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Great looking Ford. I always liked this roof and body style. Beautiful looking paint and the vinyl roof looks good on this.

beautifully built. The color and paint are great and I like all the engine detailing also. I remember when they were building the 1:1 and I always thought it was a well laid out little car.

I remember having oil leaks from the push rod tubes. Found out later that the head bolts were working their way out of the engine case just enough that the tubes wouldn't seal. As I recall the case was trying to also part company with one another. I later just had a pro VW/Porsche only shop build an engine for my Baja Bug. That thing was a kick in the head after that.

A theory and only that. As a vehicle accelerates the fluids tend to stay put for a moment as the vehicle moves forward. The fluids will gather toward the rear of what ever part of the vehicle contains them. Crankcase oil will collect toward the rear of the engine giving a rear sump pickup an advantage of always having oil to pump thru the engine. A majority of drag cars have a rear mounted fuel tank today and looking at these tanks you will notice the rear of the tank usually has a slight modification with a low spot and inside the tank the fuel pickup is located in this area for the same reason fuel will be their to pump to the engine. A front mounted tank like the picture may offer a similar advantage since the fuel would tend to collect in the rear of the tank and in turn would have a shorter distance to travel to the engine and the force of the acceleration may even help with the transfer of fuel to the engine. This type of fuel tank in these classes of drag racing would generally hold little more than 5 gal. A theory, but also a possibility. This particular tank and it's being mounted in this manor may be just a prop to give an appearance. The size and general shape of the tank resembles fuel tanks I have seen used in drag boats. They would be mounted length wise and sometimes there would be one on each side of the boat.

Great looking Granada, I never knew this kit even existed .

That's his cooler maybe. A little large for a radiator over flow. Maybe it is his only gas tank.

I like how you're doing the interior. Peg board and tools look just right here.

Since the 1:1 hood on the Edsel opened in the same manor as the Ford can you modify the Ford kit hinges to work with the Edsel body ?

On the window issue, I have had good luck using thin clear plastic from packaging used for different products you might buy most anywhere. My favorite is the plastic used behind the top button and under the collar on men's dress shirts. This is used to make it hold it's shape. They will bend easily without creating a bend mark in the plastic.

Thanks Casey. I was already thinking along those lines when I get one. I could just grind off the fronts and redo the chrome also and that's they way I'm inclined to go rather than cannibalize the SS kit.

I like the finish on the engine and transmission, they look like they've earned their keep.

Since News Papers have turned into what they have become I sure miss Delbert. Who every wrote for this Comic Strip had to have worked in a large office somewhere. You couldn't just make up this stuff he wrote about. I used to read this and I could name several coworkers that could have been anyone of these caricatures.

I don't like the Bumper Guards either, but that isn't going to stop me from buying one of these.

I like how you redid the front end. The stance looks the way they were set at that time. The wheels look much like the Chev/GMC Rally' wheels also. Great idea for the front suspension.

Very nice body and paint work. I like the way you did the twin blowers on the engine.

Great looking Judge. I remember seeing many of these when they came out. Your paint finish and interior really look well done here.

Beautiful looking customs. I like the roofs, very radical looking.

I'm of an age that I think I would build the Alfred E. Newman figure just for old time sake. I used to read Mad Magazine but I had to hid it from my parents, they thought it was Communist Propaganda.

Your display trailer turned out perfectly.

Great looking interior. I also like how you did the wood trim. The instruments as look good.

Looks great, you're almost done.

Great looking build. I like the color also. Nice to see this one built as a street car.

Beautiful looking paint and detailing on this. The color looks perfect for this model.

Neat looking Surf Wagon. Maybe a Shark got the Arm ? Great idea on the Prosthetic, much better than trying to reproduce an Arm.

Great looking build. I remember when these first came out, and the first one on the street that I saw looked exactly like your build in every way. Clean looking trim and paint. Are those tail lights from the kit ?