Ace-Garageguy

Just discovered. Apparently it's been lying in wait for me for 52 years. Now where did I leave that windowpane?

Photos?

Joe, hey Joe, where you goin' with that gu...oops; can't mention scary bangy things.

Just a little more info...this is the big "301" series Halibrand "champ car" rear end I'm using in the model...cause that's what I did the first mockup with...but axle bells that need aluminum adapters, and radius rods with forged ends (up-pointing axle-mount ears) for a spring-behind setup. There's getting to be lotsa parts mix-n-matching on the model as this thing progresses...kinda like real. Another build that started out to be a "quickie"...

The pickup dash is a different stamping, like your 3rd photo above.

This is a '40 deluxe car unit, below, which looks like Ray's...with the raised stamped surround for the cluster.

Looks to me like it has the rectangular stamped depression the deluxe cluster lives in, different from the red one in your first post.

Roma's competitor here decades back was a place called Jilly's, the owners of which were reputed to be "connected", as they say.

That can't be right.

Scents by the hundred do not make a dollar.

It's been taking a while to get beyond the mockup stage, as I needed to find a rear spring-over-axle setup, with stock-ish radius rods and a torque tube, and with juice brakes, with the wheel cylinders and bleeders on top, to copy...all so I can nail the rear ride height and axle width down with final parts, before moving to the front suspension and engine placement... Got one...

Yup. Just pulled the kit. That's it. Thanks. Choice of 3 gauge cluster decals to go under the clear lens.

I believe the Revell '40 coupe does... EDIT: I know I've seen one, with a clear lens over it, but it's apparently not in the Revell standard coupe.

"Topics of Capricorn" wouldn't make sense.

Now that it's over...this car always looked like a heavily customized Pantera to me.

"Thing is..." is often the way I'll start a short digression that's related closely to the original topic.

North to Alaska is a 1960 John Wayne movie.

Something...something, something, something...something; does anyone know the words or tune to that song?

Fire 'em if they can't take a joke...or read and comprehend.

Levels of Jell were discussed at length in Dante's Inferno.

Cylinder head and valve cover certainly look like Chevy or GMC inline 6 parts (216? 235?), block doesn't really (3 side covers?), but what kit it's from I have no clue.

Looks great. Glad you're feeling good enough to get back to building. Stay strong.

"Course" can mean a field of study, or a large area where golf is played, or a track for contests of speed, or the direction of travel, as of a ship or airplane...and should not be confused with "coarse", which means gritty or chunky or unrefined, or possibly rude (coarse behavior)...of course.

Always a treat to see another fine build of a truck I know nothing about.