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Old 02-07-2014, 01:46 PM   #1
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Default You Gotta See This! A Copper `40 Ford.

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Old 02-07-2014, 02:12 PM   #2
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This is the purest example of "beauty is in the yes of the beholder".
For me? Yech...
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Old 02-07-2014, 02:16 PM   #3
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Default Re: You Gotta See This! A Copper `40 Ford.

Just the price of copper nowadays would make that car worth a lot of bucks. Unusual to say the least.
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Old 02-07-2014, 02:23 PM   #4
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Copper is much easier to form into shapes than steel is. Wait till it turns green like the statue of Liberty.
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Old 02-07-2014, 02:38 PM   #5
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Pretty ~ but still falls under the category of= IF I HAD MORE $$$$ THEN I KNEW WHAT TO DO WITH I WOULD _____________ { fill in blank }
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Old 02-07-2014, 02:46 PM   #6
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This is the purest example of "beauty is in the yes of the beholder".
For me? Yech...
Couldn't agree more!
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Old 02-07-2014, 02:48 PM   #7
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Just ...wow.
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Old 02-07-2014, 03:09 PM   #8
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Butt ugly!! To each his own.......
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Old 02-07-2014, 03:24 PM   #9
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I,m with Kube on this. What a waste of time, talent and money.
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Old 02-07-2014, 03:29 PM   #10
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Beautiful car, how did it get on the barn?
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Old 02-07-2014, 03:30 PM   #11
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I'm With Kube, And 19Forty, My Question, WHY ?
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Old 02-07-2014, 03:33 PM   #12
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Not only why, but I bet it makes your hands smell funny.
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Old 02-07-2014, 03:47 PM   #13
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Like it, an electricians Car for sure!!!! Shadetree, bring it to Galliopolis this summer, park in the shade, would be a hot car out in direct SUN.
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Old 02-07-2014, 04:03 PM   #14
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I bet that there is not one piece of a 1940 Ford in it.
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Old 02-07-2014, 04:20 PM   #15
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Check out the rest of the Kirkham website! The Kirkham brothers from Salt Lake City bought an old Russian Mig factory in Poland and hired the fabricators to duplicate the Shelby Cobras. They corrected the side to side profiles to make the car symmetrical.

The 40 is surely different, but the workmanship is something else. A friend has one of their polished Cobras and you practically can't look at it in the sunlight. It is surprisingly easy to keep shiny, however, I'm trying to get him to scotchbrite it. It sure is a hoot to drive!
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Old 02-07-2014, 04:23 PM   #16
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This is a Copper car in Southwoods car museum at wellington N.Z. I do not know much about the history of it, other N.Z. members might chime in and know, but I think it was built by a plumber many years ago, I know they have had it on display for several decades.
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Old 02-07-2014, 04:40 PM   #17
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Unfortunately.....
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Old 02-07-2014, 09:05 PM   #18
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Like it, an electricians Car for sure!!!! Shadetree, bring it to Galliopolis this summer, park in the shade, would be a hot car out in direct SUN.

Great idea Bruce! It would surely draw a crowd!

I bet the headlights are bright!

Looking forward to the Gallipolis show and seeing that `34 Roadster!
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