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Every superlative in the dictionary will be used multiple times to describe your outstanding creation. I have a feeling there will be a significant announcement regarding your Lola on May 7 !!

Very impressive. Beautiful wheel and tire !!

Another amazing Deuce. Looking forward to the next project from your workbench.

Really impressed with all the work you did to make this an outstanding custom.

Thanks Tim Awesome coverage of an awesome show. Love both the new and the historic and of course the model cars. Great seeing the Alexander Brothers, Roth and Barris builds

Going to be nice Woodie. Great work on the frame and suspension.

Fantastically attractive pro-touring Mustang

Fantastic color combination. Looks awesome.

Great story. Very cool first real car and the model is pretty nice too !!

Thanks guys. I took one more photo which I may as well post. It includes a model of another car Jake Williams built - his '49 Ford Cadillac V-12 powered custom completed in the early 1950's.

The engine I am using in my ’53 Ford Pro-Touring is the excellent Y-Block from the Revell ’57 Ford. I had to finish it first to establish its placement within the engine compartment and the location of motor mounts, radiator, cooling hoses etc. It now has a 5-speed transmission from the AMT Phantom Vickie, a Latham supercharger from the AMT ’25 Model T [which is something I have been wanting to use on something since the ’25 was first came out 60 years] and the generator was replaced with an alternator.

I am really enjoying your van build. Almost makes me want to finally start work on a replica of my old VW van. I have often thought I would build it like I wanted it to be back then but I appreciate how you are striving to make your model van like it really was.

Thanks guys - This was not the first model I built inspired by seeing the legendary custom after a long time. Back in about 2005 I was surprised to see at an outdoor car show that the car still existed. I was able to get Lincoln headlights and Packard taillights from Replicas and Miniatures but I did not find a 2-door on which to base a replica. I ended up building a tribute model inspired by the original custom based on a Fleetline body which I chopped, sectioned under the window line and pancaked the hood. Building this model led to two very pleasant encounters with people having direct connections to the custom. At a model car show in 2006 I met a fellow car modeller who has owned and preserved the car for 50 years. About ten years later after seeing my model at another model car show the gentleman who originally commissioned the custom introduced himself and asked me where I got the Lincoln headlights because he wanted to build a model himself of his old custom. I had an extra set of the headlights which I gave him for the spectacularly accurate model he eventually built. In the words of Paul Harvey - "and now you know the rest of the story" !!

Extremely attractive and well thought out. Love the color.

2i7 was just delivered to my mailbox in Victoria BC February 7. Looks like it was worth the wait !!

Thanks guys - I saw these cars originally at shows back in the early 1960's so it is great that they have been revived. They made a big impression on me then and now so I had to build models of them.

Thanks everybody. I have been on a Jack Williams building kick lately. This is the third replica model I have completed in the last six months of cars built by the late legendary Vancouver BC master engine builder and bodyman Jack Williams including his his Syndicate Scuderia dragster. If you liked the video about the '51 Chev, check out the video about his dragster - linked below.

This a replica of a ’51 Chev custom completed in the early 1960’s in Vancouver BC. It has been owned and preserved by the same guy the last half century and has recently been restored. It was a relatively straight forward build based on a resin trans-kit mastered and cast by Gerry Chevalier of Mini-Exotics fame. This model represents the second color and wheel combination for the car. The paint is Testor’s Colors by Boyd Orange Pearl Enamel. For more about the ’51 Chev - check out this video.

Thanks for taking and posting. Fabulous cars

Two great looking Galaxie racecars.

Well built. Very attractive.

I too was recently looking for two bladed knockoffs for a project and I found them in the Revell Roth's Tweedy Pie and later in the AMT formerly MPC 1960 Corvette. Both much better than the ones in the old XKE.

Your Coupe is looking fabulous. Brizio built a gold 36 chopped 3W a few years back for Jorge Zaragoza

WOW seems to be a popular response and I agree.

This going to be a '36 3W just like the one I'd like to build someday !!