The Aussie Ferrari

[Aussie]

Got conned into this by step Grandson. Bloody thing will cost me, just in parts, around $2000.00, forgetting the hours I have to put in....but that is the part I enjoy, those hours.

Her ya go. At Issue 13.

That bit in the middle...is the dash board supported by a magnifying glass thing. See the 20c piece for scale.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Gotta keep yourself occupied somehow!!

I'm helping the kids up the road build a go kart...talk about a money pit haha but it's nice being able to teach skills to them

 

[Aussie]

Gotta keep yourself occupied somehow!!

I'm helping the kids up the road build a go kart...talk about a money pit haha but it's nice being able to teach skills to them

Jayzuz...back in my day, a billy cart was the ultimate!

 

[Jim Lahey]

Gotta train the next generation to be mad scientists like me building all sorts of crazy mechanical contraptions!!

 

[Aussie]

Gotta train the next generation to be mad scientists like me building all sorts of crazy mechanical contraptions!!

Pics or it is not happening!

 

[johnsmith]

Gotta keep yourself occupied somehow!!

I'm helping the kids up the road build a go kart...talk about a money pit haha but it's nice being able to teach skills to them

good on ya. To many kids today don't even know what a billy kart is. And as far as they're concerned go karts are what we hire at kart tracks. They don't realise that most of the fun is in the making of it and working out why the bastard won't run

 

[johnsmith]

When I was a kid we used to go to the Port Kembla Billy Kart Derby each and every year. Of course, the billy karts are a lot more sophisticated today than they were in my day, when I was young they were old wooden fruit boxes on wheels and you just let them rip ... often they didn't even have brakes, but that was OK because you'd stop going back up the other end off Wentworth street ...

 

[Jim Lahey]

Love It !!

 

[johnsmith]

Love It !!

It had stopped for many years and I'm glad to see they bought it back. I think covid has put a halt on it again but i hope it comes back once covids sorted. I'd love to bring my boys down there to experience it one day

 

[HBS Guy]

Looks like a lot of fun!

 

[Aussie]

Engine at Issue 15 (with 14 yet to be added.)

 

[Aussie]

You can see a bit of the two belts front bottom under those silver things at the front. There are 8 cogs under those two covers (and the two belts) around which the two belts wind. Shame the belts are then covered up. See those silver 'bolts' at tbe right and left of the two red rocker covers? There is a mirror set on the other side of each. Total of 24. Each of those bolts have to go in individually. Took me about a bloody week to get them in!

 

[HBS Guy]

LOL!

 

[Crackey]

Engine at Issue 15 (with 14 yet to be added.)

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Testa Rossa. But I thought they were all 12 cylinders.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Are you mechanically minded?

Edit: didnt make much sense, in respect to working on real vehicles etc...

 

[Aussie]

Are you mechanically minded?

Edit: didnt make much sense, in respect to working on real vehicles etc...

No.....I like doing models, especially very finely detailed ones.

 

[Aussie]

Side elevation:

 

[Jim Lahey]

I wish I had your patience...putting the head back on my ute today, what a shit job, imagine if it was only 50mm across haha

 

[Aussie]

No more parts for the Ferrari this week so back to the Spitfire.