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Oh she's a beauty, Dave. Congrats!

Hey, Bob, I'm also happy to see this one progressing. I can't remember why, though....I will read it all from the beginning. 🤓 I do remember I was working on a Fleetline when I became interested in your build. It's just age.....😕.....what was I saying? 🤔

LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT ! I love Model A coupes and this one is a total heart-throb. Great work!

Nothing that comes in a green or clear bottle.

Wouldn't it be cool if somebody came up with a colored, translucent self-adhesive film you could cut to size and shape like BMF and just apply it to your glass? It seems to me that it's out there somewhere. 🤓

He calls a spade a spade....😏....effectively making him....wait for it......🥴......

I would not expect detail that intricate on something like this; my first comment was just joking. I really like the build. It's imaginative and well executed. I just hope you can put something a little stronger than Coke in that cooler 🥴

Yeah, man, it looks pretty darn good. I was just playing. Not too many people would know that stuff. What you see in the 1:1 is an open drive compressor on the left and on the far end of it is a big pulley. The motor on the right would drive the compressor with a belt. There should be a condenser connected to the compressor with a maybe 1/2 copper line. The condenser is probably located on the far side out of sight or it was removed. On the left of the compressor is a pressure control of some sort. You have a good representation, though, I was just messing with you. Edit: upon close examination, I see the compressor pulley serves a dual purpose because the spokes are made in the form of fan blades. 😀 fascinating!

You need a condenser coil 🤓 ....and a fan

Oh...um....what? 😴

Oh...the magnet thing is not my idea, I merely passed it on. I've been using it for several years now though. I picked it up, I think, on the old SA forum. Your idea for the "ears" combined with the "nose" magnet, potentially, makes use of the firewall/cowl slots found on many kits. In some of my builds I have closed those unsightly slots intended for "hinges" or used them for wire hinges, as was appropriate. Now, thanks to you, there is another option. Kudos! 🙂 (what's a kudo?)

I like the look - reasonably chopped highboy on pre-war suspension, early hemi, quick change rear. I'm seeing pie crust slicks 🙂....with white-walls 🥴?

Hey! Good thinking! You don't mind if I use that some day, do ya? More than one way to skin a cat, Len.... 🐈‍⬛

I am reminded of Austin Powers, I can hear him in my head now.... "oh beeee haaaave". 😄

When I was a mere child, I was in possession of a scrapbook full of tobacco stamps my grandfather, who had been a butcher/ store owner back in the '20s, '30s, and '40s had saved (for me) and, after he was gone, I had no idea what they were. There were also many foreign postage stamps and such but I was not interested in them. I wish I had kept track of them. Stupid kid. 💩. Yes, I was a stupid kid. I admit it. 🥺 perhaps I still am .

I'm thinking maybe getting away from the "nose" location and locating the magnets at the rear corners rather than removing the lip, but it's just a guess. It may allow easier access for locating them from below. Sometimes it's just not easy 😞. I just looked at mine to refresh my memory. I have a single location at the nose and I see I had to shim the hood magnet on an angle to get it to lay down. Individual results may vary 🥴 anyway, I'm gonna need an explanation about the "mailbox" 🤔.....oh, OK, I get it 😏.

Hey, Len, stamp collecting is pretty easy. All you need is money and a magnifying glass. Just change the angle of the magnets. Tape the hood down tight. It's tricky but you know what to do, and maybe the baby hemi is just growing up 🙂 Go watch a movie.

Yeah, Jeff, you're running out of glue 😏.

I know exactly what you're talking about, David. I recall having to narrow a dash (but I can't tell you on what 🤔). The next kit I start is going to get a lot of "tape assembly" before any paint. Gotta do the fixes before any paint. No surprises next time.....yeah, right 🥴.

Yeah, I thought about that and knocked out the side glass but that wasn't it, Dave. The dash is tight up against the bottom of the windshield (this is after removing the remains of the locating pins and grinding the bottom corners of the glass away) and it looks fine but still there's a gap so I filled it with an .040 strip. Good enough. My big concern was the huge gap between the hood trim and the grille. I couldn't let that go without a fix. It seems there are always surprises when I get to this point on every build, regardless of looking for just this sort of thing ahead of time. Stamp collecting would have been a lot easier 🤓.

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Greg, I have used lacquer thinner to thin Testor enamels for spraying, successfully, and also for thinning out thickened-up enamel, in desperation, for brushing. What happens to the paint after that is hit or miss. This may not be pertinent to this discussion but I have recently experienced an issue with the lacquer thinner I got at Lowes recently. I use it for cleaning brushes and noticed it was acting "strange". Then I used it for thinning MM enamel for spraying last week and I noticed the solids in the paint were separating out and congealing and settling to the bottom of the jar. I stopped using it for anything immediately.

Thanks, Rick, I still have a bit more to do. She's gittin' there.

Oh I admire a woman that lights up a room like that. You're a lucky guy!

Mine came from Cedarhurst. The only fowl language from her is aimed at me 🥴.