bill-e-boy

Oops - should have been posted under glass

Present build Teaser pix to start off

This is an old build from the 80's AMT 29 Roadster from the Ala Kart double kit with black Duco paint - the real deal with no clearcoat - just colour sanded and rubbed out Interior, screen and guauge panel from the Ala Kart Wheels and tyres from an 80's release of the Revell 56 F100 Motor and blower from scrap box with carb from an AMT 69 Fairlane Cobra Rear end from a Lil John Buttera kit The chassis is fully scratch built as back in the day we did not have a kit to rob a pinched 32 frame from. I used an AMT 32 for the frame rail dimensions and went from there Look at the pix and you will see lots of added detail stuff mostly from scratch I will post pix of some of my older builds over time as I get around to photographing them

It is common when lowering a car to move the the front wheels forward when you can. This so that the car does not look like it is tripping over itself

This is a AMT 29 Roadster that I built up in early-mid eighties Scratch built 32 chassis rails using AMT 32s and researched scale drawings, pinched at cowl for 29 body AMT 29A front and rear cross members, tubular mid members Blown small block Chebby Front end ?? with scratch built disk brakes, rear from Lil' John Buttera kit Ala Kart interior with chromed dash and screen and fire wall which was ressessed Radiator cooling fan mounts made from printers plate Wheels and tire from Revel 56 F100 Paint is real black laqueur hand rubbed and polished with no clear Fully wired and plumbed

My take on the Revell 29 Roadster Lowered both ends, flatty from 32 Sedan, some scratch built coil overs for the rear A true A-V8

You could always pass it off as a 405ci - stroked 360 - with 500hp That would move it along nicely

It's cheap so go for it Should be OK in the pressures used for airbrushes I use a vinyl hose that is most probably thinner than aquarium tube and has been OK for years and years

Some nice builds there Below is a couple of mine The coupe was a challenge with a fellow club member as to who could build the lowest 32 Coupe - yup I won The other is a build from the early 80's - 427 from the kit with a C6 instead of the flatty gearbox, 4 barrel, rocker covers and air cleaner from a 69 Cobra, scratch-built headers, Jag XKE front and rear, top chop, blue window tint in a nod to Uncle Tim, paint is Humbrol red mixed with silver Humbrol plus clear, wires from XKE widened in the back. A typical resto rod from the day

MRM - yup I think you are right Next time I build one I will wack the windshield a bit Alexis - to nice for a TROG thanks all for the positive feedback bill-e-boy

Very nice On my bucket list of builds yet to be done

Started with the original release of the Revell 29 Roadster which was lowered as the stock version was just too high IMHO Front end lowered with flat cross member replacing the original Rear lowered by lifting cross member up and using shorter coil overs that I machined up The centre section of rear cross member raised to clear rear end Flathead motor used from Revell 32 Tudor c/w flathead front engine mount cross member Painted in Tamiya X-4 blue with X-14 sky blue interior accents - No clear used The rest is from the 29 Roadster See build up in WIP

Great looking rod, got the stance spot on, color combo nice too I chopped one of these bodies a while ago for a mate - not quite as low as yours though

Cool build

And final assembly The chrome on the radiator surround was naff so painted with Alcad over gloss black

Next up is interior which is painted Tamiya X-4 blue and X-14 Sky blue shot dry to get a semi-gloss finish Shot through my Badger air brush and thinned with 3M lacquer thinners

Next lot of pix show engine HT wiring looms and general chassis construction and assembly after paint Paint is Tamiya X-4 blue with no clear coat

Next up is some photos of the sequence of the manufacture of the coil over shocks The base material is ally which has been machined to shape The C/O shaft is stainless steel filler wire and the coils are copper wire strands stripped out of household electrical cable - lots of uses for copper strands from almost any cable In the dark ages I used painted fuse wire for spark plug leads - held its shape way better than sewing thread or nylon fishing line - I'm talking real dark ages here

I had a look through my computer that I store pix from my SLR camera and found some more photos of the front end and the engine mount from the 32 Tudor The first shows the front end - way too high for my liking The next is the original front end cut out of the frame in preparation for the flat cross member The last one has cross member from the 32 Sedan for the flat head motor. The nail head motor mounts have been cut away as well

"That’s some nice work on the frame, thanks for showing us your work. I am not very familiar with this kit, how much of the rear frame did you change? " Hi Jeff Below is a pix of the original frame I cut off the raised portion and made a new piece with mounts for the floor. There are spacers added to raise the new piece for rear axle clearance

Next up was the install of the motor The flathead option from the Revell 32 Tudor sedan was chosen The flathead from motor mount was installed behind the front cross member and this fitted with little modification - unfortunately no pix The complete unit of motor and gearbox was used from the 32 kit The lowered rear end posed a problem with the coil-overs now too long The answer was to spend some time on my Unimat 3 lathe to machine up a set of coil overs The spring was made by winding some silver wire on a screw and trimming to length Next up paint - dark blue with two tone light/dark blue interior

Next up the rear end The frame was notched and spacers installed in the cross member for clearance of the pumpkin Pix show unmodified and modified

The build started with addressing the ride height The front end was lowered by installing a flat cross member which was a piece of channel stock This was strengthened with some wire and the frame notched for clearance

I see the Revel 29 Roadster has been re-released albeit with a different motor This build was done about 2-3 years ago and is inspired by some pix I saw online. The theme is AV8 hi-boy roadster The bog stock Revel kit sits way too high so this needed to be addressed as well

Thanks for the kind words guys