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Scott, it looks amazing! And it is a great project that you can proudly say you and your brother both built. It’s also a fine tribute to him and his vision. -Mark

Michelle, very nice tribute! I just watched a“Mysteries Of The Deep” episode the other night and it featured the Fitz sinking. -Mark

Mark awesome as always! -Mark

Dirk, as John said you are in with the baddest of the bad too! Your work is an inspiration to all of us. Glad to see you posting again..- Mark

Godspeed Dave, you are missed. I hope you’re getting to complete this build and cruise your Pro/Street ‘37 Chevy in a better place Brother. -Mark

Kevin , nice tribute to Mike. You became a heck of a builder. -Mark

Wow Michael! Nicely done. -Mark

Nice gesture and nice model Nicholas. It’s a beast!- Mark

and some Mentos

Thank you gentlemen! Rob I was impressed with the number of vendors. All the ones I chatted with (which wasn’t very many since I got there late lol) were quite friendly and they had their tables organized pretty neatly. I was impressed. And the quality of bills on the tables was just off the chart. I wasn’t feeling 100% so I didn’t get to spend as much time as I were quite friendly and they had their tables organized pretty neatly. I was impressed. And the quality of builds on the tables was just off the chart. I wasn’t feeling 100% so I didn’t get to spend as much time, as I wanted to viewing the models, Also apologies to builders whose entries I did not photograph. I simply ran out of time. I hope I didn’t take up too much space posting all these pictures. I don’t have Fotki any more. I mean there was at least again this many entries which I did not photograph. I only got about half of them.. And Claude thank you for the nice comment, but my phone deserves all the credit. This idiot just pointed it and pressed the button!

Rich that story is amazing! For the Can Am series they ran Chevy small blocks that year I believe. I may be wrong. I’ll bet it was blisteringly loud through the race headers. A race car of that magnitude on the street was a rare treat indeed! Thanks for sharing.

Rich I copied part of what you said above….. The twin turbos are visible just in front of the rear bodywork. This is where the exhaust would normally have been so i bet this is loud. Oh yes! I can verify. In 1998 I wes in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina spitting distance from Charleston to do some painting at my sister’s home. I went out shopping one evening in my 1985 Cutlass and was sitting at a stoplight just after dark and one of these pull up next to me right by my driver‘s window. I about laid an egg! at least out of my window and gave the driver the thumbs up and his passenger window was down and I said man a cold egg. He said holy cow you know what this is. So when the light went green, he showed off a little bit for me and put his foot in it. He probably ran it up to about 100 before letting off. It was a rocket and yes… Very loud. Absolutely beautiful sound. I could still hear it ringing in my ears when I was going to sleep later that night. I also saw a 2 Koenig S4 928 Porsches in the mid 80s when I lived in Germany as a teen. A black one laying robber out of an Esso station when I was standing about 50 feet from it. The other one was blue and blasted past a rental van which my dad rented when relatives came from the United States to visit. nine members of my family, were packed into this van heading down the middle lane of the Autobahn doing probably 75 mph. We were heading to Munich to check out the Olympics stadium and then on Austria. I remember my father saying “ something’s coming up on the left side like a bat out of hell”. About the time he finished that statement the blue Koenig S4 blasted past us hard enough to buffet the van over into the right lane almost. He was doing about 160 mph. He had his left turn directional on perpetually. That’s a signal on the Auto bond to people in front of you to get out of the way. He just left it on! And yes, the removal of the strakes….. very ironic that Willie Koenig remove them from a car which came with them from the factory while he added them to pretty much every other body kit he did for the other Ferrari bodies and the Mercedes and the BMW. Kind of funny, but as you say, it was a matter of function over a form on this vehicle.

Rich thank you for listing the kit shortcomings because I have one I plan to build. I’ll be happy if mine comes out looking half as nice as yours. Fantastic job, my friend! -Mark

Bruce, John is right. Very nice diversity. And I have been wanting to tell you that I love your Toyota 2000. Gorgeous build man. -Mark

Aircraft Etc. Continued The 3D print Marquette rocket engines were a treat. I did not catch the builders name, but he was very friendly and fun to chat with. He could not enter these end competition because technically they are not considered models but , and I am probably going to spell this incorrectly…Marquettes I hope you enjoyed the photos, I am definitely not a photographer by any stretch! Lol-Mark