Ace-Garageguy

Which is exactly what I meant by "they're not going to initiate an action by phone". I should have been more clear. They WILL "contact" you by phone after the discussion of the problem is underway, but the first contact will always be by mail, as you say, and as your reference supports.

Are you looking for factory-style electronic injection, or something more vintage performance oriented?

http://www.cardesignnews.com/ Here's a sample of what you have access to: Proportion in Design http://www.cardesignnews.com/articles/design-essay/2015/11/peter-stevens-proportions/

The IRS uses the phone, just like anyone else. But if you have a problem with them, you WILL get something in the mail. Guaranteed. They're not going to initiate an action by phone, and they don't make threats of arrest, etc. The scam is getting to be a popular one too. Apparently there are STILL people who will be panicked enough to send money to some Namibian claiming to be Agent Jones from the IRS. https://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Warns-of-Pervasive-Telephone-Scam

A lot depends on which car you're doing, whether it was raced or not, and when and by whom. Here's a thread with some good general feference photos. Unfortunately, the links to the two Fotki albums go to "account suspended" pages. I guess paying for something is alien to folks way of thinking. You can also do a Google image search for "427 cobra reference photos". There are thousands available.

Looks great, especially considering its misadventures along the way. Very nice paint, definitely a good color for it.

Excellent resource. Thanks.

Helps if you read Portuguese. http://designontherocks.blog.br/um-vilao-com-muito-estilo/ More info, in English... http://danielsimon.com/hydra-schmidt-coupe-rot/

Thanks again for the interest. The frame for this thing is one of these old Revell parts-pack kits from the 1960s. I bought several a few years back, before the prices started getting stupid, and I figure I bought 'em to build, so it's time to start building 'em. There were two parts-pack dragster frames. The other one is based on a popular Dragmaster design, similar to what forms the basis for the famous Mooneyes car. I'm not using the kit-supplied body panels, 'cause I wanted a different look...something a little more kustom. The body is from this old monogram 49 cent kit. I got several as gluebombs. The old Monogram kit is pretty crude, but I like the lines overall, and the more elaborately styled body shell has the look i want. The body shell is the only part from the kit that will be used.

More retard phone scammers calling in with hidden or spoofed numbers. I keep putting the numbers on call-block, they keep getting more. One of the latest tricks is spoofing MY OWN name and number, so it comes up on my caller ID. Is ANYBODY really stupid enough to answer a call like that? Really? These clowns couldn't generate income (and would eventually go away) if everyone stopped answering idiot calls...but of course, that'll never happen. And the FCC continues to do nothing. I'm kinda tempted to see what it would take to develop an application to reliably ferret out the real originating number, and then do massive and sustained call-backs, kinda like a denial-of-service attack on a website. Of course, knowing how illogically our great protector works, I'm sure I'd be prosecuted for being the bad-guy, when all the thousands of thieving scammer operations are allowed to run free. There just ain't no justice.

Most of the models I build are from leftover bits and pieces I've amassed over time, and "useless junk" people wanted to get rid of.

Build it in a fish tank.

Good call, Art. Whitney / Warshawsky sold a boatload of BS carp, that's for sure. Love the old roadcrusher Buicks and Oldsmobiles the patrol ran in this episode too. Sure wish somebody would kit some.

Definitely 100% positively Oldsmobile. At 8:15, the carbs look like Stromberg BX one-barrels, which had the float bowls on the side, opposite the linkage. Familiar Stromberg carbs like the 94 and 97 had their float bowls on the end, typically mounted towards the front of the vehicle. I can't see float bowls either in front of or behind the venturis, but at the time indicated, the float bowls appear to be facing the camera...consistent with the BX design. Definitely NOT a supercharger, or anything remotely similar. Two little one-barrels wouldn't make a lot of sense as a performance mod though, so I may be mistaken about the carb ID. EDIT: And on closer inspection, the rear carb appears as though it may be different from the front carb. ID is made more difficult by the logo on the screen, and the grainy quality of the video.

All I can guess at this point is some kind of trailer with a fabric-covered top. Very nice, clean fixture. Simple but effective. Taking a little extra time to get things square and parallel, and exactly repeatable if you're making multiples, vastly improves just about any project.

Beautiful machine. Interesting they produce a lot of their own bespoke components too. Also interesting how it's smaller companies who are doing much of the leading-edge work, rather than the fat, complacent, over middle-managed, slow-to-adapt giants. I would like to know what specifically sets the tech in this car apart from what's also currently available. Looks like another few hours of net research is in my near future.

Hope you're feeling better soon Carl. Take good car of yourself.

It's been used in Britain in the "check...investigate background" sense for some considerable time before being adopted over here. Like the "pay grade" line, and "mano-a-mano", it's used, as you say, by people who want to sound like "insiders"...at least, insiders and tough guys as they're portrayed in films and on TV. Like flabby yuppie white guys talking about what's happening in the "hood", and the adoption of semi-military jargon like "wheels up" and "lock and load" by people who'd probably wet themselves if they even SAW a gun, it's really kinda pathetic.

From the same sources as "that's above my pay grade".

Just ask any woman.

Endangered species.

Yeah, sadly for the cars, I've had a number of customers and parents of young drivers over the years relate similar tales. One young lady whose daddy gave her a beautiful new Lexus sporty van thing drove it for years without so much as opening the hood. Poor little car developed a small oil leak that would have been a minor warranty repair, ended up seizing the engine. Then there was the "professional" adult girlfriend of a business associate who drove her almost-new Jag with the coolant warning light on, until it died in a steaming pile. Killed the engine, and the heat destroyed every seal in the front of the transmission.The car was simply too expensive to repair, and was junked. Her rationale was that her boyfriend (when she was a young hippy chick) drove his ropey old beater Toyota with the warning lights on all the time. Of course, the same ditzy broad had routinely locked her dogs in the Jag too, and they'd shredded the dash and the seat backs by this time.

Pretty sure he was Dan Mathews' right-hand man in Highway Patrol, too.

I wondered who'd catch that. Couple other interesting bottoms in there too.