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Speedy,
While I'm not a member of the Cobra Den, I can shed some light on your question on P-39 and P-63 cockpits. Both cockpits are basically the same size. The doors are interchangable. The big difference is in the windshields. The P-39 windshield is curved and on the combat aircraft the flat bulletproof glass was mounted internally. The P-63 windshield had a flat bulletproof panel in the front portion. When building Mira Slovaks Mr. Mennen, Dick Martin put the P-63 windshield in although it did not use the thick bulletproof glass but a thinner plexiglas piece with a spacer. The reason being that it was always suspected that the failure of the plexiglas windshield or top panel may have caused the loss of Cobra 1 and Jack Woolams in 1946. The only P-39 that I am familiar with is Mira's and I was only in the CAF's P-63F when Jack Flaherty owned it. Both had far from stock instrument panels. I also seem to remember the landing gear motor in the 63 was on TOP of the cockpit floor just inside the R/H door rather UNDER the floor as on the 39. The older I get, the worser I remember! Mira's N40A had the molded phenolic seat rather than the aluminum or stainless ones as in most WW2 A/C.
The Kalamazoo Museum's website shows some good pictures of the ex Mr. Mennen. There you can see the modified windshield and also the bearcat brakes.
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