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Deuce Sedan - chopped/highboy - six color choices


Phildaupho

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This Goodguys Deuce Sedan model is a tribute to Gary Meadors the founder of the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association who passed away late last year. The huge car shows Gary staged were instrumental in the growth in popularity of street rodding. He was also a big supporter of the model car hobby having model events in conjunction with the Goodguys car shows. His Deuce Tudor became the symbol of the Goodguys. Both the Revell 5-Window Deuce Coupe and Deuce Highboy Roadster eventually featured the Goodguys logo on their boxes and had Goodguys decals inside. So it is very appropriate that Deuce Days in Scale pays tribute to Gary Meadors.

Gary owned the Deuce Sedan since the early 70’s. It has had three different configurations and is said to have travelled over 700,000 miles as street-rod. The basic current version is 30 years old and was painted by Sam Foose and a youngster named Chip. Although it is of a style that is in many ways dated, it wears it well and has achieved iconic status. There was a later day updated version built by Kindig it Designs as a give away car. Gary once said his Deuce may have been the most photographed hot rod of all time but most of those photos were taken in the digital era so I really had to search to find photos of the interior and back end of the car. I never did find a good photo of the engine or rear running gear.

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BODY

Top chopped about 3 scale inches

Roof & hood top smoothed

Cowl light and door handle mounts filled

Grill photo-etch mesh Buffed Titanium Metallizer

Taillights cut in

Side mirrors from Revell 37 Ford Coupe

Tinted windows

INTERIOR

Front & back seat bottoms lowered. Centre console fabricated

Dash simulates wood grain and digital gauge panel

Testor’s Wood Tan over Fabric Tan Lacquer

CHASSIS & SUSPENSION

Bobbed front & rear

Rear roll pan molded

Suspension from kit but mostly dechromed & lowered

WHEELS

Fronts from AMT Double Dragster

Rears from Deuce Highboy

ENGINE

The real car appears to have a SBC but because the model will be displayed with closed hood, the model has the kit supplied SBF.

PAINT – The paint is supposed to be Tamiya Chrome Yellow TS-47 which I have used before and should have been very close to the real car’s lemony yellow but it turned out more like Camel Yellow TS-34. It is almost like the can was mislabeled. Of course I did not notice this until the model was completely assembled. Side graphics extracted from a low resolution photo and converted to ink jet decals.

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