Calb56

I thought it was ingenious. Coming up with ideas using other mediums is great! Bad dexterity and poor eyesight here!

Love the blue, when I was growing up my dad had a 64 Skylark about that color.

That looks great. Top from Drag City?

This is looking great. I re-read your post about the engine, using snaps for the pullys was an ingenious touch.

I love the Revell 32 rails and that the floor boards are separate. I can even deal with the suspension issues...though why the new roadster seems to go back to the rear suspension bagged I'll never understand. But to backdating the chassis what Plastistruct/ Evergreen can you use to build new crossmembers? A how to? I can't afford buying 40 Standard coupes every time I want to do a 50s or 60s style 32. Thank you. Charles

Thank you sir! I'm looking forward to getting this for some of the parts. Kinda bummed that their aren't more options... Charles

https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/on-the-road/wcm/edf47dcb-c093-4224-9f3e-568964dc9bcf/amp/ Maybe this works?

I saw those! Those were put out by a guy doing business under "Gasser Models". Found reference to him here in a post several years back. When you get ahold of your friend, ask about Mark Brown for me...

Anyone able to post the instruction sheet? Thanks!!!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/driving.ca/auto-news/news/on-the-road/wcm/edf47dcb-c093-4224-9f3e-568964dc9bcf/amp/

Exactly, no easy answer. I do love that, with the track nose, great job making the hood...

They weren't just Bonneville decals but a few years mixed with speed equipment decals from the 50s and 60s. I don't remember the manufacturer but I had bought them from the same vendor off Ebay, unfortunately I don't have access to the ebay account that I had over a decade ago and someone from Straight Line Modeler had turned me on to them. Again, unfortunately Straight Line Modeler is just on Facebook these days and I refuse to do Facebook.

Exactly why I was wondering about the correct chop. Seems like 4" might work best.

Exactly what I'm attempting to do, just in a scale that I can afford. I know it's "just" plastic and therefore it's "close enough for rock 'n' roll" but I am somewhat ADD and though I can't justify counting every single bolt, I so want my builds to be realistic as if they were 1:1... whether I'm looking at another Era or if I'm just doing a contemporary Traditional build. That's just me. Crazy as my wife will tell you. Charles

Doing a lil more research, a 29 Ford grill shell is either 27.5" or 29" in height and a 32 Ford grill shell is 32" in height. So anywhere from the 2" chop to 6" chop would work depending on how I place the grill. Never an easy answer.

Hi-boy, I thought I saw a 2" chopped grill, I'm working on an order for RMoM, guess it's getting bigger now.

That's maybe the 40 LaSalle grill and not the 38?

LaSalle grill? I love those on custom 36's.

To use a 32 grill with this, what amount of "chop" would be necessary if you didn't want to just lower the grill up front? I know Model Car Garage has both 4" and 6" available. Thanks Charles

Looking forward to this, a great project! Loved Stumptown, yep, mostly filmed in LA, some shots in Portland to set it around some iconic images...canceled because of Covid, dumb, other shows continued. Did this get finished?

Exactly, the event decals. https://www.mooneyesusa.com/Nostalgic-Auto-Hot-Rod-Racing-Stickers-Decals-s/94.htm

Found the wip post on this. Very cool, still loving it. Quick question, where did you source the seats from? Charles

Okay, found an old thread about "Gasser Models" from 2015 who the image I posted was from but evidently he's no longer around. I still cannot remember who made the initial decal sheets I was remembering. Slixx has a few that are close but the majority are more late 60s thru early 70s. Still, after several weeks of Google searches I cannot find ANY Bonneville Salt Flats/ Speed Week decals in 1/25. Though Mooneyes has them available in 1:1 and if I could afford models in that scale... I don't have a printer to do my own decals, so any leads on someone who can help? I can't believe I'm the only one interested in this topic. Charles