Dirty Dave

This. It's going to be hard to beat the R/M '32 Ford Sedan Street Rod, though I have some warm, squishy feelings for the chop on the Orange Crate.

Side note: When building my "Mess-O-Schmitt" competition coupe, I used two of the Red Baron engines, siamesed at the crankcases, to create a V-12 version, before adding a crank-driven Paxton supercharger setup.

Not just the Badman. He had his way with several of the older Monogram tools, yielding us releases like Son of Ford and Boss A-Bone, to name the first two that came to mind.

That is really cool. Now you have me on the hunt...

I think you missed the point. The Bathtub Buggy was thought to be good for diorama builders because it supplies two 1:25 scale iron bathtubs and a crapper. Not because the car itself is of use as-is.

Fujimi makes several wheel tire sets that are scaled to be 175/50R13 Pirelli P7s, which should have a comparable sidewall height to a 205/40R13. A couple of the wheel designs even approximate the Panther's disc wheels.

Now you guys have me considering converting a Revellogram Jinx Expre$$ into a 1/24 scale Old Ironsides - inspired pickup.

Could be fun to try to replicate Chip Foose's marker art technique on the paintjob applied to one of the Foose kits.

I'd like to give it a try. Tank Girl style subject, maybe?

Not only that. but having a model roll off of the table/shelf can really take the wind out of your sails.

Hey! There's my pickup rendition! Also built a resin conversion based on some Dave Marek artwork.

Well, it was just the instructions from the ProModeler P-40 kit - wanted something to cover the mess behind the cutting board I was using as a base. EDIT: If I had been thinking of it, I would have used one of my volumes of Masters of Chickenscratch, which includes the John A. Frye illustration that inspired my build.

I like it. The taillights have just enough "funk" for the period.

After a year of trying this and that, I finished this crazy kitbash project. Based around the Monogram 1/48 scale P=40 Warhawk, AMT Model T frame, suspension parts from Airfix's 1/32 Omnibus, and a mish-mash of other bits I either grabbed from the parts pile, or built myself. Drive system drops from behind the prop spinner to a shaft running under the engine to the rear axle. After these photos were taken, I added hexnuts to cap the front hubs. Figure is a 1/43 '50s sports car driver in resin.

Those make a really good looking wheel/tire combo. I'm on the hunt for something similar - but a smidge larger - for a 1/24 scale project.

That has the appropriate "ten pounds in a five-pound sack" look that a rod like this needs.

I like it. Monogram kit?

Saw a few of the stock '34 Cabriolet kits when I was a NNL West, but i think they were likely '70s -era releases. The AMT kit, as poorly-proportioned as it may be, has stock bits in it, but I don't know of any kit that sports the Model B/40 'banger. As you said, conversion of the Model A engine shouldn't be too big a deal, and the stock Model A or '32 front axle will get you pretty close to a model 40 front end.

Looking to see if anyone casts/prints/machines a Veda Spec knockoff-style hubcap or similar. Seems as if i once saw these in white metal?

At different times, these were released under several different names. My favorite name for the mid-engined T was, "Drag Queen". Pretty sure the '34-ish "Dust Buster" is a street/drag car, and not a track (roundy-round) roadster. Headlights, OHV engine and supercharger are dead giveaways. The original subject "29 T" has an obvious cylindrical T-tank on the rear crossmember in the box art. Is it not in the actual kit, or what are you getting at with the whole cowl tank thing? There isn't room for a cowl tank in a T body.

Looks like it was based on the "tall cowl" '23-'25 T body to me, though the box art has a flatter body line around the rear edge, where a T kicks up around the rear seat bolster a bit. Also, that's definitely the style of a later T radiator.

We'll see which way I go. Going to try to take track width, etc into account, but if it comes down to it, I am sure that I can bash something together. Nice thing about stealing from a NASCAR kit is it'll have Chevy truck-style rear suspension, anyway.

I have a few different ideas to work from, thanks to you all. Original project that brought this to mind is to do a modern-style build based on Revell's '66 Suburban, but wanted to do a street-style lowered chassis, without the crazy kick-up and the floor mods that go along with all of that. That's what made me think about just swapping in a newer chassis, or clips from from one that had already been set up with coil-overs, big brakes and a lowered ride height. I've done plenty of suspension mods/swaps over the years, but was just thinking about a one-stop donor that would make it happen without buying three or four more parts kits.

In an associated thought: a partial re-tool of AMT's late '60s thru early '70s Chevy/GMC C-10 to include a modern bagged chassis with tubular control arms, modern rubber (I've seen lots of 1:1 20"+ alloy wheels that replicate the stock hubcaps, scaled-up) and LS power would be a great way to add value/interest to those trucks and their molded-in-detail stock chassis plates.

I've been contemplating building a couple of modern style '60s-'70s muscle car/pickup projects, and I'm wondering about suggestions for chassis donors. Foose's FD-100 seems to be fairly up-to-date, and I am guessing the Cadillac is also a contender. In the '90s, we used full-detail Chezooms and Boyd's Hauler pickups for components to update body-on-frame cars, but I'm thinking about current trends/standards, as seen on Bitchin' Rides, etc. While I am willing to cut/hack/swap components from multiple donor kits, it seems much more financially prudent if there are one or two kits that could provide parts that would be universally useful for such conversions. So I'm asking: what are your suggestions?