Dennis Lacy

I’ll have to echo others that the bare steel effect you achieved is absolutely killer. I also like the other details you added like license plate collages inside, the grill and top inserts.

Love where this one is headed. Sure to be another awesome ‘32 from your workbench!

I saw your model at the NHRA Museum show yesterday. Looked great in person! I especially like the blown Caddy, custom interior and pleated top and running boards.

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I had the pleasure of meeting Jason this weekend and talking to him at length. Great guy who is downright passionate about scale hot rods. I picked up 2 of everything from him and I’m looking forward to putting these parts to use. They’re very nicely made and you all need to get in on this while they’re available because we never know how long these products will be around. No one else offers louvred hoods for the Revell ‘32 series!

Thanks so much, Dave!

Awesome subject. Mark Skippers Collins Roadster recreation is impeccable! Very much looking forward to watch your inspired-by Cabriolet come together. ?

Thanks! Yeah, you guys in Vegas probably get it a little worse but I know first hand it can get balls freezing cold ? in the winter nights there too as I once celebrated New Years Eve on the strip back in ‘05. I didn’t want to bother with a jacket hotel club hopping and man did I regret it standing out there waiting for midnight! I was thoroughly inebriated and that didn’t even help ?

Guess I’m quite a bit late to the party. Some friend I am! ?‍♂️ Absolutely nailed it. It’s everything a Fad T should be! Perfect proportions and what makes it (for me) is the top and windshield struts. The headers and tall air filters are right-on, too. Love it!!!

One of those models on the cover looks incredibly similar to one in my display case. So much so that I dare say identical! ?

Great start, Jim! A word of advice on the Ala Kart rear tires. Put some .040” material (roughly) on the backsides of the whitewall inserts and that will make them flush with the tire side wall. As they come they are a bit sunken. Go back and look at the pics of the ‘34 Pickup I DM’d on Instagram. Those have been shimmed.

UPDATE! Has it really been the better part of 3 months since my last update? ? Not for lack of enthusiasm either. Now that we’re finally past the triple digit temps here in SoCal I can finally stand to be at my bench out in the garage again. There was also a slew of obligations keeping me away even if the weather had been favorable. Today I sat down and got this T Bucket out of its box and did another full mock up to remember where I was at and to my surprise the only significant thing left was modifying the dashboard so I went ahead and did that. What I did was graft in the gauge panel and opening from the dash in Revell’s ‘30 Coupe to the kits T dash. Much better than the faintly engraved gauges that the dash originally had and I think the Stewart Warner 6-hole panel goes well with the rest of the early 60’s theme of hot rod parts. With that I can do the final prep work and start the paint process. Speaking of paint, I better order the body color!

Really… I can’t wait!!!

Very cool! I know John. I’m sure he’ll love it.

I’ve never heard of this kit until now. Very cool that the fenders and chassis are all from the roadster pickup / woody. That means if a person just had the custom body that they could easily make something out of it.

Loved the first one. Looking forward to seeing what you do with this one!

Who is Rusty? ?‍♂️

Very cool! That swap would be sacrilegious in the full size world but that’s the beauty of models. Love the repurposed spoiler into a chin spoiler and the Saleen wing out back. Metallic yellow paint and the bark BBS style wheels look great together.

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UPDATE! Did a little work on the sister Roadster Pickup yesterday. Started addressing getting the body properly smoothed out. I left the doors functional on my closed cab but since this is a roadster and the interior can be easily viewed I felt it unnecessary. The notches for the hinges got filled and the doors were glued in with liberal amounts of Zap A Gap. Once set I smoothed everything out and then scribed the door gap lines back in. I also permanently installed the lower half of the firewall and filled the slot where the original steering shaft passed through. On the bottom side those two rectangle holes were filled and the rear floor generally smoothed out. The radiator shell had its Ford emblem and lower crank access cover smoother and the radiator cap slot at the top filled and smoothed. Lastly I started working on fitting a dashboard. This one is from the Monogram ZZ Top coupe and features a period correct billet gauge panel. This could change but so far I think I like it. Thats all for now. It felt good to make some progress!

Our friend @Kit Karson has suggested that I create a group thread in the Under Glass for pickups where we can all share our finished Tim Boyd tribute trucks. Sounds like a good idea to me so look for that soon. I realized that the finished pictures I took of my truck weren’t the greatest so I figured out a good background and lighting so that I could shoot new and improved pics that show the finished quality of my truck much better.

Weekend before this last one it was disgustingly hot outside which led to spending most of it inside bored looking for something to do. One thing I ended up doing was going back through this entire thread as it’s unbelievable to me that it’s received over 40k views! I never would have guessed when I started it and then invited others to join in that it would hit the numbers of views and postings that it has! Yesterday I was out at my bench and going through project boxes to access and remember everything I had going. If you guys remember I had actually started a sister roadster pickup version to go with my closed but then I focused on and finished the closed cab while the roadster took a back burner. Looking through it yesterday and I didn’t remember it being as far along as it is. Perhaps it’s time to join back in and work it to completion? I think a couple Sunday afternoons would have it ready to go to paint. Here’s a quick & dirty mock up from yesterday to jog everyone’s memory’s.

Alan, I went through this whole thread for fun today and I don’t know how I missed it but I’m just today seeing your finished truck! ?‍♂️ I really like the finished result! Every bit of it looks absolutely period perfect. I love that you dared to be different with extended cab and hopped up V6. With the extra cab you had the advantage of room to use those Buttera seats as-is where I had to modify them to straighten up the seat backs so they would fit. I also like how you finished the back end with the tailgate, graphics and billet taillights. Did you do an Under Glass post? Got a link to it?

Cool project! The front wheels depend on if you want to make this adhere to actual racing class rules? If so the best class to aim for would be Gas. In which case it would require functional brakes on the front and that would eliminate the 12 spoke wheels. Coming from a perspective of traditional accuracy the steel wheels up front would be a good match for the 5 spokes out back.

There are so many pieces grafted together for that belly pan it’s hard to conceive of how you even got started.