BHarrison

Thanks Sevens! I want it to look custom but believeable like you mught get passed by it on I-75 or see it at a Petro. Was going to hook it to a Refer but I have since gathered styrene and items needed to scratch build a 53' Featherlite (Nascar Style) Car hauler to look like a trailer a Rod Shop might display at a 1:1 shows vendor area. It will have room for about three show cars and some parts with a lounge in the nose and the characteristic "lift gate" to place cars upstairs.

Been away from this project a couple of weeks while I was at the National Fire Academy. Here is some progress I made before leaving and since I got home Thursday. Frame, tanks and suspension have been painted. Fenders are mocked up and will get paint this week. Stacks are cut and polished and just resting there for a mockup until I get some elbows made. Hope to get paint on the cab this week. Happy Holidays!

Long wheel base, low suspension, big straight pipes

Here are some progress shots from this week. I have smoothed out the Catwalk cover, mounted tanks, Stack racks are on , and all suspension is lowered and set in place. Also, I realize the stacks are sitting on the tanks, this is just for mockup purposes.

Here's one I got today......

Actually no, grandpaw drove a 73 with four headlights.

I see nothing wrong with that! Nice car!

This is my "time filler" build I am working on while my two current rod builds a drying and curing. Its a 1973 (Best I can come up with) White-Freightliner COE. Its being built as an outlaw style custom. The wheelbase has been stretched to 265". Its factory visor has been modded to drop lower. The "catwalk" is wrapped from the cab mounts to the fifthwheel plate and also behind the fifthwheel. It will be getting an old school striped paint job and full fenders on the rear. I have 8" straight pipes, lowered suspension, airline box, horns relocated and an aluminum bumper in the plan. I am going to retain the old style wheels but with some Italeri rubber Michelins. Also, I am using Italeri high back air ride seats but with lowered bases. I am not gonna even try to have the detail of alot of the truck builds on here. You guys are just too much. I just wanted to throw a custom together. The name on the truck is going to be "Road Doctor" as that was my Grandfather's (roun here thats PAPAW's) CB handle and what he was known for up and down I-75 for 40+ years. Thanks for looking, BH

Its gonna be some kind of factory offered color but I am not sure yet. I used a panel scriber to do the door lines but I cut out a hole for the windows much smaller than needed and used an exacto knife and a sander stick to sneak up on the proper lines and dimensions. I can tell ya size and shape are everything to capture the look on the windows. I have ruined one before trying the same thing.

Greeneville, TN Go to Yenko.net or just google 1970 Yenko Deuce for all you wanna read abou them.

How do I find your account? I would love to see your wagon as well as your other builds.

This is a project I got started on this weekend. I know they make this one in resin but I wanted to do this in plastic as I felt I could get my proportions more accurate....or as accurate as possible as the delivery I started with wasn't spot on to start with. But, I got the wagon look I was after, and its all plastic. This one will also get the required scratchbuilt interior panels and rear seats (middle and third row). It will be a custom like is currently seen at NSRA and Goodguys events and even though its the lower optioned Handyman Wagon, it may still get a little wood grain here and there. Thanks for looking! BHarrison

This is a set of early pics of one of my new projects on the bench. It is a 1970 Chevrolet Nova Yenko Deuce. It would be one of ten built as the Citrus Green color only became available in the Yenko Deuce after they sold out of the initial 125 cars and ordered 50 more. Their were five colors available in the last fifty cars with ten being built of each of the five colors. It is getting full undercarriage detail as well as under hood. Undergarriage paint fades are per a 1:1 restoration manual. It will wear black Yenko Deuce stripes and Torq Thrust D wheels with metalizer paint. The pic of the car mocked up on the wheels is before clear. Thanks for looking and have a great rest of your Sunday! BHarrison

Thanks for the comments guys

Even for a Prowler? lol

This was a styling experiment in "What if you built a high end contemporary street rod 40's Dry Lakes style with todays style combined and todays technology?" Its got some ond style parts, some old style stuff done a new technology way, and some strictly new style stuff.

The paint is Testors Lacquer. The wheels however are a matter of opinion and one my dad and I hash out on a regular basis. I also do 1:1 street rods and customs and sell wheels. He's all 14/15" Gray Five spokes and I sell way more 18/20" combos than anything. I wanted the look of the Air Bagged early sixties X Frame GM stuff we see at NSRA and Goodguys shows. That said, I find wheel discussion to be amusing these days and its something that to me makes this hobby cool that we can all build em a way we like and the next guy builds the same car but all together different. God Bless America! lol

Just finished this one today with the exception of the fender emblems I need to paint after final cleanup. It was converted from an original Johan 1961 Oldsmobile 4 Door Hardtop. The kit chrome is original and the kit glass is original. The color is Artesian Turquoise. Thanks for looking!

Thanks for the comments Charlie. I am actually talking to Darin Bastedo about an article we plan on working on when I get back from the Atlanta show this weekend.

Got some progress pics from tonight. Got the aluminum radius rods installed, safety wired the knockoffs, front and rear suspension installed and the interior in since last posting....

Thanks for all of the comments guys. I really appreciate them. Hope to meet some of you in Atlanta this weekend! If you see me around the car give me a yell!

thanks guys! Here are some shots of the grille and some in progress shots of the top....

Just finished this one and moved it from the Workbench section. Its a modified Phantom Vikie kit by AMT with virtually no parts un modified from the kit. I scratchbuilt the top, bullet tailights, Lokar shifter and boot, dash face, aluminum front drop axle and then channeled the body on a rake. I shortened the grille leaving the lower grille portion exposed for two reasons. 1. I like the way a 35 Ford grille rolls under and 2. It makes it interesting seeing through the photoetch grille toward the bottom. I saw a 1:1 done this way years ago and thought it was cool. thanks for looking!

That is completely awesome. I myself have wished for more Chevy rods in kit form. Way to go! Looks spot on!

Here are the tailights for the coupe. Pretty much the same as the Vicky build I am working on. I like these because it leaves the decklid area smooth and I have found some cool lenses that work well with these tailights. In 1:1 everybody shortens the stands on 37 Ford tailights or uses 37 Chevy tailights etc. to make these. I use 1/8 styrene rod and file them to shape and then sand them smooth before paint and primer. I mount them via an .020 styrene "pin" inserted halfway through the housing and located via a hole in the rear pan. They also have a cool look on a turn table as the light catches them.