1950 Fastback 2DR resto - in the UK

[twpoulter]

Go , very impressive, we are all so very different in what we spend free time doing, I'm sure Mike Olson will be pleased to see this, he's also a train man. Thanks for sharing.

[Go Fleiter]

Srry, Ken, no videos made.

as too much things are on the to-do-list, we cannot begin to make videos.
Greetings from Düsseldorf!
Go

[Flathead]

Go, 
'Your train layout is a mindblower, how wonderful. You're lucky to have a friend like Egon to share this enormous endeavor with you.
Thanks for sharing.
Gary

[32cabrio]

Beautiful HO train layout! Very impressive!
Have you posted any video's on YouTube or elsewhere showing
it in operation?
Ken

[Go Fleiter]

Well, if cold, I prefer working inhouse instead of doing outside Plymouthing...
As asked for, here some pics of my other hobby of the last 60 years. Here is an overview of my and my good friends´s Egon´s layout, planning began 1981!
You find different phases of completition-- cobblestone, traffic signs, licence plates, people, foliage, ground cover, signals, catenary .... not yet posed in most places. Some of the engines are off tracks - so the rubber tires don´t get squared!
It is a fictitious City in souther Germany 1965, near France and Switserland.
My construction- related postings in the Drehscheibe Forum are listed here:

https://www.drehscheibe-online.de/foren/read.php?10,6607746,6607803#msg-6607803

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[Go Fleiter]

more trains:
Some of the scenes are nearly ready. The layout plan shows the main train room. Adjacent is our finework shop, a general storage and cutting/ drilling/ grinding room, a heating room with 3 levels of 17 train storage tracks  each and return loops. so train passes every room.
With better weather, I will do some Ply work preparing a travel to Piemonte/Italy in September.
My wife too loves journeys in Plymouth https://p15-d24.com/profile/379-go-fleiter/?tab=field_core_pfield_18 (I don´t know if here is a similar place to show general Ply pics)

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[twpoulter]

Hi Kit. I'm also in the UK and parts suck, plenty out there but it's all about cost, as things stand at the moment you can pay around 40% to get parts over and then UK import cost plus vat. Depending where you are there are a couple of contacts that will get parts over and you collect from them. Hopefully if we get a sensible trade deal with the US it could help. Plenty of good pages on FaceBook where you can get very quick replies if you are up against a problem, we have a very active P15 Picnic that arrange meet-ups and there is a guy Braintree (Mill Lane Speed Shop) that specialises in Flathead 6's. Good luck with your project, we may meet up one day.

[Flathead]

Hi Kit,
Good luck with your project. Nice looking fastback.
In the Plymouth bulletin there is usually someone selling plaid vinyl seat covers.  I have them on my 50 came with them and people seem to like them. I believe they go for $100 US

Hey Go,
How about a picture of your train set.

Cheers!

[Go Fleiter]

You have got a real marvel!
I wish You and Your childs a sunny summer!!
Greetings! Go

[Kit_1950_Fastback]

Hey Guys

Hope all is well, I'm restoring 'Peppa' here in the UK where parts are hard to find and even dearer to import from the US - we roughly pay an extra 20% on top of the increased shipping fees ;) Any gifts will be well received I can assure you, even its the offer of a shipping address to send on to the UK. It's our first American car, my son and Daughter are really looking forward to her this year, all I can think about is driving her down the Freeway here and to old American WW2 airfields. 

-Is it a P19? seems she is the '49/'50 cross over - Trying to understand what parts will swap out from what years
-Can we get pre-made seat covers anywhere in the US? I have a local guy but guessing cheaper to get pre-made covers if possible
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Keepin' it Rusty n Slo, Kit