P 15 vs later models

[Smokeybear]

Personally I think the trim on the front looks a bit to "busy". I remedied it on my 48 by deleting the small bars and the supports behind them.

[T120]

When I was back working for a living, give a problem to several tradesmen to solve and no doubt they could all do the job...some simple,some less.

[pflaming]

I fully realize that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' but I do like this. 

[scotty t]

In my opinion the grill is one of the best looking ones of the era, much better looking than the more popular ford

[BigDaddyO]

 

 

 

 

 

 

But it looks like tin when you get close. Thin and flimsy

 

Also the fascia panel behind it is a flimsy bit of swiss cheese.

 

Without the trim to stiffen it, it'd flap in the wind.  

I think it's strong enough to do just what it was designed for, to hold the trim.

[BigDaddyO]

When I was back working for a living, give a problem to several tradesmen to solve and no doubt they could all do the job...some simple,some less.

 

Give the laziest guy the hardest job and he will find the easiest way to do it.

[Ulu]

I fully realize that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' but I do like this. 

 

 

The most tasteful incarnation so far shown IMO.

[Ulu]

I apologize if I've misled anyone here about who or what I am.

 

Somehow I attended 14 different schools, earned almost straight A's, and yet I don't have a degree of any sort.

 

I was a service brat & we traveled a lot. Dad was a programmer, who started out in engineering school. I also quit engineering school to become a computer programmer in 1974. Somehow I became an engineer anyhow & I have a long string of completed projects on which I was an engineer.

 

Over the past 40 years I've worked in manufacturing engineering, application engineering & prototyping of metal products, and always involving computer programming. I did invent/design a couple inconsequential things which companies I worked for did patent. One was an internal form spreader for continuous concrete pipe casting. The other was a little locking device for operable windows in multistory buildings.

 

I've also worked in an AMC dealer, an engine re-building shop, and a heavy equipment service too. I've been fixing cars, bikes etc. since I was a kid.

 

For the past 20 years I've been the #4 guy with a group of consulting structural engineers. We design public schools and public buildings. I do informal calcs and formal drawings. I run the back office & train the rookie engineers in computer modeling. I built our computer networks. Literally. I made the cables up by hand. I built many of the PCs from parts.

 

I'm a hobbyist, I design and build things for fun. My methods are the methods of a hobbyist. OSHA would never approve.

 

I like my P15 better than most of the 20 or so cars which I've owned. I'll never sell it. I think it's a privilege to own it.

 

But it's not perfect. 

Edited December 24, 2014 by Ulu

[Ulu]

 . . .3 rules,

1) progress is not the same as improvement,

2) Progress will be messing with Murphy's law to get to an improvement

3) when you encounter Murphy's law, always obay the most important rule ....do not mess with misses Murphy.

 

I hope this sets thing clear.

 

Thank you, Dutch.

 

There's one more rule about progress which means a lot to me at work and it is this:

 

If a project is allowed to change freely, the rate of change will exceed the rate of progress.

 

Getting people to nail down the details of any plan is like pulling teeth. From an alligator.

[Don Coatney]

BigDaddyO, on 23 Dec 2014 - 10:51 PM, said:

Give the laziest guy the hardest job and he will find the easiest way to do it.

Give the job to the guy who is always busy as he is the only one who will find the time to do it.