Projects Tease

uh oh. I really thought it had a great profile before. you might have to build two.

 

Here's this week's progress. Don had a time out while he moved his shop down the road a few miles:

 

that coupe was looking good,be watching this one

 

Me too.

 

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa... what happened? And I want to see that inspirational picture taped to the window.

 

Cool to see an update , I forgot about this one!

 

This has always been the plan, and we're inching closer to it:

 

Got my attention. Im in.

 

WOW! That's nice,Don! Obviously this is the car you said you were doing for Tony....

 

The progress looks really good Tony and Don...

 

What a piece of work...beautiful Tony and Don.

 

Thanks for the kind words.

Here's the final shot of the top mock up. Now that we have the top height established we will be working on building the windshield frame and reinforcements next.

 

Oh, yeah! Thanks, Don, much improved.

 

Just wonderfull.

 

After mocking up the side windows to the height of a stock '40 convertible top (about 1.5" lower than the postwar converts), we agreed that we had a windshield height that looked right. Here's the car with its new windshield frame in place:



Here's a stock-bodied '40 convert from the exact same angle. You may be able to detect the various differences in the height and proportions of the two cars:

 

Fantastic proportions Tony and Don... Great work!

 

Great work guys!

 

Sweet lines!!!

 

That is one seriously sweet car.

 

its agreat looking 40 but i liked it better as acoupe but you do awesome work

 

Here's anther view. For some reason my Photobucket is misbehaving and won't let me load a couple of pictures I wanted to show.

 

dang that stance looks good and windshield is spot on too

 

Very nice!!

 

Beautiful. I was a fan of the coupe too but I'm eager to see how this turns out.

 

Photobucket has awakened again, so here are some other views. First, for scale, I asked Don Dillard to stand in the picture. Don's abilities are huge -- he's built the whole car from the derelict that I brought to him -- but he's not a very tall man, so this gives some idea of the car's overall height:



The next two pictures show a bit of the car's appearance at the rear, although there is still significant work to be done back here:

 

gorgeous!
I love subtle designs on customs.
A car that grabs you from the moment you lay eyes on it, and you cannot figure out why it is so beautiful... and then slowly you begin to notice everything that has been changed.

 

so is it gona be finished in a light-ish metallic blue?

 

I love it just the way it is! It has a fantastic stance about it. Those whitewalls with the chrome rims really set the car off.

 

The color scheme is undecided. The blue in the original rendering is just the color of the car on which the Photochop was based.

Best bet is dark metallic charcoal/gunmetal with a tan top, but I have other notions about it almost daily.

 

Really nice proportions , it reminds of something that Valley Custom could have done.