Thread: Project American Graffiti Coupe

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Very nice. That car is one of my favorites. Saw one yesterday at show. Had the THX-138 plate. Color was too pale. Only 3 duces. Ft fenders were wrong. Interior.............same. If it was in primer or blue, and you took the plates off it would have been a nice car. But if your gonna clone it, then clone it. Yours looks real good so far. And is apparent by details. Cal custom reg cover and relay cover. I spent way too much for a vintage cal custom reg cover on e-bay to put on my 66, now if you look at the firewall of my hot rod you will find i used it to cover wireing thru firewall. Drilled a hole in bottom and slotted it. I thought long and hard about it. But you really couldnt see it under the hood of the 66.
Keep up the good work. Look forward to seeing it completed.

Originally Posted by dlotraf33

Very nice. That car is one of my favorites. Saw one yesterday at show. Had the THX-138 plate. Color was too pale. Only 3 duces. Ft fenders were wrong. Interior.............same. If it was in primer or blue, and you took the plates off it would have been a nice car. But if your gonna clone it, then clone it. Yours looks real good so far. And is apparent by details. Cal custom reg cover and relay cover. I spent way too much for a vintage cal custom reg cover on e-bay to put on my 66, now if you look at the firewall of my hot rod you will find i used it to cover wireing thru firewall. Drilled a hole in bottom and slotted it. I thought long and hard about it. But you really couldnt see it under the hood of the 66.
Keep up the good work. Look forward to seeing it completed.

THANKS dlotraf33! I hope to be sharing this build with all of you BIG FANS out there!!!! Yes, I know there seems to be a lot of clones out there of this car I am just hoping mine will look like the one in the movie. Remember you can never pay too much for a part if it's just like Milner's .

nice build there project I am a newbie here, just finished from the start of your
build. but you know now there tributes instead of clones makes it sound better too I think. keep up the great work look forward to seeing it on you tube going
on it's maiden voyage.

Originally Posted by green34ford

nice build there project I am a newbie here, just finished from the start of your
build. but you know now there tributes instead of clones makes it sound better too I think. keep up the great work look forward to seeing it on you tube going
on it's maiden voyage.

THANKS green34ford and welcome to the site. I am sure you will have a lot of fun on this site as everyone I have delt with has been really nice. I would have to agree with you on the tributes vs the clones issue, however this coupe I am building I hope turns out to be a clone but just nicer. I think if you want the MILNER LOOK but don't want to go through all the hassle of trying to build it with all of the correct parts then you have a tribute but if you go through the pain of searching your butt off and pay the BIG BUCKS for this stuff to put on your coupe then I would have to call it a clone as long as you keep everything Milner Correct. I too look forward to seeing this coupe on youtube and the especially the road!!!

For those of you wanting to see the header panel above the inside windshield.


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OK, I am going to do something I promised myself I wasn't going to do but I guess I just can't help myself due to what happened last weekend . The thing I never wanted to do here on this site was to mention my little company called Project THX 138. The reason for this is I really don't want to come off as a salesman except when I talk about New Age Motorsports and thats only because Ed and Chris are the BEST in the business when it comes to making 32 Ford stuff. Project THX 138 (www.projectthx138.com) on the other hand is just about the Graffiti Coupe. Here on my site I have talked in great detail about the original coupe for seven years and have a lot of guys build their dream car (Graffiti Coupe of course).

One person I helped was Dave Acheson (Super Dave) who has since became a VERY GOOD FRIEND of mine. Well here is the story that made me break my silence (although some of you had already figured out that I was the owner of Project THX 138). Dave last weekend meet the man himself CHIP FOOSE. I don't know about you guys but Chip walks on water in my book! Well anyway Dave was getting Chips autograph for himself and one for me (as I have never met Chip before) when Dave ask CHip if he would sign his coupe. When Chip asked him what car was his and Super Dave started to tell him Chip seemed very excited to do so as he was going to have a photo shoot in front of Super Daves coupe for some magazine so he said it would be no problem. Now this is were the story gets REALLY GOOD in my book. Chip started talking about the Graffiti Coupe and how he has met the original owner Rick Figari but then Chip said that if he (Dave) really wanted to know about the coupe that he should get a hold of Rick in Kansas City! YIP, Chip Foose was talking about me! I couldn't belive it and either could Dave!!! Dave started laughing and told Chip that he and I are good friends and that I helped him oout with his coupe and infact that one autograph Chip had signed was going to be sent to me and Chip said give back and wrote what you see below! I just want you all to know that I am just so freakin happy I just want to tell the world about this!!!! I still can't belive that Chip Foose was talking about some dumb Kansas farm boy . It just goes to show you every dog gets in day at least once .

Below are photos of Chips autograph to me and pictures of Super Daves coupe before and after dealing with me (just a side note, Daves Coupe is getting quite popular) plus Chip's autograph on Super Daves Coupe.

Hope you all enjoyed this little story of mine!


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Finally installed the CORRECT front brake line brackets on the coupe today (afer the NASCAR race of course)

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