1940 Ford Sedan Early 60’s Gas

[FoMoCo66]

Wow! This is absolutely amazing. Im not proud to admit but on almost all my builds I forget to add the lower radiator hose😬. This car is right up my alle, now I have to build a 40 ford.

[Dennis Lacy]

On 8/9/2025 at 6:52 PM, FoMoCo66 said:

Wow! This is absolutely amazing. Im not proud to admit but on almost all my builds I forget to add the lower radiator hose😬. This car is right up my alle, now I have to build a 40 ford.

Thanks! 

That pesky lower hose is easy to overlook. Heck, half the time the kits don’t even include it! 🤣

[Dennis Lacy]

This past Sunday afternoon was spent doing all of the final sanding and clean up to prep everything for paint with an intermission run to Pegasus Hobbies to get said paint. Laid all the bare plastic parts out in a “yard sale” pose. There’s not a lot to these old AMT kits!

There were also two final mods. The first being sanding away the poorly rendered speaker grill and glovebox clock/trim. No interest in trying to detail that!

The second being filling the outer half-round notches in the bumper brackets (the custom bumper only uses the inner notches) and generally fixing up the shape of the brackets. 

Yesterday all of the parts made it into primer followed by the body pieces today. 

Today also saw some parts get color. The same blue will be used on the body & fenders. 

If the background scenery looks different, that’s my welding table at my shop. I do all my spray painting at work. 😎

[Kit Karson]

Excellent work, Brother! -KK

[Dennis Lacy]

Painting continues. I had to decide how to approach the frame. Because of the molded on and glued on exhaust, masking the frame to spray the floor areas would be a massive pain. I decided the best way would be to paint the frame rails and front area the accent color I wanted and after that mask those areas and just spray the entire center flat black. I also masked the floor and rear shelf of the interior tub and the spring areas of the axles. 

Here’s a Quick Look at how the main blue will look with the off-white accent. 

[Scott8950]

You always do a awesome job building these 60s hot rods.

[Dennis Lacy]

Painting continues. At lunchtime I sealed the frame rails with gloss clear and this evening pulled all of the tape. Stage One was a success. Next, mask all the white parts and spray everywhere else flat black then carefully brush paint the exhaust silver. 

I also hit the “upholstery” with flat clear and pulled all of the tape, too. Just like the frame, mask all the white and spray the floor and package shelf flat black. 

[tim boyd]

On 7/26/2025 at 7:46 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Remarkable what happens when a real live real car builder who understands what all the parts do builds a model.

Lovin' it so far.   

What Bill said.  Very, very creative approach to the subject, too!   TB  

[Dennis Lacy]

Yesterday I was able to mask the white parts of the interior tub and get the floor, package shelf and outside sprayed flat black. I also masked the blue part of the dash and got the recessed areas sprayed racing white. 

[Dennis Lacy]

Paint continues. Over the weekend I handled the fiddly detailing of the wheel hub centers, lug nuts, starter and oil filter (both molded with the block), steering wheel emblem and trim ring and the springs. I also was able to swipe a Revell 1940 gauge panel decal from their 32 5-Window (which has an optional 40 dash), cut the individual gauges out and apply them to the AMT dash, as well as, add some era appropriate racing decals. 

Yesterday I sealed all of these pieces with Tamiya gloss clear which adds a nice level of richness to the Light Metallic Blue and Champagne Gold. &nbsp

Today I masked off the white areas of the frame and sprayed the rest matte black. Now all that’s left is the tedious task of hand painting the exhaust silver. Can’t wait!

[sidcharles]

is the rear frame crossmember molded or a non-kit member?

if the latter, could you offer a brief explanation of its fitting [location fore/ aft & height]

thanks

ps: pretty snazzy color combinations throughout

 

[Dennis Lacy]

Last night I couldn’t help posing the chassis parts, wheels and tires together for a sneak peak. Just need to paint the exhaust system.

I also sat the engine block in the frame to see how the Champagne Gold and Racing White look together. 

Today I thoroughly wet sanded the body pieces with 1000 grit and sprayed on 2 wet coats of primer for a nice, smooth surface. Tomorrow, paint!

[James2]

Coming along nicely Dennis. 

[Dennis Lacy]

The last couple of days I was able to get the body in color. First, by spraying the inner fender aprons and grill area with Racing White and then following up with the Light Blue Metallic. Cut it super close, too, with not a drop of blue to spare in the can. Just enough to get 3 even coats. Next step, decals!

 

[FoMoCo66]

Love the color, looking good!

[DJMar]

Super sano paint work there! At first I wasn't sure about the color combo, but I really dig it!

[Dennis Lacy]

Today I was able to get the decals installed. Going into it I had no idea what I was gonna do for a layout so I got out about a dozen AMT Retro-Deluxe decal sheets and let them speak to me. I didn’t want to use white because it would clash with the cream white accents throughout the car so I decided to use red to tie in with the windows. The “67” and “A/G” come from the Salt Shaker 37 Chevy Coupe, “Pontiac Powered!” From the 36 Ford Coupe/Roadster and the “ISKY Equipped” from the 49 Ford Coupe. It was very common for these cars to be sponsored or campaigned by a local garage so I used a Sunoco Service decal from the most recent issue of the 34 Pickup. 

[James2]

Very nice...

[meechum68]

Ohhh this is great!!!   

[Dennis Lacy]

Made some solid progress today. Started by polishing the dash and then installed the kits option accessory gauge panel which was detailed with gauge decals from Revell’s 32 5-Window. 

This kit comes with a racing tachometer but it doesn’t have any way to mount it, but, the sister 40 Coupe kit has a column mounted tachometer so I used that with a decal from Revell’s most recent 32 Roadster. 

Then, I moved onto assembling and detailing the engine. The carb scoops were chromed with a Molotow chrome pen, along with general touch up to the other chrome parts. 

I just couldn’t resist seeing how the finished engine looks between the fenders. I think that should work!

[Spex84]

Killer color combo and detailing! Those red plug wires and chromed frog-mouth scoops really make the engine bay a standout....and I love seeing how some decals can spruce up the old AMT dash and gauges.