Ace-Garageguy

You're welcome. I'm sure you know his parts are beautiful, and if you haven't seen his carbs in person, you'll be blown away.

Carter = Edelbrock, especially in appearance in 1/25 scale. The Edelbrock carb is essentially a Carter AFB..

At 89AKurt's suggestion, I'll start. https://www.lambocars.com/miura-jota/ The first Lamborghini hot-rod I'm aware of was the one and only Jota (based on the exquisite sidewinder-V12-powered Miura) built by Lambo's own development wizard Bob Wallace, on his own time, while doing the 9-5 for the company. The factory sold the car off, as they didn't have enough cash to keep an expensive one-off toy hanging around...but it had already made its mark. Sadly, it was destroyed in a crash. The factory later built clones for clients.

I'll take up that gauntlet...

Like to see it just for ideas. The real one might have done a little better in the market if the catfish-lips-look hadn't been quite so pronounced. I know the nose (and probably the hood and deck too) was/were fiberglass to save on tooling, and I kinda think the front bumper just might have been a factory cut-down Stude production piece...again, cheaper to have one metal man modify bumpers to order than to spring for press tools on such a low-production car... Point being they maybe didn't HAVE to stay with the width of the original bumper. If you're going to have to modify a line piece anyway, it's no big deal to narrow it too.

Nice CAR. Now you've got me wanting to build a real one again (wanting to...not that I ever did). I've got about all the parts, except for the Vega. Time was you could buy 'em by the boxcar load for $100 each with bad engines, but those days are gone.

I have that problem.

You know, just about any scale 15 0r 16 inch steel wheels will give you the look you want, and it's easy to swap any wheel to any model. I know you want to use vintage parts, but sometimes you just gotta go with the flow. Right-click this link for some options: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=steel+wheels&_sacat=1188&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=wheels&_osacat=1188

Yeah, Dellortos are every bit as good as Webers. There's a pair of down-drafts on my 550 replica, and I have a pair of side-drafts looking for a home...maybe a 2.0 Neon? A smallblock-powered Vega was something I always kinda hankered for. Musta been quick. I actually rather liked the little cars, but both of mine met unhappy ends at the hands of other drivers before I could do much with 'em. Never had a Cosworth, but a couple of engineers at Lockheed here did.

Pretty much what I said (quoting myself above): "Of course, that's the way the cars came, so if you're building stock, I get it."

Yup. If you know something about what you're looking for, that's very often a time-saver.

As well you should be, and I never meant to imply otherwise. The header placement would only jump out at somebody intimately familiar with engines, and the Cosworth BD-series (initially derived from Ford's 1600cc "Kent-engine") in particular...like me.

Thanks. I've liked that particular car for some time. Thing about the web though...information isn't always accurate, and it's very often entirely contradictory from site to site. According to Bring a Trailer in 2017, when the car sold for $102,000 in December of that year, the car was built by Stanley Pridachuk (lead engineer at Stude/Packard in the '50s), following his retirement in 1963, and after an ill-fated attempt to convince his bosses that a convertible Hawk would be a good thing. They turned the idea down. SOURCE: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1958-packard-hawk/ PS: I don't have any idea which version of the story is the correct one.

Wrong. Only the up-arrows are in 36 point because they hardly show otherwise. The rest is in 16, I believe...according to how the forum displays typeface size on my computer, anyway. And I often post in larger-than-default bold type as it seems to ease the readability of text on some tiny devices. Far as Google's search function goes, the site: modelcarsmag search works reasonably well, but I use Google constantly for big-boy technical research. It gets dumber and more useless every year. EDIT: Perhaps you've noticed you now have to dig for the "advanced" search function on Google, as it's no longer displayed as a normal option?

That looks pretty good, but the headers don't come out the side of the block on a BDA, as represented there. They come out of the head, naturally, at a shallow angle immediately under the coolant manifold/thermostat housing. You can just see the studs for the header flange peeking out in this shot: And more easily visible here:

Interesting the resin guy elected to model the gawdawful "pulse air injection" manifold and EFI. Of course, that's the way the cars came, so if you're building stock, I get it. Thing is, every one of these I've ever seen that was owned by somebody who had a clue was converted to Weber side-draft carbs early in its life.

It depends on several factors, like the particular brand and formulation of the styrene, its diameter, and the desired radius of the bend in question. Some styrene rod can be bent "cold" by carefully working it with your fingers, and it might stay bent, or exhibit just a little springback...which can be defeated by bending it a little farther. Some just won't bend in a smooth curve, tries to crack, and/or refuses to stay bent. In that case, I warm it under pretty hot tap water, then bend it around a form of the radius I want, and tape it in place with high-quality masking tape. Dunk the whole mess in boiling water for 30 seconds (making sure the tape "fixturing" stays in place) then run it under cold water and it's "tempered"...hardened and will hold its shape forever after.

^^^ Only problem is that increasingly mindless Google has modified its search function algorithms to the point where that doesn't work anywhere near as well as when I posted it. The continuing quest by people who really don't know what they're doing to "fix" and "improve" things usually ends up just trashing whatever happens to be the object of their efforts on any given day. May I present the Lambo Googilissimo Edition:

A little grinder action, a little fiberglass, a little bondo, a little later. Seriously, I'm really wanting to do a retrofit for the old AMT '53 Stude in 1/25 (for both the Stude and Packard Hawks), thinking I can cut down some diecast parts (and modify others) to make molds for everything. There's no question t's entirely doable. The only question is whether I'll ever actually get to it.

Next time you chop something like this, it's mucho easier if you stretch the roof like zo (this is a '34, but it's the same deal):

Just got in a second Danbury '57 Studebaker Golden Hawk...again with minor damage (the other one's perfect) and again, too cheap to pass up. Unfortunately POORLY packed, with the LH windshield post broken as a result. Still, not too bad, as I bought this one specifically as a basis for a Packard Hawk conversion.

I used to know an Air Force colonel who had a Chihuahua that musta seen a Doberman when it looked in the mirror. Good thing I didn't drop-kick the little fella when it went after my ankle. I'd still be peeling potatoes.

Yupp. Eyemm noe dat wun.

Some later issues had slot mags.