Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II Dan Gurney Special, 1969. A homologation special that allowed Mercury to compete in NASCAR stock car racing. To make the car more aerodynamic, a sleeker front section was used. The nose was replaced with one that extended the car's length and a flush-mounted grille from a Ford Cobra was fitted. The front bumper was actually a rear bumper off a 1969 Ford Fairlane that was cut, narrowed, and filled on the ends. Homologation rules meant 500 road-going cars needed to be made but only 351 "flat nose" examples were built, all with the 351ci Windsor V8 engine and automatic transmission. To make up the 500 a further 152 "W nose" Cyclone Spoilers were created with a variety of engine and transmission combinations, making 503 Dan Gurney Special models in all.
NASCAR needed to verify that 500 cars were made (during the first few weeks of 1969): As the story goes they built 351 extended "D" nosed cars; parked them in the front and on the edges of a parking lot; took 152 regular "W" nosed Cyclone Spoilers and parked them in the middle of all the Spoiler IIs in the parking lot. When NASCAR counted the cars they just never looked closely enough at the cars in the rear
Searching for a mask for Halloween made me aware that I have a flat nose
some tutorials out there say get a blank mask for the hard shape and get some cloth (pantyhose or cheesecloth or morphsuit and extra paint for color correcting) stuck on top
except I can't use those plastic/paper blank masks because they all have tall, pointy, narrow noses
I once bought a Venetian mask awhile back (as a kid) and it doesn't fit my nose very well too
I was initially shocked to see how big Archeops is when I saw him flapping next to Emmet in Pokémas the first time!! Had to draw him smaller to make this idea work (normal archeops height is 4'07"/140 cm).
Archeops also weighs 32kg/70.5lbs, about the same as an average 7~8 year old kid. Emmet sure could carry him around for a while, if he doesn't wobble around too much! (Which I'd imagine to happen often, Archeops turning his head around like a periscope surveying his surroundings before leaping off to chase something and leaving Emmet catching his balance.)