@Bob: IM S6 I think it's the camera focal length and angle. And the 502 is the correct 2" shorter than replica wheelbase.
@ALB Get to work on your Speedster, stop messing around with that off-road stuff!
The 502 car is really amazing. The part that is tough to replicate is the rear engine lid. The shape of it is not totally correct, though very close. Honestly, it is nearly impossible to do perfectly. To me, that is the giveaway.
The fellows from 502 are really amazing guys — very kind, helpful and knowledgeable. I know the owner of this car — Silas Boyle. He’s a real enthusiast.
It’s almost spring! How go your winter projects on your car? John
@John Schneeman posted:It’s almost spring! How go your winter projects on your car? John
LOL. As usual, I haven't started yet. Not a big list. New brakes and new pump and remote oil filter. But hey, I did get my new horn button installed. 
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Did I go through over 20 pages and miss the video of this work of art actually moving??
@americanworkmule posted:Did I go through over 20 pages and miss the video of this work of art actually moving??
Not yet. There were a few minor issues Anand wanted to have tweaked a tad further. And then like the story, When you Give a Mouse a Cookie, things got out of hand and Anand is having a few more parts "replicated" just like the original for that extra touch.
Trust me, when that bad boy is rolling you will see it. Here's a photo of it at the DMV:
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@Panhandle Bob posted:If he had, there would have been the problem of where to put the orange.
@Stan Galat posted:He didn’t paint it “Gulf livery blue”, Danny, so we are good.
Kinda cool ,
...in a race car way.
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@Robert M posted:... Trust me, when that bad boy is rolling you will see it. Here's a photo of it at the DMV:
We need driving videos...
Like waiting all summer for a series season finale cliff hanger, who shot jr ewing
I see that big SEG, Awesome !
I know. It’s been a minute since the car made it to California. Our good friend Hans Huber is machining some reproduction parts on his CNC machine so Anand can have a shift linkage that looks like the original. He also machined a new motor mount to raise the motor and trans to better align the shift linkage. What Carey and crew made worked but the gear selection wasn’t quite as crisp as Anand had hoped. Instead of taking it back to Indiana Hans offered to see what he could do with it. Hans owns one of the last independent German automotive shops left in our area and they are masters of the early flat six cars. Hans personally works on all of the 356s that come in and they come from a long way to have him work on them. Hans is also having some orthopedic work done so it’s slowed him down some.
As soon as it’s finished there will be videos galore. Think of this as the gap between Outlander seasons further hampered by COVID.
@Robert M posted:Think of this as the gap between Outlander seasons further hampered by COVID.
I think you meant Peaky Blinders. Or maybe Ozark.
@Stan Galat : Agreed! I’ve been waiting for both shows to come back for far too long.
The car is incredible, Anand.
As for the TV shows Stan and Mayo mentioned, I have no idea what they are talking about.
@Lane Anderson : Peaky Blinders is a crime / gangster drama set in post WW-1 Birmingham with the focus on an Irish / Romani family. For a period piece I actually like it…especially the cars and weapons of the era.
Ozark is set present day for the most part. It chronicles a financial planner and his family who move to the Ozarks to escape his past as a money launderer for a cartel. Pretty interesting characters and the family drama is the same as any family would have. I see some similarities between Ozark and Breaking Bad; which I watched weekly as the episodes came out…something it seems no one does anymore, myself included.
Outlander lost me a while back. I was “all in” for a time but when it went off the air for a while for a season break I just couldn’t get back into it.
As far as Peaky Blinders and Ozark: I’m waiting for it to come back! We needed some reprieve here over the past several months and they fit the bill. I realized I didn’t want to watch Game of Thrones again pretty quickly. Although we’ve had a double digit run of consecutive days of triple digit heat so the winter / snow scenes were quite nice to watch.
Oh yeah…we’ve been enjoying “Yellowstone” as well. Of course every time we watch more than one episode I tell my wife we could have just watched “Waterworld” to get a Kevin Costner fix. After all: “Waterworld” is quite possibly the best post-apocalyptic film ever made!
How was that for Thread Drift?!
my girl watches those FOR HOURS..they never end..i go to my man cave and do useful things like start thread drifts on the car blogs.
@Robert M posted:I know. It’s been a minute since the car made it to California. Our good friend Hans Huber is machining some reproduction parts on his CNC machine so Anand can have a shift linkage that looks like the original. He also machined a new motor mount to raise the motor and trans to better align the shift linkage. What Carey and crew made worked but the gear selection wasn’t quite as crisp as Anand had hoped. Instead of taking it back to Indiana Hans offered to see what he could do with it. Hans owns one of the last independent German automotive shops left in our area and they are masters of the early flat six cars. Hans personally works on all of the 356s that come in and they come from a long way to have him work on them. Hans is also having some orthopedic work done so it’s slowed him down some.
As soon as it’s finished there will be videos galore. Think of this as the gap between Outlander seasons further hampered by COVID.
Hopefully, Robert, you can convince Anand to bring this Beauty to the next West Coast Cruise! 
Ed: Have you watched the episodes of Longmire or the Expanse?
We kind of got bored with Outlander after the second season, too, but the sets and costuming were well done.
Anna and I watched Longmire front to back. Loved it!
If you like crime stuff and British tv, try "New Tricks" if you have Amazon Prime. I won't give anything away, but it is about retired cops brought back to work on cold cases.
is longmire the Western sheriff, drives a big ol dually 3500 Ram 4X4,, ran over 12 outlaw biker HDs out in the woods, and kicks butt on everyone(even packing guns) without breaking a sweat tells them "to leave or be buried here"
@barncobob : that was an early episode in Season Three of “Yellowstone”. Interestingly enough, I watched it last night.
A series along these lines that we enjoyed was "Justified." Oddly satisfying questionable behavior by a sheriff who's fed up with the bad guys.
I would suggest that most questionable behavior is oddly satisfying!
@Michael Pickett posted:A series along these lines that we enjoyed was "Justified." Oddly satisfying questionable behavior by a sheriff who's fed up with the bad guys.
Timothy Olyphant as a US Marshall sent back home to deal with all the crime in his backwoods/mountain folk hometown. Excellent writing, directing, and supporting cast. I believe Sheldon Leonard was involved somehow.
Walton Goggins as his friend/nemesis is particularly good.
Great TV.
Walter Goggins was really good in The Shield.
@Panhandle Bob posted:Anna and I watched Longmire front to back. Loved it!
If you like crime stuff and British tv, try "New Tricks" if you have Amazon Prime. I won't give anything away, but it is about retired cops brought back to work on cold cases.
New Tricks is awesome, Bob, your bringing me back down Memory Lane 
Any updates on your build? Would love to see a full gallery of all the neat details Carey did to you car.
Hopefully we can keep this thread on topic.
@Devin Coppens posted:Any updates on your build? Would love to see a full gallery of all the neat details Carey did to you car.
Hopefully we can keep this thread on topic.
Anand hasn't been on the site much due to his work schedule and the fact that Spyder has been getting more work done on it to lower the engine to put everything in better alignment. It is getting close to done and when I see Anand this week I'll have him post some updates.
@Robert M posted:Anand hasn't been on the site much due to his work schedule and the fact that Spyder has been getting more work done on it to lower the engine to put everything in better alignment. It is getting close to done and when I see Anand this week I'll have him post some updates.
Unacceptable.
He's too busy to troll this site all day/ every day like some busted-up orangutan pipefitter from Flyover, USA? I mean, I'm pretty busy too with all my super-important heatin', coolin', fittin', and spoutin' I do.
It's not like Anand saves lives for a living or anything.
... oh, snap! He does save babies' lives for a living (not that he'd ever mention it).
If it were me (by way of contrast), I'd probably bring it up in ever other sentence of every post - like I was an engineer, or a Crossfitter, or a Tesla owner. Heck - if were me, I'd probably bring it up like I was a Tesla owning Crossfitting engineer.
"Did I mention I save the lives of babies? Oh, I think I did. But in case you forgot - I save babies' lives for a living. I also drive a Tesla (I'm saving the planet) and do Crossfit. I'm awesome. Also humble. But mostly awesome."
I'd probably tell people on Facebook all about it too. That's how I'd roll.
Just tell him we miss living vicariously through him. This is some of the coolest stuff I've ever seen.
@Stan Galat posted:Unacceptable.
He's too busy to troll this site all day/ every day like some busted-up orangutan pipefitter from Flyover, USA? I mean, I'm pretty busy too with all my super-important heatin', coolin', fittin', and spoutin' I do.
It's not like Anand saves lives for a living or anything.
... oh, snap! He does save babies' lives for a living (not that he'd ever mention it).
If it were me (by way of contrast), I'd probably bring it up in ever other sentence of every post - like I was an engineer, or a Crossfitter, or a Tesla owner. Heck - if were me, I'd probably bring it up like I was a Tesla owning Crossfitting engineer.
"Did I mention I save the lives of babies? Oh, I think I did. But in case you forgot - I save babies' lives for a living. I'm also pretty humble about it."
I'd probably tell people on Facebook all about it too. That's how I'd roll.
Just tell him we miss living vicariously through him. This is some of the coolest stuff I've ever seen.
I most definitely will Stan.
I don't wanna appear Ig'nrunt or anything, @Stan Galat, but what, exactly, is "spoutin'"?
Oh, and I'm not an Engineer..... I just married one, instead. And we've stayed at a Holiday Inn Express from time to time...... 
@Gordon Nichols posted:what, exactly, is "spoutin'"?
Sure, el Gordo. Here we are, doing what people do on the interweb: "spoutin'". Bloviation/pontification is a vital part of the aging tradesman's job description, you may (or may not) have noted.
Everybody is entitled to my opinion. I'd make a perfect Tesla owner.
I've owned 2 Leafs over the last 8 years and I'd like to note that we don't bloviate or pontificate. We tend towards yammering on, or jibber-jabbering thank you very much!
@Michael Pickett posted:I've owned 2 Leafs over the last 8 years and I'd like to note that we don't bloviate or pontificate. We tend towards yammering on, or jibber-jabbering thank you very much!
Well, there's your problem, Mike. You need to do this right. "Saving the planet" doesn't count unless you bloviate/pontificate.
And buy a Tesla. It has to be a Tesla. Nobody knows what a Leaf looks like, and they don't immediately broadcast your excess of disposable income, or virtue-signal your wokeness to the great unwashed.
... and join CrossFit, will you?
If you're gonna' do this, do it right.
@Stan Galat posted:If you're gonna' do this, do it right.
That's your problem, mine and probably a bunch of folks here on SOC's, we really don't want other people to tell us what to do (or like, or how to be virtuous, or what's good music). What's right for one definitely isn't right for everyone.
I took a personality test that said there were about 300 people in the US who hated being told what to do more than I did. My wife (GF at the time) just laughed and did a thumbs up. I didn't even like the Beatles at first because everyone else did...
So, if I like something, you can be assured that I have studied it to death and that I am right 😀
@Michael Pickett posted:I took a personality test that said there were about 300 people in the US who hated being told what to do more than I did.
Huh. I guess I'm one of 300 people.
Stan, you missed vegan. You can't save the world unless you're a Tesla owner AND a vegan.
Yoga, don't forget Yoga, and tight pants of indeterminate stretchy fabric, oh and plaid.
Maybe a beard.
@Michael Pickett posted:That's your problem, mine and probably a bunch of folks here on SOC's, we really don't want other people to tell us what to do (or like, or how to be virtuous, or what's good music).
By way of explanation, my people were Anabaptists.
The Protestants and Catholics of Europe very much hated my forbearers for not toeing up to the official party line on a variety of theological topics. No small number of them spent a goodly amount of time in prisons for refusing to "see reason" (as the dominant parties understood it). This was why my ancestors immigrated to North America, so that they would be free to live and worship as they saw fit.
As a result of standing alone as a matter of principle, my line was brought up knowing (without any doubt) that we were right and everybody else was wrong. When you are incarcerated for what you believe, it tends to either break you or harden you. My people were the hard cases.
After 125 years (+/-) of living in freedom, the we/they bifurcation has softened quite a bit - but not so much that my needle is moved very much at all by means of being pushed. It's buried pretty deeply in my core to be extremely distrustful of groupthink and prevailing attitudes (folklore and common knowledge in my parlance), precisely because the mob has been so very wrong so very many times in history.
There is no shortage of examples of people sure of their own positions doing truly awful things to those outside of the mainstream, but the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Pogroms in Europe and Eurasia are examples that leap to mind. I come from a history of actual persecution, generally perpetrated by people who looked very much like the martyrs themselves. The more a group adopts the tactics of "conversion at the tip of the sword", the greater my tendency to dig in becomes.
I'm aware of this tendency in myself, and it's something I work pretty hard to overcome. Not everything is wrong just because a lot of people believe it, and there is always the possibility that I'm wrong about something myself. I want to afford people the same consideration I'd like to receive.
But I'm also not swayed by the prevailing wind no matter how briskly it's blowing, and I've witnessed a lot of instances in my life where the common narrative was flatly wrong. "Science" is never settled unless it can be proven and is repeatable with 100% reliability. Less than that is extrapolation and faith - which is to say, religion.
... which isn't bad. I'm just not going to convert to a new one by being pushed, even if it makes me a stubborn old so and so.
I come by it honestly.
Tough story, Stan. Humans have such a long history of abusing people who don't believe the same things we do, have a different ethnicity, gender, skin color, sexual preference or car brand.
I'm especially tuned in today, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, when thousands of Jews were liberated from Auschwitz in 1945.
We can do better.