Ace-Garageguy

Presence in the moment and situational awareness go a long way towards preventing ever having to utter the phrase "the car wrecked".

Vague instructions don't much bother guys who know cars in reality.

Nice to see Ferrari win again. Thanks for the link.

Part of your problem is that the steering linkage on the model is kinda kludgey, and takes up more space than it does in reality. The big-block pan in the kit may have been creatively "adjusted" by the kit designers to compensate. This photo, sourced from a build on this forum by doorsovdoon, shows what I mean...

I DO NOT KNOW FOR SURE, BUT, as the smallblock Chevy V8 was a standard engine option in that chassis, I'd think there wouldn't be anything special about the oil pan. If the engine and steering linkage are in the right place, the garden variety smallblock rear-sump pan would most likely fit fine.

I've used Rub 'n Buff materials to good effect on occasion. After buffing, it's not sparkly like metallic paint. Real brass isn't either. Here's some samples...

Thanks fer the link. I entirely fergot it was this weekend.

Or speak out against irrationality, depravity, lawlessness, and double-standards and risk being canceled. That's why so many just shut up and keep their heads down, while everything runs off the rails. Gutlessness isn't a particularly attractive characteristic, but it sure is a popular one.

Humor and sarcasm are lost on some...

Very interesting project. I'm wondering how you're intending to heat-form a clear plastic part over a plastic part, without getting distortion of the form. I would probably opt to make a high-temp epoxy/f'glass copy of the roof panel to use as a form, but I tend towards overkill in most things.

Game-playing within interpersonal relationships is ultimately destructive.

If this doesn't make you laugh, you're beyond hope.

Universe: I'm too lazy to come up with a response of my own, and too original to copy and paste an internet definition.

Good reference. T-bucket frames are even easier.

Radio rhymes with schmadio...which isn't a real word, but considering the state of vocabulary, writing, and reading comprehension these days, does it really matter?

Yup. That's the whole point of emissions regs for vehicles...controlling TAILPIPE EMISSIONS (and evap, of course). Period. But when you have an entire class of salaried employees whose sole function is to come up with regulations, they seem to feel the need to justify their jobs by diligently beavering away inventing more and more useless regs to write.

That looks really good. Nice work.

Looks like a rocks glass to me... ...or maybe a bloody Mary glass? (ba dumm tiss)

Pretty cool idea. I wonder if anybody ever built a real one like it.

Dontcha mean this guy??