Lets do a 1964 1/2-1973 Mustang CBP to go with the others!

[martinfan5]

I have to decided to change engines on this one, putting in a NASCAR ford engine from a Revell NASCAR kit, not sure if I am going to use the air cleaner that came with the GT350, or use the cold air box from the NASCAR engine.

What tires will work for the eleanor wheels?,

[Dirkpitt289]

Nice work so far, Jon.

[Devilsnake98]

I'm not sure exactly what tires fit the Eleanor wheels, by my lhs has Pegasus wheel/ tire combos in stock, so I was gonna take an Eleanor wheel with me and compare and see what would work.

[martinfan5]

I can tell you that pegasus 225/45/18 tires are just a tad to big, the wheel fits, but its lose, and over all the tire is almost to big to fit in the wheel wells, I will get a pic posted.

I had the body painted, but I needed to sand some debris out, then ran out of paint, so I am stripping and going to paint it a different color now, I was going to paint it blue.

Here is what I have got done so far

On the left is a eleanor wheel in a pegasus tire, on the right the wheel is in a tire from revells mini cooper kit

Edited February 12, 2012 by martinfan5

[martinfan5]

Got the body painted, now I am going to add the stripes, and then I will clear coat it.

And here are the wheels I think am going to use

[Devilsnake98]

The blue looks pretty sweet on it, are you gonna do white stripes on it? Also, are those the gt500 wheels and tires you're gonna use?

[martinfan5]

I just got done putting the stripes on it, and they went on pretty good for being old AMT decals, yep those are GT500 wheels in pegasus tires . They are a tad bit to big, so I am lookig for something better fitting.

[Dirkpitt289]

That's looking sweet.

[martinfan5]

Here it is with the stripes on it, I am also did a coat of futrue as well

[Dirkpitt289]

Sweet! Nothing like a set of LaMans strips to make a car pop!

[martinfan5]

I normally dont like stripes, but this is one of those rare times that I do, I agree it does make it pop. Here are a few more pics, its not a very clean build so far, but thats ok as this was a bad casting so I just kind had fun with it. I have decided that the front needed to be lowered a little bit, so I am working on that. I also cut out the grill on the donar kit body and put on this one, what to make a look a little bit different from eleanor

[martinfan5]

I got the engine for eleanor today

[Olskoolrodder]

LOVING that!!! :D :D

[Dirkpitt289]

I got the engine for eleanor today

I've never seen a kit like that before. Wow, that's cool. I'd like to see what other engines that have to offer. Where did you get that from?

[martinfan5]

I got it off of evil bay, got a four pack, I also got chevy 283, caddy 354, pontiac 421. There are not being made anymore I believe, I have no use for the other three, but it was cheaper to get the four pack then just getting the ford on the bay. Paid $9.99 free shipping, I believe the seller has some more.

I posted all four of them in the what did you get today thread

Edited February 16, 2012 by martinfan5

[Devilsnake98]

That 427 engine kit is sweet, my Eleanor fastback has the Baldwin motion drag cobra 427 in it, haha dueling Eleanor's once more. Awesome choice.

[martinfan5]

That 427 engine kit is sweet, my Eleanor fastback has the Baldwin motion drag cobra 427 in it, haha dueling Eleanor's once more. Awesome choice.

I thought about using a ross gibson engine, but I couldn't see spending what I could buy a kit for, now if I was doing eleanor as a contest build then maybe. I am trying to strip the chrome right now. Still need the paint for it.

That baldwin drag is a nice engine

[martinfan5]

I painted eleanor, I used MM bright platinum silver,

here are the pics, first one without the flash, second one with flash, I used a black base coat, what do you guys think?, it hasnet been cleared and I put one wet coat down.

Edited February 20, 2012 by martinfan5

[Devilsnake98]

The mm bright platinum looks better on yours than my test spray turned out, thought it was completely different, but I think it looks good. Are you still gonna do the black stripes? Can't wait to see it shiny.

[martinfan5]

Yes I going to to do the stripes , I wanted to see how it would look before I did anything else. Now whats the best way to do the stripes? how wide are they?

[Dirkpitt289]

The platinum silver looks good from where I'm sitting

[martinfan5]

Here is a shot in the sun

[Devilsnake98]

I'm sure exactly how wide the stripes are, maybe compare to the gt350 kit decals and use different thicknesses of masking tape until you have them layer out, that's all I was going to do anyway.

[martinfan5]

Ok , I will come up with something, whats best way to go about doing them, should I wait tell the body is gas out, then add the stripes, or should clear, then add , then clear again, whats the best way to go about it. I have always used decals

[Devilsnake98]

I've always basecoated, tape off and paint the stripes, remove all the tape, bury it all in clear coat, then cut and buff if need be, this has always done me well. Works well with stripes and 2 tone schemes.