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Like the color and finish on the Futura. Always liked it much better than the Batmobile version.

This build looks great, and this was a very nice kit for its day. People popo'd the headlights some of the taillight trim, but with a little extra detailing it still looks great even today.

The paint color and finish look great. The trim is cleanly done. Like the way you did the chassis and engine details.

Like the clean looking body and the interior color.

I share your interest in the year models of Fords you mentioned. As a young child I went with my father to pick up our families new '49 Ford Custom 4 door. Later in life I owned and enjoyed a few different body styles of '49 thru '51 Fords. The three basic kits mentioned by TarHeelRick would be the best starting point. The old AMT '50 Ford kit was offered and reissued several times as a convertible with a couple of hard top options in standard height as well as a chopped top version. The '53 Ford kit originally from JoHan and now round2 has been offered as a hardtop and a convertible body style. The resin models from several different places offer a range of options and with a little searching around you should be able to find something you might want to build. As far as recommendations go I have built a few and have been pleased with the bodies from Star Models and Steve Kohler is great to deal with and has always been very helpful in finding what I was after. Star Models offers a two-door sedan '49-'51 body that can be completed with either of the AMT '49 or '50 Ford kits. This body style has the Custom body trim and an additional version with the Crestliner body trim. He also offers a '51 2-door sedan which is a model like one of my own personal cars and I hope to build it this next year. Another option, and an included picture of the finished model, is a roof top conversion to make a 2-door sedan using the lower body from the '50 convertible or the '49 short roof coupe kit. There are others out there, but these are the only ones that I have had a chance to work with. Hope this helps you find what you're looking for.

I have never understood why someone hasn't redone the '68 Impala.

Beautiful looking paint finish and color. The chopped top looks good. Like the added side spare mount.

The body looks great with the clean white paint. Clean looking trim.

A lot of great looking builds. Like the clean building style.

Great looking paint finishes and realistic looking interior panels and seat. Like all the mechanical detailing you have done.

Beautiful looking color and paint finish. Great looking engine detailing and wiring. The interior compliments the body color well. The window issues you mention is something I also encountered on the one I built. I was able to make the kit glass work ok with some sanding around the edges, but the windows are on the delicate side.

I have only built a hand full of resin bodies in the past, but a couple of things to consider. Cleaning of the body or part is most important as others have mentioned. Try doing any of your grinding and sanding away from your normal work area. The dust from the resin can and will contaminate anything it lands on and make paint adhesion an issue in some cases. I suggest wearing some sort of mask for breathing as you don't want to be breathing any of the dust from the resin. Use an automotive type of paint primer on the resin body. Most of the model type paints don't tend to adhere as well to the resin bodies and this goes for the model type primers as well. Any scribing of body lines as well as body trim and window moldings are best done before you get into the primer of the body.

Beautiful looking paint work, especially with what all you had to go thru to get there. Trim all looks nice and cleanly done and the engine looks great. I like the Chevy Rally Wheels.

Amazing to see what some people can accomplish with so little to work with sometimes.

Have you ever mentioned this problem to the Postmaster at your Post Office? Should they express an interest you could share your ring camara video. If not, then maybe the local TV News guy that always cover customer complaints might be interested. Not to be a complainer, but if the problem is never brought to the attention of whoever might have control over the postal delivery it will never stop.

Great looking finishes and the color combination shows the body lines as well. This was one of the super luxury cars of its day.

I agree with everyone else, this is a beautiful tow rig for a weekend outing at the drags. The paint finish and the body trim on the wagon are a real standout. The trailer has a good realistic finish on it. The chopped top T coupe looks great and cleanly detailed as well.

Great looking colors and layout.

One of the reasons I, and it seems others as well, have them left over is that I never cared for them. Your question about installing them when the model is complete, yes you can. They would rarely hold a hood or trunk down straight or flat anyway. Should holding the movable body panels in place be a priority you might consider small magnets glued to the body and the hood or trunk. Like your Corvette.

Great looking paint finish.

This one looks like it is still riding on a stock wheelbase VW chassis, about the only way you can get a back seat for anything beyond a cooler.

You may want to contact the group that is holding the contest for any clarification of the rules. They may even have the rules posted on their web site if they have one. Your concern about the existing factory style exhaust and the addition of the kit's headers, many Drag Racing sanctioning bodies do or did require some sort of a "street exhaust" system be present in the stock classes.

There are times when it may be easier to create replacement clear windows rather than trying to thin out what the kit provides. Evergreen Scale Models is one supplier that offers sheet styrene that can be used. They have .010 x 6" x 12' sheets in clear as well as tinted colors. The material has just enough rigidity that it can be bent slightly to match the curve of a windshield or back glass without showing a bend line and stays in place with just a touch of clear glue and remain unseen.

That was a somewhat normal add on back then. The fuel filler hoses in use then didn't have any type of rubber covering as you see today. The metal filler would brush against the body scratching the paint. This looks like one of the dealer available add ons, but PEP Boys and J.C. Whittney were common suppliers of this sort of trim.

We went to see The Hold Overs yesterday. Great movie set in the Christmas Holidays of 1970 and 1971 in an upper New York boy's school. Lots of great dialog and acting. The story line will give you plenty of laughter as well as a tear or two along the way.