Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2012
Date 06-Apr
Volume 208
Issue 4,427
Page 496
Category Internal Combustion
Part
Title Gary Conley, a hard-won success story in miniature
Author
Notes The Joe Martin Foundation Craftsman of the Year for 2012. Perfection is almost good enough, supercharged Stinger 609 with 'zoomie' headers for drag racing, 1/4 scale V8 Stinger 609, a start teaching makes way for chasing his own dream, going from billet to cast parts, Chrysler asks for a model Viper V-10, with production near - tragedy strikes, taking the business in a new direction keeps the dream alive, cast blocks and moulds, the surviving V-10 molds give life to a new V-8, piston & connecting rod, about the new Stinger 609, from despair to Metalworking Craftsman of the Year, 1/4 scale Ford roadster, about the Joe Martin Foundation for Exceptional Craftsmanship