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  1. Looks like it's ready for anything on or off road.
  2. Great build. Looks like all it needs is a new paint job for the up coming racing season.
  3. Looks great I would never have thought of using a Lark for a Dirt Track car.
  4. Great looking rebuild. You mentioned a Rub N Buff for the bumpers. Is that a product or a process that you use ??
  5. Great looking build. The weathering looks very realistic and the added details like the Pliers and such are neat.
  6. I like the forward hinged Hood and the Coke bottles in the Trunk.
  7. Beautiful restoration, The finish and the chrome trim look perfect. I like the base Black Wall Tire look.
  8. Very artistic paint design.
  9. Besides the overall look of the build I like how you turned a Pillared Coupe into a Hard Top. You managed to make it look correct. I tried that once but it just never came out looking correct.
  10. Great idea on both counts. I also don't remember seeing to many Squire Rancheros.
  11. So many beautiful '39s and '40s, guess what just got moved to the top of the to do list.
  12. I have to agree with Bill on the chassis swap. I'm trying to finish a "50 Olds with a Resin body and the chassis and interior are finished. I set the Eldorado body over the Olds chassis and that looks like a good possibility also. The wheel base is very very close to the Olds so the two should interchange with little or no problems. I couldn't lower the Eldo body all of the way since the inner fenders are in place on the Olds chassis and of course the Eldo inner fenders wouldn't allow the two to come together completely. I think with just a little work you could almost put the two models in a bag and shake them up and it would all turn out just fine. Think of the possibilities of combining these two kits.
  13. Great clean looking builds. The State Police cars antennas seem a little large but that's the kits fault.
  14. The chopped tops proportions look perfect. When you change the size of that much of a body it is really hard to not get it looking like something bad happened.
  15. Very interesting color combination, really makes the model standout. Nice clean body detailing and as vamach1 mentioned the grill treatment.
  16. I understand your desire to retire early, I did. I would offer this suggestion before you do. Check and see how this will, and it will, effect your monthly benefits. Depending on your age the younger you are now means that if you retire before the predetermined age it will decrease the amount of your monthly benefits. They keep moving the retirement age further and further beyond 65 in order to get your full "pay" in retirement.
  17. espo

    1950 Ford

    Thank you for the information. I remember when this kit first came out and I just think that there was a stock height Victoria hardtop in the first issue. It may have been just wishful thinking on my part.
  18. Thank you for the memories. I'm of an age that I remember as a child when the conversion to diesel engines began. As a child growing up in a "bedroom community" outside of Chicago I would ride with my mother to pickup my father in the evening at the train station when he would come home from work in down town Chicago. He rode the C&NW ( Chicago and North Western Rail Road) and they started using the diesel engine trains in the early '50's but the commuter trains were still steam at that time.
  19. espo

    1950 Ford

    Beautiful looking Kustom build. I like your idea of having two different roof options. Using the Studebaker seats look just right here. This model Ford has always been a personal favorite for me as a former owner of two different '51's and my parents had a '49 sedan. Since you had an original kit to work from and I assume all of the parts were present I was wondering if there was a stock height Victoria roof in the kit in addition too the Chopped Top ??
  20. Great job replicating Jim's El Camino. I'll enjoy watching your build.
  21. Does being 70 plus and spending half a day climbing up and down a 12' ladder putting up Christmas lights and cleaning leafs out of the gutters qualify ? I have definitely slowed down in the last few years but there isn't a Toe Tag on me yet.
  22. Great engineering on this engine and chassis. I like the paint finish and color combination.
  23. Perfect body conversion on this. I like the build style with the checker board firewall.
  24. Beautiful clean looking build.
  25. Amazing amount of work put into the making of this body. Outstanding detail work thru out.
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