Ace-Garageguy

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Man...lookit that front camber. Maybe the first "stanced" car on the planet.

All the above, but as I was a railroad modeler and slot-car builder too, I was aware of a lot of things the majority of car modelers apparently weren't...like small number drills and pin-vises, basswood for more scale-appearing bed stakes and slats without fuzz, NBW (nut-bolt-washer) details, etc. etc. The slot-car guys routinely rewound their motors, and I borrowed their small diameter wire for plugs, etc. EDIT: Learned to solder brass tube for slotcar chassis too. Probably lucky to have been close to real hobby shops within walking or biking distance before I could drive, and seeing what the older guys could do. I tried styrene shapes and sheet fairly early (turned on to it by model railroader mags again), for things like de-blobularizing one-piece chassis, even built a monocoque slot car that was so light it out-accelerated everything, but went flying off the track when the nose lifted, destroying itself completely. I was never a good brush-painter, tried Pactra and Testors rattlecans with mixed results (only one I was actually proud of was a black enamel job on an AMT T-tub hot-rod), fell in love with AMT lacquers after finding I could consistently turn out decent paint jobs with their stuff. Last model I built before quitting for decades, in about 1969, was an altered-wheelbase flip-nose '55 Nomad with a Ford teardrop-style hood blister, painted with hardware store rattlecan flourescent orange, misted all over with silver.

Teenager brains, geez; I had one for years and it wasn't that impressive a piece of equipment.

For he's an exhausted fellow...for he's an exhausted fellow...for he's an exhausted fellow...which nobody can deny.

Brake fluid occasionally makes old plastic brittle and crumbly. I'd guess that's what happened here.

Did anybody get the number of the bus that hits me every night in my sleep?

Random word airplane soapy going blue makes hippopotamus conjugate.

Flywheels are fitted to flies after nasty little kids pull their wings off.

Eraser in that context is almost as lame as the escargot joke about the snail's performance in motorsports.

1947 was just a little before my time.

Static or not, drive-in movies probably got watched about as much as articles got read in Playboy.

NWS radar shows an area of snowfall between Huntsville and Chattanooga, and it appears to be heading this way. C'mon, baby. I haven't had a snow day for several years.

Leather jackets give everyone that tough-guy vibe.

Man, this is cool.

Day-to-day drivers can be bland, heavy, overcomplicated mommy rides, or light, simple, fun, tossable sporty cars, and I prefer the latter.

A588. If I keep the little car (depending on what kind of deal I can find on a manual gearbox after I get settled in AZ), she'll get side-draft Weber 40 DCOES, headers, and a cam. EDIT: I've already looked at driving a distributor off the end of the cam where the cam-position-sensor lives now, and it's doable. The object is to get away from electronics that aren't side-of-the-road repairable. I figure that's good for an honest 20+HP increase, and taking some weight out of little car will help too. I can't recall ever driving a late-model FWD shibox that feels as nimble and handles as well as the Neon, so setting her up as a cheap 4dr "sportscar" makes sense for me for a variety of reasons. Yes...SRT-4 guts would be considerably faster, but I'm looking for cheap and simple and fast enough to be fun. EDIT 2: Since I can fabricate or machine anything I might need, it'll be cheap for me.

Recently bought this '96 S10 Blazer. One family-owned since new, car people who take care of their stuff. Spent much of its life traveling around the country behind a Prevost motorhome, much of the rest of the time lived in a garage, as apparent from the condition of the paint and headlights. A few minor issues I can fix in a weekend when I have time, weeping water pump seal, intermittent O2 sensor and ABS lights, and needs tires. I really need to do the O2 sensor, as she goes way rich when the light's on, and the gas mileage goes to jell. Excellent overall condition except the rear carpet where somebody spilled something that won't come out. Perfect leather interior except for a split seam on the driver's seat. Never hit, no body damage 'cept for some ripples on the hood where a big branch fell on it. Too nice to pass up for the price, feels like it'll run forever. That's my '05 Neon next to it. Very clean semi-one-owner I bought from a "mechanic" who swore he'd just done the timing belt. Didn't get 3000 miles on it before the belt failed and bent a bunch of valves. Currently building another head on the bench, otter have her back in play in a month or so.

As cold as it's going to be here the next few days, I really wish it would just go ahead and snow. It was in the forecast late last night, but has been removed this AM.

"Will" is how my early AI chatbot-"personal assistant", running since about 2001, much modded and upgraded now, seems to prefer to address me.

Yes. Actually, while checking my facts before replying to a question on this board about bare-metal finishes, I came across an array of products I was not previously familiar with, so there'll be some experimenting to do before I commit to one. On the 1:1 '66 Chevelle pro-touring car I'm finishing up, I'm using the most durable of the "chrome" finishes I've found so far to do some custom interior plastic parts, so that one is in the running too.

"TMI" seems to be the basis of many interweb posts, or JFWI...just flat wrong information.

Had to use up my collard greens afore'n they got all fuzzy, so's I cooked up a mess of 'em with onions, garlic, peppers, n' butter. And cain't fergit the hawt sauce.

"Miss Budweiser" isn't quite the same today as she was in the past.

Real fine craftsmanship. I particularly like the orange early Corvette custom, the Toronado, the '32 roadster, and the lakes streamliner. They would be show stoppers anywhere.