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This is one of the best looking '40 I've seen in a long time. The paint finish and color are finished nice and smooth. The color and flams really work well with this body style. I like how you redid the chassis and suspension. This should be displayed on top of a mirror to show off the Chassis. Nice to see a Ford in a Ford.

Beautiful looking Mustang. The paint finish looks great and the detailing of the engine and chassis really look good also. I'm also a fan of the Tamiya TS-11 color.

Everyone should take a minute and read their insurance policies. Be sure you have "Uninsured Motorist" coverage. This will cover you if the other driver doesn't have insurance or is underinsured. In the fall of 1965 I took delivery of a new 1966 Impala SS. I lived in the mountains above San Bernardino California. The day I toke delivery at the dealership, that was at Sea Level, it was in the low 70 degrees. Living at over 3000 feet altitude the temperature was very different the next morning when I left for work. The temps were in the upper 20's and about 4 to 5 inches of fresh snow on the ground. I was pulling away from a stop sign when one of the workers at the gas station came roaring out onto the road. He had managed to clear a postage stamp size clearing on his windshield in order to see and since the truck had been parked outside all night he fell it was best to race the engine before he could keep it running and didn't want to wait a few minutes for the heater to defrost the windows. He never saw me until he hit the driver's side front bumper on the very end. The good news was that since the road was covered with snow and ice. The impact spun my new car around about 90 degrees and I feared the worst but the only real damage to my car was a scratched up front bumper that was now just slightly out of alignment. I made the clown pay the dealer to replace the bumper and the mounting brackets. He had no insurance and I didn't want my insurance rates to go up because I had a claim that wasn't my fault.

Very realistic looking. great paint and I like the heat discoloration on the exhaust.

Beautiful looking '40. Great paint work and the chassis and engine switch really makes this model standout. A funny thing about your colors, which I really like. I Have this same model built in the '70's and the color combination is just a couple of shades off from yours. The paint jobs of the time were often done in this manor as the style of the day. Mine never looked this good however.

Learn something new every day. The conversion on the rear section of the body is the most interesting to me. Rob Hall's picture sows just how much the rear would have been altered. I also would have left the stock front end just because it would look more like the more valuable car.

I see what your saying about the windshield. SFHESS also pointed out the possibility of a fiberglass body as well as the hood.

I don't recall the exact year that Ford went with the black engine color. The main appearance difference in appearance on the big block Fords had to do with the valve cover and air filter colors.

Ya that sounds like the name of the VW. I remembered this morning the show was Bitchen Rides from last week. You may be correct about the fiberglass reproduction body, I don't think anybody in their right mind would do that to a real one. I know the '40 front end was once a popular thing on normal type 1's.

What direction are you thinking on this build ?

The VW looks like a very rare model, I can't remember what they're called. I was watching a show last week that was in SoCal and everyone was getting excited over what looks like the same car but with a stock frontend. They made it sound like this is a very valuable car. You might want to check it out and see if this isn't something special. You may want to buy it and restore it, the program made it sound like it could be a profitable venture.

We live in a some what rural area with about 50 homes that are close together and we enjoy giving candy to all the local neighbors children. The problem is that we have, and I'm not exaggerating, trucks with open trailers bringing children and teenagers thru the neighborhood. The trucks have license tags from a neighboring county. We try and have a variety of candy bars but these kids are trying to egrab hands full out of the bowl. We've tried holding the bowel high enough that the little one can't but the biggest problem seems to be with the ones in their early teens that just lung at the bowl. What we have done for the last couple of years is to turn off the lights around 8 p.m. This way the local little ones get candy and the marauding hoards hopefully will stay away. These kids are running thru everyone's yards and flower beds and other plantings to go door to door. In the morning there is candy wrappers everywhere blowing around. They just don't have any manners anymore or respect for others property. Kind of takes the joy out of the whole thing.

That Blue is almost Black. Amazing what a little polishing will do for the finish, it really looks good now. Great looking interior. The detailing on the Carbs. is outstanding.

Thanks for the idea but the trim I have from the early Revell '56 Chevrolet trim is just as warped as the bodies and the lengths are wrong. Thankyou also for the thought. I may sound picky, and yes I am, but the body proportions are more like the early tri-fives that Snake mentioned than the newer '565 Chevy 210.

I still don't think they would do that if they were showing under water ballet or some other exciting sport like that.

I picked up an original AMT '66 Impala SS kit about 30 years ago thinking that it would never be reissued since that was not what the model companies were doing at the time. I paid a kings ransom for it at the time and then just never got around to building it. I still have it and enough Revell issues to last me the rest of my life. Now if you would be so kind as to find a '56 Bel Air tudoor post car I would be in your debt. I know that Revell offers the 210 tudoor post, but I need the Bel Air trim.

I like the way the color compliments the body lines here. The body actually looks cleaner without a big spoiler on the trunk. The wheels really fit this Mustang well.

Great looking build and I like the smooth bumpers.

Your build looks better than the box art. Great paint finish and as Snake45 mentioned, the decal cut lines at the door openings are an often overlooked touch. That's a lot of decal material to get laid down and straight.

Beautiful paint work and very clean looking moldings. You are correct about the basic kit. it is one of the best in my mind also.

I usually just use a couple of scrape pieces of wood on each side of the chassis. The wood will hold the vertical straight and measure the distance between the two pieces of wood in front and in back of the leading edge of the tires will give you the correct horizontal. This works even better when the front and rear track is the same as it's easier to measure the distances between the two pieces of wood. I happen to be using 1" x1" scrapes but I think just about any size will work. I just put a little glue on the spindles, set the wheels in place and leave the chassis and wheels in place between the wood blocks until the glue dries.

The original kit had a picture of a Lemonwood Yellow Impala SS on the box art. That particular color was very popular in the area I was living in starting with the '64 models. I had a friend that got one of the very first Chevelle SS's about a week before their general release. His car was the first Chevelle that the dealership had received and had the 220 hp 283 cu and 4 speed. That was the top engine option until the summer of '64 when Chevrolet started to offer a couple of 327 engines.

While having a very basic chassis the rest of the tooling is pretty nice. I don't recall if this kit included the side covers that covered the spark plugs. The 1:1 may have done away with this feature by that time, it was sort of a specific Buick feature and also a bad deal as the plug wires aged and they would start arcing to the covers.

You mentioned the windshield wipers and it sounded like you were unsure what you were going to do. I remember seeing any of these on the street back in the day and a few guys would have just the drivers wiper as it was required to license the vehicle, and used a small flat chrome cap to cover the hole for the passenger side wiper. Ford was in the thick of Drag Racing at the time and one guy told me it was an option from Ford, but I have my doubts on that. Most of these street cars had the 271 hp 289 cu engine and in even stock form these light weight little cars were very fast. I also like how you have built all of the inner structure in the trunk and trunk lid as well as the hood.

Finding a kit of this vintage that is unbuilt is amazing. I notice that several of the kit's box art in the background are also very old. Please post pictures of your build for all of us to enjoy.