Ace-Garageguy

Here's 68 pages of six-cylinder drag cars, many old, in-period. Happy hunting. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/six-cylinder-drag-cars-photos.532331/ And unfortunately, it looks like the links to Sissel Automotive and the history of Kay Sissel are dead. http://sissellautomotive.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi EDIT: This appears to be a 12-plug, cross-flow head, running a custom front-cover distributor drive, made by Horning in 1951. Note the Hilborn injection.

You did notice, I suppose, this thread is eight years old? Anyway, the Fisher heads were developed from the Wayne and Horning heads produced by Wayne Horning. Fisher bought Horning's tooling and produced heads for about 4 years, with only relatively minor modifications IIRC. The hot setup had 12 ports, and a cross-flow configuration. Here's some dope on 12-port heads. https://www.inliners.org/12_Port_Story/main1.html I believe the twin-plug head was built by Kay Sissel, but have nothing to confirm that as yet. EDIT: Here are a pair of Hilborn-injected non-crossflow GM inline sixes

Engine noise has long been blamed as a marketing disadvantage of small diesels in American passenger cars.

That '53 pickup grille assembly looks right at home in there.

Coming along nicely. Last time I was in Az., I had to pass on a complete 3/4 (?) ton that I really would have liked to add to my stable of non-running vehicles.

Well...that's certainly not something you see every day. Cool. I love Unimogs.

Else, usually pronounced el-sa or el-za, can be a girl's name.

Looks pretty dang good. Being able to work over bare plastic with no black undercoat is a time saver, and there's no cost for the black stuff. Also looks like after a couple days dry time, it's plenty tough to be handled enough to assemble, especially if wearing soft gloves. Under the circumstances. I don't see any drawback whatsoever to the fact that it can't be cleared.

Great looking model. Needs a nice glass case to live in. Funny...I'd never noticed the anti-foulers ahead of the forward dive planes before.

"Occasion" can mean "a special occurrence" as in "this is quite the occasion", or it can mean "from time to time", or "infrequently" as in "on occasion, we go snipe hunting".

Boat outings at Lake Lanier or Stone Mountain used to be frequent follow ups to the previous evenings' bar-hopping.

This one's a little unusual...a 1/25 paper model of a WW II German V2 rocket and its Hanomag SS100 tractor (which I figure makes it eligible for the "model car" category) and transporter/erector trailer. I have a thing for some 1/24-1/25 WW II military machines, scored a rare US-made blow-molded pair of "captured" V2s a while back, and having been interested in Von Braun and the Peenemunde project as a kid (which, of course led directly to America's space program), when this model came up, I had to have it. It might or might not be the basis for a copy scratched in styrene, if I live long enough, and the firing platforms for V2s are easy to build. It might also become the centerpiece of a diorama depicting captured German stuff in Europe. Anyway, if I live to be 140, I'll never be bored with "nothing to do". Sweet deal here, a total of 4 engine kits, which is 8 engines, for around $30. I already had a bunch of these, but just recently realized one of the bellhousings is a ringer for a Hildebrandt (yes, not Halibrand) flathead engine-to-LaSalle gearbox adaptor. Too good a price to pass up, as one tree of the fairly recent repop (2 engines) goes for about $25 these days. Considering they were tooled in the 1960s, they are spectacular, and frankly, better than most of today's kit offerings. There are a few details omitted, a few inaccuracies, but all in all they're great for anyone building period cars.

Bar girls look better and better as the evening wears on...

Pretty much the mantra that gets me through most days. I don't find it to be morbid at all, actually...just good for a laugh (usually)...'cause if you can laugh at something, it doesn't own you.

Having bought those by the case a decade or so back, when nobody really wanted them and they were unbelievably cheap, and having originals to compare, one thing that's apparent on the '90s issues is that many of them border on being "short-shotted", with pretty bad sink marks in places where they're the absolute devil to correct. Looks like the top of the Potvin intake manifold on the chrome Atlantis Chevy tree above still has a nasty divot at the forward end of the fins.

Few people have a firm grasp of quantum physics, and even fewer can explain it in terms comprehensible to normies.

Show me the money trail, and I'll show you a map of corruption.

"About face!" yelled the drill instructor, just in time to stop the platoon of new recruits from marching off a cliff.

Glance at a blind horse, nod, or wink; it's all the same to the horse.

It never ceases to amaze me what people will believe if they're told it often enough, no matter how far from the truth it actually is.

Cool little "repurposed" machines. Everyone over a certain age (?) has probably seen Ts and As converted to farm implements, stationary pumps, sawmills, etc,, but I've never seen anything like the detailed conversion project documented here. Gotta love the shots of Mr. Gentleman Farmer in his white shirt, sleeves rolled up, and tie too.

Wow. That's a lot of photos. Most appreciated, particularly the Mirage shots. I have a slow-burn project converting an earlier GT40 to Mirage bodywork.

Are you making the best of every day?

Project your shortcomings, failures, various -isms, and nasty nature on others, always find someone else to blame for whatever mistakes you make, lie about pretty much everything, surround yourself with gibbering sycophants, and you can live in blissful denial of being an awful person yourself.

One of my favorite US cars. Great color for it, good wheel choice; they work well with the design.