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And why my '62 VW double-cab pickup (selling it in '91 was one of the stupidest things I ever did) just snuck in under the wire in '63.

You have some seriously fine old iron, sir. Very nice.

I have a couple of turbine projects...

Not many people remember the "chicken tax"...

I had no clue. I first tried to peg it to some eastern European manufacturer (it looks like it could be Wartburg 353-based), then thought it might be a stillborn Fiat safety-car prototype (it has proportions not entirely unlike a 131), and then searched all the bizarre safety-car prototypes from everywhere. It never occurred to me it could actually be a production car. Yech.

I used to run at Dallas here in Ga., but it was closed due to nearby development and noise / traffic complaints in 2005. This little film is from 1968, the year before I moved to the Southeast.

There is some larger rattlecan flake out there, which of course needs to be cleared or candy-coated. https://www.66autocolor.com/Aerosol-Metal-Flake-p/spm-metalflake.htm ...and there's some even bigger...just remember that the bigger the flake, the more clear it's going to take to bury the texture, and fine surface details will go away...

Excellent points.

There are "purists" among us, some of whom are particularly enamored of one particular make, and some of whom feel it's sacrilege to alter significantly ANY vehicle, as though the designers of the originals were super-humans who had overcome the need to put their pants on one-leg-at-a-time. I disagree, and feel that just about anything is fair game for hot-rodding (barring some very special and historically significant subjects). That said, though I have access to original '20s and '30s Fords that would make great rod material, there are so few left unaltered that I personally wouldn't cut one up. Nor would I heavily modify something like a '72 911S...unless it was just too far gone to make a straight restoration economically viable. What I have planned for my OWN 911 would surely count as sacrilege to many Porschephiles, and I really don't give a damm. I specifically sought out a rough but solid example of what is just about the LEAST desirable of the 911 range to use as my canvas, and it was among the cheapest too. The chances of that particular car ever getting restored were slim to none, and most likely it would have been driven to death, or into a post, by some idiot. But if you choose to heavily modify an irreplaceable vintage vehicle, try to do a competent job. There is a world of difference between a well-planned and executed modification and a bodged, mindless hack-job...and I've seen plenty of the latter.

I have had a similar problem several times in the past. A longish text-only post (usually an in-depth response to a technical question) wouldn't go through, often until it was edited down to the point the sense of it was lost. No bad words, nothing that could conceivably offend the algorithms in any logical way whatsoever. Every time, I just gave up (though I posted descriptions of the problem at the time in the appropriate place).

The huge flake on some of the old race / show cars and dune buggies HAD to be shot through a special "flake gun", as it was just too big to shoot through a regular gun. Thing is though, to get this effect in approximate scale-correct size, you just need to get one of Testors line of metallic lacquers.

Which is exactly why I'm kinda on the fence about this one. The big-bumper cars of that general vintage are worth the least (my own '74 Targa is worth even less). Still, the SOUND of the 911 engine is at LEAST half of why I've wanted one since my first time wringing one out. No matter how well it performs, I just can't imaging driving a 911 that doesn't sound like a 911.

Scary thought, but you do have a point...

...I can see a whole new genre of nouvelle cuisine opening up here...

Four-and-twenty flying rats baked in a pie...

I wonder how much horsepower it would take to capsize Guam...

Agreed, but "dove pie" sounds so much tastier than "flying rat pie".

You'll think of these as the good-ol'-days when there are legions of nose-to-tail self-driving sheepmobiles, and you have to wait an hour for a break in traffic...

Mighty tasty looking truck. I had a real one many years back, in ex-Krispy Kreme livery, fitted out as a mobile shop.

Anyone who's even partially aware knows that the dove is pretty well universally accepted as a symbol of peace, and they seem at first glance like such nice, unoffensive little creatures. Well, maybe not. With the unusually cold winter down here, and the multiple frozen-precipitation events we've had so far, I've gone out of my way to provide the local birds with plenty of easily-available food and non-frozen water. The feeding area is right outside my home-office window, and what I've noticed is that the doves are the nastiest, greediest, most selfish of all the 30-plus species I've counted so far. While most of the other birds accept each other's presence with rarely a skirmish, and actually seem to take turns feeding (while others wait patiently), the doves invariably hog the food, sit on it to keep other birds away, fight with each other (not just other species), and actively attack and drive off smaller birds that try to snag a seed or two. I think I'll dig out my dove-pie recipes. If you can't play nice...

The funny thing is that wherever a vehicle is made these days, the vast majority of it is built by robots anyway. When you buy an American-built vehicle, you're not getting American "craftsmanship", any more than you're getting Mexican "craftsmanship" on a vehicle built down south...for the most part. What really differentiates the quality of one manufactured THING from another is primarily the quality of the engineering and design that are in it from the beginning, and how well the specs are followed from tooling fabrication through production...and the level of post-production quality control that's in place. Specification-drift, shoddy materials, building-to-a-price, and poor this-side quality control is what damms so much of the offshore crapp we get shoved down our throats today.

Or a team of stripey superheros.

He probably puts his shoes on the wrong feet, and damm handy they make Velcro so he won't have to deal with laces. What's REALLY sad is that apparently 30% of the audience didn't know the answer either.

According to my calculations, one llamathrust is roughly .48 horsepower. And then there's this...