Ace-Garageguy

I appreciate that, but if the OP wants to see top-notch work with everything he mentions (and more) on this site, he'd do well to look at Plastheniker, Codi, comp1839, StevenGuthmiller, Bill Cunningham, Chariots of Fire, Randy Ditton, Scale-Master, and others I can't remember right off the top of my head.

Perverts to the left of them, perverts to the right of them, into the valley of perverts rode the six hundred.

You must have gone to a different Southeastern NNL than I did...

Evil's best friends are stupidity, and his good buddy greed.

"Society" gets blamed for a lot of things that are, in reality, the direct result of individuals making poor choices.

Not to beat this into dead horse mode, but I did some digging, and Corolla diffs through '79 look pretty good. They made so many of the things, and they were such tough little cars, I'd think there'd be plenty still running as rustbuckets too. Most of the Triumphs we got over here had IRS, so they're not really good donors for rear axles. But now that I'm thinking about it, I have several VW and Porsche transaxles that could be rear-mounted using a torque tube setup, with Dodge Neon rear suspension geometry (which is actually very good). Hmmmmmm... Early Miata guts are another possible alternative...

"Sings are pointing to prices rising, falling, or staying the same" said the very highly paid economic analyst.

^^^ Yup...that's it here, all right. The AWD Jeeps and SUVs come to rest upside-down in the ditches. Coefficient of friction is an unknown concept to most of the local "drivers".

That's why, where I am, I just stay home if there's frozen precip. I can drive in it just fine, but I have no control over the ignorant bozos in their AWD hippos without studs or chains who think they're invincible, and who won't slow down.

"About Time" was the name of a store here that sold clocks, even those funny old ones with little pointy sticks going around that only past-it geezers can read.

Somebody please save the little car...

The biggest problem on this side of the Atlantic is the lack of suitably light solid rear axle assemblies. Unsprung weight becomes a critical factor in roadholding on a less-than-perfect surface when vehicle weight is as low as these cars can be. The shipping weight on my Series II Seven from England was listed as 843 pounds. I could practically pick its butt up to put it on stands. My rear axle was from a Triumph TR 10, and was most likely considerably lighter than a Pinto or Vega unit. It might be worthwhile to look at Chevette rear ends, though I have no clue about that particular part. Something like an early rear-wheel-drive Corolla could work, too. My car's front spindles were Triumph Spitfire, if I remember correctly, and those can still be found for not insane money...but Pinto or Chevette units could also probably work well. EDIT: I just did a Q&D search for light rear axles, and it isn't going to be easy. The junkyards are going away faster than I'd realized. Ain't "progress" wonderful.

First mockup:

Word meanings are becoming, in some cases, downright bizarre and subject to "subjective interpretation".

Finally...what I've dreamed of for a model railroad since I was eight. Nice micro-engineering.

Often, frequently, and constantly have similar but different meanings.

Drilled a distributor cap from a NASCAR kit for plug wires. The cap is a fair representation of an MSD crank-triggered unit...not disallowed by the rules as far as I'm aware. A high output, electronically-controlled ignition system is always nice if you can run one, especially if the fuel available on the course might be of uneven quality. Though today's electronics are very robust, if I prepped the car, it would carry spare ignition components, maybe even a point-type advance plate and an old-school coil as a worst-case backup. Front shroud was carefully separated from radiator, and rad cap was removed for ease of painting. The rad core will probably get replaced by something with some detail, but maybe not, as you can't really see it once it's installed. Backing plates were carefully sawed from the spindles to facilitate tuning the ride height in an upcoming step. Thinking and planning ahead makes any project go smoother, and avoids unnecessary re-dos. The molded-in front crossmember started to bug me, so after determining that the '53 crossmember was visually similar, I elected to replace the molded one with one I'd cut from a '53 that's becoming a dry-lakes car. The lower control arm molding will be used as a jig to get the crossmember situated correctly. Making sure everything fits within the body shell right is important, and some meat had to be added to the inner rails so the crossmember would be a snug fit. New crossmember in place, correctly positioned relative to the control arm unit. The top of the control arm unit was shaved slightly to let the crossmember snuggle down a little lower, giving more oil pan clearance. The engine mounts will extend to the rear from the bumps on the crossmember. Next thing to address was to extend the frame rails forward to the same length as on a real '51. The diecast has a separate part that simulates the frame ends, and carries the front bumper, but as we're going to run a skid plate under the oil pan and control arms, no front bumper, but add bullbars, the ends of the frame have to be where they belong. Stepped sections of styrene stock were rough-shaped and heavily glued in place. After initial trimming and shaping of the new frame ends, the frame is beginning to closely resemble the reference shots I've collected. Steering assembly with both backing plates removed shown above. Holes in spindles for stub axles have been filled with round stock, will be re-drilled to establish final ride height.

Think again.

Through with trying to fix stupid I am, or even trying to communicate with it rationally.

Football players sure make a lot of money for fighting over a funny looking little ball.

Trip-hammers have very limited use in modeling.

Always glad when somebody finds something they can use in my build threads.

Thanks Ray.

Biofuels basic reference: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/biofuels/

Nowhere man hasn't got a point of view, knows not where he's going to.