GasPunkAlley Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 I am going to call it now, but I think the next big phase will be 1970's Resto Rods and Fad T's. I have seen a bunch of 1970's rod and custom barn finds show up in popular magazines and on Facebook. I have bee following the large scale Carl Casper Phone booth T on this site and the late 60's and early seventies are getting a lot of attention. I dug out of my stash my Tognotti King T and did some research that a lot of the Fad T's were based on the 1915 glass body. The King T is a supposedly stock bodied 1915 T... Wit a little bit of mold making magic I made the cab and turtle deck. I then proceeded to chop up the body to follow the famous Leg Show T. I cut behind the doors straight down. I cut the top of the body off front of the cut. I removed an additional 6 scale inches and re glued the cowl on. I made a template of the new curved sides and matched the back to the new, lower body sides. I shot a picture of a casting of the Tognotti T and my work. I am glad it took the pictures. This showed me two things, firstly the body sides were spreading out which I quickly straightened out. The second thing I noticed was the body leading edge sloped upward on the passenger side. Both the original body and my project body had it so i adjusted the body to even things out. I had to remove the body reveals and replace all of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GasPunkAlley Posted September 4, 2016 Author Share Posted September 4, 2016 I decided to remake all body reveals and I used Evergreen strip for the top of the sides and on the rear of the cab. I went to my local Maker Space and used the laser cutter to make the new raised door panels. The details can be seen in white plastic. I also ground down some ugly tooling blobs on the inside of the body. The original kit has a tub style interior ad would cover that. Since I do not know what I will use for an interior yet, I smoothed it out. I also smoothed and filled / molded the cowl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spex84 Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Awesome! I have some spare parts put aside to build a crazy Fad T, but I wasn't going to go to the trouble of modifying the body to look like the Leg Show T. This project will be very interesting to watch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterNNL Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Should be an interesting build to watch develop.Gotta love those T's! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mod3l Lover Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Funny that you mentioned what you dida posting opener, because I plan a Tbuild for my next endeavor in the realmof styrene engineering as it were!! I like what you have going so far, I will bewatching this build for sure. You might say that a T build is on myBUCKET list very soon!! Keep er' rolling, David S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatRod Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Love this so far!!! Any plans for a resin offering? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GasPunkAlley Posted September 4, 2016 Author Share Posted September 4, 2016 Rat Rod, yes I do. I have the 1915 cab and turtle deck up on Ebay as well as up for sale on my Facebook page. Look up Gas_Punk_Alley. I have some t bucket parts and I will have more coming soon. I will have more of the smaller parts available only on the Facebook page since Evil Bay hits you so hard with fees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GasPunkAlley Posted September 4, 2016 Author Share Posted September 4, 2016 I got the body in primer and ready for mold making. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GasPunkAlley Posted September 9, 2016 Author Share Posted September 9, 2016 I just made a mold of windshield and the radiator / grill assembly. The next steps will be making the chopped grill that is extra deep. The Leg Show T appears to have a triple core radiator so I will be making the appropriate adjustments. With a cast windshiled placed on the body I can start adjusting the MPC Switcher T bucket 2003 Richta show reissue roof to fit the body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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