Thread: Ya gotta want it bad............

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Amaing work! This is the sort of thing most anyone can imagine but the actual body work is well into the advanced expert range. I have thought of a similar project with a '42-'48 Ford sedan body but the area over the rear fenders is not for amateurs and I can appreciate seeing that this was actually done in this case. On a '42-'48 sedan a convertible coupe could be made by cutting a section out between the back window and the upper edge of the rear fenders and leaning the domed trunk lid forward, BUT (!) then the fun begins to fill in the space between the lid edge and the top of the rear fenders. I actually measured this on both a '42 and a '48 Tudor but then reality set in and I realized, correctly, that the compound curves were/are way, way beyond my skills. I know this because I actually did cut the body off a '40 Ford Tudor and matched it to the hulk of a '40 convertible body using the cowl of the sedan, but I was lucky to be able to sell it unfinished and with the realization that I could not have finished it without a LOT of help from a "real" body man! Thus I really appreciate the work in the area recreating the bead above the rear wheels, truly amazing and highly skilled work!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder