Richard Bartrop

I think it could work, expecially if you play up the whole retro experience. Encourage people to dress in period costume, and get some classic rock and country bands to play before the actual race.

They were right, it just took a little longer. As a kid, one of my favourite things about Dad's Toronado, aside from the futuristic styling, was that flat floor. The back seat was practically like a living room.

I was going to bring up the Toyota MR2, but I'm not even sure they make anything like that now. In any case, on paper, the C8 looks like it's going to offer a whole lot of bang for the buck.

Everyone has a favourite, but I like Humbrol for the range of shades, and because they have semigloss as well as flat finishes. I like building a lot of old stuff, and the Humbrol colours seem to be the closest match, and that applies to their gloss finishes as well. They hav ea maroon and a dark blue that are just about bang on for what Ford was using in the '30s and '40s. That said, I'll use Model Master and Tamiya paint if what they have is closer to what I want.

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/04/12/new-hellephant-powered-hemi-under-glass-challenger-to-debut-in-2020/ So, not quite so much glass as the first one. I thought that was pretty neat that FCA will sell you an engine good for 1000 hp right out of the box.

I'm looking at the frame of a Revell '40 Ford right now, and I'm going to say, it looks really close. The centre of the '40 crossmember looks a little wider, but not too bad. The Revell '48 Ford rear axle looks fairly close, and is stock, as compared to the two speed axle on the '40.

Oh, there are American cars that would stump people. The obscure ones are fun because even if you don't get it, you learn something. Your automotive knowledge has been expanded, and that's a good thing, isn't it?

Most curved auto glass is only curved in one direction, so depending on what you're trying to do, you could just cut your windshield out of thin, clear plastic.

Neat. Worth getting just for the "What is it?" factor.

No problem. They also did an interesting analysis on the origins of German racing silver. https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/06/04/so-that-story-youve-heard-about-how-silver-became-germanys-national-racing-color-not-really-true/

Still better looking than a rat rod, though.

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/09/25/what-no-polka-dots-the-expected-and-the-unexpected-among-international-racing-colors/

According to this, you haven't lived until you've gotten yourself a pair of tapered slacks and a small French sedan. From Jalopnik

BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, now you guys have got me wanting to hunt down an Arc-en-Ciel.

Which shows just how overrated "unique" really is.

And some fakes look better than the real thing. Continental Mk II fake spare vs the real spare of a "continental kit"

Le Mans is pretty much my ideal racing film. Two hours of hot cars going fast, with the plot and character exposition kept to an absolute minimum.

I guess some people just hate beauty, and feel compelled to destroy it. Or someone trying way too hard to show how daring and unconventional they are.

More vintage fakery. This 1929 Dupont had a flathead straight eight, with a cover to make it look like a OHV.

The '41 Lincoln chassis had the same general layout as all the other Ford products, so if you don't feel like hunting down a Monogram Continental for the running gear., I would venture that Revell's very nice '40 and '48 Ford kits would get you pretty close, though you'd stillneed a V-12 from another source.

I....actually like it. Unlike a lot of retro fakery, it all actually looks like it's supposed to be there. I suppose it helps a lot that it's all on a car that itself is a big fake. Bascially a Neon trying to pretend it's a 1940 ford.

Fake wood in Lincolns has been a thing for quite a while, as this 1941 Lincoln Continental shows.

Apparently, the process was iintroduced by National Cash Register in 1918 for their products. Before the carmakers used fake wood on the outside, which is a postward trend, they were using metal painted wood for interior trim like dashboards before the war.

Whitewall tires were as early casualty of the US entry into WW2, so fake whitewalls were offered which were painted metal. Here's a 1942 Chrysler Town and Country with a set, and the painted trim that was used as chromium was rationed For some reason, people will stick a set of these fake whitewalls over a set of real whitewalls.

That's a '41. Here's a '42 Lincoln As was mentioned before, there were no 43-45 Lincolns. People do make mistakes, so be careful about taking photo captions at face value.