Ace-Garageguy

Yup. Judging by the wrapped headers, the single 4-bbl manifold, the short race-style belt runs, what looks like a non-production fabricated sump and the manual gearbox, I'd think that's exactly what it is.

I'd stand on a box any day to be nose to nose with Sophia Loren...though I could probably suffer through toes to toes.

Much better roofline. Yeah baby.

My bad. Shave first, then put on the makeup...though I actually have seen a woman shaving her legs while driving. Electric shaver plugged into the cig lighter, top-down convertible Fiat.

Very nice. As I'm sure you know, the AC body borrowed several styling elements from the Carrozzeria Touring-designed Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta, most notably the sculpting around the grille.

Specially if you're eating, drinking hot coffee, shaving and putting on makeup while dictating the morning's presentation introduction...

Finally finished my billing for the last period and cross-referencing the brake calipers for a '67 Iso Rivolta. The fronts are Girling units originally spec'd for various and sundry Lamborghinis, and the rears are Girlings designed for several Aston Martin applications. Iso picked existing parts off the shelf to design their cars around. Smart. Now to see if our parts guy can source them. Iso Rivolta Normally I'd rebuild the damm things myself, but the owner of the car had some bozo work on it, and he sent all the calipers off. They got scrambled. So NOW, the calipers we have with the car, though they're all brandy-new rebuilt by White Post, don't actually go to an Iso of any description. Totally USELESS, and the rears won't even physically bolt to the DeDion rear-end center section. Least I can hand off finding all the stuff now, 'cause I have the CORRECT part numbers I need to fit this particular car. For the record, the front calipers that came in with the car fit a DeTomaso Mangusta, and the rears fit a Daimler SP 250. Maybe I can finally get some model-car bench time in today.

Have you seen this thread?

Here's anudder one...

Interesting. I wasn't aware there was a "season". I've always worked on whatever I wanted whenever I felt like it...and had the time. I'm buried under paperwork that has to be done by tomorrow, Monday, as well as extensive parts research for a real mechanical restoration project. Maybe I'll have time next week. Having to make a living can really get in the way of playtime.

Ditto.

I missed damm near everything between 1969 and 2005, and about half of what went before '69. Just now starting to get a handle on everything that's out there.

Yo, Tom. I have an '89 Celica convertible I'll be putting back on the road in a couple weeks, soon as she gets a new top, water pump, timing belt and front crank seal. Need another one for your collection? Black car, black top, gray interior, auto trans.

Here's another piece of the puzzle...'58-'65 full-size engine restoration colors... http://www.348-409.com/engine.html Engine block & Heads (all engines)OrangeOrangeOrangeOrangeOrangeOrangeOrangeOrange

Apparently an Ollie's opened a few miles from me a couple months back. Maybe slide by there later this PM to see what they've got. Hope it's not a wasted trip.

This is from a tri-five Chebby concourse judging guide: http://www.angelfire.com/in/EMARKAY/joutline.html All 1955 V8 motors are CHEVY ORANGE with BLACK valve cover stencils. All 1956 V8 motors are CHEVY RED, with BLACK valve stencils. A few EARLY 1957 265 V8 engines (standard transmission ONLY) were painted chartreuse (lime green) by Chevrolet, and they had BLACK stencils on the valve covers. After about November 1956, all 265 engines were CHEVY ORANGE (as are the 283 motors), and the valve cover scripts were SILVER.

Shaping up to be one great looking model.

Bought a Holley 2300 series 350CFM carb with a center-hung float. The plan is to fab a manifold to run the thing on my '74 Porsche 911S Targa. The CIS fuel injection is packed up, and though I kinda like CIS, rebuilding it can be tricky (as there's not good parts support for internal CIS parts). Fabbing a Q&D plenum manifold and runners will at least get me running again fairly soon...without having to get into the CIS black magic...so I can start sorting out everything ELSE that's wrong with the poor old girl from sitting the past 10 years. Once she's sorted, she'll get two 3-barrel Webers, but that $3000 isn't in the budget until the rest of the car is close to 100% functional.

Really like the smoothie steelies too. What's the actual diameter?

Did you look through my build thread? There are several pix there pulled from the web, and I have some more on my hard drive. Let me know what you need photos of and I'll see if I have them. Challenger I build thread http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/65965-mickey-thompsons-challenger-one-still-alive-feb-8/ Thompson had a very fruitful relationship with Pontiac, setting many records...some of which I believe still stand.

Thanks for the pix, Jon. These actually show some details of the coolant plumbing that I didn't have, from different angles.

These are the ones I'm thinking of. Definitely look like OEM radials. http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMT-1-25-1953-STUDEBAKER-MR-SPEED-3-N-1-WHEELS-AND-TIRES-WHITEWALL-TIRES-/301939551991?hash=item464cffeef7:g:LiwAAOSwUV9WpXUr