Ace-Garageguy

This site might help... https://www.motorpasion.com/deportivos/galeria-de-fotos-de-un-pegaso-z-102-al-desnudo-en-el-auto-retro

Do you have these? https://www.ultimatecarpage.com/gallery/Pegaso-Z102-95614.html https://www.pinterest.com/pin/338051515756274773/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/801781539908844782/

Wish I could help you, but my old vacuum pumps are diaphragm dinosaurs, no oil. But that certainly looks like water contamination...not surprising probably, depending on your local relative humidity.

You can count on this one never being mainstream, for sure. Nice choice in subjects, good looking work. I'm now kicking myself again for letting one of these that was abandoned at a defunct shop get away decades ago.

I'm continually irked by the little "confused" emoticons posted under perfectly intelligible posts. If somebody's really "confused" by a post, why not ask for clarification rather than just clicking on a relatively meaningless google-eyed emoji? Forums lend themselves nicely to two-way communication and mutual understanding...kinda the whole point. EDIT: See below, right. I'm assuming reading comprehension / verbal communication just isn't some people's thing. Kind of a shame, really.

How hard lines are "anchored" depends on the line, its diameter, its length, and what it's being used for. Large diameter but short oil and fuel hard lines, AN-8 or AN-10 for example, are often only anchored to the chassis or engine where they go into soft lines, or through a panel or bulkhead. Specific "bulkhead" fittings accomplish this, capturing a bulkhead or bracket with an additional nut (shown below). Brackets to mount these fittings only need be simple metal tabs with a hole for the fitting, welded or bolted to the vehicle or engine. Long tubing runs are typically anchored every couple of feet, using a wide variety of brackets, clamps, and clips. Lotsa modelers represent fuel and brake line clips and clamps with appropriately sized strips of BMF. This is a very popular design, below, available in any diameter for any kind of line, and available as single or double (shown). There are many other types of line clamps and clips, but most would be difficult to model, particularly in smaller scales. Click link below. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=brake+line+clamps&t=chromentp&atb=v226-1&iax=images&ia=images

^^^ Many thanks. As an aside, something that's fascinated me for years now is the number of obsolete Indy cars that finished their days as supermodifieds, or had their components recycled into supermodified builds. It's another internet rabbit-hole I'd like to thoroughly research some day. This is just one of many stories: http://www.retrorockets.org/feature_restore_keenan-addy/feature_restore_keenan-addy.htm

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2021 INTERVIEW: https://www.nhra.com/news/2021/hot-rodding-icon-gene-winfield-says-he-s-just-getting-started

https://www.motortrend.com/features/1301sr-1949-ford-slab-sided-fastback-sedan/

Probably anything that actually works is banned in California. Lacquer thinner will work...if you can get it. If you're reasonably close to Arizona, you can get pretty much anything. 91-98% isopropyl, if you can buy it, might do it (depending on the specific paint), but will probably take longer to dissolve whatever you want to dissolve. Barring that, Google is your friend... https://www.painttalk.com/threads/denatured-alcohol-substitutes-for-dissolving-and-cleaning-shellac.97819/

I've never seen the shoebox fastback before. Something I'd like to build, specially as it's a 2-door. I need to do some research...

It's not an "old guy rant" by any stretch of the imagination, at least not to rational big-picture thinkers. Anybody who's paying attention to current events and issues like "supply chain problems", constant excuse-making, and widespread general incompetence, can't help coming to the conclusion that it's not really smart people (with a solid grasp of cause-and-effect relationships) who are screwing everything up. Then you have the midwits: an entire subclass of folks of above-average intelligence and education, totally convinced of their own superiority and in rather a lot of upper management and tech positions, smart enough to be "successful"...but incapable of thinking critically or challenging the herd "wisdom" because their self-image is based on a need for group approval and acceptance instead of being concerned with knowing the actual truth. They are peer-directed sheeple, constantly reinforcing each other's warped beliefs within the echo-chamber that is most social media. Combine a falling level of general intelligence with a business class intent on keeping their heads down while embracing a go-along-to-get-along mentality, you have a recipe for the messes we're currently seeing virtually everywhere.

They're not always available. Last time I saw one was months ago it seems, so I put some bucks aside in case it came up again...and got it. Besides the VWs, and the Corvair rampside, I'm pretty sure I have his '50 Olds wagon too.

Dumb, dumberer, and dumbererer-er. Lotsa supporting data for what I'm seeing on a daily basis. Glad it's not just my own perception (also sometimes known here as the "old man shouting at clouds" effect). https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/04/29/technology-is-on-the-rise-while-iq-is-on-the-decline/?sh=728db67ab103 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/iq-rates-are-dropping-many-developed-countries-doesn-t-bode-ncna1008576 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/iq-scores-have-been-falling-for-decades-new-study-finds/

Exactly. Looking good.

No question about it. https://auto.howstuffworks.com/1958-1960-rambler-american.htm

Don't want to make 'em from something else? Maybe this guy can help:

Which one? His resin offerings change from time to time.

Got his resin '49 Bug split-window and Hebmüller conversions for the Tamiya '66 Beetle last week. Both very nice, as thin as styrene parts, crisp details...and though I bought them several days apart, he shipped them together, gave me a break on that cost. EDIT: They come with decals for the instruments too, window templates, and about the best instructions I've seen in any kit.

Excellent. Been using them for years as reamers when necessary.

This Fujimi 15" set as a possible starting point... Or this... Hobby Design maybe... And if you need 14" rims, there are many 14" sets out there you can turn the canters out of, and use the spokes from a set that looks like what you want...

There are some Aoshima sets that are somewhat similar, and could be reworked if you have a lathe, though it'd take some extra effort:

Imaginative and skillful build. Very nice indeed.