Ace-Garageguy

Was it an automatic? They were pretty awful, but I kinda liked the manual version.

Hmmmmm...interesting concept and responses. When my cheap old vehicles had problems, I fixed them. I didn't realize I was just supposed to accept driving dangerous, unreliable junk. My bad. EDIT: I did in fact have an S1 E-type that was so bad structurally (much like Johnny's Corvair) that you couldn't open either door without jacking the middle up...though it had been "repaired" by chimps who glued linoleum to the rocker boxes and floors, then covered everything with bondo and undercoating. But it was never a driver. Bought it for $400, tripled my investment just selling the bonnet, made lots more parting the rest of it out. Still occasionally kick myself though, as we all know what that car is worth today.

My first thought would be contact cement. It works well for headliners in real cars, so it should handle model work just fine. EDIT: After reading posts below, I remembered contact cement could cause wrinkling of thin-section styrene (a reported problem way back in my model RR days). The cement in question then was Goodyear Pliobond, and the styrene was sheet in the .010" to .030" range, but it's probably wise not to risk it...particularly considering the soft composition of many of today's kit plastics.

Good to know.

What about the witch?

There are several very high quality model suppliers in Ukraine I've bought from...styrene, resin, and 3D printed. But I'm kinda wondering who's going to be making parts under the current circumstances, and what the condition of the national and local postal service is.

One of these days I may do that. In the interim, this is pretty much the process, but modified using common sense to make an axle. The web would be traced on flat stock and cut out. The flanges would be attached as per the video, after having been suitably bent to follow the curves of the web. Then the flanges would be filed narrower, to look like a beam axle. Brass tube soldered to the ends with a lower-temp solder would represent the kingpin bosses...which would be functional if desired. Spindles would be made from brass channel and tube or rod, just as I did with plastic in the linked thread.

Then you should contact your bank and PayPal to dispute the charges, probably change all your passwords, etc. If somebody can get $1.75, they can just as easily clean you out.

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for life. Give a sock-puppet a fish, at least you've shut him up for a while.

And I sincerely thank you for perfectly reinforcing the original point of the thread. Vehicles over 100k miles are generally on their second or third owners, and will be essentially useless to working people who can't afford the complex diagnostics and expensive repairs. EDIT: And yes, older vehicles have always needed repairs too. But what a lot of people seem to want to deny is that due to the complexity of "modern" stuff, the cost of repairs is proportionally much higher than it's ever been before. Add that to not-great parts support, you have an aging fleet of vehicles that aren't cost-effective to keep in service for the average used-car owner.

Trucks? We don't need no stinkin' trucks.

I always include references to all the major materials and parts used in my build threads, and still get questions from people who obviously didn't read the text. One has to wonder "why bother" at some point. EDIT: I'll be more than happy to answer questions NOT covered in the text, but if somebody asks a question because they couldn't be bothered to read...not so much.

Granted it's not a particularly beautiful car, but I always kinda liked the business coupe...and the Ramchargers version was a major, groundbreaking influence in drag racing.

Let's see if these pix will post... EDIT: Only this one... See the rest of it here: http://petrolhigh.blogspot.com/2011/02/slammed-911.html

Got a cheap, damaged, and horribly proportioned 1949 Plymouth business coupe. The representation of the car isn't even Palmer quality, but it's a place to start to do a master for this:

Looks great. Now I need one.

Classy fella.

So much for heated seats...

...anything remotely resembling the truth.

Yup, except this time there won't be any apologies. Just shifting the blame.

Don't worry. The bosses are working on fixing that.

My daily driver is 32, and the idiots used to bug me mercilessly...but my homegrown version of "Robokiller" is way more fun than theirs, seems to be about 99.9% effective, and it didn't cost me a nickel.

I really miss $1.49 models, $0.69 parts packs...and gas for a quarter a gallon, sometimes as low as 15 cents.