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Here you go. The white and blue cars both have the Ford quad cam engine from the MPC Gurney Eagle Indy car. Mostly box stock except I did a lot of filing and shaping of the one piece "bundle of snakes" exhaust casting to try to obtain a more correct multipiece exhaust system look. The silver car has the Tamiya Nissan R390 engine which was a very oddly shaped V8 and is now converted to a V12. In case you were wondering, the silver car body has been widened 16" and lengthened 20" to match the Tamiya suspension and chassis.

When the MPC Howmet turbine cars came out I hated the engine. There are always alternatives I thought. Perhaps Ford's Indy Car V8. Maybe the Tamiya Nissan R390.

A bit of trivia, the Howmet cars were based on a variation of the old McKee CanAm chassis. I have built several of the kits over the years but never used the turbine engine so if anyone needs one or more I would be happy to donate them. M

Now if we could only find a Duck Duck JEEP dash upgrade for the Jeepster?

Shunsaka Tamiya, the founder of the Tamiya modelling empire died last friday at 90 years. I thank him for my years of model building happiness and frustration. Marty

SteveRacer, Not much else to show. I really wanted to do a full detail turbo Offy but ended up with a kinda curbside build. As an example, I have no idea how the offset Offy could possibly be connected to the centrally mounted transaxle. Thanks for the compliment and, By the way, loved the He(R)k pun. Marty

Hurtubise was once in a crash that burned his hands. He insisted to the doctor that they be shaped to allow him to hold a steering wheel. Late in his career he entered Indy but couldn't find any sponsorship. He dragged his old roadster on an open trailer to the tech line anyway with a new "Coors Six Cylinder" sign on the hood. The tech crew open the hood to find it empty except for a six-pack of (you guessed it).

The last Hurtubise roadster

Les, I guess I tried to say that I have already made resin centers for Revolution wheels and they are already mounted. I am sure the 3-D versions are better but too late to change. The reality is that I mostly used 3 piece modular Revolutions on the HP car. Quite heavy even after I substituted titanium bolts for the steel. I also had one piece aluminum versions that had been sectioned down to our then current maximum 5" width. Nobody accepted the welding or heat treatment but everybody used them for the Runoffs because, you know, lighter! Real racing was fun, especially when I moved up to DSR, but little plastic cars are certainly less costly. M

Ah, the UCSP revolutions are exactly what I could have used six years ago.

I am still trying to finish making a Gunze Bugeye into a replica of my old H Production Bugeye Sprite. I have found that the Carrera Nascar 1/32 slot car tires rescale almost exactly in 1/25 to the 20.0 X 8.0 - 13" slicks I used to use. The Revolution wheels were harder. I contacted Revolution in UK to obtain a good straight-on photo of their product but they declined -- trying to protect intellectual property maybe? This led to my first and hopefully last try at resin casting. Good luck.

I am by nature a Luddite but 3-D printed parts fascinate me. I have only used two suppliers but they both provided very accurately detailed results. The recommended two are: Ron Olsen's store on Shapeways (now defunct?) for many parts and bits. jpgmodels.com in Ljubljana. Many itty-bitty parts and some female mating sockets required enlarging but very authentic result on their Ferrari 250 Columbo engine. Delivery and shipping were prompt and well packaged (may be changed due to new tariffs?). Fun fact, Ljubljana once had the tallest sky scraper building in Europe. M

Thanks Tex The model was of the Ferrari Columbo and was looking great until the incredibly cute individual velocity stacks for the very cute Weber carbs disappeared into the carpet monster. Now considering a turbo conversion. All of this for a glue bomb Aurora GTO Resto Mod. Marty

I saw this car at a Brainerd IMSA race. Moretti made his famous spaghetti for the paddock Friday night but we had to bring our own wine. Almost bought a Penthouse T-shirt but the Penthouse Pet that was wearing it might have caught a cold giving me hers. The car was almost perfect for the mile long Brainerd main straight

Thanks Les, This process provides astonishing detail. Probably the nicest thing I have ever purchased from Ljubljana!