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Re: New Toy 54 R100-update
The close up is of a ‘55 I saw in a magazine and it looks like he did the same as I did.
IHC in the early to mid-fifties.
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WEW51L110 wrote:Upon closer inspection, the bumper on the ‘55 looks closer to an F-100 type. There are holes for mounting a license tag and zooming in shows that there is a small offset or indentation in the bumper where the tag bolts on. That accommodation is also something to consider. We don’t have front license tags in Florida, but I know some other states do. It also appears he used two bolts per frame end and I used one per frame.
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WEW51L110 wrote:How interesting. Glad to meet a former Airman. The last assignment of my enlistment was at Patrick AFB. I was assigned to AFTAC and got out of the service at the end of April in 1974. Prior to that I was at Ft. Wainwright and Eilson AFB, Fairbanks, Alaska for 18 months. While at Patrick, I lived 2 miles south of the base in Satellite Beach along A1A. Small world.
Enjoy that IHC.
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WEW51L110 wrote:The grill (backside) was where I had to do a lot of work. The way it is fabricated causes mud and moisture to be trapped and create rust spots. It was fairly bad around the parking lights and the surface of the fenders where the grill attaches needed much attention, too. The ‘51 grill has those sheet metal vertical bars and horizontal bars and they all needed some massaging to straighten them back into shape.
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