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1937 Cord Convertible

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This model is the 1937 Cord Convertible. The Lindberg kit #72323.

Someone had the 'good' idea to split the body in a lot of parts. Why I don't know, it still doesn't make any sense to me. Anyway, after studying all the parts I soon found out that the front fenders were far from correct. On the first picture you can see the original on the right and the corrected fender (almost done) on the left. The retractable headlamps covers were molded ON the fenders, instead of engraving the outlines for them IN the fenders. Yeah, great. I removed them and made new outlines for the covers IN the fenders.

The bumper brackets were waaay too big, they would have added almost 2 feet in real size to the car. Allright, maybe not that much, but some resizing had to be done. And I removed the plastic between the three bars on the bumpers. Man, the chrome on that kit was so bad, that just handling it was enough to remove most of it. You are warned! I'm still not happy with the fitting of the hood, it just sticks out too much forward, but I decided to let that go. I already had too much issues with that kit.