The BMW 507 Ultimate Build Thread!!!

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

So close it must be painful!!!

The blue and white are an awesome colour combo!!

Ryan W31

[A12pilot]

Thanks, guys! Yes, Joe. That’s my 1997 GTS. This is my second one. The 84 Ferrari 308 GTS is mine as well, and not to be confused with my old 328 GTS. Fun stuff!

Bill, close. It stands for Replica. The friend of mine that gave me the scanned files for the 3D parts I printed from his car coined that phrase for cars that are replicas of real ones. He’s very well versed in Pebble Beach cars and that whole scene and denotes non-factory built cars with the “R” designation. I like it, so I adapted it. After all, this isn’t a 507 since it’s not a factory built car. Much like all the repop Cobras aren’t real Cobras no matter how nicely built. At least that is my view on them. Think of it as an internal use designation code!

Cheers
Dave

[RPOLS3]

Just amazing Dave - looks great!

[Xplantdad]

Just amazing, Dave!

[A12pilot]

Thanks guys. I appreciate all the comments and positve thoughts!

A thought occurred to me this morning while disposing of some coffee into the septic system. I've written several articles for the BMW Classic Car Club's magazine and am penning the final article now. While it's documented here on this site amongst us family, there's still plenty of stories and information to share about my build that I haven't described on the thread due to band width exceedance reasons. And you all know me and my lack of words and humor , I mean, why not write a book to bore the rest of humanity? So that's what I'm thinking of doing. I know, what else?

Anyone have any info on amateur publishing? I think Amazon has something like this but not sure. I'd want it avaible to sell on there in hardbound form and indigimous for easy Kindle reading. Of course, once I hit the NYT Best Seller's List, I'll take the proceeds and retire to the private island I'd have purchased with the royalty checks and sip margaritas on the beach. Or, stay gainfully employed and pay off the debt I incurred doing this. Either way, a win-win for humanity!

Any thoughts on the process? Publishing? Sticking to the day job and forget this nonsense?

Thanks men!

Cheers
Dave

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

Wes Eisenschenks would be a good person to talk to, he has written several car books, (I even penned a chapter of one of them) Lost Muscle Cars or Diego Rosenberg wrote Selling the American Muscle Car (so much goodness in that book)

They would have good insight.

Ryan W31

[olredalert]

----Dave,,,I've heard a bunch of stuff about self publishing. I would think you should google it (not that you haven't already thought of that) and do your due diligence. There's everything from family tree stuff to full blown books. I have no doubt you will figure it out!. The story will be thrillingly exiting of course! I would expect no less
....Bill S

[big gear head]

I tried writing a book on building rear ends in the early 2000s, but couldn't figure out how to do it. I gave up and as soon as I did there were 3 books that came out on the subject. One of them had a lot of stuff in it that I had posted on web sights when helping other people. I guess I missed my fortune. I hope you figure it out.

[A12pilot]

Thanks, Bill. I appreciate that! Yes, I’ve done a few searches and reached out to a few people so we’ll see what happens. The key is to not use anyone else’s content due to copyright stuff. That shouldn’t be a problem since it will be all my content anyway.

More to come!

Cheers
Dave

[Dave Rifkin]

I know you can count me in for a copy if you decide to publish one.