Jon Haigwood

Thanks, there is some great building tips, I will be checking it out.

Any tips on doing a 32 Deuce rear Roll Pan ? thanks

If you need rear end and spring stuff you might look at some of the Revell/Monogram 29 pickups.

Thanks , I found one in the Mongram 32 Street Rod Classic Cruiser

Putting on a Doane top with a Duvall windshield and they only bodies I have are the AMT sectioned bodies which are too narrow in the back for the roof to sit right and the one none sectioned body I have is tweaked so the top sits on it a bit wonky. What other kits have the non-sectioned bodies ? Thanks

Looking for a vender that has aluminum Blower Drive Pulleys and Belt. I know Mr Model has some but I would rather not a month or longer. Maybe someone closer than Brazil. Thanks

he also has a facebook page

His stuff is first rate

Any info on Mr Modeler ? I ordered some items on Dec 8 , Paypal send him the $ but I have not received any communications from him and the web site to be void of items. Thanks Jon Just received email from them. I was unaware it had to come from Brazil LOL Sounds like I should receive it before to long. " Hello, Jon. Our site automatically send e-mails when the order status changes and you should receive them. I’m sending this email from another address because sometimes our main domain (mrmodel.site) not reaches Hotmail accounts, let me try this way. Your order was shipped in Dec 10 and it leaves Brazil in Dec 11. Unfortunatelly registered mail is not trackable in some countries and USA is one of them. The orders from Ebay are taking about 20-30 days to be delivered in USA. I don’t know why but Ebay’s tracking is the only one that tracks our parcels but it works only with their orders. I’m sorry by the delay. Thank you, Alaor Gosdal Mr. Model "

Well to start out , I am retired and with this pandemic my weekends are 7 days long. My second point is stop talking about my Mama .

I think I found a suitable body in the AMT 29 Ford Model A Roadster kit. Similar to the AK but no custom cowl and the narrower. Also as AK top and similar interior

Disclaimer : I did do a search and did not find what I needed. I am using some foam for a headliner on a up-top I am making for a 32 P/U Roadster. What I need to find out is how to round the outside edge of the foam where it will be visible. I will post a picture after the primer dries on the top and I can take one. Thanks

I have two of the newer kits and I am using both tops to make an up-top for a 32 P/U Roadster. I will be using one of the chassis assemblies for another 32 Roadster. Not sure yet what I will do with the other. This leaves me with a A/T body for a future build.

I have been working on a 32 P/U Roadster and thought maybe later I would do a Model A P/U Roadster. I don't really want to use the standard 29 Open Cab with the flat back. I was looking at the Ala Kart body which started out as a 29 OC body with a T Bucket back side grafted on. My question is , have they used this body in any other kits ? Some Google image searches showed some 30-31 OC Roadsters with the rounded corners on the back. Thanks

I made the mistake of not checking the Gorilla SG out when I bought a couple bottles and they had gotten very thick and unusable so I saved the tops for replacing the plugged tops on the other bottles. When a top gets clogged I replace it and soak the clogged top in acetone for awhile then poke out all of the glue buildup and use it as a replacement cap

maybe this http://www.larrygscale.com/Fire-Extinguisher-Miniatures-2_p_391.html

I used the Surry top for a Tuck-N-Roll Tonneau Cover and seat backing on the Willys project, It may make a good mold pattern. I have also glued Evergreen 1/2 round to a thin sheet of Evergreen then cut out the section I needed. Also individually glued the same 1/2 round straight to the seats. Using Tamiya Thin makes the the plastic somewhat bendable.

Looking for aftermarket outside door handles for the early fords, Resin or metal . Thanks

The red box art kit is the one she got me. I will check with Shapways

Wifey just brought home a Monogram 427 S/C Cobra kit that she found at the Goodwill for$4. I noticed it comes with wire wheels. I thought the wires were not strong enough for the 427 and the dropped them. The were on the 289 Cobra only. Where is a good place to find the correct wheels ? Thanks

Same thong with the Canopy Glue. Also use it for mocking up parts before final assembly , it is easily removed

32 Roadster dark Candy blue with pinstriping. A bit of rake with a Flatty w/3 Stromberg's, LaSalle 3 speed , qiuck change diff. Big and Littles wide whites with Torque Thrust wheels Dark blue and white tuck and button and Lakes pipes

Planning on a Ford with after market speed equipment

Didn't even notice it. Just did the "copy/paste" thing from another site. Maybe a "black eve" is the night before Halloween ? (fixed it)

If we are going to bring the meaning of the term "Hot Rod" into this (which wasn't the OP's question). We have to include a comment on the origin of the term. So this brings us the part where it was originated from the term "Gow Job" The following letter appeared in the December, 2001 Street Rodder magazine: Gow Jobs and Other Stuff Here are the answers to your questions about the origin of terms like hop-up, gow job, soup-up, etc. The origin of these terms seems to puzzle everyone but I believe I know where they came from and what they mean. In California in the '40s and early '50s hot rodders despised the term "hot rod" and never used it. They considered it I black eye. To the general public a hot rod was beat-up jalopy with no muffler, careening through a school zone with a juvenile delinquent at the wheel. To the newspapers they were a menace on par with Communism and ought to be stamped out by the police. To the serious .student of speed who had a lot of brains, sweat, and money tied up in a sophisticated performance car, this was nothing but an insult. They used the terms hop-up or gow job. So where did these come from? Well, "hop" and "gow" were names for opium which were in use as far back as the late 1800s and probably came from the Chinese. In the old days they improved the performance of race horses with drugs including opium and cocaine. This was not even illegal until the early '20s and continued surreptitiously after that. Even today the performance enhancement of human athletes and horses is nor unknown. A horse that went faster than it had any right to, was said to be 'hopped-up" or "gowed-up". From there it was a short step to apply the same names to a souped-up car. By the way, human drug users got the same names. If you read a few hard-boiled detective stories from the '30s and '40s you will soon find reference to "hopped-up punks" and "gowed-up hoodlums." As far as "soup" goes, in the '20s, nitroglycerine was called "soup" in the under-world. It was not easy to get -- safe crackers had to extract it from dynamite. It was all illegal substance and possession was evidence of criminal intent, like burglar tools. Hence the code name. "souped-up" probably referred to a race car running on exotic fuel. I know that in the '20s it was possible to buy special racing fuel from the big oil companies. An old-time motorcycle mechanic told me of taking a can of such fuel to the races where his employer had bikes competing, then pouring the leftover fuel into the tank of his hopped-up Ford, and how fast it went on the way home. In the '50s they began to use nitromethane, which is a close relative of nitroglycerine. Small world. By that time "souped-up" had acquired the general meaning it has today and hot fuel users coined new terms like "pop" and "nitro." Now on "hot rod." It is important to remember that until 1955, people used "hot" the way they use "cool" today. A hot date, a hot swing band with a hot trumpet player, a hot time. The reverse -- something inferior -- was not so hot. This was appropriate for hot rods because they actually did run hotter than normal cars, literally as well as figuratively. I have heard the story of the race promoter who abbreviated "hot roadster" to "hot rod" on his posters, but this does not ring quite true. I'm withholding judgment on this one until I see more evidence.