Ramcharger

Tomorrow night at Panera Bread on the corner of State St and Maxtown Rd behind Max & Erma's in lovely Westerville (Columbus suburb) at 7:30 in the PM the world famous Buckeye Scale auto Club is having its monthly meeting.  Bring a model or two and come hang out, we hope to see you there!

I've been working on my Gremlin kit for the Ohio Challenge at BSAC's Buckeye Classic on March 24th.  It's not exactly class legal for anything (or even track legal) but I'm having fun with it.  The motor is set back way too far, it has a scratchbuilt straight axle, It's jacked to the sky in front and slammin' on the slicks for that "cowboy" rake. It has a blown fuel injected Hemi  and a 9' rear. The interior is being turned into the motor housing and the driver is hanging out in the breeze a la the old fuel coupes.  He does get a funny car cage to protect him in the event of a rollover.  This is still in the mockup stage, so there are still a few issues to work out.  As always, comments welcome!

The BSAC is having a little show in Columbus on January 27th at the Hobbyland store on East Broad st.  We're handing out a trophy for 1st place in Junior, Bantam, and Adult class, and ribbons for 2nd & 3rd in each class.  Judging will be either popular vote or the owner will judge depending on turnout.  So if you're in the Columbus area on the 27th of this month, stop by 6919 East Broad Street Columbus, OH 43213, with a few kits and join the fun!

This is the old Revell Rat Rod T-Bucket Kit (now reissued as the original Roth Tweedy Pie), I scratchbuilt the gas tank on the back, added a Detail Master aluminum gas cap,  the throttle linkage was made out of a soda can and beading wire, the ruby red fuel lines (like back in the day) are fishing line colored with Sharpie, the fuel log is a section of octagonal rod, some soda can was used for the hold downs.  The draglink and tie rod is made from stainless steel tubing and the kit ends.  There's an aluminum Detail Master magneto hidden in there also.  The motor is from the 53 Ford with resin Dodge "Red Ram" valve covers, the exhaust manifolds are from an unknown kit with aluminum turnouts and flanges made from a soda can.  I used the Dragmaster manifold with the 8 Strombergs that I drilled out and added venturis to. I cut down the stock windshield frame, added a PBR logo to the tap handle shifter,  and flocked the interior.  The wheels and whitewalls are weathered as are the headers.  The hardest part of this kit is getting all of the sink marks and ejector pin marks out of the chassis.  All of the chrome is Alclad aircraft aluminum and the paint is Wal~mart flat black.  Overall, I'd say it was a fun build, I think it came out O.K.  Comments and criticisms welcome. 

Here's the photos:

Thanks for looking!