63 Galaxie, Bye Bye Screw Posts

[FoMoCo66]

I got some more work done to the galaxie theses past couple of weeks. The front suspension on this car as a result of the metal axle was not fully represented and cut off. So I took the dremmel to them and chopped them off. I stole the lower a arm from the revell 57 ford wagon, they are pretty much the same on the real cars. Holes were also drilled for the new sway bar.

Being as this car is supposed t be "hot rodded" I couldn't leave the stock exost, especially with the 4 into 1 headers. First thing I did was to chop off the original muflers, then filled the space with some evergreen flat stock.

I also carved slots in the stock exost for some custom mufflers from the parts box.

Then to get from the rear axle to the bumper I just used some copper wire that was laying around in the shop.

Something cool I noticed about this car are the mold ingravings on the chassis and underside of the body. On the resess for the fuel tank you can see that Ertl went in and machined the tooling flat and added their own logo. And on the underside of the body just behind the rear window you can see the original amt engraving.

Then I got it all painted in semi gloss black and picked details out with different metal paints from testors.

The body was also shot with primer and I was pleased to find out that my new tamiya paint stand fit perfectly in my dehydrator .

Now it was time to move on to the interior. One thing i thought would be cool would be to make a custom hurst t handel shifter.

Decided to go with a black interior, red would have been cool but it probably wouldnt go well with dark metalic blue. There was a lot of chrome to do in this kit but with some help of the new fusionfirm chrome on the dash it made it less intimidating.

Also couldn't resist a moch up.

Thanks for looking everyone!

Elliot 

Edited 17 hours ago by FoMoCo66

[meechum68]

Fantastic!!

What diameter was the wire you used for tail pipes?  I have a project I am working on and will need to run exhaust. 

 

[FoMoCo66]

3 minutes ago, meechum68 said:

Fantastic!!

What diameter was the wire you used for tail pipes?  I have a project I am working on and will need to run exhaust. 

 

Thanks, I used some solid core 12 guage wire.