Ace-Garageguy

I wasn't thinking water exactly, but I better quit while I'm ahead.

HO guy for 6 decades here. Looks good.

Michelin X radials were introduced to the public in 1949, but 250 GTOs left the factory on Dunlop cross-ply racing tires. The answers you seek are here, grasshopper: https://www.borrani.com/ferrari-wheels/250-gto.html Radial tire history: https://www.michelin.com/en/news/the-x-radial-tire-is-70-years-old/ Difference between radial and crossply tires: https://www.bigtyres.co.uk/blog/whats-the-difference-between-a-radial-or-crossply-tyre.html

Feel like saying a lot of unkind but true things, I do...

At least it's not Bud Light.

Assuming the kit designers were as good at arithmetic as a reasonably bright sixth-grader, it should pretty much "bolt on".

Known values of electrical resistance are signified by the colored bands on resistors.

Most damm annoying thing now is how freaking long it takes to process a refund. They say 3-5 days. Baloney.

"Away-team prepare to beam up; there's no intelligent life here".

The bottom end of even the little B16 was good for around 700 with the addition of forged rods, pistons, and possibly a forged billet crank. Not too shabby from 1.6 liters. The B16 was the production engine that really put Honda on the "tuner" map. At 160 HP stock, 300 on the street was a relatively easy accomplishment. Honda engines' tunability is...much as I hate to use the word...legendary. https://tuningpro.co/honda-b16-engine-guide/

To be or not to be, dooby dooby dooby...that is the question and in some cases, the answer.

Yup. In the past I've done repair and maintenance on exotica including Ferraris. Among other issues, the 308s and their derivatives (Mondial) required fairly frequent and expensive timing belt replacement. There were other niggling problems, but that's always kinda been the nature of exotics in general...especially secondary systems, and difficult access to just about everything.

Yup, that should do it. If you don't have BMF, a square of aluminum foil will work just as well. The object is simply to keep the tire from direct contact with any plastic.

You never know until it happens. I've had some fairly recent kits exhibit "plasticiser leaching" from the tires, which is what causes the melting of adjacent plastic.

Thanks for all the photos and the descriptions of what you've done. Most helpful.

A patch of BMF should do it. Those same tires will melt into plastic wheels over time if the wheels aren't wrapped with BMF as well.

Yup. Lovely.

Always a treat to watch you build. This and the CCKW are two I'd like to do myself, but if I never do, at least I got to see somebody with talent and skill do 'em.

Did they pay you? I recall Hot Rod used to pay something like 5 bucks for tips that were printed, back in the paleolithic.

Whiskey...now there's a really good idea right about now.

Yup, they look great together.

Very beautiful. Some years back I purchased a resin body for this car that's supposed to use (I think) the Airfix 917 as a donor. In a word, the body I have is horrible, and it will take reinforcing some overly thin areas and making a new mold to get anything usable from it. I really envy you guys who have some of these outstanding vintage resin kits...and build them so well.

Lotta days I kinda wonder if we're not already there.

Man...that thing is gorgeous.