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What are your plans for the rear glass? The missing top sounds cool, but I'm not seeing it with the backlight in place. Not to stray too far off...
How do you keep all of that bare steel in the shop from rusting? Is the humidity that low at your elevation? Let me throw my admiration to your...
Just drop the parts into chlorine bleach. It wont harm the plastic and strip the chrome right off.
Get some copper tubing and flatten it. After that form it to match the trim profile on the back side of the trim. Clamp the copper to the trim on...
Aren't you worried about the slicks growing in dia. and rubbing the inside of the fenders? From here they look awful close.
Kev, are you out to single handedly reconture every remaining 40 Merc. on the planet? I hope so FOMOCO sure didn't get it right.
Concourse de Lomons. Chop top does a super job at thumbing his nose at the elite who are profiling in Monterey that weekend.
That would be cool to own a car you had a part in building from flat stock. Must be a pain to deal with the dmv to register.
I was at Cole Foster's a week or two ago and he was showing my son and I the English leather Mongoose body that he just finished up repairs and a...
What becomes of the cars when complete?
Glad to see Bill Gandhal fixed his dads fender on his '50 ford already.
Nice first post. Great job.
Didn't Nads buy it all when he painted his el camino?
Rod and custom, Rod and Kulture illustrated are my favorite after Rodders Journal
If you can find them, look at books that Gerald Wingrove wrote about scratch building large scale models. He shows a lot of different ways to look...
A buddy of mine has a Sterling Edwards. One of seven produced by Sterling in the early 50's. It is a fiberglass body, lift off hard top used a lot...
Search for the homemade tools thread. There was a post today covering exactly what you're asking for. Using a homemade die to use on the hole...
That little screw hole in the valve is to bleed the air from the line down stream from the valve when it is closed. It's a safety thing, probably...
Are you planning to have the bicycles display again?
Lyle, congrats on the featured builder article in Scale auto. Well deserved!
I'd like to wish him happy birthday also, and congrats for a featured builder article in Scale auto magazine.
I picked up a drawer bin of hardware at a yard sale, and when I was going through a bin I found a token from the 1954 GM autorama.
Marcus, congrats on the article, now the rest of the free world knows about the goings on in our neck of the woods! I love the up dates you post...
Tim I watched the show yesterday, thanks for the heads up, I would have missed it if not. You've got a good show there, it restored my faith in TV...
Cody, does it matter what kind of paint you use on the block? I would hate to see all that hard work get damaged by the heat of the engine.
Simply stunning in its own understated way.
I believe she knows that being an aussie and all. Not quite familiar with the location but I think her avitar shows that.
That sounds like a lot more fun than a fairground, power parking, lawn chair sitting car show, but really, who here goes to those things? Looks...
Nads, If you didn't paint it pink it would get in print, but a caption shot of "dare to be different" might happen. JK it's looking good, all you...
I've read that article three or four times now and stared at the pics for hours. It is the only Merc that blows me away besides Terry Hegmans. I...
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