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This is great. Love the color and the stance. Tell you what, Send it to me and I'll stuff a big block under that hood. For a curb side, thats pretty darn cool!

Really nice '37. Those wheels look perfect on the car. The engine is very well done. I like the details you did. Well done.

Beautiful work! The interior fits so well. The paint and details look perfect. Great engine choice! Really fills up the engine bay.

Thanks Steve, The engine was a bit of a challenge. Getting the blower mount figured out was the hardest. Building the engine cover by far was the hardest part to build. The original plan was to stretch the body and frame to give more cabin space (leg room) but I only had 4 wks to get it done. Should have started sooner, my fault. I only have a couple sets of those glidden wheels and and am getting picky about where they are being used. This car just felt right. Still have a couple of the glidden kits in stock, But the shrink wrap is not coming off. Thanks Ken, I too believe it would be on the tough side to change plugs, but doable. Thank you David, The question when building a Model A anymore is "What can I do to separate this build from others?" It's allmost like reinventing the wheel. I think I gave myself some elbow room at least. Thanks Harry, All the chrome parts that were going to be used on the car were stripped and redone with Alclad Chrome, Polished Aluminum and Aluminum. The wheels are the only thing I left "Kit Chrome". Thanks len, This is something that was thought about. The original plan was to stretch the body and frame to give more leg room. Time was not on my side to get the car done to take to GSL. So ya, Its kinda "tight".

I'm using a Canon PowerShot SD1300 IS. I'v had this for along time, but it still takes a good photo. I finished this about 10 months ago, Just never posted a wip of it. Thank you for the comment. Thanks Bob, I appreciate you taking the time to look. Thanks David, it was quit the challenge.

This is a 4 week build I did to have something to put on the table at the final GSL. I had planned on a different powertrain but my idea just happen to be something another builder also had in mind(Mr Mark Weller). So i had to come up with another idea. Ended up building the roadster and kit bashing the Matt Hay pro street T-bird into it. This was rather challenging, being space limited, as the engine from the t-bird is no way just a drop in. But it is a ford. The engine and blower mounts were adapted to the frame and a trans mount was built and relocated. A dog house was built for the interior since more than half the engine was now in the passenger compartment. All the parts for the superchargers were thinned including the drive system trying to get as much room as I could. This really helped getting everything to fit. The front suspension was dropped a scale 5 inches or so by building a new crossmember mount so the radiator would remain in it's stock position. The front axle was also drilled and the drag link was modified to clear. At the rear, The four bar links from the t-bird were used and required new mounting points to the frame. The rear end was narrowed to pull the rear tires inboard to keep the same track width with the front. A drive shaft was also built. Tires came frome the parts box and the wheels were taken from th Bob Glidden Pro Stock kit. Brakes are drums all around. The bottom of the floor was smoothed by removing all the ribs. Then a exhaust system was built using the mufflers from the '66 nova ss kit and round tubing. The system was then alcad chromed. Alclad chrome, polished aluminum, and aluminum were used to finish all the parts for the engine and suspension along with the MCW Nassua Blue Metalic body color. The interior was done with light earth brown and the floor finished with embosing powder. The hurst quarter stick shifter and gauges were used from the t-bird. I added a little something to the front seat to give a little character. Was surprised I even got it done and is missing a few key components. Even so, It was a fun build. Thanks for looking.

Nice start on a great kit! Ya, I got kinda carried away with mine. I did build one oob, but did change the intake to a tunnel ram w/duel quads. Keep it up, Looks good.

My mom had one of these brand new in '69. It was diamond blue w/black vinyle top. Had the rear suicide doors. This thing looks awsome with the drop top. Ford should have done this. Looks way better than the hard top. Cool build!

I don't know what I like more, the dimmer switch or the seat belt retractors? Looking good!

The rear wheel backs were custom made using part of the original wheel that came with the tires. Just by luck, the '29 brake drum fits it perfectly. The body is mounted. All the suspension is installed. Exhaust finished up. Interior needs the steering column put in place with the wheel. Grill shell and headlamps. Windscreen. And of course some small details. This build went right down to the night before we were leaving for GSL. Only con on this build is I didn't give myself more time. I could have done all the details this car deserves to have. But it is what it is. Thats all I got. I'll work on getting some pics up of the finished car. Thanks for checking in and for the comments. Much appreciated.

Very nice! I love these cars. I built the black JPS kit. You did a great job on yours!

Black with dog dish hubcaps looks real good. Nice build!

I'v alway's wondered what putting clear on top of tamiya gray primer would look like. Bravo! Great work going on here.

Wow that bird turned out nice. So well done! So many cool touches.

Nice build you got going John. Sometimes when things don't work out, You end up in a better place. And I think thats what happened to your '65. That Willow Green Metallic looks perfect on it. Ya, It is a bummer about the Evening Orchid color not being correct, But I think your '65 came out ahead. I use MCW paints and have not experienced a problem like you did. I'v had paint that seemed like it was very thin after mixing and was having a problem covering. I was laying alot of paint down and the color was just not there. Had to back off on the ratio of the thinner compared to what I was always normally using with MCW enamal paints. Then the color came around. The last paint I sprayed had some small particals in it and had to be strained. Can you say Alot of sanding! I'v had excellent results with this paint, except for every now and then. It happen's.

Cool! That body looks good from here. As a matter of fact, everything looks good. Nice work!

Haven't seen one of those in quit awhile! Very nice build!

Very nice gasser! Your effort shows. Very tidy work!

Nice looking street rod! Paint looks great. Your photos you took are very good. Show's the car well.

Really nice '41! Perfect choice for the color. I like how you finished the front end keeping It looking smooth. Well done!

Very nice! Love these old hot rod kits

Beautiful build. This ghia is so well done that when I saw the first photo I thought it was a real 1:1 car! I'm sure there is a few other people on here that did the same thing. The engine looks incredible. The paint color is so attractive. Very nice!

Jim, Yes, MCW paints are airbrushed. As far as using any polishing compounds after the clear is applied, for me no. I probably could polish my paint jobs, but I'm happy with the way my paint jobs come out using MCW paints. So I don't see the need.

Everything managed to get painted with no hicups along the way. Time was running out fast and that would have been disasterous. The body ,frame, engine and a few other things were painted with MCW Nassau Blue and cleared with MCW gloss enamel. In the interior, the seat and door cards are painted testors light earth. The floor is going to be a tan colored embossing powder. A few extras have been addedto finish it off. In these photo's, the engine is almost complete and installed. Got the exhaust in place. All the parts were layed out and double checked before final assembly. I think I can explane how the front end was lowered using this picture. You'll notice were the front axle mounts, there are now 2 cross members. The bottom one is what is left of the original one that the radiator mounts too. Its important to keep this part of the frame to keep things in there stock position. The crossmember on top is a piece of sheet plastic mounted as high as I could get it. The square slot is for the locating block on the front spring. I also thinned down the spring and a new block was added back to the spring. The frame also required a notch cut out of the frame for the spring to pass through. I got this thing as low as possible in the front. Wish I had taken pics while doing this. In this photo, you can see the notch in frame for the front spring to pass through. All the parts that are not blue are painted with alclad finishes Next update is the last one. Thanks for looking.

Onto the exhaust, Found a couple mufflers in the parts box. They were cleaned up and drilled to accept a 3/32 evergreen tube that is being used to create the exhaust pipe with. Next the mufflers were figured on the chassis floor. Two holes were drilled through the muffler, placed back on the chassis floor and used to drill the holes to mount it to the floor. Next the mufflers were fitted with 1/16 evergreen rod. This method holds the muffler in place while the pipes are being made and fitted. When done, all the parts are removable so they can be painted. Makes the final install a piece of cake also. Thought I had pics of making the tailpipes. Unfortunately there are none. All the exhaust parts were cleaned up and will get some alclad applied. At this point the body got some primer and everything is headed to paint. more to come........