Arcade Legends!

We’ve got an old Ultracade Arcade Legends cabinet that died a few years ago. These are old (2005 is this machines vintage I think) PC based machines with a CRT in a really nice cabinet. When I got it I also got the installation CD, USB stick and the manual.

I couldn’t find those items for the life of me. Looked everywhere… except the place where they were actually filed away….god forbid…even organized.

I think it’s just the hard drive that needs replacing. I’ll see if I can get a solid state stick and use that too get this thing up and running again.

1985 Mustang GT Convertible – A small update

I’ve been looking for parts and pieces for this car for quite some time. I finally found the last bit which was the right rear quarter panel and that was tough to find here in Michigan. I had to travel to a place near Joliet, IL one weekend to grab the piece. Same color car! I would have loved to find a NOS part but that was not in the cards.

I also found a front nose piece in Ohio. Another weekend day used to get that.. Finding a nice part WITH the light bar again, took some time to get sorted and sourced. The light bar seems to be removed from most nose pieces

The next bit of work will be separating the body panel from frame bits but first cutting off the frame parts and the separating the panel from the remnants. That should be interesting since I’ll be doing from ‘inside’ the body panel.

Lastly, I also dug around and found the frame measurements for a 1985 Mustang Convertible. If you need the information I have a picture below and if you want the book it come from look for the 1985 Car Shop manual, Volume B2, page 47-04-19.

The second image appears to be the front end measures around the engine bay for a 1990 Mustang Hatch. I’ll keep looking for 1 985 Convertible values.

Measure twice, cut and weld once.

Book List from Amazon

This is a list of books on Amazon where I’ve been stacking up things for years. Going to start reducing my spend with Amazon and because of that I’m going to give ‘Libby’ the library app a shot, see how it works out and see if I can knock a few of these off the list.

MLK Quote

From Apple’s web site:

“You must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.”

Can I read 52 books in 52 weeks?

My goal is to read 52 books this year. I have a nice head start because of my vacation (see list here). Some of these are fast reads others…not so much. Regardless I have a goal!

Also; the links below are to Amazon but they are not affiliate links so you can’t make me rich this way.

  1. The Last Citadel: Petersburg, June 1864 – April 1865, Author: Noah Andre Trudeau
  2. Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War, Author: Charles Bracelen Flood
  3. The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire Mysteries), Author: Craig Johnson
  4. Death Without Company (Walt Longmire Mysteries), Author: Craig Johnson
  5. Kindness Goes Unpunished (Walt Longmire Mysteries), Author: Craig Johnson
  6. Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman, Author: Robert L. O’Connell
  7. Cibola Burn (The Expanse Book 4), Author: James S. A. Corey
  8. Nemesis Games (The Expanse Book 5), Author: James S. A. Corey
  9. Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse Book 6), Author: James S. A. Corey
  10. Persepolis Rising (The Expanse Book 7), Author: James S. A. Corey
  11. Another Man’s Moccasins (Walt Longmire Mysteries), Author: Craig Johnson
  12. Tiamat’s Wrath (The Expanse Book 8), Author: James S. A. Corey – 1/26/2025
  13. Leviathan Falls (The Expanse Book 9), Author: James S. A. Corey – 2/16/2025
  14. Night of the Grizzlies, Author: Jack Olsen
  15. The Storyteller, Author: Dave Grohl – 2/22/2025
  16. The Memoirs of W. T. Sherman, Author: William T. Sherman – 3/15/2025
  17. General Lee, A biography of Robert E. Lee, Author: Fitzhugh Lee – Reading…
  18. The Generalship Of Ulysses S. Grant, Author: J.F.C. Fuller (paperback) – Reading
  19. Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila, Author: James M. Scott – 3/22/2025
  20. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette and the Age of Revolution, Author: Mike Duncan – 4/6/2025
  21. The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness, Author: Harlow Giles Unger – 4/15/2025…
  22. The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea–and the Marines–from Extinction , Author: Bill Sloan – 5/5/2025
  23. Abundance, Authors: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson