Ace-Garageguy

Not exactly, but closer, anyway...

Pretty cool.

Well, whoever built it didn't seem to feel it was necessary to actually learn to weld before sticking stuff together. That's a pretty good indicator of "no effort". 'Course, the world's full of people who can't tell this from this ...or just don't care to do anything right if they can slap some (can't use the word here) together and get all attaboy-ed from it.

Seriously COOL. Imaginative, interesting proportions, engineering looks like it could actually work, cleanly executed. I love your inverted leaf-spring suicide front suspension.

No talent, no skill, no taste, not much effort. Just another lookit-me-too hacked up mess.

Modified back to the original version of the Challenger I, as introduced to the press in bare metal...

AMT Phantom Vickie has one...

Sorry to hear that this has happened. However, if it has happened, I think it's a mistake to retreat. If it happened to me, you can be (can't use the word here) sure I'd fight it with everything I could think of. Don't let the (can't use the word here) win.

This OS Giken head is what you want in that Z-car...

Yup. The laptop I use for diagnosing and tuning electronic engine management systems dumped its hard drive this afternoon. I had all the work-in-progress backed up, and don't store much of anything in it anyway...and all my tuning software is easily reloaded from removable media...but it's still a maddening thing to have happen to a relatively new machine.

I'd wager there's not a '30 Ford on the planet, "custom" or otherwise, that has the firewall and cowl as portrayed on this model. I've done a partial tutorial on correcting it, by the way. I've seen HUNDREDS of these cars, both stock and rodded. It's just flat wrong.

Well, maybe if the tooling is ever resurrected or repaired or redone, it will have input from somebody who has 1) actually seen a 1930 Ford and 2) can use a tape measure.

Size matters here. The 200 Franklin is 200 cubic inches. The biggest Corvair is only 164 cubes. Cut two jugs off it, it would only be 108 cu.in, and it would look tiny compared to the 4-cylinder Franklin. NOTE: The Porsche-powered Mooneys weren't that great 'cause the relatively small, high-revving engine required a reduction gearbox to spin a conventional prop big enough to drag a fairly large airplane around. High revs wear any engine out sooner, and the reduction box added weight that negated the Porsche engine's lightness.

This is excellent advice, and is simply a part of living by the Golden Rule...treat others as you would wish to be treated. HOWEVER...I am of the "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" pre-offended-by-everything generation. I think the world in general could benefit from a little less over-sensitivity, and finding something to cry about everywhere. There's important stuff in life that needs correcting a whole lot more than going looking for something to take personally in every sentence or phrase.

Hmmmmm. Maybe I can just fiberglass my beard into a cup-shape that will extend in front of me a couple of feet...after I grow it out a little longer.

MOMMY!!! MOMMY!!! Da bad man said carp when everyone knows he means a BAD WORD!!! MOMMY!!! MOMMY!!!

Full scale American Stamping repop '32 frame rails when they arrived here during some demolition a couple years back... 100% American made... And the repop glass body, a clone of which I'll be dragging back here in a few more weeks...'cept mine will be lacking the bonded-in firewall, floors, and inner door and decklid panels. All that aside, it will still be at LEAST 6 more months before I can start in on actually building the real one.

The snowflake syndrome comes to MCM. Maybe being an adult male is just too toxic to be tolerated. No sarcasm, I suppose, no use of simple words to express simple ideas. And all this time, I thought anything smacking of politics was frowned upon too. I guess it depends on the politics. Not that I'm being argumentative, mind you. It's just an effort to try to communicate on a level appropriate to 5-year old girls.

It's a brave new world here in 1984.

Well, for instance, sometimes, parts of the contents of a kit box have the value of excrement, and seem to have taken about as much conscious effort to create. It's less time consuming to type a rough facsimile of the "bad" word than it is to type "excrement". There's also the ever present danger that "excrement" will not be in the vocabularies of some members...particularly those who have common-core backgrounds.

Cute little guy. I'd like to have one of those as a daily driver.

The Testors basecoat-clearcoat products without the clearcoat produce a very appropriate sheen for interior materials like leather and Naugahyde. Any of the rattlecan dyes for real-car interiors do too.

RoG will almost certainly establish an American distribution point. In that case, Chinese-made product could still be shipped direct to the States.

Yeah, she's one of the best. Girl can play.