describe a warlock or wizard or witch's close animal companion.

Just kinda rediscovered this guy...great for driving up the PCH at sunset.

Mushrooms are growing in some folk's heads apparently.

Eleven days for a small envelope of documents to go from AZ to GA. Really glad I had the sender get a tracking #.

"Reality Bites" should be the name of little psychotropic candies that impart common sense and respect for objective truth to anyone who eats them.

"Chaos" describes a lot of things happening over the last few years, but I'd best not elaborate.

I agree with you about those old Monogram kits. Their first-gen '34, before the de-contenting and top-chopping etc., is absolutely THE best '34 Ford ever done in scale, by a wide margin.

"Opinion" and "feelings" are often seen to be superior to verifiable facts in today's "information-centric" society.

Dead picture link, can't edit that far back, so here:

Yup, that is mo' debinately some pretty work by somebody. Those billet-look wide-5 rims are pretty trick too.

Indeed. But hey...EVERYTHING now is WAY better than it used to be, or haven't you heard?

Yup, "Slim Jim". I'd had a problem with it once before it got away (it was my mother's car, but I drove it occasionally), probably because I was running it a little too hard...manual shifting it. But I got it sorted way back then and she drove it for several years afterwards. It's not running now so I have no idea how the gearbox is, but I bought the GM factory book on it. I understand parts are hard to get these days, and I really want a 5-speed in it anyway (which requires an adaptor and substantial tunnel rework), so we'll see. Fatman had dropped spindles for it too, but they appear to have been discontinued...and I haven't checked for any other sources yet. But no worries. I'll get it lowered with front discs somehow. Pretty cool you got your prom car back too. Looks like she's coming along very nicely.

You can have all the bugs you pick off me, 'cause I'm nothing if not generous.

Thanks Casey. I have one coming. If it's as nice as the rest of his stuff I have, it otter be pretty nice indeed.

https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/amt-instructions/big-rigs-trailers--/amt-canepa-kenworth/

Wow. Nine inches in N'awlins. That's some cool jazz, man.