Beautiful work. You are clearly very talented.
I have to ask, what is the deal with the Mercedes GP racer looking car on the cribbing?
Since you're interested in that style, I have some info.
Frank Kurtis built primarily race cars, but he also produced a few street cars, in the style of the traditional front-engined Indy roadster. The Muntz Jet was an adaptation of the Kurtis street roadster.
Here's a car that raced multiple times at Indy, and was once owned by Smokey Yunick of Daytona Beach FL and NASCAR fame. It's a Kurtis KK500 G.
https://www.conceptcarz.com/profile/3803,9197/1957-kurtis-kraft-500g.aspx
I knew the original owner of the car, Lee Elkins, of Kalamazoo MI. Lee had commissioned the car from Frank Kurtis, with a turbocharged Offenhauser. Lee Elkins often used #73 for his race cars. Lee Elkins was a colorful character who began racing at Indianapolis as a team owner in the early 1950's, and who stayed in the event until the late 1970's. Sometimes he had two entries in the Indy 500 race. He never won, but he put a car on the pole in 1958. In a horrible bad luck incident, the car was involved in a first-lap wreck, when Ed Elisian tried to occupy the same space as Elkins' driver **** Rathmann, the wreck causing a huge accident and Rathmann was out of the race, a DNF. Unfortunately, a popular driver, Pat O'Connor, was killed in the pile-up. Fifteen of the 33 cars in the race were involved in the wreck. It also happened to be the initial Indy 500 for AJ Foyt.
http://sports.usatoday.com/2016/04/02/spectacular-firstlap-crash-kills-pat-oconnor-in-1958-indy-500/
Elkins' son and I were best friends and graduated high school together. He once told me, "my father went-broke twice racing, fortunately he made it rich three times!" Elkins owned a motor freight business, his primary contract was hauling steel from the Chicago/Gary area plants where it was produced to the factories where it was used. He had dozens of freight terminals across the country under the banner of McNamara Motor Express, which was often the name he used in racing. He also owned and raced midgets and sprint cars. He participated with a Kurtis KK500 G in the
Race of Two Worlds in Monza Italy, qualifying his car in third, the race was to settle the question of "who's faster, European cars, or Indy roadsters?" In convincing fashion, an Indy roadster won, piloted by Jimmy Bryan. It was three heats, a total of 500 miles, and the average speed of 160 mph bested that year's Indy 500 pace of 135.6 mph, by a cool 24+ mph.
In 1958's competition, Bob Veith set a lap record of 186.4 mph in a Kurtis KK500 G, powered by Offenhauser. This design definitely has potential!
https://www.conceptcarz.com/profile/3803,9197/1957-kurtis-kraft-500g.aspx
This Kurtis roadster is still being run today.
The Cornfield Customs roadster is a throwback to those mighty Kurtis Kraft Offenhauser roadsters.
