bill-e-boy

The Buttera 26 T chassis is too short to fit under the A guards - I lengthened mine after being shown a similar conversion by @tim boyd There is a similar build thread going on with lots of reference pix - look for Tim Boyd Tribute build Just not sure how to imbed a link to the thread

Nice build Bob

Just could not stand the refrigerator white paint - just does not scream hot rod. So into the dunk it goes. I use brake fluid and it took some effort with a brass wire brush, a toothbrush and a tooth pick to get all of the paint off but all the better for the effort The chop job was a good one so hopefully not too much body work will be needed to get it ready for paint While the body was going for a swim I have been working on the engine and interior The engine is wired with a prewired distributor that has been in my aftermarket box for yonks. The coil I turned up a while ago when I wanted one so made 4 or five for future projects. The valleys on the rocker covers were painted satin black as was the block and trans In the original build the interior was stripped down and painted aluminium to represent a race type ally interior. It was cleaned up and reprayed with Alclad polished aluminium The dash is a sectioned width wise from a 69 Cobra race car option - for the race car look. When I was looking for a dash I found that one from a Revell 40 coupe id a drop in for the Revell 32 rods - will keep that for another project street rod project More to come Thanks for looking

get them from electrical supply wharehouses I am an industrial electrician and use hundreds of them when I build a control panel. The ones I use have an insulated end but if you carefully cut that off you have what is shown in the OP pix You can get them uninsulated as shown as well

Narrow - the wide whites get lost by the full chrome wheel covers Mediums - so so My 2 cents worth

Another beauty Alan. The top chop is just right and what this kit needs IMO to look right Kool

" I really do not like seam lines on parts. The chrome on the spare tires had a very bad seam line. So I sanded it and repainted it with spaz stix. Came out pretty good. Better than expected. " This has been the bane of model of model building forever. I used to leave the chrome with the mould seam lines until Alcad the Molotow came along - they are a game changer. We can now clean up the seam lines and repaint and it looks so much better And good work with this ancient kit

I have seen it before. The chrome sprue is a separate sprue from the rest of the car as it is further processed. As the sprue is to be covered so it does not matter that the plastic is a different colour as the rest of the kit. The marbelling is caused by mixing different colour raw plastic beads that go into the hopper that feeds the injection moulder. It is common that a certain percentage of reground waste material is added to virgin material - usually from the runners that feed the sprues It may have been a visual sign to the plant operators that the sprue was to be set aside for chroming

What a nice build and something to be proud of. Cool colour and great choice for wheels. The effort was certainly worth it

Been struggling with the AMT Parts Pack hemi - can't get the shot gun headers to work and the emphasis has changed to a more streetable version - so I stole A hemi from a 5 window coupe as I know it will fit - more soon

"Looked back at the first posts on this thread but could not find what the donor kit was" Revell 28/29 Pickup 2in1 Can be built closed cab or roadster pickup It has been re-issued a few times over the years with the most recent being a Rat Rod version

What a cool looking Cuda. Gives me incentive to get one of mine built

Took a couple of goes at getting the rear wheel wells channeled = pix latter Meantime I have been working on the wheels. I am using the kit Americans. The rears were easy - just a little trimming on the internal tire diameter to fit the wheel The fronts were way too wide. The outer part fit OK bit overall the wheel was too wide for my wheel choice. I cut down the back rim and cut the spier from what was left and tapered those to look better And looking much more better now - just need to finalise the stance and cut the firewall Thanks for looking

Looking good Of all the kits I have this is the one I have built most versions of Modified Ala Kart Fully fendered Hiboy and Rat Rod and more to go

Another 32 Must be the year for or something in the air making us do it

Where did the tear slicks come from? And the winner is Mr Metallic - yup they are from an AMT parts pack - I have seen these recently so must be available again I have been working away at the coupe, mostly sorting out thigs that were started on the first build. I will post more pix when I next do some work on it

Paul - what a champion - you made that ugly air cleaner cover pop with the addition of the trumpets

Looking good - would be a handfull in real life and you would be forever replacing broken axles and lunched gear boxes. LOL

Going with the channeled version Marking and cutting the interior And marking the rear inner guards ready for cutting And filing the front spring for more drop - can never be too low This gains about 3mm drop in the front On being low - my street car has been lowered and I need to be careful when the front suspension bottoms out - it rubs metal off the sump - darn - I have fixed it once and no doubt will need to again And a mock up with the interior inserted into the body.

I missed this earlier - what a cool build. And right hook to boot

Kewl Kustom

And as a Hiboy - see thread now in WIP

And as a Hiboy The gap is just too much above the rear wheels so I am tending to favour the channeled look And the reason for refrigerator white is to show off these decals from the "other magazine" I am looking at the smaller two #20 decals which will fill out the doors nicely. Maybe even the large #20 on the trunk lid There are a lot of prepped parts with the coupe such as smoothed interior painted silver and a roll cage. If I channel it all these will need to be altered but I am a beggar for punished

Looks like a neat project Bob. I did something similar to a coupe a number of years ago but used narrower rear tires that fit into the uncut wheel wells

Kit - the pickup is lookin good Been slowly working on mine. I have the chassis nearly done - drive shaft needs paint so will fit that when done. Pix of chassis