We were getting the MGB out of storage (ie, moving it from the front of the garage against the wall to a stall so it can be backed out, and banishing my Miata to the driveway for the summer), and giving it a tune up. It’d been running badly, definitely running rich and stumbling/backfiring when cold. Then it backfired…

Ditto, and I’m glad so many local restaurants here are doing takeout. I actually learned that a bunch of them already offered it - it’s a game changer for me cause a lot of the time I’d much rather pick something up and, say, eat it on my patio than sit in the restaurant. And I generally like eating out. 

It makes me wonder why they don’t start with a white car, then just paint the outside pink for however long Mary Kay has the thing. I can’t imagine the logistics of doing that is worse than having a special run painted pink on the production line. 

Yeah, my uncle had a series of loaded Bonnevilles from the late 80's to the mid 90's as company leases. All of them seemed to have buttons everywhere. I’m pretty sure he never figured out what all of them did on a couple of those cars.

The underdoggedness is what I always liked about AMC’s. I’ll always look at them at the lawn chair show before another Fordrolet Mustaro. 

I can picture him because I watched the show for a number of seasons, but he is kind of generic looking. There are a lot of actors in their thirties and forties whose names I recognize but who I couldn’t pick out of a police lineup, because they’re just kind of generic television good looking.

Weirdly, Lucky Yates, who voices Krieger, looks a bit like Ray, who’s voiced by Adam Reed. But you’re right about Aisha Tyler/Lana, Jessica Walter/Mallory, Chris Parnell/Cyril, and kind of Judy Greer/Cheryl. Amber Nash doesn’t look like Pam at all.

Oh, and the character that Jeffry Tambor voiced was obviously modeled…

Give him the Heimlich.

With a boot to the stomach. 

I kind of like those chunky Goodyear blue line tires on the last prototype, with the alloy wheels. Probably the sporty one.

I kind of like the polished and chromed dork discs on older Raleighs. Like, I kind of want to see if I can make one for my Trek. Kind of like putting vintage styled wheels on a newer car.

Yeah he was my direct supervisor for three years and his bullshit was incredible. We are pretty sure his transfer was engineered to get rid of him. In the process it cost me a shot at a promotion (I was a prospect to take over but he kept it a secret and gave it to someone else).

Personally? Probably column A. I used to work with a guy like Ferris - young guy, handsome, charming, funny, laughed at your jokes, has a cute wife with a bunch of cute kids, just your all-round Suburban Dad Nice Guy People like him because he’s always suuuper nice to your face, and he’s always offering to help you…

I just finished “Go Like Hell” by AJ Blaine, which is about the Ford GT 40 saga. It’s breezily written but not particularly in depth or detailed. Scrounge up a copy of “Ford Versus Ferrari” by Anthony Pritchard if you want an in depth look at the story - but it’ll cost ya, copies for from $2-300.

Huh, they’ve gone up - I’ve never paid more than $800 but it’s been a few years. I know that NC hardtops are very expensive, because nobody bought them in the first place especially after the retractable top appeared. 

1.) A lot of people want the HT but don’t have one, but just as many don’t want to deal with the hassle of it for a weekend only fun car. So unless you’re planning on never taking it off (for track day types or if you just want it with the HT on all the time) or you’re needing it for winter use (something fewer NA’s…

The Jeep Chief. I’m kind of surprised someone hasn’t figured out a way to make a kit of this - I’d totally build one.

I actually feel that way about the four door Wrangler - they just look odd to me.

That said, the kit to make a four door into a two door pickup looks pretty good on the longer wheelbase. 

Thank you for the link! Mine’s a nice little layout to just watch trains run around - the three sidings have industries in that I put specific buildings next to them (a grain elevator, a brick building that I decided was a small brewery, and a loading dock) but we didn’t really design it for actual freight movements…

Oh, a Scalextric layout! That’s another thing I keep thinking about getting into. 

Yeah, I’ve got a mostly completed* 4x8 HO layout I built for my dad, and we designed it with just an inner and outer loop, with turnouts so you can move between them, and like three little sidings. Now, of course, he’s bored with it and we’re trying to figure out how to add onto it so we** can build a little rail yard…