Ace-Garageguy

Though there are several characteristics that would identify it immediately to someone familiar with the make, after 1/4 hour of searching, I'm coming up dry. That's my time limit. I'll be curious to see what she is.

Here's the whole story of the LSR effort by Danny Thompson and the car... http://thompsonlsr.com/

Here's a short video of some of the story to date.

He broke the record for the class the car is currently set up for, AA/FS, which was previously 392.5. He did it with an average of yesterday's 411 MPH run backed up with this morning's 402 MPH run. Though the car is indeed 50 years old, it's been almost completely re-engineered and updated since it was originally built by Danny Thompson's father Mickey. The quest for the absolute land speed record for piston-powered vehicles, currently held by George Poteet, will continue. Congratulations to Danny Thompson and his team for an outstanding achievement. https://www.racer.com/north-american-racing/item/133130-lsr-thompson-breaks-record-for-hot-rods

Quite obviously, an MRI in some cases would reveal the complete absence of a brain.

Man. Damm. That is seriously cool. I like the way you think.

Cool project. Very interesting.

That little part looks a lot more like a horn than a steering box to me...at least in the instructions photo you posted. The steering box mounts to the side of a front frame rail. Both components are visible in this shot of a 1:1. (Image from open internet source)

Brilliant. My laugh for the month.

Lots to like here. Your tube-frame work looks good so far. Hope you'll post pix of your "NASCAR-based zombie hunting ute" too. Oh yeah...welcome to the forum.

One of the things I miss most about London as I remember it is the Indian takeaways on almost every other block. I have to drive 10 miles to get any here, and the local stores that stocked Indian cooking sauces and spices have all removed them for some odd reason.

Hmmmmm...getting kinda obvious what killed Detroit...

It's nothing new. A seller called PJ Toys was doing it years ago (since 2004) and apparently enough folks like taking it up the exhaust from him that he's still in business, selling hoods for what you can buy a whole kit for (PLUS SHIPPING!) with a 100% feedback score on over 8,300 reported sales, and with over 9,000 (NINE THOUSAND!) current auctions running. It's clowns like this running thousands of never-sell auctions who use a ton of bandwidth and drive the cost of using ebay up for everyone else. But ebay allows it, so who am I to bitch? I have NO PROBLEM with sellers parting out kits for reasonable money and not trying to make $300 on something they bought for $5. The reasonable-price sellers are doing the hobby a service and making a decent profit for themselves. Bozos like ol' PJ are just pig-greedy opportunists and should be boycotted by the community...but they thrive on the ignorance or laziness of their customers.

Yeah, a piece of stew meat on a string would net a bucketful of crabs from the Toms River when I was a kid.

Maybe a lot of them are using the environmentally-friendly stuff made from ethically-harvested fern spores and free-range-snail mucus. Doesn't do much for stopping BO but makes you feel special about stinking to high heaven.

Read Mark's post above. It's absolutely correct as far as real cars go. Real cars that were gasserized routinely only had the independent suspension parts removed and a crossmember fitted if the new straight axle was set up with a transverse spring, as noted. To get the ride height correct with this setup, it was often necessary to use a dropped front axle, as the new crossmember could end up under the engine, and that makes things trickier. Parallel quarter-elliptics are much more common on a gasser, and again, only require the independent suspension parts to be removed, along with the associated bracketry. New brackets for the spring shackle attachments are welded to the rails. It's not unusual to see frame rails that have had the front spring pockets removed and fabbed over with steel plate, and it's also not unusual to see a car that's had frame rails fabbed from the firewall forward. There's a lot of measuring and forethought that goes into making a right-looking gasser...real OR model.

Now all the purse-snatchers are working in phone-scam boiler rooms. Even the crooks are getting candy-assed.

Hokay...I've got a question. How is that live-axle car supposed to get that retard rear camber? It's impossible in the real world...short of engineering some monkey-motion CV-joint axle ends and housings. There's just no way.

Not all that much fun, if I recall correctly, but I was in a lot of pain at the time and don't really remember much other than being inside a loudly banging tube. Did they already analyze the pictures and give you any further info? They had info needed for my diagnosis almost immediately.

Thanks guys. It was a working trip mostly, and a doctoral-level exercise in patience and anger management. Worth it though.

Just got one of these. Lusted after it as a kid, never got one. Definitely an emotional box-art-inspired purchase. Haven't even opened the box yet...hope it's a nice kit.

Hell...I once bought a REAL airplane for 6 grand and change. I'm sure as snot not going to buy a plastic model for almost 2.

Congrats. Beautiful bride. You clean up pretty good too.

The walking sack of human excrement that hit my old truck back in June (he was cited by the police at the scene for "improper lane change"), while he was trying to make a right turn into a mall from the CENTER lane of three lanes of traffic, has filed a claim against MY insurance company and is telling everyone a completely different story than what actually happened. This is going to go to arbitration, and it's going to take forever. Damm good thing I was able to repair my own vehicle to 100% drivable condition the same day (bent tierod and a LH outside mirror). Otherwise I'd be screwed. I just knew this talking turd was going to try to weasel. EDIT: Bear in mind...in over 50 years of licensed driving, I've only been involved in one other collision, and the other driver was 100% at fault. I'm pretty sure I haven't even had a ticket in over 20 years.