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apperantly this turned out to be too much car for these guys.

Yeah, but it old and mostly dry rotting out. The foam on the seats was in pretty bad shape, one of the doors is seperating and all the rubber: seals and hoses need replaced. It just needs some TLC, letting is sit around for another 20-30 years isn't doing it any favors.

Yeah it was sold for $1.5m and purchased from Symbolic Motor Cars in Ca It is said to be very originally but in need of restoration. And yes it did finish second.

The Porsche Cayman was named after a Caiman crocodilus, which isn't really a fish.

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Nope, I had one. The Kadett was earlier than the Manta. It was called a Manta in the states too.

I made some solder ones for the King of the Mountain car I was doing once upon a time.

It's just a little junky Central Machine. It was $60, but it works okay. I'll get are real 4" with a divider plate, which are about $200.

Yeah, not the same as the Cobra/GT40 wheels besides being a different number of spokes they are also bigger diameter.

yup

Turning without a lathe

A little 3in rotary table.

can you tell me what this is?

Thunder did a really nice replica I seen one with yellow wheels but it had a 911 motor in it.

Drawl, See this is never going to work.

That would be the next level. I can turn what I have into a CNC, which has been a consideration. I need to use it a while and get a guage for it's limitations. You can turn pretty much anything into a CNC now days, with a set of steppers, a controller, a PC and some software.

I will check them out. I have been getting stuff from the Littlemachineshop.com It hasn't been terrible expensive. I got a set of six end mills for $20. Eventually I will probably want to find metric stuff.

Well my first order of business is a couple servo mounts for my RS4-3. A simple basic part to get aquainted with the machine. Some of the other things on my list are 1/5 scale Wildcat landing gear. Some parts for a super detailed 1/35 Panther tank. Eleanor wheels A&N fittings I am sure it's opened the door to all kinds of other things.

Collet, some end mills, a draw bar, and a clamp set.

Played around with the mill tonight. So far I am impressed. It's done everything I wanted, didn't stall, bogg down, or stop, no chatter, and made a very clean cut and I am just using a non-square non-level cheap vise till I get a machinist vise. Even at that I was to cut square and only had a .003 runout over 2 inches. I haven't been in a machine shop in over 10 years but it's all kind of coming back to me know. I think I will be able to do some pretty trick stuff with it, so I am pretty happy so far. The machine is pretty capable. I just need more stuff. Edge finders, Rotary Table, more tooling, parallel set. I hope the lathe turns out to be as pleasent to work with.

Personally I wouldn't buy a Lexmark anything.

I got some hardware store wire for hanging up stuff that is perfect for springs, just wrap it around a rod until you are happy with it.

Mark Donohue was interviewed on his dominate car and asked, so you must have the perfect race car, Mark replied, "We not quite, the perfect race could spin the wheels all the way around the race track at any place at any time. The 917/30 could almost do that."

It held it for thirty years then.

they said a coupe, I think the rules are going to change soon to all coupes and no open cars at all. They wont come back until they can compete for an overall, so as long as the diesels continue to dominate - they are supposed to be fixing that, though also. That is why the Factory never ran the RS Spyders.