Ace-Garageguy

Great looking boat. Nice work, nice proportions.

Floor joists are never really appreciated until they fail.

Lab-coated beauties doing science appear more in fiction than reality.

And it was such a great one, many other manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon...and are having the same problems. This is the kind of stuff that happens when engineers look down their noses at the greasy-hands guys who actually know how stuff fails from real-world experience.

Time is important, and squeakers on your brake pads shouldn't be ignored until the grinding noises start, but I still see metal-on-metal all the time...and then the owners get mad because the cost of new rotors and sometimes even calipers is a "ripoff".

Bits and pieces of many kits or junkyard cars can sometimes be combined into much more than the sum of the parts.

Thanks for posting that. I'm pretty sure that old R&C article is where I first got the idea to build a 1/25 scale sprint car from the old Monogram midget kit...years before I had the skill to do it, or even much interest in sprint cars.

Meat 'n taters still top my list of favrit things ta eat.

Hamburger mixed with elk is pretty tasty for if you like game meat.

I would wager that nobody in the history of the universe has gone as far with this kit...at least while keeping it a midget in the scale it came in.

"Burger Booger" has a nice ring to it for a restaurant; apparently "Booger Burger" is already taken.

Boogers to the right of them, boogers to the left of them, into the valley of snotballs rode the 600.

You'll need to get a CD of the music from Miami Vice, a pair of Wayfarers, a white suit, and a collection of pastel T-shirts too.

It'll probably take a little extra care to get the doors operating properly, and overall it's a nice kit. Seems I recall the seats may be a little underscale.

Toast with beans on it is a resoundingly British inexpensive meal.

One whole day, no significant irks. Wonders never cease.

What a concept. You suppose it'll ever catch on?

Again this AM I felt like I was getting sick, but after working most of the day I feel fine.

You don't expect those to run for 100,000 miles, they're way more robust than these production belts, they're shorter and wider, and they don't run immersed in oil like the oil-pump belts do. Kinda different. I wouldn't have any problem trusting a Jones, Jesel, or similar setup on a racing engine that gets frequent inspections and maintenance. But on a daily driver on the street? Nope nope nope. Nope.

"Department of Corrections" is a name I always found misleading, as it seems like "detention and punishment" are what's provided, and considering the high rate of recidivism, I'm not too clear on just exactly what gets "corrected".

You reminded me that Caribou Coffee used to (still may) sell little bags of chocolate covered coffee beans that looked like...well, you know.

I read about that in one of he US model railroad mags. Sometimes it's hard to believe what kind of mindlessly destructive people there are in the world. I don't understand...

Toy sections of some drug and department stores used to sell models too.

Very interesting model. The Beriev BE-6 was a Soviet cold-war-era semi-copy of the American Martin PBM Mariner that was built about 10 years earlier.