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Ace-Garageguy

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  1. Raise a herd of genetically modified 1/25 scale mos, and shave 'em.
  2. When men were Men, willing to face death in order to preserve ideas and ideals that are often either taken for granted or outright ridiculed today. I wonder what they would think now...
  3. Time to start bringing the engine home while working on other things. First step is to fill the old metal-axle holes in the block, sourced from the ancient AMT '57 Chevy. Next, the floor and tunnel assembly turned out to be very fragile at the glue joints (no surprise really, as the tunnel is .010" stock). The floor also tended to want to bow up as the glue evaporated. The solution was to reinforce the joints with light angle, using the chassis as a fixture during drying. Driveshaft straps helped in the reinforcement of the assembly as well, and maintain the proper curvature of the rear of the tunnel. A little black primer prior to the "bare-aluminum" finish. Yes, I know there's a slight joggle between the rear of the tunnel and the front. It's a race-car. The floor and tunnel would be in and out fairly frequently. It might get a little bent. That's my story. She's getting a radiator, but I didn't have anything the right size that looked period-correct (downflow with brass tanks). I decided to scratch-bash something with a core cut from the forward panel of a '49 Ford, and the upper tank from same. The Moon fuel tank is from the parts bin. Moon tank installed in the frame, accessible through the hood panel. Here's the radiator progressing. Core separated from the support, upper tank holes for flathead hoses filled, parts for the side frames and lower tank laid out...
  4. Seeing one of your models always makes my day. Consistently among the best of the best out there, and always inspiring.
  5. Thanks for the heads-up on this one. Costs are definitely becoming more accessible.
  6. Among the very best of the very best. Sad news.
  7. One of those ideas that's so good it needs to be a real car. I love Porsches, I love Bugs, I love buggies. If your finished product delivers the promise in the concept sketch, you will have one hello of a thing here, sir.
  8. Well, I'm sure they got enough stuff wrong in it to make your skin crawl if you lived through the era paying attention, and a whole lotta Hollyweird "poetic license" with enough stuff flying and blowing up to appeal to the mouth-breathers, but I'm gonna have to see it anyway.
  9. The 5-slot "kidney-beans" were intro'd in 1955.
  10. I've heard it said that highly intelligent people like yellow...
  11. IIRC, the first design had no slots, and had ribs on the backside. People were running these on hot rods by 1950, definitely. People sometimes mounted them backwards with the ribs showing. Tony Nancy's 22Jr roadster ran them reversed on the front. And the general design followed through and showed up again on the very special Halibrands on Micky Thompson's Challenger I. Similar wheels to those below are in the old AMT double-dragster kit, and the original Monogram hot-rod kit.
  12. As Joe said, Halibrand started making alloy sprint and Indy car wheels in 1946. Other wheels and the famous quick-change rear-end center sections followed. As the early wheels were real race-car parts, pretty much only real racers and the well-heeled amateurs were running them in the beginning. Here are a few links for further study: https://www.hemmings.com/blog/article/the-heritage-of-halibrand/ https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/halibrand-wheels-the-original-mag.1055968/
  13. That is definitely the Schmitz. Very nice.
  14. Love it. You're the man for hard working trucks.
  15. Not exactly "on" the road, but down the road and over the hill, past the swamp and the prison, then take the third left, go seven miles...
  16. The trick will be finding whoever it is, and proving it. But one cat dead in the yard, obviously shot, and two more that haven't come back, all within 48 hours...it's too much to be coincidence.
  17. I've already contacted Richard some time back to get his permission to do just that.
  18. I'm a little beyond "irked". Somebody is killing my cats. I found one by the side of the house obviously shot in the throat. Small entrance wound, exit wound tore half its jaw out. Cat was trying to get home and bled out. Now two more are MIA. Killing pets is aggravated cruelty to animals here, a felony.
  19. All the first gen Chrysler hemi engines 331-354-392
  20. Thanks for your interest and comment. Your little '32 looks great with that engine. Perfect recipient for it.
  21. Exceptionally believable bare-metal effect. Looks exactly like a Brookville body that's been handled a little, in the pre-paint fit-up phase. One of the most inspirational builds I've seen on here in some time. Your stance is spot-on too, a nice improvement from how most of these kits turn out. VERY attractive model overall.
  22. I've tried, so far unsuccessfully, to find some hard info on this specific car. The internet is full, as usual, of know-nothings parroting each other, and a few folks who actually have a clue. As there were only about 200 Mangustas built, and very few raced, it's just a matter of tracking down chassis numbers until the right car pops up. So far I'm reasonably sure it's not 1154 or 1212, both of which have some racing history. 1212 was finished in blue however, has big fender flares, so it might be the one. 1212: Chassis #1052 has raced fairly extensively in Europe fairly recently, owned by Heiko Ostmann. Far as the flat-crank goes, at some points on the track, you can hear the more expected V8 rumble quite clearly. I'm kinda thinking the little 289 or 302 is just being wound up really really tight, though it does indeed sound like Ford's current flat-crank engine probably would if it was screaming through a very short exhaust system as on the Goose. You can flat-crank any 90O V8 by carving the crank from a forged billet, grinding the right cam, and building an exhaust system that spaces the pulses correctly, so it's not totally inconceivable it's a one-of-a-kind engine. BUT...it sounds rather a lot like the screamer in the Pantera hillclimb car I posted earlier. Hmmmmm... The truth is out there...
  23. Supremely nice. You still have the eye for line, proportion, and flow.
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