Reeves Racing

Great work. Very clean building.

I found the one an only build photo of the real car and thought I would post it to this oldie but goodie

Great stuff as usual Kerry, but the left rear looks a little low to me...

Here is some more from last night. These new pens I got are really something. I used them on the valve covers. I made springs for the front end and got the first coat of primer on the body.

I cleaned up the manifold and I decided to us the lower control arms from a Revell 66 Mustang kit.

Dads car has a 350. When we raced head to head he never beat me. He has since done some more work to his car and it runs 12.50s so as of the last time I was able run the Comet before I sold it he's faster now. The GM cars can have a lot of negative camber on launch too. You probably just saw more Fords with the front ends up than you did Chevys...

Thats cool Niko, I think its great when you can spend good times with family. The Biscayne was running similar times as the Comet but in all the time we raced (a couple of dozen) Dad never beat me. His car has a 350. Its faster now it runs 12.50s,

All your stuff is great. That BOD Camaro is the best though.

Thanks, It wasn't a world beater but it was dependable and a super fun hobby racer. My dad has a 63 Biscayne called Bis-Quick and we both used to race together a lot when I lived in Kansas.

I really appreciate all the interest in this WIP guys. I plan on getting a lot done this weekend, so more pictures to come. Please feel free to comment and ask questions. We all do this because we love cars and building models is much cheaper than building the real ones...

It's not off topic just a little deeper on the subject. It was a 302 Ford from a 1985 Mustang. Bored .30 over with new hypereutectic flat top pistons with stock rods and crank. World Products Windsor Jr. cast iron heads hand ported and polished with Manley stainless steel valves. Parker Funnel Web intake and Comp Cams 294/306 .554/.558 XTREME ENERGY cam with hydraulic flat tappet lifters. ProComp gear drive. ProForm aluminum needle bearing roller tipped rocker arms. Crane Cams hardened push rods and guide plates. Ford Racing windage tray. ProForm HEI distributor with MSD cap and rotor and Pertronix Flame Thrower ignition module and coil. Moroso Ultra 40 Plug wires and Autolite Racing spark plugs. Holley 650 double pumper with a machined off choke horn and 50 cc accelerator pumps. ProComp SFI harmonic balancer, ProForm electric water pump. Melling oil pump. Cyclone headers and polished aluminum fabricated valve covers. My dad and I built the engine. It ran 12.70s and never ever broke on me except on the maiden voyage when the transmission bell housing broke and twisted up the driveshaft.

Thanks, I like the hardtops but I always liked the coupes too. Great reference material. I have one of the Trumpeter Falcons, I am going to open it up and look at what I might be able to use or copy for this build. Thanks for posting the comparisons. This will help a lot of guys wanting to use the chassis on other builds. The Moebius kit is a great kit (I think the AMT 66 Fairlane is a great kit too) and it will build a great shelf model of a 65 Cyclone.

Lol yeah. My next upgrade was going to be a set of headers from Crites but I sold it before that happened. The turnbuckle is part of the alternator bracket I fabbed up. I used a small high amp GM alternator and it was the only thing belt driven off the crank pully. So i had to make all the brackets.

Nice work on the drip rails Steve. I am watching with much interest.

Nice to see others jumping in on this kit. I'm looking forward to seeing your paint work.

I used the towers from the AMT 69 Falcon modified stocker kit I looked at the pictures of the upcoming kit of the AFX version that Moebius is releasing and the inner fender aprons are completely a different part. The spring towers on the AFX car are completely eliminated to make room for the supper wide cammer engine and the tops of the springs are held by cup brackets located outside of the engine compartment between the fender and the apron. So this makes it EVEN more frustrating that Moebius copied the AMT Fairlane fender aprons and spring towers instead of making the correct Comet towers that are tapered toward the top. The kit also does not have the welded in place shock tower braces but only a very skinny Mustang-esque bolt on export brace that was a dealer option not a factory option... The engine compartment of the Comets and Falcons of this vintage may look very much like a Mustang but they are narrower by 1 1/2 inches which is why you can't use 65 Mustang SBF headers on a 65 Comet or Falcon. Unless you beat the hell out of them and the fender apron that is...

As Ron pointed out the top just wasn't quite right. I wasn't satisfied with shape and angle of the C pillar so I did a little more trimming and shaping. I think this looks a little better. Its not perfect but it's close enough for me. I am going to move forward with the rest of the body work now. I also played around with my new "Chrome Pens", They are amazing. I did some testing on another piece of plastic so I can see how durable they are. This may be an answer to places that are really too small for BMF. Its snowing today so I plan on staying in this weekend and hope to have all the basic modifications done so I can get to painting and building. I am very anxious to use my custom decals. Here is a mock up of the stance, I think I need to use a slick with just a bit lower profile.

Steve, I think you're right on about where I sourced the stock shaped spring towers. I couldn't remember but I do have a started 69 Falcon modified stocker kit. Im sure thats where they came from.

I see it too Ron, I purposely haven't worked too much on the body work at the top edge of the back of the roof because I am debating whether to try and tackle that adjustment to the C pillar. Not only does it need to tilt more towards the front of the car at the top, it could stand to be a fuzz thinner too. I'm just not sure of a good way to do it.

Thanks for moving this. Thanks so much guys!, Here are some more pictures. Some of the body work sanded and a resin hood I found in the parts box that I am going to use on one of the other Comet Cyclone kits I bought. The mock up of the engine with the intake and distributor. I am going to have a tight fit with the headers (just like the real car) after putting in the stock spring towers. Here are some custom decals I had printed and a couple more of the real car. I got them from Thomas at Speedway Decals (his email is speedwaydecals@yahoo)

Thanks guys, I am having almost as much fun building the model as I did the real car. I hope someone can move this to On The Work Bench because it looks like I put it under glass by mistake....Sorry.

This build has been 6 years in the making. It is a model of the drag car I built with my dad and son. I sold the real car a couple of years ago after moving to Kentucky. I will always have a soft spot for that old Comet. I like to build models of the cars I have owned and this one was no different but I could not find a 65 Comet kit anywhere back in 2010. I found a resin body and tried to use it but it was from what looked like a very worn out mold and was not very good. I had not worked with resin much either so it was going to take more skill than I had to make it look as good as I wanted it to. Then I found out in 2014 that Moebius was releasing a 65 Cyclone kit. I pre ordered one and waited, I waited a year and still no release, I preordered 2 more and I waited, I waited another year and finally I have my kits in styrene! During that time period I was able to collect all the detail parts I wanted in order to copy my real car as much as possible. The kit is a hardtop and my car was a sedan post so I had to change that but other than that I have a kit that will be based off of the Comet. Well, while I am extremely grateful that Moebius modeled the 65 Comet, they didn't model the stock car. The box gives all the indications that it is a bone stock 65 Cyclone. It's not. Moebius will be soon releasing an AFX drag car based off of this kit and that is what this kit is. The engine compartment is not stock Comet it is the factory AFX conversion with the Fairlane shock towers and the front end is jacked way up. The lower control arms are molded in their full extended position. The rear wheel houses are huge (already prepped for big slicks). Very disappointing for Comet head like me. In fact it looks like they copied a lot of the engineering of the AMT 66 Fairlane on the chassis and interior kit design. Still this kit gives me a starting point I never would have had. I started off by cutting the top off of a Revell 64 Fairlane Thunderbolt to give me the basic shape of the sedan top I needed. The Cyclone top looks to be just a fuzz too short compared to the real car. I have started carving up the front end to move the lower control arms up and change to more stock shaped shock towers. I also cut up the rear of the car chassis pretty much the same way I did the real car in order to make room for a narrowed 9" and 11.5 slicks. I scratched up a Funnel Web intake and am using a resin C4 transmission with the Moebuis kit small block ford. I scratched up the electric water pump and changed the angle of the oil filter. I am using the excellently molded HEI distributor from the brand new 83 Hurst Olds kit. I will be posting pictures of my real car along with the model wip for comparison. If you suffered through that ramble, here are the pictures.

Those are awesome builds JC.

lol, I know. I have some chain on order right now.

Here is some more work on the chassis, frame rail connectors and finishing up the mini tubs.