Phildaupho

Great looking phantom

Very nice work on a rarely seen subject

There have been many fine Cobra projects posted during the past year but this is the one that I would most like to see in person. Congratulations on a job very well done.

Excellent Cobra. Looks fantastic.

Beautiful model. Always one of my favorites. I saw the Sunoco Lola in action at Kent Washington summer of 1967

Very nice. Looking forward to completion photos.

Good job Cobraman. This has been a good year for 289 Cobras on the MCM forum.

I was disappointed to learn that there would be no beam axle with the Rat Roadster. That being said, there are many beam axles in other kits that can be adapted. My favorite is the beam axle and hairpins in the AMT '41 Woodie I used on a traditional Deuce. I also adapted the quick-change with mono-leaf transverse spring from the same kit. The kit has not yet arrived at my LHS here in Victoria BC Canada but I am looking forward to it. Every two years Victoria has one of the biggest Deuce Days anywhere with hundreds of '32's from all over North America on display around the Inner Harbor in mid July. The car modelling community has two Deuce model displays scheduled - one at an in door car show the first weekend of June and another at the host hotel for Deuce Days.

BRAVO - it looks so real and beautiful

Great work. I really like the photo of your Cobra production line. Harold Bradford sure does nice work on his resin parts and bodies but I am not sure if I have ever seen one of his own models.

Fantastic demonstration of scupture. My favorite part of model car building is building a car that does not exist in kit form.

Today I picked up the Revell of North America Ferrari 599 GTO which of course is the Revell of Germany kit molded in white. All things considered I can highly recommend this kit as a great value to anyone interested in building a 599 GTO. I bought the kit out of curiousity as I converted a stock 599 to GTO configuration over two years ago. Even as I was building that model I was made aware of resin conversions kits and that there would eventually be a Revell kit available. I have no regrets doing it my way but Revell did a very nice replicating this future classic especially the seats. photos of my 599 GTO http://public.fotki.com/phildaupho/models_of_sports_cars/ferrari-599-gto/

Congratulations on a fantastic historic racing Cobra replica

Great execution of a wild concept

You got everything right on your Deuce. Brovo.

Thanks Larry it was a fun project as I have been to Allen Grant's garage in Squim Washington and saw his full scale replicas. Yes I made my own decals except for the Ford lettering and V-8 on grill. I use the Testors decal program.

I made posts previously about the Cobra On the workbench http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=66468&hl= Under Glass http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=66929&hl= More photos at http://public.fotki.com/phildaupho/models_of_sports_cars/allen-grant-cobra-c/ To replicate the truck I used the currently available Revell Ed Roth ’56 Ford. I remember attempting this kit back when it was new in the early sixties. I recall that it was much more detailed and fiddly compared to the AMT and Johan kits I was used to. I am not even sure if I ever finished it. At the time I think it had small easily broken plastic pins to attach the wheels rather than the more common for the era metal axles. Even by today’s standards, for an almost half a century old kit, this ’56 Ford is surprising detailed. But I am not sure that it lives of to the old adage that it is only as good as the sum of its parts. The individual the parts and assemblies are really quite nice. I found they just did not go together as a whole all that well. It was fiddly then and still is. For this project the cab was converted to the big rear window version, which is trimmed with Evergreen, round styrene and has very thin plastic film “glass”. The kit has opening doors, which I wish more kits had but I glued the doors closed to add strength while opening up rear window. The pickup bed floor was separated from the box, as was the dash from firewall for easier painting. Many parts were de-chromed. The front bumper is rubber-covered wood and the side mirror converted from round to rectangular. I tried the dropped front axle but with the stock height rear, there was too much forward rake. In retrospect, I the truck would have looked better lowered at both ends. Because I had to use a fair amount of glue to get the running gear set there was no turning back once the “stock” stance was set. The decals were made with the Testor’s program and I used some images obtained from the Internet like the emblems and 1963 license plates. The trailer is the Round2 reissue of MPC ’76 Chevy Caprice with rope and chain from a model sailing vessel. In the first photo, the models are posed just as the real vehicles in front of the Shelby building in Venice California for the photo by Dave Friedman which appears in his book COBRA The Shelby American Original Archives 1962-1965. Standing beside the truck are Ole Olsen and Allen Grant.

Excellent looking Falcon. It is on my list of models to build in 2013 to complete aTrumpter Falcon. Hope it turns out as well as yours.

Very nice job on a good looking racecar which I believe is owned and raced by Steve Earle who started the Monterey Historics and currently operates the vintage races at Sonoma. This year being the 60th anniversary of the Corvette, both events are featuring Corvettes so I am sure this car will appear at least at Sonoma. What paint did you use? Looks like the color is right on. Agree about the quality of the VRM decals. They are fantastic.

I just watched the episode of Stacey David's Gearz called "The FinalTouch" which reviews the full build of the Rat Roadster. A view of the model is actually shown and it sure looked close to the real thing to me. I will definitely be buying more than one if only for the parts. The episode also showed winners of the second Revell model car contest. Congratulations to those winners. Happy Model Car Building New Year

Hi Andrew - I discovered your under construction Cobra after I finished mine and really like the detail stuff you are doing. I look forward to seeing your Cobra when completed. I made the front brake scoops with Evergreen tubing split in half lengthwise and joined by similar thickness flat stock. I am currently working on the 56 Ford pick-up tow vechicle and trailer. I am using the Revell Roth truck which I have converted to a big back window and the trailer from the MPC 76 Chevy Caprice. I went to Grant-O-Rama at Allen Grant's garage in Squim Washington and saw his close 1/1 replicas of the Coventry Motors Cobra and truck. Check out the photos at http://public.fotki....rant-o-rama-07/

Hi Andrew - I discovered your under construction Cobra after I finished mine and really like the detail stuff you are doing. I look forward to seeing your Cobra when completed. I made the front brake scoops with Evergreen tubing split in half lengthwise and joined by similar thickness flat stock. I am currently working on the 56 Ford pick-up tow vechicle and trailer. I am using the Revell Roth truck which I have converted to a big back window and the trailer from the MPC 76 Chevy Caprice. I went to Grant-O-Rama at Allen Grant's garage in Squim Washington and saw his close 1/1 replicas of the Coventry Motors Cobra and truck. Check out the photos at http://public.fotki.com/phildaupho/2007-auto-events/grant-o-rama-07/

Nice build. Great livery.I have seen this car vintage race a couple of times.

One more photo

Cobra CSX 2128 was originally built as a Team Shelby racecar for the 1963 Sebring race for drivers Dan Gurney, Lew Spencer and Dave McDonald. To get it ready in time it was painted with a spray can. The car went on to wide exposure on the cover of the “Hey Little Cobra” record album. Allen Grant was a Shelby employee who aspired to be a team driver. He sold CSX 2128 to Coventry Motors with the provision that he be the driver. Allen Grant was out to impress Carroll Shelby with his racing ability so to make sure his Cobra was as visible as possible on the race track, he had his buddy George Lucas an aspiring movie maker to design an eye-popping livery. Built from AMT kit.