Hoffman

Interesting concept. I remember seeing the shortened earlier Mustang. The top looks similar to a '67 Charger. On your version, by shortening the are you did, the proportions remind me of a Ferrari GTO, at least from the A pillar back. If you lengthened the front of the body, behind the front wheel opening, it would look like the picture below. What do you think?

Thank you very much, Guys! Jim, you're right, the body is sectioned. I took out a slice between the top of the wheel opening in the fender, and the character line above that extending back from the headlight. The cut went all the way back, above the rear wheel opening as well. That's the horizontal cut. Vertically, I cut straight up just in front of the front wheel opening and just behind the rear wheel opening. So basically I raised the wheel openings and the rocker panel, but I kept the height of the body intact at the overhangs in the front and rear. The front overhang is actually a little taller than stock. I cut a bumper filler panel off a second Nomad, flipped it upside down and joined it to the front of this car to make kind of an air dam. The body is a little lumpy these days from the 32 year old filler shrinking over time, but it still looks ok. Glad you like it, and thanks for looking.

Gentlemen, you guys are SUPER kind and thoughtful. Thank you very, very much for the compliments. The chance to share and compare in this space is awesome! The number of viewers and the rate of new postings is phenomenal. It's encouraging and motivating; it makes me want to do more and do better with the next build. Thanks!

Gentlemen, you guys are SUPER kind and thoughtful. Thank you very, very much for the compliments. The chance to share and compare in this space is awesome!

Dang, I knew I was forgetting something! Thank you very much, Eric!

Hi Tulio! I thought of you when I posted this one, because I know you love restored Fords. I love your work. Glad you like this one. Take care, -TIM-

Last entry in the 'Club 409' series. This is the only one I built that actually came with a W motor. The valve covers are brass. The Weber cross-ram manifold is solder. The Daisy mags came from the Monogram Vega kit, with the center caps changed and the spokes painted, trying to make them look more like Ronal R9's, which were popular at the time I built this, around 1987. Seats are Recarro buckets.

Remember the old Monogram IMSA Mustang GTP racer? What if you combined that with a Revell '55 Chevy coupe? What to do for power.........how about a twin-turbo'd 409? I did this in about 1986, before Pro-Touring came about. It looks a little crude now, but it was my best at the time.

This is the AMT '55 Nomad, sectioned, doors opened, custom scratch-built chassis, Buttera suspension, 409 engine. Part of my 'Club 409' series from the '80's.

Sharing pictures of cars I built back in the late 80's. I did a series of Chevy's with blacked out trim and 409 engines. This is the old Revell two-door post kit that had the opening hood, doors and trunk. I created a chassis from scratch and adapted the Buttera suspension to it. The dashboard is from a '69 Chevelle. Paint is Toyota pickup blue, from bottles of dealer touch-up paint, thinned and shot through the most basic Badger air brush. f

This is a combination of Monogram '30 Model A Coupe and AMT '32 Victoria. First, an example of what the full size car looks like, then the 1/24 scale version...

Built from the AMT kit.

Built from the AMT kit.

Hello Folks. Just thought I'd share some T with you......shots from my collection, built over the years. Enjoy! First, cars built from the AMT '25 T Roadster, the '23 Depot Hack, Delivery Van, and Coupe. Below you see a stock AMT '25 Roadster on the left, the Roadster Pickup version of the same kit in the center, and a Touring car adaptation on the right. Next up, cars built from the AMT '27 T Touring car..... Out of the box...... Roadster conversion. Tudor Sedan made by combining the AMT '27 T with the Revell Buttera '26 T sedan. Coupe made with the Revell sedan body, cut down, trunk made from balsa wood and Bondo. Sedan Delivery version created from AMT and Revell kits combined. This is the AMT '27 Touring, combined with a modified version of the street rod chassis in the AMT '25 Roadster kit. The front suspension is Revell Model A dropped axle. The flathead V8 is AMT. Wheels and hubcaps are from the AMT '53 Ford pickup, with trim rings from their '40 Ford, on Revell two-piece tires. And one more street rod for good measure; this is the Revell '26 T Touring converted to a roadster pickup, using AMT '25 T bed. The wheels are Centerline Champ 500's. Remember those? They were super popular in the early '80's, when I built this model. The fronts came from an issue of the Revell '55 Chevy coupe. Wider rears came in a version of the Revell '29 Ford pickup, the fronts in that kit.

Beautiful, agreed!! Fine job. Love the darkened panel lines, super interior, and great under hood detailing.

Dave, Spex84, echo, Tulio- Thank you, Guys!!!! I appreciate all your kind words and excellent feedback. By the way, check out Tulio's '57 T-Bird. It's beautiful! Thanks again, guys.

Thank you, Draggon! Yeah, those tires really don't want to stay together. The solution I came up with is kind of funny. Look at the end of a new garden hose before you screw it onto the hose bib. There's a black rubber washer in there. They sell replacements at Home Depot. Those things turned out to have just the right width, ID and OD to pop inside the Buttera tires and do a good job of holding them together and the wheel inside. By the way, the rims are from the current Revell '32 sedan with photo etched spokes added from Herb Deeks. The hubs are brass brads from the craft store. The drums you see from behind the spokes are Monogram 1/24th '32 roadster drum/backing plates.

In terms of style, color combination and so forth, I still love the '70's resto-rod look of chrome Borrani wire wheels with big and little tires, mixed with stock bodies on a nice rake and a modern V-8 under the hood. However, as I've gotten older, I've developed a fondness for perfectly restored classics from the 30's, and sports cars from the 50's and 60's. So, you'll notice this woody has something of a classic English sports car flavor to it. The headlights are '32 Ford from the older Monogram 1/24 roadster, but I added amber bulbs inside and a black and chrome dot in the center, mimicking Marchal lamps, or PL700's. The curved, ramp-like sheet metal added below the grille shell is like a '30 Chevrolet, but also an MG TC. Same for the vertical chrome split in front of the radiator. The black painted radiator inside the shell isn't the standard Model A mesh pattern either. The vertical ribs are meant to look more like an MG. And finally the colors; my inspiration here was a rare Maybach at the Nethercutt museum in Sylmar. I noticed the warm tan color is a close match for the color of maple wood. On a stock Ford Woody, the sheet metal color is very different from the wood, in a basic tan shade. My idea was to have the sheet metal on the cowl and hood be much closer to the wood color, but not an exact match, as would be the case on a full size car. Similar to the Maybach, I really liked the green fenders and top and substituted those colors on the model in place of the standard Ford Model A black. For contrast, I added the lighter shade of green on the seat inserts, suspension, and drivetrain.

Thank you, Gentlemen!! You made my day! This was a long term project. How long? Well, I got the idea when I was a kid in 1975. The year before, Revell had re-released their '31 Ford Model A station wagon as the "Woodstock" kit. I loved that kit, but it's pretty fussy, fragile, difficult to build it and have it come out looking as nice as the model on the box. I was 10 years old at the time. I started it but never finished it. In '75 Revell released an all-new kit of Lil' John Buttera's ground breaking '26 T street rod. That's an awesome car and a pretty good model to this day. My idea as a kid was simply to combine the best elements of the T street rod with the stock A Woody. Simple, right? Fast forward to 2015, me in my 50's now, and I'm finally feeling up to the challenge of this "simple" exercise.

Looks great, Alan!

TBill, very clean build! Interior looks great. What kind of paint did you use for the green on the seats, door panels and dashboard? I notice it looks glossier on the seats and more semi-gloss on the dash pad? -TIM-

Beautiful work, Patrick! Thanks for sharing.....

Excellent work! Thank you for sharing all the how-to details. I've got these same parts in my collection and you've given me plenty of food for thought on how I might use them. Thanks again!

Hi Mike. I'm looking forward to seeing your CHP Buick. Actually, that was the great part of the old TV series "Highway Patrol" with Broderick Crawford; the cars were the stars, at least to me they were! I've seen a couple of Buick replicas. There was one that was actually a pro street car with steamroller tires in back, but on wide steel wheels with dog-dish caps. The shield graphics on the door said something like, "back alley patrol". It was black and white with lights and a siren on top, but the interior was gutted with a race bucket, if I remember correctly. Interesting mix; something like the old Monogram Cop-out Duster funny car.