It turned out to be the Town Car, and Ron was able to acquire the car. Ron passed away in December, 2008.The miniatures are exacting in detail, especially considering the era. Each model is bolted together using scale nuts, bolts and screws. The bodies are cast aluminum like the regular...
From these he could make tiny hex head nuts and bolts. Still, there were no shortcuts in this process. Many taps would be broken to make a single die; however, once he had a die, making the little bolts was relatively easy. In fact, if you ask him if it’s hard making bolts ...
The flexible carbon gasket, with a rectangular slit functioning as the flow path, was sandwiched between two stainless steel plates and fastened with bolts and nuts. Here, the size of the rectangular flow path was fixed at L = 0.26 m and experiments were conducted within the range of (2a,...