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Always, always, always set a reserve you can live with.

Regarding the discussion about excess listings on BAT: The Zetec-Powered Birkin S3 auction you were following on BaT has been sold for USD $14,500.

Anytime you get that many competing, it diminishes the "brand." Some people will just wait for more selection to come; think these cars are qquite common; can get one any day; Bids will be lower and some will be unsold. Hope all the sellers have a reserve they can live with.

" The full catalog is available here." Great job, John. I'll take the brunette.

Was the original a one use, crushable washer?

Odd it doesn't have more snaps along the middle of the front/back. Goes over a folding top, hence the "shoulders" outboard of the flat center section? Like for a Miata, but not.

Or, you could put a pressure regulator (adjustable) in line with the dry sump plumbing. Went through that with a 2 L Peugeot mill with a Moroso pump. Called Moroso and was told the pump was for a small block V8. I think I got the regulator from Speedway Motors, or some roundy round supplier.

Put a genuine plumbing valve in the hot water line to the heater. Close in spring. Open in fall. Pretty common practice on CMVs.

Oh, no. Don't let @Vovchandr drag you away for Bezos' party.

Croc's comment about hitting a roll cage is vital. The team once saw fit to remove the padding from my cage..Rally.. Off the mountain, rolled 3 or 4 times (my count vs. Navigator's). Hit cage with helmet on the first roll over and cracked it enough to come over my face. Sucked head into shoulders and didn't hit it again, but scary. Amazing how much one can stretch. I always wore belts TIGHT, enough to have shoulder bruises after a few days' rally. Cage requires helmet and padding.

Dick sold his parts inventory in one group.

Looks like nobody wins the golden thumbs up. The correct answer is Tazio Nuvolari. The story is that at Monza, Nuvolari had the fastest practice time. In the pits, the journalists asked about brakes. He replied, "Brakes are not important. All they do is slow you down." To mess with them, he had his mechanics cut off half the brake linings. Then went out and improved his time. There is a trick to it, of course. The linings then were bolted to the shoe, so if you leave the leading half and cut off the trailing half, you would not lose anything over one or two laps. Or, since brakes were such a terrible weak part in those days, he could have just used them for a lap a bit harder than he would in a race.

Come on guys. Think older.

Oops sorry, Scott. No winner yet.

"The car is no fun to drive with brakes that only slow you down. " reminds me of another. Free prize to person who knows who said, "Brakes are not important. All they do is slow you down."

Alergies to latex develop and are a real problem. Same holds true for fiberglass, just ask “Tony” Ostermeier .

Story and suggestion. My son and I changed out the inverter on his Prius. Tuned out foolproof because of, say 40, electrical connections and mechanical fasteners, none were alike. Not the job for just a couple 10mm wrenches. All quite brilliant stuff until the last electrical connector, on back, underneath. No way to see it or tell how the connector might release. Many tries. I went to a little auto-electrical shop (real deal, not alarms r us). Explained to the maestro and offered for him to come to the house. He showed up, undid the connector in one minute and offered to stay till we did initial fit on new inverter so then he connected the blind one for us. Experience and tricks of the trade. Well worth the $50 I gave him for 15 minutes. Maybe you can find a specialist.

Torque and retorque frequently. Beware of paint. I worked with a motor carrier that had a problem with wheels coming off. They were extremely lucky not to kill someone. One wheel/tire went over 1.5 miles down the freeway before coming to rest. 110 pounds x 60 mph = ENERGY. They were torqued (after the regular air gun, with a 4 foot digital torque wrench. It turned out that the wheels' paint was applied too thick and not hardened, so nothing was as tight as it seemed.

Surely in this day and age we should be able to print our stickers at home, then cut to fit a desired shape.

Certainly would love to hear how it sounds. So many things determine how an engine sounds.

Now that's a cool car. Though, Harry Weslake said - If you need 2 plugs per cylinder, what you have is poorly designed combustion chamber.

@Slonie, job well done. Very nice design with some Color. together. @JohnCh, thanks for pulling it all together. Will there be stickers for putting on cars?

Another reason I won't like Texas (5th generation). I would vote for Standard Time. I remember what a pain it is to get children to bed when it's broad day light. We are hot enough in the summer and it would be better to start cooling down at 8 instead of 9. Hate the switching, it's bad for you. Just so kids can wait for morning bus in the dark - unsafe.

Nice to see you're having fun. Love the Step Here.

S4 I have not noticed above, though it looks familiar. Maybe a rerun? https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/593067882983971/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3A79f90c80-58a7-4950-bf86-f5a01d21a1ef