Dennis Lacy

Absolutely beautiful conversion, you nailed it! The engine bay detailing is totally killer, too. Not to mention a great color scheme!

I love the color scheme on this, not to mention the stance and wheels. Mike Hernandez's '37 Sedan is a staple in SoCal events, seen it many times in person. It's right up there with Ryan Reed's '37 Coupe.

This is absolutely killer! I love the detailed chassis with the integrated Buttera Jag suspension and detailed Ford small block. I also really like the added front filler pan, customized A grill and headlights. The color scheme is awesome, too! I just like it all. Beautiful model!

An actual stock Model A Roadster! I really like the color scheme (especially the painted reveals and pinstriping!), the detail painting and extra detail. You definitely got the most out of this old kit!

Long wheelbase, beater body, non-typical engine and the grill higher than the cowl. All of the required Rat Rod features are accounted for!

Looks good. It's a pretty simplified kit but builds into a nice traditional roadster. This is one of my first model kits ever back in the late 80's.

That's a fantastic looking '40 Coupe! Perfect color, wheels and stance. The skirts look great on it, too!

Definitely one of the cleanest build-ups of the ZZ Top kit I've seen. Especially nice work getting the roof section blended in! The detailing on the instrument panel also looks really good. Is that paint of a photo-etch overlay?

That's a great looking '36 5-Window! You got all of the custom features right, too. Not every car looks good with E&J headlights but this one definitely does. Is the engine the kits optional 389 Pontiac or... ?

Yes we did and I had those K&R hoodlums with me. Too bad they live so far away, they'd be all over a show like this. Thanks for the link. Planning on being there!

Absolutely!

This is great! Looks like a mid-late 50's Special with with the fenders and wheels. I need to make sure to attend this year. I live right down the street! Do you have a link to flyer?

No, I'd build my own T-Bucket that didn't look like it got rear-ended!

Then the builder fixed everything that's wrong with the Grabowski car!

The Man-A-Fre intake is virtually identical in layout to '57-'65 Rochester fuel injection bed plate with the 4 Plenum mounting flanges modified to take Rochester 2GC 2-barrel carburetors. Probably the best source to create one in scale is to use the injection bed plate from Revell's '62 Corvette and mount carburetors to it.

I was infected with model trains as a little kid. My Dad has a HUGE collection of immediate Post-War Lionel trains and accessories. When I was 12 (1992) I had gotten into N-Scale stuff and my Dad built me a neat 3 x 5' layout that was kind of a modified helix with a figure 8. It never got further than finished bench work and wiring but I ran the heck out of it for the first couple of years then it went into storage. A few Summer's ago I got inspired to get the layout out and get it functional again. I had to replace some damaged track, fix some snagged wires and give the rail heads a good cleaning. I didn't like my cheesy old Bachman locos and rolling stock with their ugly toy-like Rapido couplers so I went on an eBay spree one Sunday and bought a nice Atlas GP7 and a bunch of nice Micro Trains cars with realistic functional couplers and just higher overall quality. Then I decided I wanted to modify and expand the layout and bought a huge Atlas Code-80 track lot on eBay. After all that as I started planning my attack it really set in how expensive model railroading is, even little N-Scale. Between model cars and full scale hot rods there was no room (both physically and budgetary) for a 3rd hobby so I sold everything to a nice older guy for $700. He and his wife had sold their big house in Colorado and he had to tear down his huge basement HO layout and sold off everything. They were now in a 2-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles so my little layout would fit perfect in a corner of his spare bedroom. He was having major train withdrawal so he was happy to get it. I'll probably regret it some day but I'm sure he'll take good care of it and I applied the money towards a 283 Chevy engine for my '32 Ford Pickup.

UPDATE! Not quite finished with the construction faze but almost. The extra day off this weekend helped give me a few extra hours at the bench! On the left is the first version of the steering box and shaft in Revell's '32 series. In the middle is the version from the 5-Window kit which was modified to work with the optional Hemi engine. By combining the gear box of the early version with the shaft of the newer version and offset to the inner edge of the gear I was able to make the version on the right (tacked in the frame) that will clear the Olds engine starter motor and headers. I further modified the '32 series exhausts by making extensions to the Olds headers and I added the tapered rear sections from a Revell '40 street rod pipes so that they would transition into the chrome tips nicer, which are also from the Revell '40 kits. Did some more work on the Olds engine. Made a lower radiator hose and adapted a chrome fan from the Ed Roth Tweedy Pie. Also got the radiator cut down and test fit. Started working on the interior. Cut away the rear seat portion of the floor pan and will make a flat deck back there as soon as I go get some more .040" sheet. Fit the bomber seats from the Revell '30 Coupe and made some butt cushions from some cut down AMT '32 Victoria seats. Also mounted a shifter, fuel tank and battery box from the Revell Model A's. Cut down some Revell '50 F1 Pickup door panels and dashboard. Made a column bracket & column and a Bell steering wheel from Revell's Model A kits. Another full mock up. Comments welcome!

This is the best "space rod" I have seen yet! You have an incredible imagination and creativity. Not to mention, loads of talent!!!

Back in 2010 (2 years after my return to model building) I built the chopped '32 Sedan pictured below. The chop and paint turned out really nice but there were things about it that I didn't like, like the lumpy Buick engine from the AMT '40 Coupe and the way over sized front hairpin rods. I also rushed it together to make an NNL show and the final quality suffered. Sometime later I partly disassembled it to try and fix the "rush job" but it never found its way back together. Eventually i cherry picked the body shell and few other parts then tossed the rest. Last weekend I was messing around and ended up doing an unplanned project of adapting the Halibrand style wheels from Revell's '30 Coupe to be "bolt-ons" for Revell's series of '32 Fords. When I finished the wheels I mocked them up on a Revell '32 frame and axles. To see what they'd look like with a body I grabbed the old Sedan and set it on the frame. Well, seeing the old Sedan body back up on a set of wheels got the juices flowing and another project was born! Here's where it's at as of now, a week later. I mounted the engine frome Revell's '50 Olds Custom. To it I adapted the chrome oil pan and chrome timing cover/water pump from the Ed Roth Beatnik Bandit, modified the timing cover/water pump to take the pulley/belt drive from the '50 Olds, mounted the heads and pinned the '50 Olds chrome headers to them and added pins to the '50 Olds chrome intake manifold to mount 3 Ed Roth Tweedy Pie carburetors. The body has been channeled over the frame 3/16" and the grill trimmed 3/16" to lower it down to match. The front axle mounting tabs were given the old Tim Boyd Trim to lower the front some more. The molded in gas tank was cut out of the back of the frame, the rear frame rails shortened to just under the back of the body, a chrome spreader bar fit, Revell '32 5-Window nerf bar bumpers slightly modified and fit and the tailpipes tucked up to just under the spreader bar with chrome tips added. Also, the previously mentioned Halibrand style wheels and tires from Revell's '30 Coupe. Plenty more to do. Comments welcome!

Love it! Great color scheme and I dig the wheel and tire combo. Can't go wrong with a rodded flathead, either. There were 13 thousand and change closed cabs produced in '32. Happy to say one of them is in my garage.

Looks like it could be on the floor of any early 60's Autorama show! Reminds me of the Tweedy Pie in its original flathead powered configuration before Roth got a hold of it. I really, really like it! Especially how the quick change center pokes out of the body!!!

I have several sets of the MCG heads, too, but they are HUGE! They don't even fit 1:24 flatheads correctly. For example, the finned heads from the 1:24 '40 Pickup kit are the same size footprint as any of the Revell 1:25 finned flatheads. I can't bring myself to use them on anything. MCG also offers several dual carburetor flathead intakes and they actually fit pretty good and they are very nicely done.

Thanks! (Shh, don't point out the invisible steering linkage...)

Thanks a bunch. I'm not into cartoon-like proportions either. I wouldn't have been opposed to a mild chop but that would have been counter productive to the whole "simple" idea.

Thank you! I've been wanting to put a '48 dash in a hot rod for a while and I'm really happy with the look.