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Thank you Eric

I actually googled and found the Street Rodder issue I was talking about. Or at least a picture of it.....

I'll jump in this one too, as more or less I like that style of hot rods. I still remember a seafoam-ish model A with Deuce grille on the cover of Street Rodder. I always wanted to make a model of/like it.

Playing around with mocking things up is always fun and usually waists as much time as building itself. Next I need to chop the doors, play with their finicky hinges and get ready the body for pimer. Stay tuned and thanks for looking.

Next, I needed a general plan about the main components. So I plucked the Boyd wheels from the '37 Ford Convertible (the one with trailer), the tires from the Revell '32 Roadster and the Corvette motor from the Beatnik Bandit II. I looked into putting a Corvette rear, but was never happy with the look of them when it can be seen from behind. They are down right ugly and I wouldn't use it unless it is pretty much buried out of site. So, to stay with the theme, I decided to use the Buttera suspension from the T Touring. I massaged the frame, by extending it to match the proper wheelbase and then cut out all the crossmembers except the rearmost one, because it locates the rear end and the shocks. I will still need to make new crossmembers and to figure out how to sink the rear more, so the tires sit in the fenders the way I like them. To my delight the front is perfect, just the way it is without mods.

This is a project that wasn't planned, but sparked by the build of Dennis Lacey on here. I decided to take on the challenge to build a Pick Up truck in the same style as a Tim Boyd's model and stay within the same general guidelines. While are talking about the builds, Dennis mentioned an idea he had, because I said I want to chop the cab on my model. The idea was to leave the windshield the stock size, but to remove the material above it, so the roof kinda rests on top of the window. He also mentioned that early editions of the kit had the rear window oversized. I thought it was a great idea and decided to run with it. Thank you Dennis. So I dug out a falling apart box f the 3 in 1 rat rod pickup kit, which I thought was complete (far from it) and found a bag of a glue bomb of the same kit. I love buying those at swap meets and model shows. I call them the $3 kits, as usually that's what they run for. So here is the cab I chopped, compared to the original. Note that the gluebomb original (red) has the oversized window, Dennis was talking about. I matched it by cutting out a portion of the cab, before hopping it.

Well, I'm sticking to my "Tim Boyd Tribute APU" building theme. Also, when I hear Billet Rod and all those smooth lines, color coded interiors etc., it takes me to the '90s, not the '80s. The '80 didn't have anywhere near the creativity or the execution of those rods.

Very nice. Specially if you are really doing this for the very first time. The only thing, If I may, is that I would make the rear skirts "openings" on their bottom lower. The whole idea of the rear skirts is to hide the rear tires and especially with how much longer you have made the body, I believe it will flow better if you don't brake the lines with those square-ish openings on the bottom.

Thanks for the reply. My comment was mostly a jab at the others who said that would get on the challenge. I hear you on "schedule". I have a wife and two kids too. And they play Hockey and I work six days a week. So I get it. By the way I took your idea and ran with it. I chopped the cab by removing the material on top of front window and then removing same amount from the middle of the rear of the cab, but only after enlarging the rear window. I love the look. I'll post my thread tonight, so you can see.

Is this project stalling? I would love to see some updates. I did start mine, as I promised I'll take the challenge, but then my camera's battery died, so I could not take pictures. But I am starting my thread tonight. Also I believe there were few other people who said they would jump on the challenge, yet I have not seen any new threads pop up. C'mon guys! Let's give Dennis a run for his money! LOL.

I am going to drop a bomb here and actually speak my mind, putting the little PC left in me aside. I admire Tim Boyd's models and he has been nothing but inspiration for me for over 25 years. His impact on hot rod model building is absolutely undeniable and not likely to be matched any time soon, if ever again. Having said this, this is the most disappointing thread of his I have ever encountered and is not even that much fault of his. It is the epitome of the parable about the King's new clothes. It is three pages with no meaningful content with two and a half pictures, filled by empty compliments and patronizing. It's like a brown-nosing contest. If I, or most anyone else had posted such a thread it would have been on page three by now with two replies. Get a grip boys! P.S. Tim, this is not so much directed at you, as to the comments. Although, lets face it, you have not shown much to be commented on in this thread. P.S.S. Let me zip up my flame suit........

Great build so far, but I believe it is in the wrong section.

Simply gorgeous.

Some really nice trucks coming in. I love the variety of styles

That kit is almost impossible to find.

Really cool Vicky. I have seen quite few Burgundy Vickies and think it is like "THE Vicky color". It looks vintage, classy and meaning business at the same time. And by the way. Really nice set of those wheels and tires can be also found in the Revell '30 Phaeton, together with the very cool headlights with the raised turning signals on top of the headlight buckets.

The only kit ever made, that had a nice fenderless IFS, is the Lil John Buttera T Touring and its derivatives. And ironically it is actually full fendered. We need a better engineered new set up exactly like in the T Touring, but for '32 frames.

That's what I thought. It is such a great recognizable color. It must be one of their best sellers.

THIS!!!! Paying $70 for a Tamiya Laferrari with included window masks and self adhesive photoetched pieces and opening doors that fit with amazing precision is one thing. Paying $30 or more for a reissue of a very inaccurate '32 body, generically shaped frame and plastic blobs for details with very poor instructions just because of some nonsense Coca Cola decals is entirely different story. Especially considering that a lot of these kits have been released by other companies in much better quality and can be found around for half the price of the "new AMT". People are discussing the average age of model builders and the future of the hobby. Meanwhile the companies continue issuing the same old stuff over and over. Do you know who likes Dodge Darts and generic '60/'70s cars? People who have some sort of sentimental attachment to them. And sorry to say, but those guys are an endangered species. And if the manufacturers don't stay fresh and creative, they become endangered species too. Together with the whole hobby.

Well aware. both of those work great when covered by fenders. I am talking about the suspensions that are designed for fenderless rods, like the Heidt setups on the pictures I posted. And I still can't figure out what were they thinking when they put that half ass Mustang rear suspension in the Phantom Vicky. I am talking about this type of setup

Great attention to detail. It looks very realistic. And also like it's due for a tire change.

Pretty cool Rob. You don't see many dually hot rods.

LOL. Love the name of the color.

Funny thing about the Beatnik Bandit... when Ed Roth built it, he was touring with it in his old school tradition. Dressed in purple smoking jacket and top hat. He was at the Chicago hobby convention in ‘97 (I think) at the Revell booth with the Beatnik Bandit II, to promote the release of the kit. Very cool dude I have to say. There was a limited batch of kits available for purchase at the show, before the kit was officially released for sale. I bought one and Ed “Big Daddy” Roth signed it on top. When I moved from Chicago, I gifted the kit to a fellow model builder that used to drive me to the contests and lived down the block. Ed Roth died shortly after. I still wonder from time to time, how much would that very first production run kit with “Big Daddy’s” signature be worth today!

It was a close call for me too, between the pale blue and the grey, but the bare metal one’s sinister look tilted the scales just slightly.