Comparo - Built Revell '29A HIGHBOY Roadster vs. three previously completed Model A Highboy Kitbashes....

[tim boyd]

How's the Revell '29A Highboy compare to previous '29A on '32 Rails models from the Boyd model car archive?  

This was my first '29A Highboy on '32 Rails, built around 1974.  It was inspired by an article on model Highboys by Pat Ganahl in Street Rodder, and by Bill Burnham's yellow 326 Pontiac Highboy as pictured in a Street Rod Pictorial mag c. 1974..  

Note the differences in stance, open vs. closed engine compartment, headers vs. concealed exhaust, wheels, etc.   

The second Highboy was built about one year later, in 1975, and updated around 1978 with Kelsays replacing the original '40 Ford Deluxe wheels/caps.  It runs a Flathead Ford based on the AMT '49 Merc engine, with heads and intake from the AMT '50 Ford Convert kit.  

The last highboy was built around 1999 or so, and it was based on the Replicas and Miniatures of Maryland resin offering of a '29A on '32 Rails.  The engine is a 428 Cobra Jet FE Ford.  This was uber-current of the build style at the time when it was built.  How things change..

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There are a number photos of each of these three builds at the link...start with image #189 and go onto the next page thru to image #208.  Here's the link: http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/tim-boyds-124th--12/boyd-street-rods-ra/boydstreetrodsratro/page8.html

Thanks for looking....TIM 

Edited September 4, 2015 by tim boyd

[slusher]

Awesome models Tim

[Speedfreak]

Nice comparisons Tim, the Revell car looks very close to the R & M car.

[carrucha]

Good comparisons and cool builds.  Revell saved us time and money by offering the deuce frame in this kit.

[blunc]

nice comparison, I also noticed the differences in interior styles.

[Del Austin]

Thanks for sharing. Just picked up the new Revell kit. Love it, just wished it came with a hood.

 

[exesivefire]

Very nice builds Tim! 

[RAMBENNA]

wow those are fabulous

[rmvw guy]

Great eye candy, thanks Tim.

[rokoflanders]

very neat work. The paint seems to be incredible ! Congrats

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

All very nice work.

The first shot also shows the WRONG slope on the old AMT body behind the cockpit. The new Revell kit body captured this important feature MUCH better. 

I noticed the discrepancy while getting set up to start the Eddie Dye build, and it's very obvious in your top photo.

It's funny...I've been looking at and building with the old AMT body shell for years and just assumed it was right, never put a really critical eye on it until I had the new Revell kit to measure and compare to a Brookville shell I have access to (as you probably know, the 1:1 Brookville shells are just about perfect, dead-on accurate reproductions of the real thing...all the parts interchange too). 

 

Edited September 11, 2015 by Ace-Garageguy

[Phildaupho]

Tim- I really enjoyed looking at all the photos of our street rod builds over the years. I especially like the profile comparisons

[Jim Whalen]

Great models and very interesting comparisons - thanks for putting the pictures up Tim.  I am looking forward to trying my luck with one of these new kits.  With all the kit bashing possibilities I am sure some of the bits will end up in some other rods that I build and they will be cropping up all over the place when builders have built their '29s and are starting to look for other things to do with the parts.

[vintagercr]

Tim, great looking models.  I like the rake of the windshield on the new '29 and the colour you chose.

[tim boyd]

Thanks everyone for your feedback.  

Bill....I never noticed that either...thanks for pointing that out!  

Cheers...TIM

 

[Danno]

Great stuff!