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Nice looking chassis and interior. What body color are you going to use ? Just an FYI the grills in the front kick panels are outside air vents. Many did place speakers in that location and many interior suppliers today offer replacement panels with built in speakers, but in '62 this is where the outside air came into the interior with or without air conditioning. Look forward to the rest of your build.

Nicely detailed interior. Carpet color ?

Glad to see that you are able to get back to this build.

Nice smooth body work. Like the heat extractors on the hood.

Beautiful looking Olds.

Very nice clean looking build. Like the color choice, very 50s looking.

Great looking build. The color looks very much as I remember from that era.

Just started reading issue #201 this morning. As always lots of good information and great articles. I especially liked the information on paint finishes and sources.

Maybe a light coat of semi gloss and it will look like a well used work horse.

I'm going to build this, if I can find one, regardless of any short comings. I will look forward to seeing what Dave Van thinks since he has one in his driveway.

Looks beautiful, very nice color comb.

Looks perfect, I remember that episode.

Paint looks perfect, what kind of drive train are you going to use ?

Very smooth looking chop. What else do you have planed ?

Tragic for his family. This does sort of prove that this technology is far from ready to hit the road. That's to bad because the way some people drive in the KC Metro area this could make a dramatic improvement in safety on the roads in this area.

Check out the jewelry department at Hobby Lobby or JoAnn's Fabrics. I have gotten vary fine chains there that I used for the tail gate on a pick-up. Something like that may work.

I'd be inclined to leave it as is, just add the chrome window moldings and call it done.

It looks great. I wouldn't have known what it was except for the Wheeler Dealer show were they restored one.

Another great Ford build. I know how much you love these cars so I just never thought I'd see you distress one. It could be the before and after restoration.

I think your stripe job is much better looking. I also was never a fan of this model Ford except when Starsky would slide over the hood and jump in. All that was fun at the time, but the proportions of the windows always seemed off to me. I think the large "C" pillar made that portion of the roof and the body look to heavy. If I were the one designing the roof line the rear quarter window would have extended further back toward the rear window opening. This would have made the car "lighter" looking and would have eliminated a very large blind spot for the driver if he turned to look over his right shoulder. While still a large stripe by putting just the small line in the middle I think it greatly enhances the appearance.

While Model Master Black is a great paint, Tamiya TS-14 Black is again available and my experience has been better using Tamiya. I think you would be happy with either.

Interesting color combo. The low windshield and head rest looks like a road racer.

I have never tried the super glue technique before. What I have found to work best for small areas such as this is to shape some pieces of the parts tree since it is the same plastic as the body, and use them as fillers for the vents. Sand the area until it looks flat and then use as little body filler as possible to cover any voids left from the filler parts. This should minimize any ghosting from where the body and filler parts meet. .

I missed this year due to a prior commitment. I have both shown models and had a couple of tables for years and really hatted missing this year, I was hopping someone would post pictures.

As mentioned the super charger housing has to be lubricated. The crankcase oil was used in the early years. Many versions of this super charger used a sealed very small reservoir in later years.