Does anyone but me want to see Stan Galat's speedster?
I've read his prose which is impressive to say the very least.
I've read his treatises on engines (building, care and feeding)
I've read his accounts of life matters, family and friends.
But....I've never seen his car!
Stan, please reply with some pictures, inquiring minds want to know!
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Stan is "The Man" and nobody has ever seen "The Man" and ever returned to this life !
He's only a "Myth" in the eyes of the non-believers but the Legend continues....Bruce
I have visited Stanistan several times, dined with the President For Life and his beautiful Queen and, in fact, have seen the King's vehicle up close. (Mostly, I've seen the rear of it as I tried to maintain pace.)
It is like the King, tasteful, understated, and capable of many powerful and amazing feats.
I have photos of it and his majesty that I am willing to sell to those uninitiated in the glory that is the Royal Chariot of Stanistan!
No reasonable offer will be refused.
are you sure it's not just the Emperor's clothing?
As Thomas so famously said: I want proof!
Wow.
Who was that who said...no pics ? it doesn't exist. Alb ?
Yes, I have said that, David (along with almost everybody else here). That said, I have pics of Stan's car; if he ok's it I'll post them (but only if the President agrees!
).
Here's a few:
The piping on the seats is not pink, no matter how the pictures make it look. IM/6 supports across the doorframes (for stiffness). My butt is about 2" off the (lowered) floor. My wife can't see over the dash, so I need to redo the passenger's side.
I put this in here to show what I did with the head-temp gauges. Harmut re-screened them for 3/1, 4/2 (the layout of the cylinders), rather than L/R. OCD, and senseless to most people.
I took this one when I did the pedal covers, but before I had the throttle cable connected. This was really a bigger project than it started out to be. I never liked how straight up and down the pedals were (since I try to heel and toe in work-boots), so I re-did the stops to make them lay out more at rest. I wanted the pedal spacing to be equidistant (dead-pedal included), which meant trimming the floor-boards and re-doing a bunch of stuff under the carpet. Nobody cares but me-- but my feet like the pedals.
Everybody's seen this, but I love it.
Pretty boring, right? I probably ought to have more, but I'd rather work on it and drive it.
The price for my pics just went down.
My favorite.
Remember when we were just little kids how Grandpa Stan would take us for rides in his car?
That would be MY favorite pic, too!
"Harmut re-screened them for 3/1, 4/2 (the layout of the cylinders), rather than L/R. OCD, and senseless to most people."
Actually, I first saw those gauges and thought, "Hey! That's the same layout as the cylinder placement - How Clever...Instant recognition!" and THEN I read the text below the picture. I must be OCD, too, huh? (Duh!)
That's another one of those (few) cars that you see somewhere and make a lap around it and see a few things that make you say; "Nice!" And then on every later lap, you see a few more, and a few more. The attention is in the details. You, and the late George Brown, share that.
Very nicely done, Stan.
What's the little guys name Stan Jr?
Stan's engine pre-twin plug.
A rare candid of the President of Stanistan.
Is the president of Stanistan going to rule his subject by making a personal appearance to Carlisle this year ?
Yep, I knew it, there were clothes on the emperor!
Thanks Stan, for showing us your car, it's beautiful.
And, now I see that you do resemble your avatar.
And the best part, is that your favorite photo of your car, is the one with your grandson in it.
Making friends and making memories, the best part of FC ownership!
Stan Galat, '05 IM, 2276, Nowhere, USA posted:Here's a few:
I put this in here to show what I did with the head-temp gauges. Harmut re-screened them for 3/1, 4/2 (the layout of the cylinders), rather than L/R. OCD, and senseless to most people.
I took this one when I did the pedal covers, but before I had the throttle cable connected. This was really a bigger project than it started out to be. I never liked how straight up and down the pedals were (since I try to heel and toe in work-boots), so I re-did the stops to make them lay out more at rest. I wanted the pedal spacing to be equidistant (dead-pedal included), which meant trimming the floor-boards and re-doing a bunch of stuff under the carpet. Nobody cares but me-- but my feet like the pedals.
Everybody's seen this, but I love it.
Pretty boring, right? I probably ought to have more, but I'd rather work on it and drive it.
Nice wheels... Love the car.
Thanks, guys. Now lets get back to something more worthwhile.
IaM-Ray posted:What's the little guys name Stan Jr?
That little guy's name is Ezekiel Amadeus Galat. He's 5 now, and not so little any more.
This guy is "mini-me"-- Judah David Mrdjanov:
Who makes those wheels for IM?
Love the look of your car Stan; especially the wheels! They rock (you could have the rears cut apart and widened an inch or so to the insides and run 205's or even 215's) I really like what you did with the head temp gauges as well (now that's attention to detail!). The grand kids are pretty neat too. You are blessed. Al
michel posted:Who makes those wheels for IM?
They were the "Bivens" wheels. Alex Bivens did a run of them with Coddington (if I'm not mistaken) about 15 years ago. They were stupid-expensive at the time (like $2500 for a set of 4). I wanted them, but didn't have the money at the time of the build.
There was a guy named George Brown on this site who was the first guy I ever came across to treat a replica like more than a toy. He sprung for a set of 15x6"s in the proper offset for his IM build before he passed away suddenly.
The guy who bought his car was a piece of work. He didn't want the wheels, and we made a side-deal for $1600-ish for 5 of them. They arrived pretty scratched up. I filed out the curb-rash, brushed all 5 of them with a scotch-brite pad, and sent them up to Chicago to get a "crystal-clear" powder-coat job. They looked better without the coating, but if you've ever tried to keep brushed AL looking good, you'll understand why I did what I did.
I also did the same thing to the CB brake hubs (front and rear), only I did them myself with a home powder-coat kit. If anybody is thinking of doing this-- don't. Drum-skins are about 500x easier. The main issue was that no matter how well I cleaned out the hubs, traces of grease kept leaching out when the hubs went in the oven. I ended up stripping and redoing those stupid hubs about 5 times.
Like most things, something only I cared about.
Marty Grzynkowicz posted:
A rare candid of the President of Stanistan.
Corn Daze, Marty?
"...If you've ever tried to keep brushed AL looking good, you'll understand why I did what I did."
Boy, do I ever. After I stripped and polished the spokes on my Fuchs I just left them au naturél while we went off for 2 weeks out of state. Just in that time, with the wheels sitting in a garage and about 75 feet from brackish tidal water, they turned cloudy. Ended up polishing them, again, and then clear-coating them. Been about 12 years, now and they're not quite ready for touching up.
Panhandle Bob posted:Marty Grzynkowicz posted:
A rare candid of the President of Stanistan.
Corn Daze, Marty?
Driveway down to the Burger Barge on the Illinois River. Corn Daze rally several years ago. Rich Drewek's shirt design gives it away.
That was a great time!
Stan Galat, '05 IM, 2276, Nowhere, USA posted:...I also did the same thing to the CB brake hubs (front and rear), only I did them myself with a home powder-coat kit. If anybody is thinking of doing this-- don't. Drum-skins are about 500x easier. The main issue was that no matter how well I cleaned out the hubs, traces of grease kept leaching out when the hubs went in the oven. I ended up stripping and redoing those stupid hubs about 5 times.
Like most things, something only I cared about.
We were refinishing executive's oak desks for this company (40? 50?) and no matter how well we stripped and cleaned this one, it would fish eye (blemish) when spraying the clear lacquer on the top. We re-did it 5 or 6 times before it looked good (there were still a couple in the corners, but they were not that noticeable and at that point we were truly done with that one). Found out later that this guy's secretary was using Pledge furniture wax (in a spray can) on his desk every Friday after he went home for years!
The thing about Stan's car is that nothing on it screams "LOOK AT ME!", but everything should be looked at.
There are so many top quality, subtle touches that make the car unique and special that you could easily spend several hours crawling around it. The pictures he posted are the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah, real suttle like the T-Shirt for those who were raised on Corn Meal... Corny Guys and Corny Cars. 
Maybe if he makes it to Carlisle I can see that dual plug set up in the flesh
Bob: that's a subtle and excellent point.
Corn pollen. Can't get rid of it.
