Windshield is in. Glass was cut by Canoga Glass in Canoga Park, Ca. They treated my new carefully chopped and chromed windshield frame with kid gloves. I was terrified to let it out of my sight, but they did a great job of mating a new glass to the frame.

Here you can get some idea of the body fits obtainable with the new split hood. Good constant gaps all the way around. Try that with a stock hood.

Here is the complete Air Ride installation, using dual compressors and tanks. One tank feeds the rear and the other the front.The compressors have pressure shutoff switches that shut down at 120PSI. All this will be hidden away behind a removable access panel behind the seat.

More of the hood mechanisms. Installation instructions are for a ‘32, but as you have no reference points and you are using a double setup you have to be careful, go slow and measure a lot. Lot’s of trial fits, cut and tack a little at a time till you get it right.

             A little more I have learned about Air Ride Suspensions.
  I recently read an article in Street Rodder about check valves or selenoids to prevent air bleedback which can cause body lean or body roll in corners. As I installed a sway bar and didn’t use any sort of check valve I became alarmed and called Air Ride Technologies from whom I purchased all the Air Ride Components. I was relieved to hear I had done the right thing as a sway bar works just fine to prevent body lean as It had always done. You cannot put a one way check valve in the line as the article inferred. If you did that how would you let the air back out???
  Some manufacturers are using selenoids instead of sway bars. After questioning one major manufacturer at Bakersfield extensively about the pro’s and con’s of sway bars vs selenoids, and after being told that this was the newest and latest technology and was the only way to prevent body roll, I was finally able to get out of them that they couldn’t put a sway bar on some of their front ends! Voila! Finally a valid argument for the selenoid.
Bottom Line...You can’t use a one way check valve. Sway bars should work just fine. Selenoids also work, but I have a thing against electrically powered suspension parts. What happens if a selenoid sticks or loses power. Maybe I’m old fashioned but I still prefer Vanilla.