Ace-Garageguy

Somebody once said "no good deed ever goes unpunished". Seems to be the case a lot of times.

Always great to see something like this find a good home.

Looks good in red, stance is perfect, interior looks great. Nice work.

That's pretty cool. Really like the wheel choice too.

Just say it's a rare Lotus-Pontiac.

Yup. The aspect ratio of the tires is wrong, too tall sidewalls, particularly noticeable on the front. But what you've got going so far is looking better than I've ever seen this kit built (far as I recall).

Looking good.

I'm in awe of youse guys who can consistently do clean, crisp, straight, un-wrinkled BMF. So far, I've put off even trying, and usually build the kind of stuff where it's not necessary. But there are stock, or close-to-stock builds I'd really like to do, so eventually I'll have to bite the ol' bullet and pull the trigger (pardon the mixed whatever). Lotsa great helpful info's been posted on the forum. Just gonna hafta do it.

If that's the real story, all I can say is what a great dad. I always wanted to save rusty wrecks when I was a young kid, and didn't understand why something that had been a running car once couldn't be one again. Probably part of the reason I gravitated towards the restoration business, and eventually got burned out on it. Some things are just too far gone to even try to save...unless it's something like a GT40 with history in this condition.

If you think it through, I'm pretty sure you'll come to the realization it's never going to be a restored car. It's just a runner made from a sad mess that most people would crush, surely an attention-getter at shows, a conversation-starter, possibly a statement condemning mindless destruction, and arguably "art"...at least as artistically valid as some of the horrible cobbled-up bubble-gum-welded semi-operational and often undrivable rat-rods built by people who couldn't turn out a functional vehicle if their lives depended on it.

Where on Earth did you get that idea?

This is a typical built model. See any difference?

So?

No one's looking for any such excuses. But there's this pesky thing called "reality". Far as "tiresome" goes, the insistence that EVs are the solution to everything NOW by people who apparently know very little about much of anything...that's what's truly tiresome.

100% if the work is performed by a competent mechanic. Not so good if it's done by the average contemporary "tech".

Welcome to my world.

Nice work thinking through what it'll take so the model doesn't sit up like a 4X4. I started one of these some time back, and when I saw the mocked-up ride height, put it away until I had more time to re-engineer things. I'll stay tuned into this channel for breaking news. EDIT: One suggestion...look at the thickness of the lips of the fender flares on the real cars, as compared to the model. I believe you can pick up a little room for lowering the car, particularly in the front.

Exactly. And as we speak, the water level in Lake Mead (Hoover Dam is a hydro-generating facility that will shortly lose its ability to provide power because of low water levels) is being sacrificed to keep the hydro generators at Lake Powell online. Hoover Dam has recently been primarily generating during times of "peak demand"...just when electric vehicles will be plugged in to recharge. The Navajo coal-burning generating plant in northern Az. that supplied 2250 megawatts to the grid was shut down in 2019 because generating with natural gas was cheaper, and knee-jerk greenie whiners wanted it gone. The plant could have been cleaned up, the tech exists to burn coal we have cleanly...AND to produce bio-fuels using carbon captured from the stacks...but no. Now, with natural gas prices spiking, it doesn't look to have been such a smart move. A billion-dollar solar-concentrator project in Nevada called Crescent Dunes failed to deliver its projected power levels, went into bankruptcy, and shut down in 2019. Though generation was resumed in 2021, energy output is still well below projections, and energy cost from the facility is much higher than projections. California's Diablo Canyon nuclear plant is scheduled to close in 2025, and those behind the closure claim its capacity will be taken over by renewable generation. However, the reality will most likely have PG&E buying power generated in Wyoming from burning coal. https://www.ans.org/news/article-3835/four-clues-that-diablo-canyon-will-be-replaced-by-wyoming-coal/ These examples are only a small part of the realities of the stupidity of promising green everything and an electric vehicle fleet in the relatively near future. But the incessant bleating persists by those who remain willfully ignorant of the magnitude of the hurdles facing civilization as it transitions away from fossil fuels. https://www.power-technology.com/analysis/solar-failed-projects-struggling/

Nice. Too bad for the upcoming generations of puppies, because the way things are going with measurably...and rapidly...declining general intelligence levels, and the dearth of skilled techs to fix things even now, there won't be anybody around to keep the overly complex trash functional either. So there's that.

It's not really "target practice" when all ya do is engage in an orgy of mindless destruction. I shoot, and far as I recall, it doesn't take much "practice" to hit a stationary car from a few yards. Far as Gummo goes, I had to look it up...and I could have lived my whole life without knowing somebody whizzed away 2 million bucks making a piece of dog-squeeze like that, but what do I know? It's apparently Great Art. According to Wikipee: "Film websites Mubi and They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? have listed Gummo among their 1000 greatest films of all time", and "Werner Herzog praised the film and talked about being impressed by the bacon taped to the wall during the bathtub scene." Great art, eh? Maybe I'll encase a few of my cat's droppings in a big blob of polyester resin tinted yellow to look like amber...or something. Oughtta be worth hundreds of thousands and gain me international acclaim, wot?

Yeah, we got loads of idiots doing that here too. Smoking, tire-burning donuts in the parking lots and office parks at 03:00 is popular too. The other thing...twinks with raucous raggedy sounding exhausts on their late-model American V8s their mumsies and dadsies probably bought them, trying to make as much noise as possible. Sometimes it seems like they're all frustrated trombone players the way they make the poor things moan...and of course they're many-speed slushboxes. Mumsie's gonna be mad when she finds out the widdle baby-boy's widdle twanny is donna tost $7000 to wepwace... 'cause the moron full-throttled every shift for 15,000 miles and burned those tiny little clutch-pack and band linings to ashes. And you can tell they're dwerbles who've never heard a real fast car at a drag race or road race, but think somehow making prolonged farting noises with their cars...I guess...will grow some hair on their sunken chests. Old man shouting at noisy clouds? Nah. Sometimes I'll hear something running really well, with a nicely tuned loud exhaust hammering away in the distance, the driver working a manual gearbox like he knows what he's doing...and THAT, boys and girls, always makes me smile.

The way things are looking, you're going to NEED an old one to tow the new one.

Sell this idiot idea with a trailer that carries gasoline and a generator to charge your batteries...or a really really really really really really long extension cord. There. Fixed. EDIT: Of course, all these things will ever be used for is mall-crawling anyway, to strike a pose in front of all your pasty-white little dweeb friends as a "green" adventurer. EDIT 2: The demographic believing in and pushing for electric vehicles charged by renewable sources in the short-term is among the most math-challenged groups on the planet