Today's speedster on BaT has an external fuel filler cap that opens but is not associated with the fuel tank. That'd be risky in NJ where we're not allowed to pump our own, and young Jason at the Shell station might get you started while you are getting out your credit card.
Also for the tits-on-a-boar file, an interesting steel 356 conversion except with fake four-cam valve covers. Who's that supposed to fool, the cat who sleeps under it in the driveway?
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I've seen those valve covers before- iIrc the guy who cast them made a few sets for VW heads as well. I never really saw the point, but to each his own.
And the gas filler not connected to the tank- why am I not surprised it's a JPS car? I just hope John had the sense to make sure the filler lid didn't actually open...
@ALB you never saw these valve covers before. This is something very special.
This is both upper and lower 547 cam covers grafted on a pushrod engine. And I admit I have thought about what it might take to make this sort of thing for the Spyder.
By all appearance this is a purely cosmetic dress up item. The 4-cam stuff is somehow attached to stock valve covers and presumably can be unclipped for valve adjustments and stuff.
My idea was to make them (nominally) functional in a dry sump FI application: top covers would hide the fuel rails and injectors, the bottom would be oil drainage with return/vacuum pump hoses pulling from the bottom.
Way more complications and fabrications that even I wanted to tackle, and moot after I abandoned my fan shroud project.
Speaking of which:
Kuzu shroud, probably.Note how the fan is centered, but the shroud is just slightly offset.
Very lifelike.
Yeah, what Ed said. I've never seen upper AND lower fakes.
I have the ones Al posted on my car, though. I like them, isn't that all that matters?
Yes. Those are much more reasonable, in every sense.
Just the thing for when you have a crowd of "enthusiasts" in your garage and the car is up on a lift.
And can someone tell me why that car for sale on BaT needs 439 photos?
@Gordon Nichols posted:And can someone tell me why that car for sale on BaT needs 439 photos?
I believe the intent was to show that there was nothing he was trying to hide.
I loved everything about that tan car. I thought the "twin-cam" valve-covers were brilliant, the shroud a jewel, and the rest of it very, very well done.
I'm pretty sure at $166K, he lost money.
"I'm pretty sure at $166K, he lost money."
Yeah, Me, too.
@edsnova posted:@ALB you never saw these valve covers before. This is something very special.
This is both upper and lower 547 cam covers grafted on a pushrod engine. And I admit I have thought about what it might take to make this sort of thing for the Spyder.
By all appearance this is a purely cosmetic dress up item. The 4-cam stuff is somehow attached to stock valve covers and presumably can be unclipped for valve adjustments and stuff.
My idea was to make them (nominally) functional in a dry sump FI application: top covers would hide the fuel rails and injectors, the bottom would be oil drainage with return/vacuum pump hoses pulling from the bottom.
Way more complications and fabrications that even I wanted to tackle, and moot after I abandoned my fan shroud project.
Speaking of which:
Very lifelike.
It is a Kuzu and he added his own comments and video to the auction thread for the Coupester that was sold.
