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Gar

Member Since 25 Aug 2006
Offline Last Active May 11 2012 02:54 PM

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About Me

I fell in love with this kit car a long time ago when I had no spare coin to invest, and I'd have done a half-arsed job back then anyway. Now that the kids are grown, and the wives have all left, I decided to reward myself for a good life's work, and build my dream. The discovery of the Contour came after a lot of research for just the right transplant. I wanted all the comfort options along with style and potency. I bought my Contour for $2000, and drove it for nine happy months before starting it's new life as the heart of my sports car. I'm making friends everywhere I go for parts and work on it. Everyone likes this adventurous project. I have brothers that are sports car guys too, and I get loads of encouragement from them to finish so we can all drive the mountains together.

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Age 58 years old
Birthday September 29, 1953
Gender
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Location
Tween Baltimore and Harrisburg
Interests
I'm a nerd electronics engineer during the week, and a semi-pro entertainer by weekend. I own a sound company and do local and regional bands, plus a few old nationals a year in the standing audience market.. festivals, municipal, corporate. Learned to drive at 5, and double clutch at 7. Many VWs, buggies, a TR4, and then family cars.

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Vehicle owned
95 V6 GL strangely modified

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This year's Kinetic Sculpture Race vehicle build

20 March 2012 - 05:51 AM

Last year's build got a lot of viewer interest so I thought I'd share the galley link for the new car. Hope you enjoy.

Gar

http://kelmarkgt.fre...pture-t190.html

fuel line shrader install on MB

13 August 2011 - 11:43 AM

Dom, Terry, et al,

I believe Hottie's 380SL is staying enriched after warm-up. It uses a Bosch K-Jetronic set-up. I have a fuel pressure test gauge, so I think I'll install a shrader on the cap on the top of the fuel distributor unit in the control circuit, but I suspect the shraders meant for fuel are different from tire valves. Can you confirm? How about a recommendation for a donor? I'll drill and thread that control circuit cap and leave it in.

Gar

Gar