High praise to you all in Customville...where looks ARE very scrutinized...truly an out of Factory design experience with just as critical an eye...
Car is looking great with all the details you are working out. Shortening the wing windows makes a huge difference in the balance of the windows. Great choice!
Good lord. Knock it off, you're makin' the rest of us look bad! I think you may have stumbled upon the cure for ED.
Don has been busy altering the windwings and door windows. All of the window trim should be going to the plater very soon. Nothing visual had happened for a couple of weeks, but when the trim and glass are in place we'll share new pictures with you.
Well, now you two have gone and done it. Created something comparable to the world’s most beautiful 40 convertible! It’s mind boggling to have the vision to just design this, but to have a craftsman who can make it materialize is beyond we mere mortals. “Well done” is so inadequate.
Holee crap! Outstanding work. Thank you for sharing all the pain that goes into the small bits in such excruciating detail. You are into the stuff that splits men from boys. For those pleebs that complain about what building cars cost... just read this thread.
Don completed the construction of the various side window frames: doors, quarters, and windwings. The proportions of the windows are now restored. The frames need to come apart again for plating and glass installation. There is still trim missing in these pictures, both above and below the window frames:
@50Fraud Tony, I am really challenged as I try to find words to describe my reaction to how well the roof line ‘fits’ so perfectly with the body lines. The roof is both ‘modern’ and yet seems perfectly in period, and in balance, with the whole. Graceful, smooth, excellently proportioned……are adjectives that come to mind. It just looks so ‘right’. Congratulations and kudos to you and Don for achieving such a successful and timeless result. Ray
I think when all the glass and trim are back in place the car will look even sleeker and the top a little lower.
The car was painted Cadillac Polo Green in 1997. Every time I look at it, I'm still pleased that I chose that color all those years ago. When it was decided that the entire car needed to be repainted as part of this re-customizing effort, I never considered changing color again.
I also don’t have the command of the language to describe how well executed the proportions of the car appear now except to say it definitely has”the look” Beautiful car.
Car looks great! Just wondering, is the windshield two pieces of flat glass? Was that the last year for flat glass windshields for Ford? Bob
For passenger cars, yes, two flat glass panes. For trucks it was one piece flat glass ‘48 thru '52. Ray
Some guys have replaced the 2-piece windshield in their shoeboxes with a single piece of glass. I personally like the looks of the 2-piece; looks a little like a '40s airplane windshield.
Don tells me that the plater has about 90 days' backlog, so it may be a long wait for the next update!