1940 Ford Sedan Early 60’s Gas

[slusher]

Fantastic work, love the color and decal and engine..

[Zippi]

That dash looks Super kewl and the engine looks right at home in the business end there Dennis.  Nice work dude.

[chris chabre]

beautiful as always Dennis!

[Dennis Lacy]

We’ve been having our annual humid/tropical week out here in Sunny SoCal but back on Tuesday afternoon I had a window that felt pretty good so I sprayed clear coat. Should polish and wax nicely in a few weeks. In the meantime there’s a chassis and interior to finish. 😎

[FoMoCo66]

Nice work on this. I accidentally came across this build on the Traditional Rod and Kustom in Scale forum, bit of a spoiler but oh well. 

[Dennis Lacy]

40 minutes ago, FoMoCo66 said:

Nice work on this. I accidentally came across this build on the Traditional Rod and Kustom in Scale forum, bit of a spoiler but oh well. 

Awesome! Glad you’re over there checking it out, too. Some of us OG’s are trying hard to get the activity flowing again over there. It’s been nice lately thanks to this build off.  

[Zippi]

Boy that's looking pretty good there Dennis.  

[Kit Karson]

Excellent, Brother! -KK

[Dennis Lacy]

More progress. Started by painting the exhaust pipes with a combination of a small brush and a toothpick with good ol’ Testors silver. 

 

While the silver paint was drying I assembled the interior except for the shifter (which I failed to prepare) and the window cranks because I have a better solution coming.

Then, I assembled the chassis including the exhaust tips and rear bumper. 

The engine isn’t permanently installed but I couldn’t resist seeing how it looked sitting in place.

After all of that I also couldn’t resist mocking the car up with the decorated and clear coated body. 

Edited September 1 by Dennis Lacy

[Calb56]

The apparent "simplicity" is great. Sometimes talent makes everything look simple, easy. One of the cleanest builds I've seen in a long time.

 

[Dennis Lacy]

Got the last of the details finished for this project. At this point the only things holding up final assembly is needing to paint the front and rear window trim and then polishing & waxing the body. 

Engine is glued down for good along with the radiator and hoses. 

The connector pipes from the headers to the exhausts are installed and painted. 

Finished chassis. 

The undersides of the body, fenders, hood and grill are painted flat black. 

After some arm twisting of my friend Ed at Drag City Casting, I convinced him to make me 30 sets of interior door handles and window cranks that he used to supply with his now discontinued tuck & roll interior sets but still had the molds handy. I received those last week. I had previously come up with the door handles so I fixed up 4 window cranks with pins, “chromed” them with a Molotow pen then installed. 

Last but not least, mounted an early 60’s license plate to the custom rear bumper. 

Hope to have it finished and Under Glass this weekend.