TarheelRick

The 40 Ford is also my favorite real car. I am 75 and the first kit I ever built was a AMT Trophy Series 40 Ford Coupe and I have not built a 40 Ford since. Now to your build, to put it simply - amazing. That color just grabs you those 5 spokes just scream "street rod". Absolutely beautiful.

I just bought one this past Sunday. I don't really care for the body, no offense to Carl Casper, but the chassis will work nicely for an early gas/coupe I have in plans. The engine and front-drive blower are fairly lackluster. Fair price for a good chassis, wheels, and tires. Forgot to mention the included show floor base, vampire, headless ghoul, and flying bat.

When you are looking 75 years old in the face, then you peruse the basement wall of shelves full of unbuilt kits, you finally realize it is time to do something about it. So you diligently search the forums for upcoming swapmeet/shows in your area, you pack four or five boxes of models, reserve a table and head off to reduce your stock. After returning home you are so pleased that one and a half of the boxes are empty and your inventory has decreased. BUT, then you realize four kits in one of the boxes were not there when you left the house and are indeed purchases you made at the swapmeet. So much for scaling back. I am addicted to polystyrene and am not actively seeking rehabilitation.

I have been building since 1959 and have enjoyed the polystyrene addiction immensely. That being said I do have three resin bodies waiting to be placed on styrene chassis and I have s selection of Texas 3D parts for my Revell VW, plus another selection of 3d engines waiting their turn to be implanted into their respective styrene kits. I have discovered it is more cost-efficient to buy a quality 3d printed Ford SOHC than to purchase one of the many kits with that particular engine. Many of those are bleak at best, plus there is the leftover incomplete kit with no engine. As said earlier "parts are parts". If I can find a steel front roll-pan for my Pinto - great, but if not I will settle for a fiberglass replica.

Those are some excellent paintings, each one tells its own story.

Attended the Mid-Carolina Swapmeet today, besides selling off several oddball kits that I would never build I brought these home.

Beautiful collection of Wood Brothers cars. Really like Tiny Lund's '63, that especially is the era I became engrossed in NASCAR (not so much now). All are beautiful, also like the Virginia Tech machine, one of the few Woods cars that is not red and white.

As the others have said this is a most excellent build, really love your choice of color. That seat is what caught my attention most, what did you use to cover it with? It looks so much like a 1:1 custom interior. Many thanks for sharing this one.

Beautiful build, really crisp decal work. I just recently acquired the Heller 1/43 scale version of this car, appears to be at least 95% complete.

Mark I really enjoy your tenacity working on this seat. It may not look like you want, but to me it does look a bit more comfortable than the stock one. Keep up the great detail work you do on all your builds.

I think one of the first things about TIG that impressed me most was no need to wear leather sleeves/jackets. You could weld in normal clothing. That being said I did learn very early on that it is not advisable to TIG weld for a couple of hours while wearing a short sleeve shirt. Major burn to the skin, but lesson learned.

Welcome to the forum from another Western NC resident. I live in the beautiful postal area called Hamptonville, about 30 miles west of Winston-Salem. Post some builds and let us see what you are doing.

Absolutely correct. When I graduated high-school (got kicked out is more accurate)I attended a local Technical School's welding course. It was an attempt to avoid the 'draft' as long as possible. The first quarter was spent exclusively on gas welding techniques, the remaining three quarters were divided equally with arc, MIG, and TIG. However, our instructor would occasionally sneak in a project which required gas-welding to complete. Overall I enjoyed TIG most, especially while welding in the USAF. One project that I enjoyed most was while I was stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. It was a civilian project involving building a flying replica of the original Wright-B flyer. They needed some brackets welded and I had the opportunity to do those. From my understanding the replica actually flew; not sure whatever happened to it.

Beautiful build of an iconic racer. I had a chance to talk with his daughter a few years back, very pleasant lady just as her dad was. Really like the "hauler" hanging off the front bumper.

They are also available in most of the AMT '56 Ford kits, and I think they may be in the AMT Double Dragster kit. https://ecsvr.com/cpr/shopexd.asp?id=227 Also found these in resin. Hope this helps.

I was referring to this kit, not the fenderless one.

Not sure which particular 'T' kit you are referring to, but the '23 T Roadster has a small block Chevy. The Switchers T Roadster appears to have some semblance of a Ford, at least the exhaust ports seem to match a Ford. The 'Double T' comes with what I believe is labeled as a Lincoln - it is the Ford family. The Revell T-bucket is also a small block Chevy. Unfortunately for us Blue Oval lovers the choice of a small block Ford in a hot rod will most likely depend upon the aftermarket - resin casters or 3D printers. There is a very nice rendition of the small block Ford available in the Revell '32 Ford Coupe kit.

Couple of really nice builds. Those should make for an interesting match race.

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If there had been any damage to the kit itself I would definitely have complained. Still may file an unfriendly review.

I have just acquired a set of the upper wheels, pm me with your trade offers.

UPS dropped off a package containing the results of an on-line auction I won, items were complete kits and parts. Complete kits include the Coke '34 Ford pickup, '59 Cadillac Eldorado, Cadillac STS V, Snapfast Petty Pontiac, and a 1/43 scale Heller Subura Impreza WRC. The other kit boxes are slot-car leftovers - no bodies or exterior chrome. The 69 Firebird does include the OHC in-line 6 (major score for me). The white box has a painted 50 Ford convertible that is restorable, the gray plastic bag appears to be a complete Camaro kit, the red plastic bag is a restorable '69 Corvair, and the GT-500 (1/32) is bits and pieces. Amazingly all the parts kits have the complete engines, wheels, and tires. Will be bagging some of the stuff up to take with me to the Salisbury Swapmeet in a couple of weeks, some I will be keeping. If anyone on here has any desire for some of this stuff, send me a pm. The '59 Caddy is mine, the OHC in-line 6 is mine, and I think I will be keeping the Corvair unless I get a pretty good offer.

In the past I have ordered paperback books and other small items from Amazon and they come in a huge box with the items wrapped in bubble wrap. Last week I ordered the AMT Groove Boss super-modified and it was shipped in a paper bag. There was no damage to the contents, but it is really frustrating. Makes me wonder how much they pay their shipping department.

Really well built truck, excellent weathering.

Unfortunately, I have no local hobby shops, only Hobby Lobby so I will have to peruse the internet for sales.