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I'm liking this build a lot! Nice work!!

I'm enjoying seeing the approach you've taken, too. I used the glue in windshield w/SS trim that Duane offers, so I didn't have the issue of raising the bottom of the windshield area, but I found that the "widow's peak" on the cowl was low by about 1/2" so I'm not surprised. You had already had the hood formed, so you needed to leave the "widow's peak" level alone, but fix the glass area. Interesting... Just curious, your glass mounts in a polished frame, right? Then how does that frame/glass attach to the body?

Originally Posted by TerpnGator

WOW Parkwood! Really nece build!

Thank you glad you like it..

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

The hoops you jumped through to get that windshield to fit nicely are the "little" things that really make a car instead of the expedient way some choose. Good job! I remember doing some of that slicing and dicing on my Gibbon '32 3w (different areas of the body, but same principle), nip and tuck to get the alignments right. Most folks who just see the car in it's finished state will never realize what you had to do to get it looking so right, but the self satisfaction of knowing what you've done is priceless.

Bob you're right about all of that... i'm doing things, and i'm sure you have too things that no one will every see but you but you'll always know their there... It's like some one will come up and say what a bitch'n paint job but have no clue the 100's of hours spent block sanding and spraying primer.. i'm a very picky on door and hood gaps so i've spent weeks on just getting them right, and i bet 90% of the people who see it will never notice.. built a '52 chevy suburban for some people and i bet i spent 3 months getting the door and hood gaps right, which was a little harder being steel.. lot of grinding, welding etc... glad you like it

Roger i have another one in the box if you know anyone who needs one... as for the widow's peak, i did just like you did and cut mine too just haven't posted pictures yet.. i'll do that and show you how the windshield frame is held in..

Roger this is how i mounted the windshield frame... it fit in the opening up against the lip that the glass would set against...i put some pieces of rubber seal around it and pushed it into place and from the back side i drilled and tapped the frame for 8-32 machine screws.. i put about 20 in it, maybe over did it but now i know it shouldn't come loose. Now with the new seal in and it all screwed down it seals i think better than a stock one.

But to do all that, i had to build up the bottom lip to match the chrome windshield frame, and the then the dash that i had cut before didn't match so it got it's second cut and re-glass... all screws are hidden by the dash and the cover that goes above the windshield... my pictures were to big to post about the cowl that i cut but roger knows...

I wanted a roll pan and the only one i could find Gibbons made for one of their body. I knew it wouldn't fit perfect but it would be close...I did have to cut it down the middle and move it out about 3 or 4".. glassed a flat metal rod with some 1/4" bolts welded to it to hold it up in place. After the it was moved out the sides didn't fit very well so i cut that away and glued in some foam and sanded it to the shape i needed and glassed it in...

I really wanted an outside gas cap and Allen Johnson from GA. makes a nice one.. took a little guts to run a drill and 4" hole saw through the side of the body though... because of the round corner i had to glass up a piece to glue under the body to give some thickest so i could sand it flat so the cap wouldn't rock...

With the extra piece of glass glued in i could sand it flat and bolt the cap in...

That's a really nice detail around the gas cap. Awesome piece of work! Thanks for sharing the pics too...

Pretty crafty way to make a right sized sanding disc apparatus...........

You had me confused for a bit with the glass on the outside of the body, but I think I maybe I understand. You used the body as a form, laid a panel on the outside to get the contour and thickness you needed, then drilled a 1/4" locator hole through both. The new internal piece got a smaller hole for the neck, and flattened out some to give the mounting surface you needed, and then was glassed/glued inside the body after drilling the 4" hole in the body. Is that right? I really like the way it turned out, and I kind of wish I had done something like that for mine to eliminate opening the trunk to fuel up.

That was a clever idea on how to get the contour. I have placed that idea in the grey matter file for future use.

are you going to use straight cut quick change gears???or the helical cut??