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Ace.Kind of Jeckel and Hyde. Last night you were contributing to the post and today you're putting nonsense up. Que sera, sera. The real deal is yours truly ordered 'Make Your Own Hot Rod' book. Should have lots of good info and pictures of these kinds of cars. Book is by Leroi Smith/Tex Smith. Also wrote 'History of Hot Rodding' in two parts and Track Roadster history once again in two parts. Good stuff if you're into Hot rods.

Maybe this kind of article isn't for you. Looked at an older issue of AMT '36 Ford and it says includes flathead and a very cool 421 Pontiac engine. If you think happy thoughts that the new AMT includes all the good parts in their reissues now then it should have the two engines. Looking into a 40 cabriolet fenderless hot rod.

Great! That kit is currently available so it would be easy as falling off a log to build one of those. Saw a cool tip. Roadster set up for drags without the radiator but it had the radiator shell only.' Anybody know which of these kits came with a flathead V8? A flathead V8 AND a OHV V8 would be a better buy. The '36 would look good built with full chrome hubcabs and skinny tires with whitewalls. Some custom colors could be honey or maroon with flat white interior. About only color I can think of to go with flat red, light flat blue and dark flat blue interior is white.

Okay. '34 rails would be more direct way. Saw some good 'mix and match' frame rail/body combo's. '32 rails with '27 roadster or model A roadster body setting on them. On the T bodies where you can see the floor here's a tip. Use custom carpet out out a parts pack. Get rid of 'ho-hom' floor in a bucket T. Can also paint floor body color in a flat paint to look like carpet.

I meant roadsters. Thank you for pointing that out. Fixed first post. Here's Jimmy Flintstone '34 Roadster body. http://jimmyflintstonestudios.com/?product=nb80-1934-ford-roadster '32 rails will work. There are tons of '32 kits around. AMT '36 Ford current reissue cannot be built as a fenderless roadster 'as is'. Once you bring cutting the kit into the mix that's a different situation. '34 body on '32 rails is readily doable. 50's paint scheme would be purple paint job with white interior. Some white flame pinstripes would look good.

' Is this meant to be some sort of "review"? ' Exactomundo! Current AMT '36 Ford coupe cannot be built as a fenderless 40's 50's hot rod. Sooo. Get a '34 body and put it on some '32 rails and down the road you go. Jimmy Flintstone '36 body won't work either. They did some kind of update to the rear. Looking into '37 and '40 and seeing if they can be done topless and fenderless. Lean and mean!

Saw a '36 Ford roadster on a boxtop and got all excited about it. Looked at the '36 Ford AMT kit out and it does not look like it will work. The fenders are a part of the frame. Jimmy Flinstone has a NICE '34 Ford coupe fenderless body. Ford coupes with the firewall supposed to be covered and the rear fender lips have a nice nostalgia look. More so than the other Ford coupes. That's this enthusiast's opinion.

Here's pic of front frame stubs with leaf springs molded in. Frame is upside down. Rear leaf springs are next.

Successful first gluing today. None of the glue on fingers and everything else from childhood builds. Used plain old Testor's glue. Glued frame extensions onto frame. They made it that way so pieces would fit in box. Rear leaf springs are next.

Well it's obviously a track roadster. More like you can paint and decal it to be track or street version. Read somewhere the real Hot Rod Lincoln had a shortened Lincoln frame under it. So I think when they were going at it then the combinations of Ford parts were endless.

Update Planning to glue some assemblies today. Added missing paints to hobby order.That was stupid only ordering half the paints for this model. I don't know what I was thinking! Will post pic's.

Thank you! Built these kits a long time ago. Studebaker Miss Deal and Revell atomic sub with one side open. Made a real mess of them but they did get put together! They just reissued them but I passed. You can't go back. Also built Cord in deep red and Model A Gabriel metal model. Still have them. Safe to say they are not museum quality!

Progress report. Cut some parts off parts trees. Did it with Exacto knife. Used little piece of hobby plywood underneath. Perfect! Picking out a glue next.Testors original or thin solvent glue? Leaning towards testor's because of gaps between parts and that is what I am used to. BTW Paints are on the way. Enamels instead of acrylics because they cover better. Just recommended colors. Red, Flat black,Wood,silver and flat brass.

Sprue cutters are on the way. https://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/xur/xur90039.htm They seem to be older part number that is not even on Xuron's website. So figured to take them off Hobbylinc's hands.Why not? Xuron's are Made in USA. We buy American whenever we can. Like some of the Lindberg and MPC kits. They go to the top of the list. In the meantime will cut off the parts off in this kit the time honored way. With the Exacto knife.

Okay. Will do my best. This will probably go slowly. Will keep at it.

The important thing was deciding on 1/16 scale Lindberg kits to build. Was getting nowhere with 1/24 and 1/25 kits. Looked over Lindberg Model T, Mercedes Racer and this one and then said to myself 'This scale works for me'. They had been sitting on the shelf for 10 years but circumstances came together and the lightbulb went on. These are all 'low part count' kits and the parts are big enough to handle and fit together easily. All you have to do is just do it. Supplies and a tool are on the way to build it.

Here's a track roadster body kit . http://jimmyflintstonestudios.com/?product=nb175-1927-ford It's even on sale.Now it's same price as my favorite online hobby store. Regarding the Lindberg 1929 T Rod. The road construction cone sort of threw me off. Putting in a racetrack guardrail would have been better. Road pylon made me think of autocross.

There's a couple in this link with no tank behind the bucket body. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&biw=1366&bih=611&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=36J0WuvoH4XWjwOR87O4Dg&q=bucket+t+show+cars&oq=bucket+t+show+cars&gs_l=psy-ab.3...863773.866831.0.867898.9.9.0.0.0.0.279.1147.4j4j1.9.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.3.530...0j0i7i30k1j0i7i5i30k1j0i8i7i30k1.0.CDj60kTE9zs#imgrc=_ Then there are some with the body just as far back but they have a tank hung off the back somehow.

' Headlights, OHV engine and supercharger are dead giveaways. ' My release of '32 Ford 1/24 has 'Drag' version on boxtop. No headlights no radiator. So you put radiator and carbs on it and it could be Track roadster. Track roadsters had swapped in OHV as you say V8's. ' whole cowl tank thing? ' Missed tank. BUT! Have seen showcars with body pushed all the way back and no tank. See Ed Roth's Tweedy Bird here. https://www.google.com/search?q=ed+roth+tweedy+bird&client=firefox-b-1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis54m12YbZAhUN7qwKHdHuAggQsAQIJg&biw=1366&bih=611

Here are some more interesting names on Lindberg kits in attached screen shot. 'Dustbuster' I own the 1/24 version of that model. Now I see the stripped down version with rollbar is supposed to be a track roadster. 'Scrambler' That name sure caught on! 'Hot Hermit' Maybe it meant something back then.Mid engine roadsters didn't catch on. 'Road Runner' Guess Chrysler liked that name too. BTW Two of these kits are reissued now in a two pack.

This is what the Ala Kart is made from. A Model A Roadster pickup. https://www.google.com/search?q=model+a+roadster+pickup&client=firefox-b-1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj36cfHqIXZAhVN3mMKHbkvDDwQsAQIJg&biw=1366&bih=611 For the Lindberg kit to be a '29 Ford this is the closest '29 body. Lindberg boxtop picture looks like a T body. See the rise between firewall and windshield? That's a T body. Also the back lip behind the seat is high. Model A lip just goes straight around the back. A model A cowl is flatter and straighter.

It's background information on the Lindberg '29 T Rod kit. Body shell really doesn't look like a '29 Roadster Pickup body without the bed. Like Ala Kart. Looks like a T body set on A frame rails with a V8 engine put in. Then the body shoved all the way back to rear spring arch in frame. Gas tank is probably part of the cowl. Maybe that is what Lindberg meant. A T Rod made from '29 chassis. Name of the kit is '29 T. In '29 they were Model A's not T's. All makes sense to me.

Let's look at it from a building perspective. I have seen them with the body 'moved back' in two versions. With the oval gas tank and without. Without the tank the body is right up against the rear leaf spring 'hump' on frame. The tips on building these are long lost if they were ever written down at all. BTW Here are the cars that succeeded these track roadsters. http://www.dirttrackracecars.com/ Page down to 'AMT/RC2 Model Car Kits'.

Okay.Fixed that.Thanks.

http://www.autoworldstore.com/product_p/lnd72179.htm It's a 'track roadster'. See Tex Smith book 'Tex Smith's Roaring Roadster:A Track Roadster History' This kit has been puzzling me for years. There wasn't a '29 Model T. I didn't really know there was a '27 T look a like 1929 body. Before seeing the AMT 29 Ford kit that came out recently I thought all '29 Ford two doors had roll top trunk. The '29 roadster pickup. body is what it could be. Could be a '27 or earlier body on '29 rails Track roadsters could be 'mixed and matched' as it just needed to get around the track. The dirt and racing suit and helmet on the cover point towards Track Roadster. Track roadster is sort of a nebulous concept. Could be just about made of anything except because there were so many in junkyards they were mostly Model T's and Model A's. There successor was the full roll cage coupes. Hot rodders are a practical bunch and roll cage cars were safer. Happy model building and racing!