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I had to laugh at this AI overview of parallel parking: 'The 5-Step Parallel Parking Method 1. Find a spot: Look for a space that is at least 1.5 times the length of your vehicle.' Where I live, to do that you'd have to either have a Fiat Bambino or something smaller, or leave town and go somewhere else to look for a park.

Correct pmcc.

I was Probably Over thinking that one. Nev

How would you Park the THING?

Scrap Metal or an idea of how it was. Nothing more. Unfortunately some good condition things do go for scrap but they were all consumables of some kind anyhow. New stuff is not as suited for repair as much as it was but there's always been examples of items designed to be difficult to repair.. Even in the Teens some engines had a Max overbore of Half a Millimetre on the diameter of the cylinder. .020" Nev

That's a good rule to stick by. It applies well to buying motors. You see a lot of cheap junk motors on the market but when you do the mental arithmetic of doing them up, it just doesn't stack up to buying something already up and running. I think some people buy cheap flogged out motors with missing parts thinking they've got a bargain, but when they price the work and bits required, soon realise they've bought a boat anchor.

Does anyone remember seeing Elvis's Cadillac when it toured in 1968. I saw it on the top story carpark at Myers in Toowoomba. Some other cars were there on display as well, but I don't remember who they belonged to.

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Oily rag restorations are Better. When you start making something RUN It' s hard to Know where to stop. I don't believe in working on Fossils. They are for Patterns only. IF it has to work Pay more for Better. Over restored is ruined, in my books. Don't Polish bits that were "as Cast". Something well restored Looks as if it wasn't restored in the Normal sense. The Original "Look" is always worth More at the end of the day. Plating things that weren't Plated. Plating often causes internal corrosion and makes things Brittle and the Plating on Nuts Peels when a spanner goes on it if it's crook Plating. It also ruins thread fits as the Plating goes on thicker at the ends and your parts Look like they came out of a Bathroom. Nev

Another thing that works well is salt and vinegar spread over a few applications. Depending on how chrome work has been done, with some of it you can drop it in hydrochloric acid for a short time before rinsing and that will take it back to it's original nickel plating. A couple of years ago I aged a replica medieval hand and a half sword using salt and vinegar on the metal work. It took a few applications and a couple of weeks but worked well. It worked on the brass pommel and hilt as well and made it look a few hundred years old rather than a cheap replica. First thing with brass is to determine with a magnet if it really is brass and not steel with a coating. Next thing, a lot of that shiny brass is due to a clear lacquer coating, so that must be removed before ageing. Wood is the easy part, just sand off the offending coating then beat the wood up with a screwdriver, hammer or whatever, then coat it with a stain more rustic than the original. I've used dark tan leather dye on wood for good effect in ageing.

You can get FAKE rust and Mud if that Look is your thing. Metho and shellac works too without corroding anything. Just spray old oil on it and ride along a dusty road. Ride it on a salty Beach and it will turn into a useless static exhibit in no time. .Nev

She only has Australia in Mind but follows Donald Trump? How does THAT work? Her Words are Just that. Empty words for Naive people silly enough to Believe them. Their Party seems attractive to Malcontents and drop outs Like Barnaby, who would have to be amongst the best examples of disloyal Opportunism about.. Her SHOW will Never have a true Purpose. Self Interest does not constitute a TEAM effort. Gina And Murdoch control that Mob. They are Just Puppets on strings and out of their Depth. Nev

I don't know much about the Democrats but had the impression they lost their way a bit from what they originally intended to be.

Some potential wheels - these two whitewalled Road King wheels are a bit flash for a ratbike but one thing I have a lot of experience at is turning perfectly good equipment into a pile of rust. I must admit the climate here helps a lot. The Heritage softail wheel with no tyre is already nice and aged and will most likely go on the front (when I have something that can be described as a front end, that is).

What's a proncess? Half way between a Pro and Princess? I haven't had a lot to do with Fairies. I like the MANLY Ferry. Nev

One ringy dingy - Lily Tomlin. "Have I reached the party with whom I am speaking?" Next:

I was a member of the Democrats, I didn't last long because I considered them not to be nationalistic enough. I continued watching out for a party that only had Australia in mind - enter One Nation - been a supporter ever since. The leader of the Democrats, Don Chipp, did get one thing right, he said there'll be no more world wars, just smaller localized wars. He also apologized for the 60s conscription, he was the only one brave and sensitive enough to do that, being an ex Liberal but still a bit of Liberal in him. I respected him for apologizing. Can't say the same for the rest of the political hoons in the major parties. I've never voted for any of that flotsam and jetsam.

They used to call them the fairies at the bottom of the garden party, they obviously being those that had no truck with Don's mob.

In the fairytale, Rumplestiltskin, he makes a deal with the proncess. The deal is, he'll spin the straw into gold for which she'll give him her first-born child. Reeks of paedophilia, doesn't it?

I thought He was More of a "Pubic" relations Person? Whatever GRABS you I suppose. It's ALL an act, and ALL about HIM, and always will be, for ALL the World to see.. Nev

You Only DIE once. Putin would like to take/destroy the World with him if He can't restore Russia to a major Power. America (under Trump) wants WAR more than China does and cares Less for the Planet. USA is the centre of the Universe with Trump, but it IS divided unto Itself by Trump. (on Purpose, because that is the way HE works). THAT will cause his Ultimate downfall. Nev

Anyhow WE don't HAVE a 2 Party system. Why DO they call Taylor "Leader of the Opposition", has ME tossed, when they are actually facing extinction. Hanson is Portrayed as Future PM when she has ONLY ONE person in the Lower House, and a Gift wrapped Little "SEXY" Plane that at some stage will Probably Scare the $#!t out of her. (Like her walk on Uluru) where she slid down a ridge in her shorts like a Dog with Worms, because she was too scared to stand up. Doing a STUNT to Defy the Aborigines call to respect the Rock as a Sacred Place. Funniest thing I've ever seen, the Look of abject fear on Her Face. The Rock 10, Hanson Zero.. Nev

Someday somebody might compile a book of famous Trump statements..... but nobody will believe it. "Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox “News” Thursday night when he bragged in a senior moment that the entire push to seize Iran’s enriched uranium — the ostensible casus belli for the deadly bombing campaign that’s killed so many children and 15 Americans — is, in his own words, “more for public relations than it is for anything else.”

In the meantime the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, other European countries & even Ukraine are all ramping up production in their own armaments industries to reduce and eliminate reliance on US arms. 50 year of that reliance is at an end. Also much of their technology is equal to or more advanced that that of the US. It will take a few years but in the long run little donny is f*#$ed. The main worry is what is Putins lot doing & the Chinese are full on as well. Hopefully i won't be around when the excrement finally hits the fan.

Trump's Economics Make HIM richer and are Based on deals made when HE holds all the Cards. He knows FA about economics except to use it as a weapon AGAINST Competitors and Allys. His Obsession with Punitive TARIFS is a good example. .He's an Economics Dullard actually. Nev