Dan Hay

I've seen lots of 57 gassers with no grille at all, so you could leave it all off entirely and it would be period correct.

Ed not only puts out a great product, but communicates well. I'm a big fan and would not hesitate to do business with him again. Here are a couple builds with his products: The roadster just has his top but it inspired the whole build of the McGee Roadster. I still have a 32 5w body of his that I haven't started yet. The gasser has his beautifully cast halibrand wheels.

Great build and weathering!

Love those 62 Pontiacs! Here's one I built of the 62 Daytona winner:

Really cool!

This is an amazing build! Subscribed.

Maybe the seller's wife wants it out of the living room, and he's doing the old "price it too high so no one buys it trick"... "Honey, I'm trying to get rid of it but nobody will buy it!"

Thanks man! Yes, I know that the drop in the front will create some turning issues. I'm going to go with it for now and see how bad it is. If I hate it I can go down to a 550-16 in the front (has 600s on it now). I do know that the dropped axle king pin width is narrower than the stock one, so that might help suck the tires in a smidge. I would love the driving feel of radials but the bias plys looks so right on this, and they are fairly new so I'm going to stick with them for now. Thank you sir! We are having a good time.

My 39 Sedan, 65 Bug project, my daily driver 2000 GMC with 5/7 drop, and my dad's 38 Chevy that's been in the family since 1971.

Really nice, incredible detail, but that dude is drunk on that price. $5k, MAYBE, to someone that really wants it. He should just donate it to a museum, maybe the USS Arizona memorial in Hawaii. I'll bet you can buy a radio controlled battleship almost as big for half the price and go sailing!

Me and my oldest 2 kids drove the 39 600+ miles last weekend, from Fort Worth to OKC, participated in the Hot Rod Hundred Reliability Run out to Weatherford, Ok. Saw some sights along old RT 66 in Oklahoma, and then back to Texas. Ol car got 15 MPG and used 3 quarts of oil. Not too bad.

Killer! I assume that's an AMT body merged to a Revell 32 kit? What kind of mods did you have to do to make that work? And yes, tell us more about the wheels. I see knock-offs from the ZZ top eliminator or 40 pickup kit, but what are those wheels from?

I have a pair of these Duesenbergs built, and I must say these are very nice detailing additions!

Wow! I've seen the 1:1 version, and you nailed it!

Man that thing is cool and well-proportioned!

The culture of instant gratification.

Looking good! I should have done that treatment on the wheels to the Eliminator coupe I built. Looks much more like an authentic centerline finish.

Killer!

Good advice on Tamiya. They do have a wider variety and I'll probably get pretty close to the original. Close enough I don't have to repaint the interior or trunk to match.

Because I like the color that’s on it better, and I’d like to try to restore it the best I can to the way my da built it.

So here’s the story… my dad built these two Hubley Duesenbergs in the late 70’s as a gift to my grandfather. These two cars sat on my grandparents’ mantle for over 40 years. My dad passed away of cancer 15 years ago. My grandpa passed away 4 years ago, and these Duesenbergs came to me. Needless to say they mean a lot to me. Recently they crashed to the ground and were damaged. I have been restoring them with donor kits. I was able also to re glue the custom acrylic case my dad made for them. I finished the phaeton and am working on the town car. My problem is finding the matching tan color for the town car roof (it’s broken) . I know this is a long shot. But I think it’s a testors color. I know I’ve used this color before and thought it was model masters flat earth. But as you can see, I painted the convertible boot with flat earth and it is way off. Any ideas what the color might be?

That’s about what a dropped axle and a dropped rear spring will do to the stance. A 4” dropped axle is actually 2” over stock

So I'm itching to get this thing lower to the ground, but for personal reasons it's going to have to wait. So I've been tinkering with it. It had a bad off-idle stumble. The carb was filthy inside and out so I rebuilt it, and now it runs like a champ! Also the timing was way retarded. It has no timing marks so I advance it by ear and that really woke it up too. @Dennis LacyI think I will paint the brake drums black or gun metal gray at some point, but for now I picked up these 16" caps and I think I like them better than the exposed wide 5s for the moment... They'll work until I can lower it and decide what wheel/tire combo to go with. Blackwalls are definitely on the table, and if I do that, the wide 5s will come back out detailed. I already have the dropped rear spring, I just need a dropped axle for the front, and sway bars front and rear. Should drive a lot better.

It has new Lincoln brakes on the front and stops pretty good. I might just live with the wide 5's for a while, but I'll paint the drums black or gunmetal gray. But yeah, 40-48 wheels would be a lot better. I don't know much about it. The numbers on the block say it's a mid-80's 305. It might have a slightly bigger than stock cam, a little bit of rump on the idle. It runs good, has good vacuum and good oil pressure.

This just followed me home. Really solid car, zero rust, old paint job shines nice. Rare 40 Olds bumpers. SBC hooked to the 39 box and banjo. It has a dropped spring in front with stock spring in back and stock front axle. Plans are to lower it with a dropped axle and lowering spring in the rear. Also add front and rear sway bars so it doesn’t feel like it’s going to flip over in turns. Very reliable driver with some things that need tinkering. It’ll be a fun cruiser for me and the family. It came with AC that needs to be installed. It had full wheel covers that the PO kept, so I need to figure out a wheel solution. Probably paint the drums at least. Enjoy!