Thank you Ron, for a kit with few parts it is an impressive print, the way the chassis fits the body and the detail of the front end, plus everything but the plug wires fit perfectly, well worth the 50 beens, they even finish sand the body for you, i will be looking for more kits from them.
Never heard the expression "tanker" before.
Who makes the kit?
The company is Plasticmechanic he sells through Etsy. If you go to Etsy and search model cars and parts its on page 11 right now. Another co, in etsy named Hooligans has some really sweet kits, im getting ready to do a 60s twin engine digger from them next.
The reason they are tankers is because they are made from the fuel tanks called belly tanks used in WWII aircraft that needed extra fuel for long range sorties. After they were empty they would just drop them and use the wing tanks to get home. Some one out west in the late 40s looked at one one day and said hold my beer im gona make a car out of that thing and run it on a dry salt lake. They run in one of the purpose built classes called lakesters due to the open wheels, but the racers just call them tankers.
I would definatly drive one, land speed racing is my favorite motor sport and tankers have always been my favorite class. Its the most honest and purest test of speed, almost no big sponsors, just you with your foot to the floor for 5 miles, the course and the clocks. The kit is a very good print, the detail is exceptional and it all fits together well.
Your very welcome, its nice to turn people on to a new kind of vehicle even though its one of the very first purpose built cars to run on the salt 80 years ago. I just posted the finish pics, enjoy. I will be posting this one with its turbine powered brother in a little wile.
Yes sir the flat head has siamese exhaust ports in the center cylinders, the firing order is such they dont interfere with each other. It also has no push rods being the valves are in the block their stems run right on the cam lobe. The heads are also hemispherical combustion chambers with the spark plug in the center, these aspects make it a very precision assembly for its time, they make great power , they just dont run very clean do to the valves being in the block air flow is kind of poor. In these old ones gas and brake only, the trans is just a one speed transfer case, you lock it in and the car is push started, the gears in the transfer case and rear end and engine Horse Power, determine how fast its going to go. Nice to see someone else knows the KISS principle, I use it religiously when it comes to painting bodies.
Best your going to do for pics is to just google belly tanker land speed racers. Your going to get pics from beautiful to total back yard bombers. Also they come in different sizes and shapes, some are longer and thinner than the classics i have built. The paint your thinking about is a sweet design, i posted a pic for you along with some others. And dont fight the crazy these and guys that did any auto racing in the 60s were real men that had trailers just for their stones.
I got you covered on this one brother, and like i said dont fight the crazy its what keeps us all young, and admiration for these men is not taken lightly theirs is truly life on the edge.
That sounds great i can see the picture already. To do salt on the tires, use super glue and powdered sugar. Spread a thin even layer of glue on the wheel lay out a Tony Montana size line of sugar on a flat surface and slowly roll the wheel through it. Only one pass through the sugar and let it dry for the rest of the day, then use a soft brush to remove any sugar that dosnt stick. If you try to roll it a second time it will screw up bad, by pulling big chunks off the wheel and making a nasty mess.
We will take it at your pace brother, some humor always gos a long way in the right context. I dont know if you can find powdered salt but yea it has to be very fine to have the right look, table salt would make your wheels look like the rim of a margarita glass.
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