Dennis Lacy

Everyone, Ed at Drag City Casting is at it again! This all-new offering is a resin chopped and stylized 1932 Ford Roadster up-top For Revell's 1932 Roadster HiBoy and Stacey David Rat Roaster kits. The top is a direct fit to the Rat Roaster but use on the HiBoy kits will require chopping the windshield 1/8". Ed is one of the best resin casters in the business and you won't be disappoint. I recently received 6 of these tops and below are a few pictures of one test fit to a couple of my previously built roadsters. Ed does not have a formal website but can be contacted by email at: "lowcab36@epix.net", by phone at: (570)-289-4345 or through his Facebook business page "Drag City Casting".

I never would have thought to combine these two kits but it works surprisingly well. The weathering looks excellent, very realistic!

Thanks, Steve! We are a couple of miles south of the San Gabriel mountain range / Angeles Forest that are currently engulfed. Not in harms way so far as catching on fire but heavy smoke that looks like fog rolling through our neighborhoods making the air quality bad.

Thanks! Fuel lines are #1 line and #1 fittings from Detail Master. The “T” at the first carburetor I made from Evergreen .040” square rod.

Thanks a bunch! If I had this in my garage I’d be in jail ?

Thanks stopping by, Roger. Glad you like it so much!

Good to hear from you, Bill. Thanks a bunch!

Thanks a bunch! Together we’re making blue hot rods great again, LOL!

Thanks brother! Gotta admit, this one did come together pretty good. ?

That’s what she said! ? Hahaha, thanks man!

Hot off the workbench is my 60's style Revell based 1930 Ford Coupe sitting on top of a Revell '32 series chassis instead of the kit provided '32 style frame. Powered by a HOT 421 Pontiac with Halibrand mags and Blue Streak slicks. Also featured is a resin body top half by Drag City Casting which has a reworked insert which is raised, textured and trimmed with a round bead. Much, much better than the kit provided flush and smooth top insert. - Revell 1930 Coupe body with Drag City Casting resin top section with better detailed insert. Wheel wells corrected to stock, smaller diameter. Modified Revell '32 firewall. Revell '32 grill. - Revell 1932 5-Window chassis modified to sit lower. - Rear brakes changed from disc to drum plates with finned drums from AMT '32 Victoria. - 421" Pontiac made from AMT Parts Pack block, heads, valve covers, intake, carbs, air filters and transmission. Revell Parts Pack timming cover/water pump and fan. AMT '36 Ford pulleys/belt from its optional Pontiac engine. Revell GM generator. - Modified headers from Monogram 1930 Woody, modified Revell Stacey David Rat Roaster exhaust. - AMT Parts Pack Halibrand wheel and tire set. - Revell '30 Coupe interior side panels and seat. Revell '29 Roadster dashboard, column and wheel. Revell '32 5-Window floor. - Tamiya "French Blue" with their clear, polished and waxed. Testors one-coat "Bronze" on engine.

Thanks for the compliment. You’re welcome! ???

Beautiful rendition of that old kit and what an incredibly nice gesture on Steve’s part to donate the body and nose!

UPDATE! A small update but an important one. Got the fuel lines made up. Used Detail Master #1 line and fittings. The T-fitting is made from .040" square rod. Now the engine looks more complete except that I still need to cut an upper "hose" to fit. I also painted the inside of the body flat black today. All that's left now is to install the glass and assemble the interior then the body can be glued down. No more updates. Next post will be in the finished section.

UPDATE! Put in some work today. Got the engine completely assembled and wired. Very pleased with the results! The distributor is a Spalding Flamethrower dual-coil unit (no, it's not a megneto!) from AMT's parts pack Pontiac 421 which I had to drill 5x on each side and glue wires into. No fuel plumbing this time around as the shear number of carburetors have enough presence. I did add a dip stick handle, though! I also glued the mufflers to the exhaust pipes and blacked-out the tips.

Right on. It’s neat the effects the different clears can create. Like the wheels on this model. Normally the Silver Leaf is a bright, shiny silver. Like a space suit in an old 50’s si-fi movie. But hit it with flat clear and it dries to a textured, as-cast finish. The other thing I’ve been doing lately is spraying the exhaust pipes with Tamiya “Mica Silver” then hitting them with the flat clear. It ends up a dull metallic finish similar to the aluminized coating that comes on new mild steel 1:1 exhaust pipes to keep them from rusting.

Thank you! Your dads old truck sounds really neat. Those 60hp engines are pretty gutless but probably not as bad in a lighter Model A? I had a ‘38 standard sedan in the shop a few years ago that was an all-original low mile survivor and it had a V8-60. Dangerously slow in that big, heavy car!

That is Wicked!!!

UPDATE! After a proper amount of drying time I was able to polish and wax the body and frame yesterday. Today the weather was tolerable out in the garage so I spent the afternoon at the bench getting the chassis fully assembled, complete with grill, radiator and headlights. I also got the firewall, license plate and taillights installed to the body. Here's some pictures of where it's at as of now. I still need to make and install the engine fuel lines and then assemble the glass and interior into the body. One more day at the bench should get it finished so with any luck, next Sunday.

This is looking awesome! Really looking forward to seeing it put together.

I’ve never really gravitated towards these trucks and now I know why. The proportions with the shortened bed and wheelbase are infinitely better! Not only that but the stance is perfect making for a seriously tough looking truck. The engine is rad and it’s neat to see those Corvette gasser wheels put to use. I also dig the paint. Well, I just love the whole truck!

This project is killer, Roger! I love the blending in of the 2nd gen Lightning chassis and engine. If it were full scale that setup would move this truck good! I also like how you integrated the exhaust. The oversize steelie wheels are a nice look and should go good with your commercial style paint scheme.

Love it! So nice to see one that isn’t red and it looks awesome lowered with the updated wheels.

The look of this car is just plain wicked thanks to the aggressive chop and being blacked-out. And it has my favorite hot rod engine in it! My favorite A Coupe from your work bench so far. Someone needs to build a full scale version!

I actually only ended up using the transmission pan. If you look at the painted engine parts I changed to Corvette valve covers from Revell’s ‘62 stock Vette kit. The mounting points are enough different between the two kits that it wouldn’t have made sense to change the whole engine and trans just to end up with the same thing, a SBC and auto. And the ‘37 kits engine is detailed quite well.