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Beautiful realistic looking finishes and detailing. The longer I look at the pictures the more details you added can be seen.

I would go with the big & little wheel and tire setup. This would also help with the stance.

Thankyou Steve. I'm trying to build models of some of the cars and trucks I have owned in the past. Many are not available in kit form, I'm enjoying the reminiscing while building those with great memories behind them.

The engine you had done before looks well done and adding heater hoses and the radiator hoses should make it complete. These cars were a great low-cost car to own and insure as opposed to the Super Bees and Road Runners of the day. A thought on the chassis as you mentioned yours was undercoated. Try something on some scrape parts tree that I have tried. Your base body color and allow to dry. Next hold the part at arm's length and lightly sprits it with some flat black to get the desired effect. This also gives the appearance of a slightly dirty undercarriage depending on how much you spray it.

Like the body color and the chrome trim looks nice and cleanly done.

Great looking paint finish. Some of us of a certain age remember when we used to try and use every extra part in the box when we built these models. This would make a perfect "Box Art" build for the side of the box from that era.

Great looking color combination and finish. The body lines are so nice on these cars the trunk spoiler sort of breaks up the rear body lines of the car.

Great looking engine. Like that you removed the vinyl roof.

Great looking '50's color and finish. Like the interior. The kits provided hardtop is a '55 issue T-Bird roof with no side portholes. When these were new the 1on1 owners sometimes sought out a '55 roof not wanting the portholes since they didn't really offer much in the way of additional sight lines.

Great looking shade of blue and the decal stripes look cleanly done.

Like the long low look. The slightly lower rear ride height would seem accurate for a car with that Continental Kit hanging off the back bumper. The paint finish and chrome body trim look great and the interiors contrasting color looks good.

The Gull Wing Doors are a major undertaking. Like the later power train and the colors for the body and interior, and how you combined the split window body with the '67 style hood.

Nice color. I have an old Johan Lark like this that I picked up 30+ years ago and have threatened to redo it for years. I'll enjoy watching what you do with your build.

Good looking paint colors and finish. The chrome trim came out great.

Great looking color and finish. The decal almost covers the passenger door issue, most might not even notice if they hadn't followed your build.

I like the realistic looking body finish. Nice to see a Ford in a Ford. Like the chrome wheels.

Enjoyed watching your build on this. The paint finish looks super smooth especially considering the body work you had to do. Great looking trim and wheels.

Great looking paint work and the interior colors add to the look.

Beautiful looking color and finish. The chrome trim all looks cleanly done. Like the showroom look.

Great looking paint work and body trim. The wheels really change the overall look of your build.

Great looking GTO. While I didn't have a vinyl roof on any of my cars at the time, they sure were popular. As for the roof color, as you mentioned it could just as easily have been something added after the fact as that was a popular thing to do. Like the clean looking body trim and the stance. The wheels are very eye catching.

Great looking paint color and finish. Like the stance and hood scope.

Like the body color and the interior is in keeping with your tuner theme.

Thanks for sharing your pictures. I also like the wide variety of cars and the way they have been fixed up.

Sure pays to take good care of an Automobile. Many used to POPO these cars, but I would disagree. My wife's '12 Dodge Avenger RT was at 98K when we traded it on her '22 Jeep Cherokee Trail Hawk. The only repair in that time was a leaky A/C fitting that was at about 75K miles. Nothing but regular maintenance and one set of tires and brakes.