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Have you seen the ultimate Koenig Special; the Porsche 962 road car? Personally, I prefer the Dauer 962 road car, but this is a Koenig thread. My version in 1/24:

Yes. Tamiya kit. There are several on Ebay right now. Be careful which 935 you get; not all had the same body work. The pic above has the rear fenders like the Koenig car you posted...well, same basic style, anyway.

Time to break out the putty and sheet plastic.

Oh, I'm so glad you asked. NO. It's hideous. Just like most "tuned" exotics. I'm glad I got that out of my system. But hey- whatever floats your boat. The world would be a boring place if we all liked the same thing.

I do not have one. Like Crispy said, spendy is the word. http://www.hanksmodelcars.com/servlet/Detail?no=140 I may also have some old R&Ts with Gemballa cars. I'll have to look. Also look for Strosek cars, especially the 928. IIRC, Strosek once built a twin-supercharged 928 with Roots blowers; not centrifugal. It had two of them on one manifold and a hood scoop to clear them. They sat side-by-side, not stacked like that silly GTO.

Do you know of this kit?: I may have some old Road and Track magazines with Koenig articles. I'll dig through them.

I have a built 1/16 Fujimi 1/16 Koenig TR. It does not have the F40-style rear wing. I got it as a builtup off ebay a while back. The roof was smashed down a bit and one of the rear wheels/tires is missing. I threw it away a couple of days ago, but I dug it out before writing this. If you want it, just pay for postage and I'll send it to you. Think of it as a cheap canvas for practicing painting. Heck, scratchbuild the wing and sail-panel scoops. Let me know if you want some sheet plastic for those parts. edit: with a smooshed roof, just cut it off and make the Spyder!

Not really my cup of tea, but you do some really nice work.

Oh. OK. Well, I don't want a 1/16 '32 Ford.

I can't see much of a market for a kit that costs more than a Big Deuce, is half the size, and less detailed.

Mechanical Fuel Injection <drool>

You are not nuts. I read evilone's post thinking he was talking about a model at first. When I realized he was talking about a real car I was thinking 1)all it takes is cubic dollars 2)is this a joke?

It's worth 200 dollars or more when you want it bad enough to pay 200 dollars or more. No joke. That's the only way to determine if something is "worth" the price. Does it have to be 1/43? Fujimi made Koenig TRs in 1/24 and 1/16. I'm sure you could get several for less than 200 bucks. I wanted a Tamiya 1/12 Lola T-70 for years and years. I had bid on several glue bombs on ebay, always getting outbid. I finally bit the bullet and paid $130 for one...plus shipping from Australia. Same deal with a 1/24 resin model of a 1926 Miller Indy car by Etzel's Speed Classics. I wanted it bad enough to pay $178.00, therefore it was worth $178.00.

I don't live in California, but I'm not aware of a HP limit. As far as I know, if it passes emissions, you're good to go (if it needs an emissions test). Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords did a buildup on a 1,043hp 445ci Windsor. It had a supercharger, but no intercooler. They had to stop at 6500rpm on the dyno, but the redline was 7000. They estimate it has 1100hp. If money is no object, the sky is the limit. Flatlander offers a bored and stroked SVO-block 460 with 806 cubic inches. Add a supercharger and intercooler and go nuts. Mike Murillo's 10.5 Outlaw Mustang drag car has a 541ci big block with twin intercooled turbos and a dyno-verified 2900hp. (I got to check it out when I visited Bill Buck race cars in Austin not too long ago. Wild car) It is a drag car, but hey, go with twin turbos on Flatlander's 621 or 806 and have a 2,000hp street car.

If that bad boy is 57 feet long, you're going to need a lot of paint. deja vu? http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18606

Yes, the dehydrator is used for drying paint.

I also doubt that both blowers work. It seems like the belt would slip on the lower one. It can only contact a very small part, and it doesn't wrap around the pulley like the one on top. I'd say there's a good chance it has never been fired up like that.

Joe knows what he's talking about. Check out this thread: http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=152359

According to Joe Sackey, all were red when they left the factory. There was a yellow GTO, but was built in red and later repainted Fly Yellow. There is/was a silver GTO. It was also built in red and repainted. The Sultan of Brunei had 4; one was red, the others were Blue, Dark Slate, and Black. Read more about it in this thread at FerrariChat.com: http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=164148 If anyone knows Ferrari & Lamborghini history, it's Joe Sackey.

I don't have a picture of it right now, but my work bench is a commercial wooden door that I got from Craigslist. It's 8 feet long (tall). I also have a glass door from an old stereo cabinet on top of it. It makes a great work surface. It's perfectly flat, and and I spill paint or glue on it, I can just scrape it off with a razor blade. A battery-powered Dremel is a very handy thing to have. It spins slow enough that it grinds plastic, whereas the 110AC version spins so fast that it melts plastic. A Sherline lathe and mill are really handy

Thanks for the advice, guys. Lots of knowledge and experience out there. I'd love to try solid blocks of Renshape, but money is tight and I had the styrene on hand.

Hmmm. I'll try that for the next one. Thank you.

This one? From my Fotki album of Street Rods by internet message board builders. http://public.fotki.com/TunnelRammedBigBlo...eet_rod_models/

Pretty much any paint used on styrene models will work on resin. A resin model would not really be suitable for making a lexan body. It is meant to be displayed as-is (after paint and assembly) not used as a vacu-form master. If you have your heart set on a r/c Koenig TR, try the Fujimi kit in 1/24, or look for a Lexan TR body that you can modify in 1/24 or larger.

You're right. My Mercedes was not grey-market. The Porsche in the OP is not, either. Both are Euro-spec cars. One was brought to the US, one stayed home. I would avoid that Porsche like the plague.