Brudda

Media blasted oil pan , intake, and timing cover, mocking up the engine.,drilled holes. Still need drill more. There are clearance problems for the hood( bonnet) to fit at the end of the build. So I’m modifying the carbs,stacks, turkey pan and motor mounts to give me around 3 mm of clearance. To try to go back and fix this after you have built it is just about impossible to do without redoing everything. The color is always different with each build out there. I’m trying to make it as real as possible. If you look at the actual picture of number 11 cobra, it has red plug wires, grey valve covers and a white turkey pan. This is right before the 1965 Daytona 24 hour race. The battery is not a autolite battery. I need my buddy Marks cobra Daytona book to get the full history.

Beautiful

Cool very cool!

To me, a restore is harder than building from a fresh start. Great job on the build and great job on the restoration.

Hello, here is the start of my repairs. Metal finishing aluminum. Was side swiped. Door next..

Revell should hire you to do some models like this for advertising. Before and after. Great job and great idea

The studio is at it again. Great job sir!

I am now the NART repair guy on the west coast. This was crashed in Las Vegas during the F1 event. Some how a guy who knows a guy came over and I repaired a part on a racing Ferrari. Somehow they looked me up on certifications. I have carbon fiber certs, smc certs, aluminum repair and welding certs. BMW, Mercedes, Ford GT certs. That was passed on to Bobby the head of Ferrari racing department and now I repair these. Well maybe not that simple but here I am. Not modeling so much as these guys wreck these thing like crazy.

My next project.

Ahhh yes I looked at the cowl area were the body to the firewall and it looks like glass. Boy this one you have to look at closely. Great eye ACE. I must be losing it working on these things lately. New race Ferraris.

Good catch. I did not see that. It’s glass. The real ones are tubes with an aluminum skin. Good catch ace

Looks real to me. But need to ask a lot of questions. The Shelby American Club by Rick Kopec will have the info if it’s real or not. The thing that throws me off is the csx number on the dash. Some of the totaled cars are being recreated. By serial number alone. I worked on these cars and it looks real from the pics. I remember high performance motors in LA. La Brea. CA. And Shelby himself had all of the parts needed to make your mustang into a GT 350. He advertised the store because he was partnered with another. It was hard to tell some mustangs from GT 350’s. The serial number was the only thing that was different on good copies. ERA had a good copy of the 427 cobra a while back. Now there are kirkhams and even Shelby American has aluminum bodied cars. But the patina and what looks like aluminum’s doors , dual low riser manifold, open lettered valve covers. Seems like an original from the pics.

Porsche is flipping out ! LOL

Hello Claude. Well the Porsche is on hold. Because of this……

Another beauty from the Studio

Very nice, Rodders Journal material

Very nice

You will like this Sam. Never used. And 69 cents.

I was never into big personal luxury cars. Ever. But I remember in my younger days looking at this Lincoln Mark 1 and thinking it was too big but I liked the style of it. I now am much older and understand ride and comfort. It’s weird , but I called someone in Florida on a 1995 eldorado. I worked on those things and did like the styling. So I called , 16,000 mile car, blue, and for around $18,000. Missed it by a day but would have never called on that car 30 years ago. Yes, I guess our tastes change over time.

Hello Greg , and thank you guys. The scale is 1/12. The old tamiya kit with some model factory hiro parts added.

Trunk monkey is the best

Hello Paul. Are you having clearance problems with the front hood clearing the engine? I had a chat with Chris Smith and he told me there was an interference issue with the front end with the engine. I’m also starting one and had this warning. I’m lucky because the problem starts with the very first assembly of the engine. Motor mounts with the frame etc. if there is interference, by how much? And how are you going to fix the issue. MFH kits are a pain with fit problems.

This is cool! My uncle worked as the service manager at Beverly Hills Lincoln Mercury. He ordered a that looked just like this. 428 cobra jet engine. Not a lot built. White with the wood grail with red interior. He also ordered a 427 cobra but that’s another story. She was going to trade it in on an economical car. A BMW. She thought the bmw was an economic car because it did over 10 mpg. The dealer was giving her $2500 as a trade in. Good thing she asked if me if thus was a good deal. I stopped the deal. Contacted Craig Jackson about the car. He flew out to LA and offered $30,000 for the car. We took it. My aunt was happy. Bought the BMW and she was happy. This was around 20 years ago. Now the rest of the story. My uncle tried to buy every old motel that was on the coast of California. My aunt and uncle ate beans for a long time. He must of had 30 of them. He passed away and did not get to enjoy the rewards. My aunt was the beneficiary of all that. 25 years ago holiday inn bought one property for $15,000,000. The rest is history. My aunt was so protected by my uncle that she did not even know how to pay the bills. So anyway she had no problem with money. I have helped with her so much that she wants to put me in the will. I said all I want is that little British/ American sports car in the wherehouse.

Only built 3 . But they were fun.

I hope he and his family will be ok.