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Great looking paint color and finish. Like the engine and chassis detailing.

Beautiful paint finish and trim. Like the wheel treatment.

Excellent body work. The different components all flow together smoothly and complement one another. Great paint work as well. Really captures the style of the time.

I guess the beauty is in the eye of the beholder on this sort of style. Looks too busy to me and doesn't really add to the overall appearance.

Structurally this maybe a better way to do the hood scoop.

Perfect stance and the big & little tires look good.

The hardtop you're thinking of was an option, along with a chopped version, in the original AMT '50 Ford Convertible kit.

A friend of mine had one of these in the '60's. I think Pontiac offered these from around '49 thru '52. The engine in my friends was the straight eight until he got the Cadillac engine from a local retired Ambulance.

Great looking color, maybe a repaint?

Another source for the Moon Wheel disks from long ago. The dashboard pull knobs on '58 to '61 Fords had a shiny aluminum center that when removed and flipped over fit perfectly into the stock wheels in the old AMT kits of that time period.

The more times I see the picture of this car the more I think someone is pulling our chain so to speak.

great looking finishes.

The paint color and finish look great against the interior and tail stripe color.

Great looking paint colors and finish. Learned a lot watching your door operations on this. The interior colors go well with the body. The engine detailing is really well done as is the chassis. Like the stance and wheels.

Great looking detailing throughout. The colors look era correct and the metallic looks to scale in the finish.

Beautiful Black paint work, you can even see the clouds reflecting on the finish. The white tail stripe and interior look great. Like the showroom style build.

Beautiful looking builds, especially the colors. Sort of a His & Hers combination. The engine details are very realistic looking.

Great looking wood grain, I like your maroon body color here.

The owner ran out of monie before he could get something to hang of the rear-view mirror. Anyone else remember shrunken heads or fuzzy dice?

There are several '51 ford resin bodies from more than one caster out there. The bonus, at least to me, is that they are of the tudoor sedan for the most part.

I have polished unpainted plastic bodies maybe three or four so far. As Steven Guthmiller mentioned you can lightly sand away the molding lines using a very fine sanding pad and then use a polishing media. My go to is the Mcquire's Plastic polish that they offer primarily for polishing plastic lenses and taillights. This stuff is even great if you have a plexiglass boat or motorcycle windshield that is scratched as well.

Would a light coat of Clear Green help tone down the metallic appearance?

When the big push from Detroit to go with the dual headlights on the '57-year model cars the problem was that a few states didn't allow dual headlights on vehicles sold in their states. The reasons may be forgotten in time. What Ford Motor Company as well as Chrysler had to do on the models that they wanted to put dual headlights on was to build cars with either single or dual headlights on the same body styles until everyone agreed to allow dual headlights on the '58 models and beyond.

Great looking bright blue paint and finish. The top chop looks like it would still be easy to see out of. Nice interior and engine detailing.

Great looking paint color and trim. Like how you redid the rear axle as a single axle with dual wheels?