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Well that's creative! I love it. I'm so glad there are people out there with both vision and fabrication skills. Can't wait to hear and see it moving under its own power. It would make a totally nutso drift truck if they could get the weight distribution and steering/suspension geometry right. It has the look!

Here's one taken from a squatting position

Love that car! Here's my bare metal '30. It's Mr. Metal Color "stainless" daubed over grey Plasticote primer and then buffed with a cloth, and Mr. Metal Color "Aluminum" dry-buffed onto the edges of protruding details to highlight them. A hint of copper rub n' buff was buffed onto a couple patches on the lower body to hint at returning corrosion. "Can O' Worms" has a more aggressively stitched-together appearance, but I think you could achieve that look with a slightly textured base coat and metalizer paints like Testors Metalizer or Mr. Metal Color buffed onto it.

Hey Craig-- "Will not fit a stock '50 Olds" was a slightly tongue-in-cheek comment meaning that the lake pipes won't fit in the engine bay of a stock '50 Olds car. Lol. It's confusing though, isn't it...I'll remove that note. I currently have an order incoming that includes those headers. I have my fingers crossed that my measurements and design were correctly executed.

I noticed that too. I hate running fuel lines, oil lines etc etc, so just dumping them into the frame is a compromise that appeals to me.

Very cool! I like the changes--the chop looks much better now, and I dig the QC and engine kitbashing. Nice remote oil filter too:D

Beautiful work! This project is one of my favorite scale '30 coupes, ever. Those roof bows look killer!

Glad to see this one back again Spectacular stuff.

This is such an ambitious project; looks like things are going well

Awesome stuff. I like the early silver and "44" builds, and the orange one the most, also the scalloped coupe with wooden roof bows. Love the 4-banger too; those shotgun side pipes are neat and the Edmunds air cleaners are beautiful pieces, really set the car off. The transplanted stock-style (Monogram?) firewalls are so much better than the kit-provided items! Thanks for the link, it was about time for me to go back and get inspired by some Boyd projects again Is Norm Veber offering his '30 coupe in resin again, now that the Revell kit is in limbo? I'd heard that it was discontinued.

Very nicely done! I like the color; it's kind of somewhere between Salmon and Persimmon.

Oh wow. Jaw-dropping, still. Just watching it makes me feel like a cartoon peasant, hat-in-hand and stupified. I love the way it sounds, too.

Pshh, you should hear me mow the lawn. Just kidding--it was the engine note at idle that really got me. I always imagine cars like that at full song, as heard in the rally video. Either that, or almost silent like an electric future-pod.

It's always cool to see the lengths to which engineers and builders can be driven by necessity. Talk about thinking outside of the box! Looking forward to watching this project.

When you're late for the ball and can't find your glass slippers, but the event is only a quarter mile away.... Love this so far, can't wait to see where it goes!

Well how 'bout that! It's looking very cool. The grille suits the body well. A note: That grille originates from the 3D printed item I sell on Shapeways. So if anyone wants a modified version (wider, narrower, taller, deeper etc) just PM me and I can look into making it available!

I was going to post the same car on a different thread yesterday. It's from a time when the future was supposed to look like a Syd Mead illustration. Love it. *edit* I'm a little taken aback by that lawn-tractor engine note. Haha!

Me too. Glad to have the forum back!

I'm building a 'vette custom right now that was going to have a fragile roof, so I reinforced the roof with wire and JB weld, tied it into the B pillars, kind of a cantilever brace. That allowed me to leave the A pillars alone without worrying too much about snapping them, or warping the roof. Maybe a similar technique would work for your project. The only thing I'd do differently a second time 'round would be to pound the wire flat so it would have a lower profile, which would allow a headliner panel to fit and cover it up.

I'm always impressed when I really LOOK at '30-34 Fords. Panels that look flat--but aren't. Every curve balanced against its neighbors. Every plane and line resolved. That balance is key to a great design. Some of the modern designs that look like they dropped hot n' steaming from one of Michael Bay's Transformers....are actually very nicely resolved. Then the question becomes "just because they could...should they have?" It might be cool to design a car that looks like a freeze-frame depiction of exploding origami at 1000mph, but when every car looks like that (or the sad, bloated middle-aged commuter version) then maybe it's time for the next trend. And trends are of course a huge part of what makes some of the previously posted cars "ugly" in our eyes. They were speaking the language of their time, but the conversation has shifted. Any bold design will always be polarizing. The creators of those "ugly" cars went out on a limb and did something, rather than just talking about it. And now we get to enjoy (complaining about?) the fruits of their labor. Either way it's fun I've always thought the Ghia-bodied Chrysler concept cars were some of the most tasteful of the '50s (and clearly the inspiration for the Chrysler 300. I'll take the old one, thanks!)

Looks mean!

Spectacular! My first thought was "I'll be impressed if he manages to get it to look just like the reference photo"...then I realized I was looking at the model. Wow, haha. Very clean work, and the 3D printed wheels look fantastic. Great under-hood detailing too. Trans Ams aren't really my thing, but a beautifully built model of a Trans Am definitely is!

Sweet! That corner-hinged trunk sure is different. I have a project right now that could use something similar, hmm... The Riv definitely has that Pro-Street 80s/90s monochrome smoothie look, too bad there aren't more photos! I'd love to see more of the details. I guess you'll just have to build another one!

Flojoles refritos are my fave! Ace--I knew you'd chime in Your design is thoroughly inoffensive. I'm in no position to judge its originality, of course! But hmmm...it could use a little somethin', a little flavor. Spicy Flojoles. A little nudge here and a tug there.... There ya go: (I know I'm getting off-topic, but the Colani creation above is pretty Olde now too)

Very classy! I love the paint, tires, and general sharp presentation but the real cherry on top is those old-chrome wheels. They're just right!