NEW THREAD-Why we don't finish........
No Japo-scandinavian issues there....
I think this (and similar) hobbies allows us to all play God, or at least play doctor. We create life. We save lives. It takes a certain kind of person to cut up a fellow human in an effort to repair damage or replace a part, or fix a dented fender. No way I could do that.
But I CAN save a "life". Doesn't give me delusions of Godhood, but it allows me to create what is for ME anyway...ART.
I used to play a myriad of musical instruments. I used to play the french horn well enough to play with the Ft.Worth Symphony.....if one in the horn section kicked off to make a spot. I never could paint or even draw good stick figures. But for some reason I CAN take a pile like this Sedan (or the Challenger I posted pics of) and turn it in to something functional, something beautiful. It keeps my mind busy getting in to the forensics of their original assembly. Yeah, the forensics of it all.
While I was restoring the 69 Bee I used to own I noticed the weird angle the original jacking instruction sticker had been at. So I gave it some thought. I thought, the car was on a moving assembly line. And the guy placing that sticker was probably right handed (no offense to any lefties out there). So I figured out that if I stood BESIDE the car, with my right hip at the quarter, I could take that sticker in my right hand and holding my hand thumb down I could reach out with that sticker and place it on the trunk lid in almost the exact place at almost the exact angle as the original. That also told me the guy putting the sticker on was about 6' tall.
Did ya ever think that much about something as simple as a jack sticker? I certainly never did till then. But I'm a freak, and you are too. And we're all Gods and Doctors......in our own way
and yes, the pics below are of that same Challenger I posted earlier
No Japo-scandinavian issues there....
I think this (and similar) hobbies allows us to all play God, or at least play doctor. We create life. We save lives. It takes a certain kind of person to cut up a fellow human in an effort to repair damage or replace a part, or fix a dented fender. No way I could do that.
But I CAN save a "life". Doesn't give me delusions of Godhood, but it allows me to create what is for ME anyway...ART.
I used to play a myriad of musical instruments. I used to play the french horn well enough to play with the Ft.Worth Symphony.....if one in the horn section kicked off to make a spot. I never could paint or even draw good stick figures. But for some reason I CAN take a pile like this Sedan (or the Challenger I posted pics of) and turn it in to something functional, something beautiful. It keeps my mind busy getting in to the forensics of their original assembly. Yeah, the forensics of it all.
While I was restoring the 69 Bee I used to own I noticed the weird angle the original jacking instruction sticker had been at. So I gave it some thought. I thought, the car was on a moving assembly line. And the guy placing that sticker was probably right handed (no offense to any lefties out there). So I figured out that if I stood BESIDE the car, with my right hip at the quarter, I could take that sticker in my right hand and holding my hand thumb down I could reach out with that sticker and place it on the trunk lid in almost the exact place at almost the exact angle as the original. That also told me the guy putting the sticker on was about 6' tall.
Did ya ever think that much about something as simple as a jack sticker? I certainly never did till then. But I'm a freak, and you are too. And we're all Gods and Doctors......in our own way
and yes, the pics below are of that same Challenger I posted earlier
