Ace-Garageguy

Sometimes, the bear eats you.

Toupee, threepee, fourpee, fivepee...everybody pay; no free lunch.

A few days back I posted an extremely rare kit of Dean Jeffries' Mantaray. I finally found a not-too-expensive copy of the definitive book on the man and his cars. And a spectacular 3D printed engine for the Mantaray, by Mad Mike, from Model Builder's Warehouse. It'll need different valve covers and ignition, but man...this thing is gorgeous.

I guess that means they only tooled the long wheelbase, as it's the most common, and they probably figgered nobody would notice, being only a little more than 2mm in scale. It is, however, very noticeable on the real cars. Porsche 911 through 1968: 87.0 inch wheelbase Porsche 911, 1969 - 1971: 89.29 inch wheelbase 1972: 89.4 inches

The roll bar isn't in the RS kit IIRC. And I don't know what seats are in the RS kit...

Yes. Probably the best. Walker's car has the RS air dam and appears to have RS rear flares as well; they're not standard '71 T. Walker's 277 does not run the RS ducktail decklid, but as all the Fujimi 911 decks interchange, you shouldn't have too much difficulty finding a stock one...though you'd still have to do the louvers.

The '73 RS is available in this boxing too...

Just be aware the 911s through '68 have a roughly 2" shorter wheelbase, evident between the rear door edge and the front of the rear wheel opening. Walker's 277 is the longer wheelbase, which started life as a '71 T.

A bar of ivory soap works well as a cutting lubricant too, and as it's water soluble, it washes right off with no wax contamination of the cut...which believe it on not, can cause adhesion problems later on.

Experience-derived knowledge and wisdom have little value to the ignorant, arrogantly opinionated rebleating herd.

Precipitation can refer to rain or snow, or solids falling out of a liquid solution that's supersaturated.

For rounds too small to use a circle-cutter (compass) or too big for my Stanley multi-punch, I use these old-school "gasket punches", a tool that's been around now for probably 100 years. Below is the Stanley punch for small holes and rounds.

Supper and dinner sometimes mean the same meal, sometimes not, depending on where you happen to be and who you're talking to.

"Slogan('s) Run" was a science fiction movie about a Madison Avenue advertising executive who risked everything to break free of the rat race, and if you believe that, check out my Instagram ad for the bridge I'm selling in Brooklyn.

Kid gloves are great for driving, but don't let PETA catch you wearing them if you don't want your tires slashed.

"Level the playing field" is a phrase we often hear today, but it's often implemented as "penalize the most capable"...which would be counterproductive in a logical world.

This is my search to find the thing, which I sent to Michael to demonstrate I hadn't just image-searched it: OK, I figured with the kinda odd styling, it would either be Eastern Bloc or French. Nothing EB came up, had a look through old French cars. Came up with a car that had a similar front end, labeled "Gregoire", about halfway down this page, far right. https://motor-car.net/french-1950s?start=36 Searched "Gregoire car", came up with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotchkiss_Grégoire More digging... https://www.conceptcarz.com/z21740/hotchkiss-gregoire.aspx So...it would appear this week's car is a Hotchkiss Gregoire Coupe, one of seven (?) built in 1952-'53.

Snagged one of these 1/3 scale Porsche type 547 4-cam engine kits for WAY under market; open box, mostly sealed inner packets, absolutely complete. I bought a badly blown 547 engine, with a hole in the case where a rod went through it, many many years ago before the things had appreciated to being worth the cost of a nice house. I got the blown engine for little more than scrap value...about the time a business associate bought a running 550 Spyder, with one of these engines in it, for 5 grand! It's one of the few now-all-but-unattainable things I was smart enough to hang on to. Over the eons I also acquired a no-number replacement set of cases, and a plain-bearing crank (the box o' bits I bought was an early roller-crank version). The plan all along was to find an engineless Porsche to stick it in, and it's one of the reasons I bought the VW-powered Beck 550 Spyder replica way back in 1995. Building up this little gem will, hopefully, spur my enthusiasm to finish getting the real one back together. With the value of a full-scale 547 engine being what it is today, the cost of having new pistons, rods, and a few gears made is well worth it.

Fitting square pegs into round holes can be done with precise machine work or big bloody hammers.

Exactly.

Somebody musta been searching for "panoe".