Big ol' 1/8 '32 Roadster, Channeled: As of 4/2/18, she's going to be 1:1.

[gasser59]

OK Bill, last post of yours was early April. Where are you on this build? November is nearing.

[Ace-Garageguy]

OK Bill, last post of yours was early April. Where are you on this build? November is nearing.

Thanks for the reminder. I haven't touched it since then, but will try to get some time off after Labor Day to make some decent progress.

[Ace-Garageguy]

I love it!!! I'm definitely gonna have to get me one.

Thanks for your interest. These big kits are a lot more like building real cars than the smaller scales.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Well, it's official. I just put a deposit on a full-scale '32 roadster body. I've been collecting parts for several years...frame, double-hump heads, block and crank, real OEM forged '32 dropped axle, Jag wires for the front, Finned Buick and Lincoln drums, etc...but waited to pull the trigger on a body until 1) it looked like I'd have time to build the thing in the foreseeable future, and 2) I found a smokin' deal on a fiberglass body shell I could get built more-or-less to my specs.

Only other big-ticket item to save up for is a quick-change. Everything else will be used vintage, junkyard, or fabricated/machined by me (and I'm looking for an early Culver City Halibrand QC, though I OUGHT to run a repop that takes late-model gears and axles).

The only real deviation from a "traditional" car (other than the glass body) will be a 5 or 6 speed gearbox (junkyard). Gots to have long legs for cruising cross-country, and fairly short 1-4 gears for tire smokin'. 

Time to get back on the model, as there are several things I HAVE to work out for the real one.  

[afx]

Hope you do a thread on your 1:1 build.  I for one would be very interested in seeing it.

Edited April 3, 2018 by afx

[bobthehobbyguy]

Cool looking forward to seeing more of this project and its big brother. Some very cool ideas.

[cobraman]

I would also be interested is seeing any progress on both projects.

[Spex84]

Congrats Ace! Looking forward to seeing more of both

[Ace-Garageguy]

Full scale American Stamping repop '32 frame rails when they arrived here during some demolition a couple years back...

100% American made...

And the repop glass body, a clone of which I'll be dragging back here in a few more weeks...'cept mine will be lacking the bonded-in firewall, floors, and inner door and decklid panels.

All that aside, it will still be at LEAST 6 more months before I can start in on actually building the real one.

Edited April 18, 2018 by Ace-Garageguy

[Deuces ll]

Very cool thread!.... ??

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 1/5/2021 at 12:35 AM, Deuces ll said:

Very cool thread!.... ??

Thanks. This is the one I'd finish up first if I had the time.   

[cobraman]

This will be a cool car for cruising in AZ.

[comp1839]

good luck on the 1:1 build.  perhaps we'll meet up cruisin' somewhere.

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 1/9/2021 at 11:56 AM, comp1839 said:

good luck on the 1:1 build.  perhaps we'll meet up cruisin' somewhere.

 

Thanks. I'd really like that, and the plan is to drive the wheels off the thing when it's done.  

[oldrevellfan]

nice work !

[Ace-Garageguy]

22 hours ago, oldrevellfan said:

nice work !

Thank you, sir.   

[Ace-Garageguy]

I dropped the ball back in 2018, far as getting the 1:1 f'glass body went. Just too much other stuff going on like finding and buying the house in Az,. etc.

But I finally arranged to get a body built like I wanted it about 6 months back, and have just been notified it's done, awaiting me to pick it up.

I'll be having it here within two weeks, will post shots of it after unloading.

I'm pretty stoked.   

[OldNYJim]

1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

I dropped the ball back in 2018, far as getting the 1:1 f'glass body went. Just too much other stuff going on like finding and buying the house in Az,. etc.

But I finally arranged to get a body built like I wanted it about 6 months back, and have just been notified it's done, awaiting me to pick it up.

I'll be having it here within two weeks, will post shots of it after unloading.

I'm pretty stoked.   

Exciting!  Congrats!  I’m excited to see it

(PLEASE do a build thread - I’d love to see more of your 1:1-scale work)

[gasser59]

What's this Bill?? You're in AZ? Whereabouts?

[Ace-Garageguy]

17 hours ago, CabDriver said:

Exciting!  Congrats!  I’m excited to see it

I'll be picking it up Aug. 20. Have to rent a van, as I don't want to risk a long run in my daily pickup until she gets her new engine, and the possibility of having the body disappear from the side of the road if I had a breakdown and had to leave it has very little appeal.

Stay tuned.  

Edited July 27, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy
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[Ace-Garageguy]

13 hours ago, gasser59 said:

What's this Bill?? You're in AZ? Whereabouts?

The new place is in the dead center of Mohave county, right on the longest remaining segment of old Rt. 66.

But I'm still working in Georgia, finishing up two long term projects before I finish moving West.

Running WAY behind, as usual.   

[Ace-Garageguy]

Finally got the full-scale f'glass shell. Just like a big kit, but no box, instructions, numbers, or alignment pins. 

[Bullybeef]

This makes me happy 

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, Bullybeef said:

This makes me happy 

Me too. Now if I can just live long enough to build the thing.   

[cobraman]

Would love to see what you do with it.