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Hi looking to build a highboy with just rear fenders. Can you tell me where you got yours. Are they glass? Randy

Originally Posted by 32highboy54

Hi looking to build a highboy with just rear fenders. Can you tell me where you got yours. Are they glass? Randy

Hey 32highboy54,

The rear fenders story goes like this. New Age Motorsports sent me a set of their stock (fiberglass) rear fenders. I spent something like two weeks and a lot of beer shaping them to look like Milner's rear fenders (I had a ton of photos of the original rear fenders by me when I did this). Once I was happy with what I came up with I sent the rear fenders back to New Age Motorsports for Ed to mold. These rear fenders (along with the front cycle fenders which I also copied and have not put on the coupe yet) can now be bought at New Age Motorsports.

Rick

Hey Everyone,

Just wanted you all to know that I'm back. This was a REALLY HARD winter for me as my kindney stones would not let up so I didn't even touch the coupe once this winter . Well GOOD NEWS, I had surgery on the stones and now I feel like SUPERMAN!!!! With this being said I was already to get back on the coupe this spring but as I was getting ready to get started I lost my grandfather who was like a father to me so I had to take a little time off to gather myself back up before getting back into the car thing as at that point my heart just wasn't in it. Now if all of this being said I am ready to get back to turning wrenchs (as this is how my grandfather would have wanted it). I will however be sharing my time between the coupe and going back to the farm to help my grandmother out. Today was the first day that I had a chance to even be back in the garage and man was it DIRTY!!!! I spent the whole day just getting things back in shape so once I getting going I will be able to move a lot faster (come to think of it I was never very fast). The old coupe as about an 1/8 inch of dust all of her but she still looks good to me! I pushed the old girl outside where she saw daylight for the first time in seven months. I was so happy to she her again I took a picture of her just incase you forgot what I am working on (photo below). Now it's time to get this thing done so you all will be seeing a ton of photos coming up here REAL SOON!!!!

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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!!!