Phildaupho

Iconic. Great job on painted stripes. They really enhance the look.

I like both of your Cobras very much but this "polished" one has the ultimate WOW factor.

Really nice to see a 300SL build especially a roadster. Great looking model of a great looking car. I have had this kit along with every Gullwing kit available for years. It is about time I built one. Canada's new Prime Minister has a 300SL roadster he inherited from his father. It was restored here in Victoria by one of the top 300SL restorers whose shop I have visited so I have few excuses.

You did a real fine job on your 29 and I really like the flipper hubcaps

Very well done return to the hobby. Welcome back!!

Looking very attractive. One of the first and in my opinion one of the best looking super cars. I especially like the higher rear winged TWR racing version.

That soft top is going to be awesome!!

Good looking blown flathead. I especially like the curvey water pipes.

I like both sets of wheels but I love the scallops!!

Superb model. Excellent custom. Very well done in all respects,.

Very attractive. Great paint job. Your very well done build makes me very impressed with this new kit.

George had a great life. I first got to know him through the pages of Rod & Custom and especially liked the interview with him and Big Daddy Roth. I saw him at a number of car shows over the last few years and he always seemed to be enjoying himself. He was a pioneer although at times he could also be very controversial. I hope the Drag-u-la is brought out for his funeral which will surely attract the whose who of the car hobby world. RIP

George had a great life. I first got to know him through the pages of Rod & Custom and especially liked the interview with him and Big Daddy Roth. I saw him at a number of car shows over the last few years and he always seemed to be enjoying himself. He was a pioneer although at times he could also be very controversial. I hope the Drag-u-la is brought out for his funeral which will surely attract the whose who of the car hobby world. RIP

I will be away from the workbench for a couple of weeks so was anxious to see how the stance and engine location was going to look. Components are just held together with tape and silly putty. The overall ride height and stance were established by mounting of the front suspension. I did lower the front spring closer to the axle and trimmed down the springs leafs. I also think I achieved a lower front stance by using the front frame section from the Revell Deuce kit. The rear may come up a bit once I install the Model-A rear cross member and transverse spring but I do have a quickchange assembly fabricated and widened from the AMT ’25 T kit. It is also now obvious that the sectioning of the Deuce grill shell was required. The engine can sit a little lower so the air cleaner will fit under the hood.

I have been tempted to try to adapt a C5 chassis for street rod use as I always thought it was possible. You have proven it to be true.

Very different look which rather than being out of the box it shows styling "outside the box"!!

Beautiful Deuce which makes me want to watch the movie again.

I really like the original version but there is not much cooler than a channeled hot-rod.

Agree that windshield really goes well with the wheels and steering arrangement. It is going to be a very handsome 29.

Nice project. 57 Fords make great looking Gassers although not as often seen. I know exactly what you mean by the hump preceding the grunt work !!

Thanks guys. I found this quote by Dan Gurney – “It's a black-and-white blowup pulled from a 1950 snapshot, and that's me in the 10-gallon hat. I'm 19. With Skip Hudson, Ray Torres and Teddy Bear. It's just past midnight outside Ruby's Drive-In at Riverside, and we're headed for Utah and the Bonneville Salt Flats.That car we're grinning over is our Bonneville Express. It was a '29 "A" roadster on '32 rails with a flathead V-8. We took turns on the salt and ran 130.43 m.p.h. in that old car. I've still got the brass dash plate to prove it.”

Looking forward to seeing this under glass.

This is harder than I thought it would be and has certainly given me an even greater appreciation for what pioneer hot-rodders were able to achieve. Although I had intended from the start to use the front section from a Revell Deuce kit frame, I did not expect to use as long a length as I did. It seems to me that the Deuce frame in the ’29 kit sweeps up much more than the Deuce kit frame. Because the objective is to fit a flathead under a hood, finding clearance for the engine was imperative. I ended up joining the two Deuce frames just aft of the curve of the side reveal. I cut the Deuce kit flathead engine mount receptacles as short as possible as well as trimming the mounts on the engine front cover so they can penetrate the receptacles as deep as required. More trimming of the intake manifold, carbs, air cleaners and hood thickness may be required to get everything to fit. The ’29 kit rear engine mount/cross-member was modified and relocated. The proportions of the model do not seem to be replicating the real car as expected. To me it does not appear that the Deuce grill shell on the real car was sectioned but still had lots of ground clearance. I will not really know until the stance is established but for now the model grill shell has been sectioned a scale 4 inches. With the grill shell temporarily in position I was able to construct a hood lengthened made from 2 AMT ’29 hoods. Parts box louvers were then cut into the new hood. The louvered sides are from a Revell Deuce kit. I am also using a Deuce gauge arrangement. The next job will be installing the quick-change, rear suspension and getting the stance right.

This is definitely going to be a very nice model but I have to admit the 62 Ford was never one of my favorites since my dad traded a 57 Olds Super 88 for a new beige 4-door 62 Galaxie 500. Once I got my drivers license I actually preferred to borrow the family Peugeot 403 to cruise the hamburger drive in. But with the passage of 53 years a 62 Ford is looking pretty cool to me!!!

Love it. Been wanting to build one of these for years. You did a great job.