Daddyfink Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Quite a few of the early Funnies where still based on actual steel bodies and had working doors. Except for this crazy looking flip top beast, which still looks like it has working doors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake45 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 That flopper Corvair looks like it might be a rebodied Altered. Several of the early funnies were done this way, including at least two Mustangs I can think of right offhand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I thought the term "funny car" came straight from the Fact of bodies lifting up?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake45 Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I thought the term "funny car" came straight from the Fact of bodies lifting up?? The term "funny car" predated the first flipping bodies by at least a year, maybe two. It came from the altered wheelbases (the rear axles, or both front and rear, moved forward). The cars looked stock (or stock-bodied), but "funny." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake45 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I see no provisions for it to tilt up in the normal funny car manner. That chassis is based more or less on the McEwen '65 Barracuda chassis. The body didn't flip up on that car. Flip bodies didn't start becoming common until '66, and didn't completely take over the class until well into 1967 or later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclescott58 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 That chassis is based more or less on the McEwen '65 Barracuda chassis. The body didn't flip up on that car. Flip bodies didn't start becoming common until '66, and didn't completely take over the class until well into 1967 or later. So does the body of model just sit lose on the chassis? Or is there some way securing it? Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim boyd Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 So does the body of model just sit lose on the chassis? Or is there some way securing it? Scott The body stretches over the completed chassis. It's pretty secure when finished. But you have to trim the rear of the chassis as shown in the instructions, PLUS additionally trim triangular sections of the outboard rear corners of the floor board (not shown in the instruction), for it to fit the Corvair body. I only had to trim the rear wheels wells ever so slightly from the inside (no radiusing of the wheel opening from the outside is required.) The front axle also should be moved forward slightly (as is the case with virtually all of the AMT A/FX style funny car kits). And, the instrument panel leaves a slight gap between its forward edges and the windshield/cowl of the body. Not too unsightly, particularly if you finish the IP in black. All in all, it's a fairly cool look when finished. TB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclescott58 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Started some basic work on my Chevooom tonight. Things are looking pretty good. One of the first things I did was to cut off the rear section of the chassis as shown in the instructions. By the way, my instructions do show the triangles that also need to be cut from chassis. Test fitting the chassis I can see why these cuts need to be done. And the chassis fits well after the cuts are done. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim boyd Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Scott...that's interesting because my instructions only showed cutting the back end - not the triangular pieces. Wonder if they did a quick update during the production run? If so, that's good news...TIM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclescott58 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Good question Tim. I just got my Chevooom a couple of days ago. They make no real note of it, but the triangle areas are shown in gray in the instructions just like the other part that needs to be cut off. Sorry I'm unable to post a picture of my instruction sheet. But, it's there. Your comments about need to do the extra cutting got me to notice it. If you hadn't brought it up, I might have missed it at first. So thank you pointing out the need for extra cutting. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim boyd Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Scott...thanks for the feedback, Maybe I missed it myself when I built the model. TIM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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