Ace-Garageguy

Which intake manifold? On a 2X4 inline manifold, it's a fitting at the inboard end of the last runner on the passenger side:

Ummm...do we have to be vaccinated to play?

Yup, I've had that happen too. In most cases though, it's been an obvious ditz who's just a little out of their depth selling online.

Just FYI... TEXTING SCAMS are one of the newest methods to steal from you. They pretend to be from a legit business, and they'll often offer a "free gift" you get by visiting a link provided in the text, and go from there. ------------------------------- Possibly your text was working a variation of the "you can't cheat an honest man" game: Guy who wants something for nothing and thinks the "account" is some windfall or "computer error" he'll get free money from gets directed to a fraudulent website, enters his name, DOB, SS number, address, etc., and two hours later the scammers have run up $20,000 worth of bills on his credit...or have taken out a mortgage on his house. Happens all the time.

Today's "irk" #1 is an eBay seller who posted a kit had been "opened for inspection", with a photo that obscured the obvious fact it had been substantially started. While the workmanship isn't terrible, there are glue smears and fingerprints that will have to be corrected. And that's not what I bid on. I have a message to the seller, and will go to arbitration if necessary...but I'm so dammed sick of sellers who either mislead bidders intentionally, or are just too stupid to recognize a fact when, literally, a blind man could. Irk #2 is an aftermarket fuel pump specified by a DeLorean specialist firm that can't even make the threshold pressure required to open the injectors on the CIS system. And as usual, I get to re-do the engineering some "professional" already got paid well for.

Yeah, it's "free", but when builders like you post their work, you're "paying" far more than you think. YOU, and all the other builders ARE THE CONTENT THAT GIVES THE SITE ITS VALUE. It's not like you're getting the contents of the magazine for free, where SOMEBODY ELSE does all the work, and you reap the benefits.

Speaking of which...HOW CAN ANYBODY BE STUPID ENOUGH TO LET GOOGLE HAVE THEIR PASSWORDS? Browsers constantly ask if I want them to "save" my passwords...and I decline. And every time I log in anywhere, google asks if I want to use a "saved" password. Nah, I don't think so. I need to find out if they've saved any without my permission, and boy if they have...class-action suit, anybody?

TEXTING SCAMS are one of the newest methods to steal from you. They pretend to be from a legit business, and they'll often offer a "free gift" you get by visiting a link provided in the text, and go from there.

Yup. Also remember that 16" mags were fairly common in this period too, as lotsa slicks were still capped on 16" carcasses. Which is why I mentioned my judgement as a caveat concerning the accuracy of my numbers.

If the car below is the one in question, it's possible to extrapolate the wheelbase from known dimensions in the photograph. On my screen, measuring the wheel diameter and length of the valve cover shows the image I have here to be approximately 1/27 scale. Measuring the wheelbase on the screen and multiplying by 27 gives an approximate real-car wheelbase of 130 inches. Not exact due to a variety of factors like parallax effects and my own judgement, but PDC (pretty damm close).

My originals don't.

Just FYI, my go-to tool for that kind of work has become the Tamiya scriber handle with a selection of tips. Not cheap, but worth every penny:

Yeah, please. The life you save may be mine. Last year, a good friend's perfect Caddy CTS-V coupe was totalled by some fool woman slamming into it's tail while texting. Year before, a dumb little girl ran a light in front of my truck, also texting. If I hadn't been paying attention, I'd have plowed into her door and popped her like a zit. GET OFF THE DAMMED PHONE AND DRIVE.

The control system is apparently directly descended from small drone tech, as evidenced by video shot during development of the flying prototype, which uses what looks to be an RC drone joystick module for control inputs. I imagine the hardest part was either finding or developing the motors and props that had the requisite performance for such a relatively heavy vehicle. The rest of it is straightforward aircraft-quality fabrication. All of which implies that, with a little reverse-engineering, there's really nothing now stopping a skilled tinkerer from building a one-off for a small fraction of the cost of this one. Hmmmmm...

Looking good. Nice mods. Always liked this particular car and the period it represents, and have enough of the originals to keep me busy for some time. Is the apparent warp in the frame actually there, or is it an image artifact caused by one of today's crop of lenses apparently designed by folks who generally seem to have no understanding of the concept of "optics" in the word's original context?

Perhaps you haven't noticed that's pretty much the universal SOP these days...

The fact that the intelligence of the average consumer (and whoever markets to him) is in free-fall?

I still buy too much through eBay, and every time I'm aggravated by the general glitchiness. For all the constant fiddling and patching, both the rationality and overall usefulness of the search function continue to deteriorate. Workarounds are often required to get meaningful search results...and in some cases, just to pay for stuff. It's not helped by idiots who continually post their merchandise in the wrong categories; the search algorithms just aren't smart enough to compensate for rampant human stupidity. PS: I generally refuse to buy from Amazon (unless there's just no other convenient source) for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that almost everything I've wanted in the past couple of years has been available considerably cheaper through eBay...so I continue to put up with the problems there.

I didn't know about this one. Just exactly what I need as a tow vehicle for a 356 race car.

Enjoying this, and your detail shots of the real cars are much appreciated. I have a Fernando Pinto version acquired a couple of years back. The body lines look very good on that one also. His Porsche 550 Spyder gets the lines right too, better than any other kit. I've had the opportunity to see a few 166 Barchettas together at one time, and the differences from car to car, with individually coachbuilt bodies, can be quite striking. I also appreciate the effort and skill you're putting into opening panels on these thick castings. It's not a job most modelers could get right..

Actually, those of us who paid for p-bucket from the beginning (which I did to avoid the moronic, screaming, marketing gibberish you had to sit through during uploads to the "free" version) didn't get caught in the hostage-taking debacle. I still have my grandfathered-in account, and it works without watermarks...and it's still cheap.

Very clean custom work. Looks great. Hows about a bubble top?

Nice lines. That's a tough chop to make work well, and you succeeded admirably.

Yup, that's been my experience too...other than kits like Guillow's balsa flying model airplanes and heavier wooden ship models...both of which are built up of flat pieces, like RR structures and older wooden RR cars...and in the case of airplanes, don't do a very good job of representing curved surfaces, particularly compound curves. Anyone can see the obvious limitations of smooth sheet-metal curves represented by a buildup with wooden stringers covered by paper or fabric on this completed Guillow's model: And though there are some fascinating paper kits out there, the most realistic results are obtained when the subject is something that's built primarily of flat elements anyway, like this 1/25 scale M25 tank transporter tractor:

Indeed. Another interesting point about the Anglias in the earlier days is that, due to the extremely short wheelbases, they weren't allowed anything but "smallblock" engines (and only injected, not blown, at that; my remembry's a little cloudy on this) in some sanctioning bodies...so, depending on the period you want a build to represent, the big-inch Olds engines in the Revell Anglia kits might not be legal. Of course, later on, you could see just about any engine in them, including blown Chrysler hemis, but not all strictly "gas" class-legal everywhere...and they ran other classes and as exhibition or outlaw cars too. Bottom line...research on your own if historical accuracy matters to you. Here's two good starting places for drag racing Anglia info: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/a-history-of-the-anglia-gasser.1032250/ https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-anglias-drag-racings-little-monsters/