Ace-Garageguy

In business, it's generally wise to not compete directly with yourself. I'm sure that as soon as the pent up demand for the roadster begins to die down, the reintro of the coupe won't be far behind.

I suppose it depends on your stance on the idea that we're all in a simulated "matrix". It might be hard to say where "real life" ends and dreams begin, if you get my drift.

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Here's another one a little more current...

Here's a long thread where you might get some background...

Yeah, I've had the no pants and unprepared for the calculus test a few times.

MARCH 24, 2020 "Bout finished up the radiator, with the revised fill neck and hose outlets... ...so I could remount it and get the hood fit worked out. I've removed the center rib on the hood to represent a fabbed custom one-piece job, and so I can show it with the sides off. I'm happy as a clam (clams are pretty happy apparently) with the fit at the grille shell, but the rear will need to be shimmed a tick to get it right... Makin' up a lower mount bracket for the generator to lose the floater-look the Revell engine comes with, and the adjuster bracket will be a nice PE part. A machined aluminum rad cap just clears the hood. Drilling the distributor cap and valve covers for wires (I'd painted the valve covers with a gold lacquer, and I didn't really like the look, but was afraid the lacquer crazed them; happily for me, a bath in 90% isopropyl took it all off with no damage)... I'm using the finned Buick drums from an ancient Micky Thompson Challenger kit, trying to stay with vintage parts as much as possible, and none of the wheel backs I've found so far will let them sit deep enough. Still looking, but in the end, I may have to break out the old Unimat and make something...

It doesn't get much better than a S.C.o.T.-blown flathead in a '30 coupe on '32 rails. At's about as classic a hot-rod as you can put together.

Nice to see one of these built as a tasteful custom.

^^^ That is nice...

Cool. I didn't know he was a Gypsy. Who wooda thunk.

I have several recurring dreams, or at least very similar dreams. Some involve exes, or one of two cars I was particularly fond of, and a few more that are disturbing somewhat, but do have meaning to me. One of the most unpleasant involves backing down a long hill with no brakes, accelerating uncontrollably, and approaching certain doom. Typically in a Pantera, but featuring other vehicles from time to time. The flying ones are fun, but never last long enough...and when I try to take control of them, I always wake up.

I just love mild custom chopped '36 Fords. Nice.

Contact cement.

Pretty much just like they do in the real world. They're all scaled correctly, or very close. You'll probably need to hack the firewall and floor for clearance, build custom engine and trans mounts, trans and driveshaft tunnels, possibly convert the driveline from closed to open (or convert the swapped-in trans to work with a torque-tube), make up new coolant lines, and build a custom exhaust system...plus the dozens of other details necessary to get it all right. Easy peasy.

Correct, and I went into that in a build thread where I was starting my rendition of the Eddie Dye roadster. As the proportions and lines of that particular car are, to me, perfect, and as I'm very critical of shapes and volumes, I took rather a lot of time analyzing both AMT and Revell shells. Unfortunately, the Revell shell has a very heavy and toylike rendition of the stamped lines in the sides, and the carriage lines in the cowl-side area. As the Dye car has the rear wheel openings entirely filled, and the cowl side area smoothed, along with the doors welded shut and smoothed, Revell's more correct rendition of the rear profile a better starting point. The top of the wheel arch can be brought down without too much trouble, and the heavy character lines can be easily removed and replaced with scale-correct half-round stock.

Whatever.

Yup. Plastruct Bondene (active ingredient on label is dichloromethane, same as methylene chloride) is labeled for bonding ABS.

No, they are contrails. They form behind aircraft engines when the planes' exhaust water vapor condenses in cold air. They've been around as long as aircraft have been flying high enough in cold enough air to produce them. Photos from WW II... The B-17 pictured could only carry about 4000 pounds of bombs, and its range was additionally weight-limited by the amount of fuel it could carry. No way in hell they carried anything additional to make "chemtrails". Same goes for the fighters of the day, that often produced a sky full of crisscrossing arcs and lines over England. Chemtrails are another ignorance-based conspiracy theory, widely rebleated by the interdwerbs. I've been closely associated with aviation my entire life, and kinda know a little about the reality of it.

Most excellent.

Yup.

Yup. 100% with you on all counts. Not too hard to fab a rear crossmember from sheet stock (bottom of page 3 of this build thread):

I do, every day. Glad you have that to fall back on if the S really HTF, too.

Looking good. Really like the goldish metallic, and it really bites about those wonky tires.

Hmmmm...I must live on a different planet. I'm 5'10" and love Europas. Probably a little challenging for me to get in or out of one now without looking like a geriatric fool, but when I was young and pretty, no problemo. Yes, there were some fragile and stupid parts on the cars, like the way the door alignment was adjusted, and pretty much guaranteed to self-destruct, but overall they weren't too much worse from a reliability standpoint than other English cars of the period. I also had an ex with a Midget, and we went on several long trips in the little bugger. Of course, maybe that's why my back is so bad now...