1954 Porsche 550...Carrera Panamericana winner

[DustyMojave]

Looks great Curt.

A little fyi, although I know you're past that point already.

The dual Solex 40P11 carbs have aluminum bodies and should be aluminum silver, not phosphate gold like Holleys. The headers should fit to the exhaust ports on the front and back of the heads in the 1500. In the later dual cam engine, the exhaust ports are on the bottom of the heads. The crankcase sump from the kit looks like an oil pan with louvers, instead of part of the engine block left and right castings with a small rectangular (about 3" x 7") black stamped steel sump plate in the middle.

[curt raitz]

Looks great Curt.

A little fyi, although I know you're past that point already.

The dual Solex 40P11 carbs have aluminum bodies and should be aluminum silver, not phosphate gold like Holleys. The headers should fit to the exhaust ports on the front and back of the heads in the 1500. In the later dual cam engine, the exhaust ports are on the bottom of the heads. The crankcase sump from the kit looks like an oil pan with louvers, instead of part of the engine block left and right castings with a small rectangular (about 3" x 7") black stamped steel sump plate in the middle.

Yep, you're right...I am a little past fixin' the items you pointed out

too bad, I would've liked to have gotten' it right

thanx for the input

[DustyMojave]

You're welcome. Get 'em on the next one...

[curt raitz]

You're welcome. Get 'em on the next one...

Richard

I've seemed to have hit you in a couple of your interests on this build and the So-Cal Lakester I'm building...

thanx for your input and lookin' forward to more

curt

[DustyMojave]

I get a little concerned about coming off like some sort of "know-it-all", but I grew up around sports car racing with a dad who had raced midgets, track roadsters and lakes before getting into sports cars in the early 50s, which led him to meet my mom at a race and I grew up around racing. I've been mostly involved with offroad racing since the early 70s, but I've made a living as a race car fabricator since the mid 80s working on a wide variety of race cars...from cars which have won their class in the Baja 1000 to race winning Super Modifieds to museum restorations of vintage midgets and sprint cars, to Championship winning Trans Am and other silhouette racers, and restoring Vintage TransAm racers (like the 67 Shelby-built Trans Am Mustang I've worked on recently and which just got an invite to the Monterey Historics), to the Basso, Klos & Kong Streamliner, to the Baja Bug my son drove in the Mint 400 Saturday...and many more. And rather than jealously keeping all that info to myself, I enjoy sharing it. So go for it before I figure out how to make a living off sharing it.

BTW...I 1st became aware of the name Curt Raitz a number of years ago through magazine coverage of a "Group 5" 68 GT500 you built which dovetailed in with a "pre-Group 5" model project I started back in the early 70s using a 68 GT500 from a combo kit with a Ford Galaxie and a trailer. It was intended to receive large fender flares like a 1980s Trans Am car or Group 5, but like many of the early Group 5s, it would have been based on the Mustang unibody structure rather than a tube frame. I saw a similar concept 1:1 '69 Mustang driven by Boris Said at Willow Springs several years ago.

Edited March 27, 2012 by DustyMojave

[curt raitz]

I get a little concerned about comoing off like some sort of "know-it-all", but I grew up around sports car racing with a dad who had raced midgets, track roadsters and lakes before getting into sports cars in the early 50s, which led him to meet my mom at a race and I grew up around racing. I've been mostly involved with offroad racing since the early 70s, but I've made a living as a race car fabricator since the mid 80s working on a wide variety of race cars...from cars which have won their class in the Baja 1000 to race winning Super Modifieds to museum restorations of vintage midgets and sprint cars, to Championship winning Trans Am and other silhouette racers, and restoring Vintage TransAm racers (like the 67 Shelby-built Trans Am Mustang I've worked on recently and which just got an invite to the Monterey Historics), to the Basso, Klos & Kong Streamliner, to the Baja Bug my son drove in the Mint 400 Saturday...and many more. And rather than jealously keeping all that info to myself, I enjoy sharing it. So go for it before I figure out how to make a living off sharing it.

BTW...I 1st became aware of the name Curt Raitz a number of years ago through magazine coverage of a "Group 5" 68 GT500 you built which dovetailed in with a "pre-Group 5" model project I started back in the early 70s using a 68 GT500 from a combo kit with a Ford Galaxie and a trailer. It was intended to receive large fender flares like a 1980s Trans Am car or Group 5, but like many of the early Group 5s, it would have been based on the Mustang unibody structure rather than a tube frame. I saw a similar concept 1:1 '69 Mustang driven by Boris Said at Willow Springs several years ago.

Richard

I remember that model...think I still have boxed away someplace

I'll be gettin' in touch with you on any future lakester/50's racecars...I like to go into these with as much info as I can, especially if building a model of a specific car

thanx

curt

[DustyMojave]

Richard

I remember that model...think I still have boxed away someplace

I'll be gettin' in touch with you on any future lakester/50's racecars...I like to go into these with as much info as I can, especially if building a model of a specific car

thanx

curt

[curt raitz]

Got a new set of decals from Pattos...these are 1/24th scale decals, a little big for this car.

I scanned the Pattos decal sheet and reduced the images to a good size and made a new set of decals

here are the decals on the body:

now just gotta put everything together...

thanx for lookin'

[curt raitz]

This model has moved on to "Underglass"

thanx for lookin' and all your comments, more models to build...