Dennis Lacy

Fresh off the workbench! Based on Revell's short-lived '30 Ford Coupe hot rod kit. Heavily modified. - Revell '48 Ford frame center "X" member, Revell '29 Pickup rear cross member. - Kit bashed Halibrand Quick Change rear axle and spring. - Revell '32 5-Window front axle & suspension with modified shocks and mounting. - Revell '48 Ford brake plates and kit finned drums, '48 Ford master cylinder. - Revell '48 Ford Custom Coupe Navarro - equipped flathead engine with home made zoomie headers, plug wires and fuel/oil plumbing. - American mag wheels with tall & narrow M&H slicks and bias ply front tires. - Kit interior with Covico 3-spoke steering wheel and bench seat. - Roof insert panel modified with added louvers and painted aluminum, Revell '32 5-Window louvered trunk lid, modified kit '32 grill & shell and '36 Ford headlights. - Duplicolor Red with Tamiya clear rubbed out with Adam's correcting polish and coated in Adam's Buttery Wax. Comments, good and bad, welcomed!

Nice project! Right up my alley. Will definitely be following along.

Absolutely beautiful!

Thanks for putting this together, Tim! I like all of them but especially the blue one with black wire wheels. That car is Race Of Gentleman perfect down to every detail. I especially live the header pipes, Edmund's air "filters" and the inclusion of the stock side aprons for that "I just stripped it down to race" look. Second favorite is the other blue one with the Caddy engine and straw colored wire wheels. The '34 truck grill looks so right on it. Not an easy thing to pull off! I'd love one just like it in full scale out in the garage.

So Chuck, on a model like this do you bother to set up a complete rear axle and suspension or is it in the vein of a curbside where only things that show get addressed?

You make some of the best rat rods and beaters! One detail I especially like is the wire mesh in the windows.

Looks awesome, Brother! Just a timeless hot rod. Love the color scheme and the small block Ford. Those old school SVO valve covers are so sweet! Those Satco front tires are worlds better than the Dunlop low-rider tires that come with those wheels.

Name it "STUBBY". Reminds of those severely shortened VW buses.

I've had multiple models at the same show selected to be photographed and then later show up in the same contest coverage article in MCM. It was the first model show (non-comp NNL) that I had ever participated in. Photographer had no idea who I was, nor did anyone else. I don't think it's anything more than he walked around the tables and put a card next to what caught his eye. I was flattered that he thought enough of any of my models to photograph them. That being said, does favoritism and the "buddy system" happen? Definitely! That's life.

Weren't the '39 Chevy Coupe and Sedan Delivery in the series, too?

I've seen that before, love it! Here's as far as I got on my project but at least I started doing something with one of these...

For as excited as people get over this kit why doesn't it get built more often? Too sacred? I bought a mint complete one a few years back for about $70 then promptly whipped out the razor saw and chopped the top 4 scale inches. It's only plastic... Now, if it actually came to pass that the Sedan body was produced again and (most logically included as a bonus option in the Woody / RPU kit) I'd definitely grab a couple for hot rod projects.

And who knows if German's know how to use a measuring tape?! Or is it tape measure? It's just all so confusing...

It was also just completely restored for comedian / vantriliquist Jeff Dunham who has an impressive collection.

I wonder if there is a clinical name for a tape-measure fetish???

Maybe the forum needs a "Safe Section" where sensitive people can go get virtual hugs just in case they accidentally encounter one of those words before a moderator can erase them?

I don't think you guys are giving enough credit for interest in American cars & trucks. There is a thriving segment of interest, particularly vintage vehicles, in Germany, France, UK and the Scandanavian counties. On a weekly basis vintage cars located in the US are being sold to these countries and going on a big boat ride. Japan is another huge buyer right now. These people are hungry for American culture and are well aware of what's going on here in the States. In a lot of ways, they are doing it better and more hardcore than we are.

Man, this turned out awesome! The weathering makes it look like it's been raced a few years in a row and they didn't clean the salt water spray off. I really like the wheel and tire combo and the splash aprons. What's next?

Nice! Looks really neat with the roadsters Buick engine and I like the color scheme.

Very cool! Digging the Red Ram and cut down Chevy rear section. Are you going to rework that hard top to fit? That would probably look awesome.

Just not around here. Haven't seen that guy post here in a couple of years. Another cool wheel and tire set that would look awesome are from the Lil Coffin show rod by Monogram. Similar rear wheels and whitwall slicks with matching front wheels and skinny whitewall tires.

Fantastic chop! Too bad Dr. Cranky isn't still around, he'd be all over those frame rails covered in watch parts. Since you don't seem confident with the front wheels & tires I'd suggest something else. Did the rears come from the Boothill Express? How about the front 12-spokes from that kit?

I love Street Outlaws. Those guys are the real deal. Chuck is definitely my favorite. Cheif and Shawn have a weekly podcast "The Cheif And Shawn Show" that's fun to listen to. Great insight into their world and great stories. I also very much enjoy Fast & Loud. Never missed an episode. The build quality and depth of their projects has gone way up from where they started. The '34 Coupe they recently built with guest Brian Bass is phenomenal! Love him or hate him but Richard Rawlings is doing something right. He's grown that business and brand like crazy in the last 6 years. Their name is on everything. If he had a low key personality none of that growth would have happened. Who cares if he doesn't work on any of the cars? That was never intended to be his roll from the onset. He's the business man and promoter. My Dad doesn't work on the cars that come through our shop, either. That's what I'm paid to do. He does the hard part - running the business! Now I'm checking out Aaron Kaufman's new show and so far, so good. For those that don't like Fast & Loud his show is (so far) much more straight forward.

Ambitious project! Replicas & Miniatures Co. of Maryland offers a Cabriolet, Sport Coupe and a closed cab Pickup. They all fit the Revell '32 series kits. While simply putting a '32 grill and hood on a '34 truck will save a bunch of work, the '34 has a 6-inch longer wheel base than a '32 making the fenders more centered on the bed. On a '32 truck the fenders are heavily offset towards the front of the bed. Also, my dad owned a legit '32 Roadster Pickup for 20 years. The cab shares nothing in common with the passenger car Roadster body sheet metal. It also shared nothing in common with the closed cab sheet metal except for the subframe and gas tank seat base. But, you're correct about the fixed position up-top. It didn't fold and had to be removed entirely if one wanted to go topless.

I did notice that. It's especially obvious in these new pics. It's weird because it's the same grill shell from the previous version. The bottom edge that sits on the frame has been slightly trimmed because I slightly trimmed the firewall feet to drop the cowl and everything used to line up. The factors that changed is I replaced the hood top and frame. Looks like I'll need to replace the shell with one that isn't trimmed, or trim the firewall feet a little more. Either way, it will get corrected. I do really like the added center trim to the grill insert on the Hollenbeck AMBR car. (Truly beautiful car in person by the way!) I'll give that some thought.