Robert81

Looks sweet. the roll cage is killer and the paint sets of the hole package.

Looks spot on to me. I drove a 69 Nova 4 door in high school. 250 inline 6/powerglide. White exterior/ light blue interior. Column shift/bench seat. 14 inch steel wheels. Drum brakes.

Well, I can't say I spent all three days doing nothing but building. With two young children, a dog and my lovely wife, how could I? It is just about stealing 15 minutes here and an hour there. I had, on average, 4 hours to build each day. Aside from modifying the Intake, hood and suspension and swapping the hubcaps, steering wheel, carbs and horn, the kit was built out of the box.

Well Harry, you ask a very good question, and make a great point. My answer is just to get something on the shelf, when most builds take months to years to finish. Not everybody can do it or chose to. Thanks, Nick. The camber is a byproduct of the lowering job up front. I had to cut a section out of the axle to provide oil pan clearance, inadvertently weakening the axle.

she is all done. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14750

I finished this up this morning, but did not have time to post pictures until now. Here is the story. Every month I do a Quick build (now extended to 96 hours, or 4 days). This month we did a theme of Hot Rod. I chose Revell's 41 Chevrolet pick up. I started on the morning of Friday September 26 and finished on the morning of Monday September 29. For the progress thread clink this link. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14716 and the engine. My best one yet, enjoy.

I do a community Quick build every month on another forum. This month we did a Hot Rod build. The build started on Friday September 26 and goes until Monday September 29. I chose to build Revell's 41 Chevy pickup. I modified the suspension to lower it. In the front I did an axle flip. I had to remove part of the center of the axle to clear the oil pan, reinforcing with sheet plastic. the rear was much easier. the rear axle was already on top of the springs, so I just added Styrene blocks to get the frame to sit lower. (it is hard to see in this picture.) Next I added a couple blocks or Styrene to the intake manifold to accept the Triple stombergs from AMT's 32 Ford 5 window coupe. (the picture is really fuzzy, even with Macro on) I removed the hood sides to show the engine better. A little fuzzy, but it shows what I'm after. in looks. I painted the body Dupli Color Metal Speck red. Today I will paint the fenders black. At this point I added Baby Moon caps also from AMT's 32 Ford 5 Window. (the picture is a little dark) By this time tomorrow I should be done this build.

Beautiful Jag. got to love the E-type. I know the GT-40 was re-released once in the mid to late 90's under the SSP line. I wish I had bought it.

That is a beauty, the decals are great. I really need to get off my @$$ and finish my 56 Drag Queen.

Holy $#!*, what house ape is going to get that tire up there? The truck is looking great. Looks a lot like the logging truck I have done tires on.

That is really simple for anybody with a son younger than ten. Cars the movie. Mater the worlds best backwards driver.

That is a sweet sedan. I love all the rats and rat imagery.

If you don't want something too wild, the BBS are the way to go. Classic road race wheels, and they look great on the C5R

Welcome from British Columbia. George is right, this is the best General Subject model site.

Smokey and the Bandit

Very nice. Turned out way better than mine. In my defense, I built it in 72 hours. And I started with an AMT kit.

American Graffitti,

Looks great, I love Novas. I can't believe i missed this.

Is that a inline six I see? I whole heartedly agree the big wheels have to go. The wood work looks great.

I'll second that. I see a few of these in my future.

Great job, Bob. This one and the old one are almost twins. if you are looking for Bob, he is always at his forum, the link is in my signature. Just remember Traditional Rods and Kustoms is the word.

those are amazing. I have often thought of trying that, but have no idea where to start. I know I would have to drill out the rivets on the base, but how do you reattach them?

Well, I don't build Rat Rods, but i have a couple Hot Rods you may like. 32 Duece coupe. http://s214.photobucket.com/albums/cc139/b...d%205%20window/ 29 Model A roadster. http://s214.photobucket.com/albums/cc139/beardo81/Model%20A/

That looks really good. If you add some paint, after cleaning up those welds, you would have a killer hotrod.

I'm loosely basing this build off of an old photo from my fathers high-school years. No, there will be no fender flairs. I used taller rear coil springs, from AMT's 70 Monte Carlo lowrider, to get the back end nice and high. Stock ride hight. Raised rear. I widened the rear tires by cutting 4 AMT hollow Good-Year Polyglas gt tires one tread from the center and stretched them over a smaller tire. They are now 10 scale inches wide. The rims are Spiders. The rears are from AMT 79 Firebird, the fronts are from my parts box. I will keep the stock cowl induction, but add headers and glass packs. The 454 doesn't need much help anyway. The inner fenders have been remove in true hot rod fashion. The colour will be Testors Sapphire Blue Metal Flake.