Ace-Garageguy

To the best of my knowledge, you can't tell from that photo. For specific detail differences, see: https://mustangmaniac.org/64-12-coupe-260/

Speed City Resin makes one: SC-78 http://speedcityresin.com/PartsPageEngine.html (scroll halfway down page)

AMT '55 Nomad is one of the more frequently recommended ones:

Two more of these, destined to be derivatives there are no kits of: One more of each of these, again destined to be derivatives or early cars no kits exist for:

Driven by LARPers wearing chain mail made from pop-tops, with scary-skulls finger-painted on leftover bat-flu masks, carrying their moms' leaf-blowers into battle. Kinda like Seattle a while back.

Exactly. But it's a follow-the-leader thing too. Then when it all goes to hell, everybody says they were just doing what everyone else does, established procedure, and more excuse-making CYA drivel bla-bla-bla ad nauseum. Engineering case in point: there is no GOOD reason for running vehicle functions like power windows, door locks, brake lights, wipers, etc. through a "body module". It's mindless overcomplication that has the ONE possible partially redeeming feature of allowing a vehicle to self-diagnose if the "technician" simply has no clue as to how a basic 12V DC circuit works. Period. It increases the amount of wiring. It requires more chips. It does not promote the kind of long-term bulletproof reliability of secondary systems US vehicles USED to be famous for. (NOTE: ALL the systems that do NOT have microprocessor controls on ALL my old vehicles still operate; it is ONLY the processor-controlled functions that have quit). In short, it's just stupid. And everybody does it. Because everybody else does.

Hmmmmmmm...a problem I've never encountered. They call 'em "milk's favorite cookie" for what I always thought was a pretty good reason.

The molto cheaper generic ones are every bit as good...and every bit as bad for you. Why waste money paying for advertising?

Ya think?

Stupid never sleeps.

When I designed this... ...my inspiration was this...

That's what happens when you have to outsource production necessities because of short-sighted management practices going back decades...

I'd just like to see a design for ANYTHING that doesn't borrow from something that went before it. Let's get real. "Good artists copy; great artists steal." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/

Very nice, very interesting work.

Yeah, probably a Vega. I used to buy a lot of "broken" cars really cheap, fix 'em, drive 'em for a while to get the bugs worked out, and then find them good homes while making a modest profit. I usually had several vehicles running at the same time, so if whatever "interesting" car was my daily at the moment needed work, I always had a backup...and I was the go-to guy whenever any of my friends needed a loaner for a day or two. Anyway, I bought a sad little Vega running on two cylinders. It had been badly overheated, the rings had seized at some point and scored the cylinders, and it had fouled two plugs. New plugs and a couple of "anti-foulers" and she ran OK again, but smoked a little...and used oil. I still had to clean the plugs every week or so, but I liked the little car so I didn't really mind. It cleaned up quite well and looked nice (yellow with a white / hound's-tooth interior), was kinda fun to drive, and didn't use much gas. It wasn't the kind of car I could really sell on, as the necessary periodic plug-cleaning was beyond the scope of most people who'd buy a really cheap car. So I decided to keep it as a long-term backup, and had actually been looking into sleeving the cylinders. Anyway, I loaned it to a friend and the shrunk-in fuel line fitting fell out of the carb (typical Vega) while he was driving it. It sprayed fuel on the hot engine, caught fire, and burned to the ground. Like I said, I liked the little car and was really sad when it died...and I never understood why my "friend" hadn't done more to try to save it. End of the friendship, too...though it took me a few more years to learn to NEVER loan ANYTHING to ANYBODY.

Yeah, he does a much better job of keeping his mess localized and contained than most of the people I'm privileged to work with. EDIT: And if he left his stuff scattered everywhere like those guys mostly do, he'd be living under the house rather than in it.

I accomplished nothing today that was on my list, other than cleaning the cat's box. Try as he might, he just can't do it himself.

No sir...it's a curbside, originally made to be motorized, but it just might get some guts at some point. The racing version has a Cosworth V8 engine, with different everything else too, but it's already moved west with the first truckload of my stuff anyway..

I shamelessly copied the fender flare design from the Porsche 944 for a 240Z re-skin and convertible conversion too... I also used elements of the Porsche 904 to do this re-skin on a 914 for another client (though others have taken the credit, all the original design work, and a heavy rework of the nastily bodged full-scale interpretation of it was in fact mine; the car is pictured here just coming out of my own workshop).

Kinda stuck in my mind as the ugliest thing Zagato ever styled...and at a time when I was a Fiat enthusiast.