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Hey Mike, thanks for the props on the new car. I'm definitely one happy guy now that I have it home to play with. I have found a few things that I wasn't expecting to need to work on, mainly electrical as well as a pretty sloppy steering shaft that you can move in and out at least an inch, but certainly nothing that would've made me not pick it up, for sure. And you definitely won't find another Essex coupe like this one since the original builder evidently used parts from something like 15 other rides to build it. The back section behind the doors were from a 30/31 Model A, the running boards and rear fenders were fabbed up by hand along with the headlight set-up and then he widened the fenders to cover the Maserati suspension as far as I can tell. The darn running boards are 13" wide, which I've learned pretty quickly, get very hot in the sun because you have to basically remove the steering wheel, then scoot your butt out of the bucket seat and then crawl out across the running board to get out of the car.