Ace-Garageguy

Sorry, musta overlooked your post in my haste. Post-haste...get it?

If the car was fast, he was crank-yanking. If it was a dog, he was serious.

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Oh, the humanity.

Love it.

Kewl.

Cool cool cool. I've loved Fiat 500s since I worked for a company that raced them back in the '70s, and I've loved 911s since about the same time. I can't imagine a more fun car to drive than a 911-powered 500. Great idea, great model.

And YOU might consider not loading up my thread with quoted posts of other build photos. The one from Greg is fine, but if you want to discuss or criticize another build...other than the one this thread was started about...please kindly do it elsewhere.

So glad you posted. I missed your "novecentoundici cinquino". That's really slick.

Besides the Lincoln Futura being remade into the TV Batmobile, it also starred in the 1959 film It Started with a Kiss.

Yes sir, you got it. I was just trying to further clarify. The ideas of traction bars and ladder or "lift" bars get confused sometimes, and a clear illustration of how they work should help anyone who wants to do period gassers get the suspension right.

The loose quarter-elliptic springs on cars like the SWC Willys let the rear of the car come down fast under hard acceleration. The rear coming down is essentially the same as far as weight transfer goes as the nose going up. But that's not the whole equation. Part of the way the geometry works has to do with the length and positioning of the forward ends of the ladder-bars too. Early "traction bars" existed (and still do) primarily to resist wind-up of rear semi-elliptic leaf springs, which could get into a cyclic wind-up, snap-back, inducing axle-hop. Not good for maintaining traction, and tends to snap axles and universal joints and transmission parts too. Ladder bars, being very stiff, took the "wind-up" torque of the rear axle and applied it through a long 'lever' forward to the point the bars are mounted to the chassis. This 'lifts' the nose of the car, further enhancing rear weight transfer.

Sometimes it's how many cans does it take to paint a car. It took a can and a half of "one coat" Testors to get a consistent metallic base laid down on this (five coats), and a little less than one can of Testors clear.

I agree. I loved seeing the altereds run almost as much as the old comp coupes. This one's about halfway between the two classes.

Agreed, but this is a drag car that didn't work out because the rear of the car generated lift, it got light, lost traction at speed, and wasn't fast. Plug was pulled on development.

The Stone Woods Cook Willys really got the quarter-elliptic leaf spring setup with long ladder bars working. One of the reasons the car went so quick was because it launched so hard.

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Yeah, that's the point I was trying to make. If you didn't understand the nose-high attitude comes from weight transfer as the cars LAUNCH, you could think, I suppose, that's how they looked at rest. Then you get the legions of monkey-see-monkey-do folks who just copy all the folks who got it wrong without ever bothering to understand what's the 'real deal'.

Hmmmmm...that would certainly be something worth researching and scratchbashing, anyway. Probably one chance in a billion of getting a kit though.

It is a simplified version of a pump for mechanical fuel injection. like this. It would be installed on an engine typically like this.

"We don't need no steenkeen badges"...

I wonder how many will get built that way.