I bought my roadster body from Doug White at ShowMe Rod & Custom http://www.showmerodandcustom.com/ about a year ago. They also build a very nice 32 three window coupe. Doug can also source a chassis from Pet & Jakes or from a couple of other good shops and build the body on it for you.

I went with ShowMe because they offer the body I need. I am a tall dude and I wanted one with stretched doors and cockpit. Harwood was my first choice but I found it hard to justify the $3,000 premium (over other quality bodies) that they were asking for. So, I checked out the other "stretched" bodies. I visited American Street Rod Design and Rats Glass in Knoxville. ASRD builds a nice body but their roadster does not have the cowel lip for a traditional windshield. Rat's has the lip but they also have a rolled pan in back that requires a bobed frame and relocated gas tank. Ball's also offers a stretched roadster but the one I looked at a show here had a non-traditional windshield and the stretch was not very subtile. I pased on all three and resigned myself to saving for a Harwood.

Then I heard about ShowMe. They are located between Branson and Springfield, MO. They had everything I was looking for, stretched doors and cockpit, cowel lip, and traditional rear. They also put me in contact with an owner in Little Rock and I checked out his car. It was nice.

So I carried my SoCal chassis up to him and a couple of weeks later went back for the finished product.

I am not a body man but I was able to prep the car for paint myself. The panels were right on. I don't think I used more than a quart of filler. There were some pits that needed filling and sanding did open some pin holes but it was relatively easy to get right. It took me about two weeks to prep the body. A pro could have done it in three or four days I think.