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Dremel with a cutoff wheel. Cut it a few thousandths large, hand file to final shape.

Nice job. My favorite car and team from the golden age of gassers.

Nah. I think the hot setup if you're going to do a V8 911, and exactly what I'm contemplating for mine, is to swap the entire sidewinder drivetrain out of a 2009 G8 Pontiac GXP with the 6-speed...in the middle. 415 happy horses right out of the box, and the sidewinder swap would put the center of mass in a better place than the tail-waggy stock 911 has it. Ought to drive the purists nuts too, getting smoked by a hot-rod 911 "built from junk". Only problem is that there's not a lot of 'em, so finding a wrecked donor might be a pretty good trick. EDIT: I've driven a Fiero with the GXP/6speed swap (though I did not build it), and it makes the car what it should have been instead of letting it die. And if it'll fit in a Fiero, it'll fit in a 911 with a little more fabrication work.

Thanks Tim. That should be a fascinating read. I'll be tracking that issue down.

I have another of the FPP 166s, and it is very nicely proportioned. You're right about the Revell Barchetta too...it is indeed 1/32, and not so well-proportioned. But that could be due to the source-car too. As has already been noted, no two of them are the same, and a few of the real ones are downright odd looking. Ideal did a Barchetta in 1/16 or 1/18 or 1/20 a long time back too. I have a couple I'd intended to massage into a good one and take measurements from in order to scratch one in 1/24 (same reason I bought the old Revell version), but after seeing the FPP version, there's obviously no need. I THINK this is the Ideal 166:

My experiences with the USPS have been all over the board. Like you guys, I've seen packages travel all over the country to get to Georgia from cities on the east coast or Midwest. Most of the time my local guy is great, making sure packages are under cover on the porch, along with the paper mail rubber-banded to it. BUT...in the past somebody has left packages at the end of the drive, in an inch-deep puddle in the driving rain, or on top pf a car, or just thrown over the fence. When I came back from an out-of-town trip in early November, the mail I'd had held was in one of those white corrugated-plastic PO open-top containers, in the middle of the front yard, FULL of water. Right now I'm on the way to the PO to try to track a package I NEED for a project, marked as "delivered" on the website, but nowhere to be found on my property. That said, MOST of the time they do a pretty good job overall.

I got lucky, I guess. It's nicer than I expected. I've been pretty impressed with the few Danbury models I've been able to get.

Seeing your thread on it was a big part of my decision to buy the JL version. Thanks.

Here's a thought: the percentage of the small number of frequent posters here who notice this bizarre routing and remark about it is pretty high, all things considered. If the national percentage of packages going on such unnecessarily extended joyrides is similar, it would be a pretty extensive problem. Kinda makes one wonder about the competence of whoever's driving this particular bus, eh? Maybe the head guy's qualifications are that he likes stamps, and proposed to his wife in a post office. Ah yes; middle-management-think at its very best.

https://www.messynessychic.com/2017/09/15/the-1950s-all-girl-hot-rod-gang/

This always strikes me as odd. There are folks who try to tell us it's all a matter of sophisticated "logistics", as though mere mortals are too stupid to grasp the esoteric brilliance of sending a package 500 miles out of the way and back. Nah. It's just stupidity on the part of the shipper.

The set in the AMT Meyers Manx measure 17.3 mm across, and could be shaved to just barely fit the Seven.

There are some in the Revell Anglia / Thames, and I think the same ones in the Henry J...which I just measured at 19 mm across, though they could be shaved to 17.5 or so and still look good.

Kinda steep... https://www.ebay.com/itm/403073290290?hash=item5dd90a5032:g:RG8AAOSw~ZVgFg~p

I know for a fact there are some straight ones of that style in the Revell SWC Olds-powered Willys kit. I'm pretty sure I've seen the angled ones in some kit with the early Chrysler hemi too. Somebody here must know.

A while back, I bought a beautiful 1/24 Danbury bullet-nose Stude. We had one this color when I was a kid, and I saw a lot of the USA looking out that panoramic back window. I got a deal, as the little car has no papers or original box, and some very minor damage. I'd intended to pull some molds from it to do a gasser, among other things, but the model is just too nice to risk buggering it. So I rolled the dice on a Johnny Lightning version to use as a plug/donor. No opening doors or deck, minimal details, but the proportions look good in photos. We'll see. EDIT: It'll be the basis for my Peking to Paris entry too.

I found the dimensions for the Lotus Seven chassis, and I dug through my warehouse for some fiberglass bucket seats. The Lotus drawing is posted below, and the narrowest set of buckets I found measures 17" across...but they could be shaved down to 15" and reupholstered. This is consistent with the scale dimensions of the buckets posted by Cool Hand. SO...if you have about 15 millimeters between the frame and the side of the trans tunnel on the Tamiya Seven (NOTE: it's 16" on the drawing below), you're golden (I'd measure it, but my Seven kits are already in Az.).

They did:

166 MM available here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/185179515863?hash=item2b1d8f2bd7:g:fFEAAOSwVe1hi~cF

Another frequent irk is rebleaters who don't know the difference between "censor" and "censure", but incessantly spew their mindless idiocy anyway. Pretty likely that folks who don't know words don't know their meanings either...but that never stops them from loudly voicing their ignorant opinions at every opportunity.

Like these?

The kit includes a not-good cammer...or maybe a mashup of cammer and Boss; I can't tell for sure exactly what it's supposed to be. Better cammers discussed here, along with some sources for decent FE engines: EDIT: Ford FE engine thread here:

More views of the HRM model: