I don't do hot rods. Well, maybe I do. Finished

[Pete J.]

Ok, it is finally done.  Turned rims from aluminum with milled Delron centers.  Turned headlight bezels. Stripped all the chrome parts and redid them.  I had to do that to take 1/8th inch out of the middle to tighten them up.  I chopped the top by a good 1/4".  Windscreen is thermoplastic.  Suspension was lowered and stance changed. rear wheel arches radiused and tubbed.   This is curbside model so the engine is just painted and put in place to hold the exhaust. This is a club project so when I have pics of the other builds(November meeting) I will post them.

 

[slusher]

Sweet looking machine. Perfect stance..

[PARTSMARTY]

Love it!!!

[DeeCee]

All that work to look this good, pity about the kerb side deal though. 

[cobraman]

Nice ! I really like the wheels.

[bobthehobbyguy]

Cool. Nice work. Great stance and paintwork. 

[espo]

I followed your build on this and it turned out perfect.  

[DumpyDan]

Nicely done, not many of these look this good

[Pete J.]

All that work to look this good, pity about the kerb side deal though. 

This was really just a side project and as the title may suggest, street rods are not my cup of tea.  I decided that I would have some fun with it.  It is really an old and not very well engineered kit.  I decided to go curbside when the hood had such a poor fit that it would have taken a ton of work to get it right.  Solution to the problem?  Glue the sucker shut, sand it and rescribe a panel line.  The rest of it was just an exercise in imagination.  I hadn't chopped a top in years and wanted to see if I could still pull it off.  I have been playing around with making rims and wanted to play with some Delron I go my hands on.  By the way, that stuff is amazing to machine.  I have friends who are big fans of Red Bull and I have some extra decals so it seemed a natural fit.  Thanks for looking.

 

[Pete J.]

Nice ! I really like the wheels.

Cool. Nice work. Great stance and paintwork. 

I followed your build on this and it turned out perfect.  

Espo, I appreciate all those who followed this build.  A lot of little challenges that were gratifying to get through

Nicely done, not many of these look this good

Thanks for your comments.  It was a fun build and some of it is good, some is not so good, but it was all fun.  I had some paint issued.  I am not sure what happened but apparently DuPont clear lacquer doesn't like Tamiya Mica Blue.  The paint in the panel lines went a little wonky in some places, changing the metal flake and bubbling up.  I had the same thing happen on another model I am working on.  Since this was a club build, I didn't worry about it all that much.  Thanks again for looking.

[mustang1989]

Didn't see this one there Pete. Followed this one here and one other place and as others have said the stance is dead on and the paint/ scheme looks terrific! Thumbs up!