Bantam Bodies: Slingster vs Jawbreaker

[Snake45]

Has anyone done a comparo between the Bantam Coupe bodies in the Jawbreaker and the Slingster kits? Is one more accurate or in some way better than the other? I'm thinking of taking one back in the direction of stock-ish and making either a street rod or an Altered out of it.

[magicmustang]

Snake, the Jawbreaker Bantam body (in orange) seams a little simplified and off to me verses the Slingster body (in maroon). The Slingster one looks more like the Bantams I remember from the 60's.  

 

Edited September 12, 2017 by magicmustang

[Chuck Most]

I'd go with the Slingster body. Somewhere around here I have one I started reworking for use as a hot rod body. I filled in the wheel cutouts and the hole in the roof, bought plastic strip to recreate some of the beltline detail, and stopped right about there. 

[magicmustang]

All that being said. If I were going stockish or Altered I would go with the Jimmy Flintstone resin cast one. Wheel location is right for either. 

Edited September 12, 2017 by magicmustang

[Snake45]

Slingster looks like the clear winner. Thanks, fellas!

[Mark]

The original Seventies issue of the Jawbreaker called it a " '32 Ford rail rod".

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[Snake45]

Cool, but I want to build an Altered or street rod, not a Comp car.

But now I'm thinking of putting the Jawbreaker body on the Kasper Undertaker for an early '60s Comp. Gotta look better than that goofy backbirth body in the kit (though the chassis and engine are pretty interesting looking).

[Mark]

Cool, but I want to build an Altered or street rod, not a Comp car.

But now I'm thinking of putting the Jawbreaker body on the Kasper Undertaker for an early '60s Comp. Gotta look better than that goofy backbirth body in the kit (though the chassis and engine are pretty interesting looking).

The Undertaker was rebuilt from an uncompetitive drag car, the Benicki Brothers' "Chrome Coffin".  The family operated a chrome shop, so the chassis (possibly the engine too) was already chromed when Carl Casper got it.  He swapped the T-bucket body (or maybe reworked it), and replaced the original fuel injection setup with the Potvin/Moon crank-drive supercharger.  I've got a magazine here somewhere with a feature on the car in its original form.  It wasn't Hot Rod or Rod & Custom, it was one of the lesser-known magazines that I can't remember the name of right now.

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I posted the 1:1 photo for reference.  I suspect you Snake new what one looked like it was for those that may not know.

[Eshaver]

Here is a vintage shot of an American Bantam coupe

[magicmustang]

I love this Bantam Altered that is being built on this forum.

 

Edited September 13, 2017 by magicmustang

[Dennis Lacy]

I love this Bantam Altered that is being built on this forum.

Actually, the Purple People Eater (above) is made from a '30 Model A Ford Coupe body with the whole trunk section removed. 

[magicmustang]

Actually, the Purple People Eater (above) is made from a '30 Model A Ford Coupe body with the whole trunk section removed. 

Okay, I stand corrected. I'll still use a modified Bantam coupe body to build a replica.

[GaryR]

Altered States has a really nice Bantam as well. I thought I had a picture, guess not. Check out Chuck's Site! Good Stuff!