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With the body smoothed it does sort of look like '27T. Neat!

may I be the first to congratulate you on your excellent Dragonsnake Cobra. It is beautiful in all respects. I am amazed at how good the wire wheels look which I assume are dechromed kit wheels painted and black washed.

Very well done build especially in such a short time. I really like the painted radiator shell, the use of the Rat Roaster wheels & tires and the extra chroming.

Hi Carl - You should bring your very good looking Deuce Roadster to Deuce Days in Scale July 24 in Victoria [see link below]. It would fit right in. I bet Revell could sell a bunch more Roadster kits if they added fenders and some different parts from the other Deuce kits.

Gorgeous model of still one of the best looking cars of all time. This may also be the first time that two Duesies are posted on the first page of Under Glass at the same time which is wonderful coincidence. .

Very well thought out model and excellent recycling from your parts box. The Rat Rods I tend to like most are those which would also look good shiny and yours certainly fits that category. I especially like the way the gas tank fits between the body and the rear cross member.

Great looking Falcon proving a very nice model can be built from the much maligned Trumpter kit although criticism well founded. I have always been a Falcon guy and was lucky enough to have owned for a few years a Rangoon Red '65 Hardtop Hi-Po 289 top-loader 4-speed clone of a version that was only available in Canada in 1965. Mine was slightly lowered with classic Torque-thrusts and front disc brakes. I still wish I had never sold it.

This really is overwhelming - in a very good way.

This is a fabulous model in all respects. The Avanti has always intrigued me from the time I first ever saw one and read about them at Bonneville. It was also the first previously owned kit I ever bought but have yet to build.

Looks like it is going to be a fun build.

The wheels are from the Dan Gurney Olsonite Eagle from MPC and really are beautiful

I am going to use the Gurney Weslake heads, valve & valley covers and fuel injection from the Dan Gurney Olsonite Eagle from MPC

When Dan Gurney arrived in California with his family in 1948 just after graduating high school he traded a ’40 Ford Sedan for a chopped Deuce 5-Window. I decided to build a custom Deuce 5-Window as a tribute to that car like one of the top hot-rod shops might do. If this were to be a car that Dan could jump in and enjoy it would have to meet a number high standards such as being fast as well as handling and stopping very well. It would also have to be comfortable, safe and very good looking. I started off thinking it would just be a chopped 5-W with the engine and wheels from an Eagle Indy Car and modern running gear but it is taking on a life of its own and evolving. After chopping the top a scale 4 inches I figured Dan who is a tall guy would need extra headroom like he did in his Le Mans winning Ford GT40 so I doomed the roof with a piece cut out of a Phantom Vickie roof. This made the window openings look out of proportions so I enlarged all the window openings to be later fitted with flush “glass”. Essentially the height and visibility lost with the chop has been regained with a different look. At this point I decided to go the full custom route. I smoothed the running boards and fenders with the rear getting a slight bob. The rear roll pan comes from the Revell 29 pickup and the taillights will be recessed. The grill shell has been lowered and is getting an eagle’s beak up top and a shaped section between the front frame horns. The cowl will need to be pie-cut or at least re-contoured but I have already filled the cowl vent. The hood top and sides will be smooth and the headlights will be mounted on fender stanchions without a crossbar. Underneath I am using the full frame and front suspension and steering from the AMT Phantom Vickie. In back I am using a modified version of the Corvette independent rear suspension from the AMT ’34 Ford Street Rod. I hope to get both ends as low as possible. When completed it will be painted a very dark blue and I may add scallops similar to Dan’s Lola T70 in 1966.

Thanks Bernard. As mentioned up the thread. I was lucky - The latches came from my spare parts box but I am pretty sure they were from a Revell tube-frame era Camaro TranAm racecar kit.

I finally have a model of my own to post based on the wonderful Revell ’29 Ford Roadster kit. This model is a tribute to Dan Gurney’s first sanctioned competition drive in his friend Skip Hudson’s ‘29 Ford at Bonneville in 1950. If you want to learn more about the real car and model build details please see my On The Workbench and Under Glass posts http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/105810-29-ford-channelled-over-deuce-frame-under-glass/ http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/110772-1929-ford-roadster-dan-gurney-bonneville-1950/#comment-1582383

The latches came from my spare parts box but I am pretty sure they were from a Revell tube-frame era Camaro TranAm racecar kit. They sort of capture the look of lunch box latches which were commonly used on hot-rod hoods.

Could not resist checking this out and was surprised at how much I like it. I wonder if there are other General Lee versions out there??

A racer friend who regularly corresponds with Dan has sent him a couple of photos

Completed and posted Under Glass January 11/16

Here a couple of composite photos in black & white

This model is a tribute to Dan Gurney’s first sanctioned competition drive in his friend Skip Hudson’s ‘29 Ford at Bonneville in 1950. If you want to learn more about the real car and model build details please see my On The Workbench posts http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/105810-29-ford-channelled-over-deuce-frame-under-glass/ Briefly I channeled the Revell ‘29 Roadster over the kit Deuce frame. It now has a Model-A rear cross-member supporting a buggy sprung quickchange rear-end. The flathead engine is from the Revell ‘48 Ford Coupe with the three-carb set up and front cover from the ’32 Sedan. The blue is a blend of Testor’s enamels – Arctic Blue metallic and Pontiac Engine Blue. The interior is Tamiya Racing White and Flat Clear. The side numbers are hand painted acrylic flat white on clear decal film. The tonneau cover is painted masking tape. The license and club plaque are internet images. It appears license plates were much wider in 1950. I eventually plan to convert the model to street trim as it appeared on the first color cover of Hot Rod – April 1951.

Very well done weathering on a car that looks to have been ridden hard and put away wet!!??

Fantastic recovery. Interior is incredibly well detailed and interesting.

Nice deuce coupe build from a great kit.

Thanks everyone for your positive comments. I think I am getting better capturing red digitally. Next time hopefully my posted red models will look red from the start!!