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Nice little cookie there. Love that engine!

Holy Cow, John! and, does that parachute really work?? ... amazing!

I don't have a vast backlog of using different brands of copper paint, so I'm asking all of you that have tried various copper paints to recommend what brand would simulate the look of copper pipe, such as in your house. This has a definite metallic look and I'm leaning toward trying some Alclad Copper, although this is not one of their high reflective paints. This IS going to be actual copper piping, but think "rat rod intake piping" if you can't figure where the heck copper pipe is on an automobile! All suggestions will be welcome!

I'm fighting through designing a dual turbo fuel injected system for a '32 Chrysler straight engine .. !! Been here at the computer sketching up ideas and searching on-line photos of installed systems. I'm adapting the existing intake and exhaust manifolds, but everything else will need to be scratched up. At least I have a couple Porsche 944 turbos to use. There's a few photos of the start at the link if anyone is interested. I'm open to ALL comments, suggestions or laughs!

Nicely rusted.... Lizard: Real or Model?

Congratulations and glad to see you stuck with it and did so well!

I'd love to see one of the older bulletnoses .. like '51's.

Welcome, Mark. We may not make many sparks here, but we can sure model them!

Gorgeous build and I love that rake!

I'm totally surprised I like th epink on this car..!! The '55 makes it look good. Very nice job on the foil .. the edges are clean and smooth.

I've been mulling over the suggestions made and it looks like I'm taking everyone's advice! The paint I mocked up in Photoshop and I like how the blue body with white trim looks. I tried other trim colors and they just don't POP like the white does. Silver was too dull looking, but it got me on the right track. I did have turbos in the back on my head, but Romell's suggestion convinced me that was the way to go. I decided to use Plastistrut tubing with their elbows to plumb up the twin turbos. They just seemed like a simple way to get all the bends without using solder or wire. I'm half pleased with the elbows .. they do fit tight to the tubing without glue for mock up as they have finned pins that fit into the tubes. I was disappointed with the ejection pin divot on all the elbows. An elbow is shown in the photo below. The tubing in the photos is 3/32 but it looks like I should use the 1/8 tubing. Glad I got elbows for both! The turbos shown are from some Hasegawa Porsche 944 kits I had converted to normally aspirated and seem about the right size for this. The original grill will be moved forward and sloped back with the intercooler mounted behind it. The intake manifold has been already modified with 2 tubes mounted into the depressions already cast into it. The exhaust manifold (above the intake in the photo) will have two tubes attached running down at 45 degree angle to the 2 turbos at the sides. I also took this build to try out the wired distributors from MAD strictly on recommendation from many posts on this forum. The almost useless SMALL photos on the MAD site have kept me from ordering (HINT to Kris) any in the past. My biggest complaint with wired distributors is the smooth caps.. I want to see the wire "tubes" that are on most caps. Now, I have to say .. GREAT DISTRIBUTOR CAPS Kris! One of the caps in in the photos below for those that haven't seen these and how great the detail is. I am debating how fuel control is done. The option I'm favoring is to make a couple throttle bodies to insert in the intake plumbing. This may not look that great, so some suggestions would be welcome that would fit with this engine. I'm thinking fuel injection but not sure how this would look or what I could adapt from another kit.

OK ... how do we ban Chuck from here?

Nice .. Will have to remember this is here when the Mobis kit comes out!

We need models (1/25) of those gorgeous hunks of sheet metal!

That's really cool. Love those T fenders!

That cab looks grand! This is gonna be an unusual hauler .. looking good!

That's a spectacular interior!

That dash is PERFECT!

Obviously this was repainted from blue. Did you check the VIN before buying it against stolen vehicles?

I love your mutations!

I hope this thread NEVER ENDS! I love seeing all these old kits and ones I've never seen!

We're NOT old ... just on our 2nd childhood ... and it's good!

Sorry about that , Terry. Don't know where I hooked NH with your name, but I was at least in New England! '62 .. I was still a junior in East Hartford High School.

That roof looks great .. the side window openings have the flow! .. beautiful

The suspension on this is REALLY good looking!