Little T, big wheels

[george 53]

Probly build sum borin a$$ ol models!Thas r piopose ######'n, PURE INSPERASHUN!!!!

[CB]

I have to agree with the gentleman who responded with the comment about the late Ed Roth . However I would like to go on record as saying that the model resembles something from the studios of Mr . Chip Foose. It really hit me when I saw the photograph of the model with the top up . Interesting.................. Ed Shaver

Gee thanks, Ed. Never set out to copy anyones work, or start a trend. I digged bein kinda inna same boat as Big Daddy, not too sure bout Mr Foose--he aint nuthin like Boydington am he? Not knockin the Boyd, just didn't care for the personality I saw on his TV show, but I do realize it's a media thing........I best stop here

[CB]

Awwwww,######'n, you alus say da nicest tings.

I gots to George! My Boss might smite me ifn' I donts, but really, I aint sure what the hell yer sayin half the time so I just plahys it safe!!

[george 53]

ASSOKAY ######'n I don no wha I'm sayin haf de time eidder! Theresa's gotta pruf read fer me,an if hiss hokay fer HER, hiss ok fer moi!

[kasteer]

Wow ######'n... That's amazing work! Looks great and it's clear you have great imagination (straw tank). She's a beaut! Looking forward to seeing some color on her...

[CB]

Wow ######'n... That's amazing work! Looks great and it's clear you have great imagination (straw tank). She's a beaut! Looking forward to seeing some color on her...

Thanks Eric. Sometimes my imagination is great, and other times: Dude, I'm looking forward to seein some color on it too, just haven't figgered out what colors yet

[CB]

the Li'l T is startin to get more ready & legal.

Props to 84Vanagon fer the idea of usin hubcaps for the gassem up tank--thanks dude! while gravediggin in my brandy new 40Fort turtleback for hubcaps, came across the spotlights for the custom version --yessir! them'll do fer taillights! applied for and got a plate fer it. Hafta run a fuel line from the tank to the Caddy engine and porbly stay at the engine and start wiring it

--uh oh, just remembered--I'm gonna hafta scratch a coil now

hmmmmmm.....straight pipes or headers??

[sdrodder]

Wow lookin good. Great idea with the hubcaps 84vanagon. Wouldnt have thought of that. I would go with straight pipes for it

[evilone]

its DONKtastic

sorry i couldn't help myself

its sweet nice idea about the gas tank

Edited July 14, 2008 by evilone

[84vanagon]

find some 1/25 hub caps with V8 or Ford emblems for the ends of your gas tank

find some 1/25 hub caps with V8 or Ford emblems for the ends of your gas tank find some 1/25 hub caps with V8 or Ford emblems for the ends of your gas tank find some 1/25 hub caps with V8 or Ford emblems for the ends of your gas tank find some freakin' 1/25 hub caps with V8 or Ford emblems for the ends of your gas tank!!!!! What'd you say 84? I keep hearin voices tellin me to look fer hubcaps! OH! dats YOU?! why dint ya say so? tha's a most exceleelnt idea--THANKS!

MAN, WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT YINZ GUYS

'welcome on the caps idear! Great use of spots for taillights. I prefer headers to stacks, but on this'un I think stacks to match the induction! X2

[just_a_doodz]

I cant wait to see this thing finished!!!Excellent attention to details and great inventivness....in other words...That der iz a sawwet lookin autimobil ya gots dere.LOL.

[CB]

I cant wait to see this thing finished!!!Excellent attention to details and great inventivness....in other words...That der iz a sawwet lookin autimobil ya gots dere.LOL.

Thanks Doodz. Mebbe when we gets to Heaven we'll actually be able to DRIVE these puppies! Man o mam. how I wish we could shrink down, jusmp in em, fire up dat plastic and lay some vinyl!

[george 53]

######'n jus go outback, ta wer ya buried that ol 235 an fine ya some shrooms that be growin rite over it's restin place,boll em up inna tea, an DRINK IT! you'll be Alicein in no time an den,yous can shrink youself small 'nuff TO drive at rascal around!Watch out fer dem ###### Elvs tho, dey be wantin to clean yer windshield fer spare shrooms,but yos gonna need em to get back!!!! I KNOW! I almost got stuck dere!(Dat dam Queen Latifa hearts waz no cutie either!)

[CB]

######'n jus go outback, ta wer ya buried that ol 235 an fine ya some shrooms that be growin rite over it's restin place,boll em up inna tea, an DRINK IT! you'll be Alicein in no time an den,yous can shrink youself small 'nuff TO drive at rascal around!Watch out fer dem ###### Elvs tho, dey be wantin to clean yer windshield fer spare shrooms,but yos gonna need em to get back!!!! I KNOW! I almost got stuck dere!(Dat dam Queen Latifa hearts waz no cutie either!)

Oh man, George........... ........Ifn I ever do dat? I'm gonna drive straight to yer place and park it in yo gay-rage! then I'm gonna live in yer pocket 'n you 'n yer Honey can take care o li'l ol me!....... I could detail all yer builds fer ya! I'd be 1:1 wittem I'll make sure ta get one of Gramps chicken feathers first tho, so's I can dust all them nooks & trannys

[Guest Gramps-xrds]

You're gonna get chicken feathers. Along w/ some tar.

Maybe even a match.

[CB]

You're gonna get chicken feathers. Along w/ some tar.

Maybe even a match.

Gee thanks Gramps. Yer so doggone good ta me 'n George! Don't know what we ever did ta diserve dat! Guess the match is ta lights the tarry feathers so's I can sees where I's goin?

[CB]

ok fellers, time to get a bit serious... ........oh alright! Done got a little crazier today at the workbench (probly shoulda washed the dishes) Started plumbin this here li'l T's onethutty Cadddemillac enjine. Aint real purty, but it should run

took really thin wire insultation off the stuff they

tie toys to the boxes with and used it fer the fuel lines.

Yeah I sees that back carb gonna be leakin

since this here Li'l T has such big, (sorry)...BIG wheels

can't be takin a chance on no stock fuel pump,

scratched a big honkin pump and welded it to da frame

here be part o the plum crazy sstuff, mebbe in

1/25 scale, fer sure in 1/16 and bigger, but 1/32?

We are crazy, Gramps!!

passing gear linkage--straight into the bell housing

persuadin the gas line to get closer to the frame

eewwhhh! a scracthybuitd onethutty scale

coil fer the Caddemillac (didn't mean to gross anyone out)

OK, we gots fuel & air, all we needs now is some

SPARK!!!

great, I fergort a battrey where'm I gonna put a battrey?

more current WIP pics here:http://public.fotki.com/V866/big-wheel-t-rod/page3.html

Edited July 16, 2008 by Crap'n Blaque

[evilone]

http://images38.fotki.com/v1215/photos/1/1...fuelline-vi.jpg

took really thin wire insultation off the stuff they

tie toys to the boxes with and used it fer the fuel lines.

Yeah I sees that back carb gonna be leakin

uh when you get it running are you going to need a lighter soon

i mean i can ship one out so you can get that realistic flame look

[CB]

uh when you get it running are you going to need a lighter soon

i mean i can ship one out so you can get that realistic flame look

a fire extingusher's probly a better idea

(it bein a gluebomb an @)

guess I gotta spill some beans, an share a little bout my youth. way badk dere when I was jus a punk kid and models cost a couple bucks, we used to get the really cool monster models, Frankenstein, Werewolf, Mommy, Creature form the Blaque Laqoon, glow in the dark skeletons, etc. Loved to kit bash em & put the arms from one on another 'n stuffs like dat. I finally duded up ol Frankie with some big outa scale skeleton arm bones--ya'll remember his 'stance'? arms strainght out. Well, bout the same time we discoverd that good ol model cement burns when you light it up--wasn't no orange flavored syrupy stuff they sell the poor kids nowdays (hmmm...wonder why ) anyhows you shoulda

seen ol Frankie burn

[CB]

gettin some bodywork done on the Li'l T.

at 1/32 scale it aint very big. cleaned up the

windshield frame so it don't look so clunky--

CAUTION! FRAGILE!

was gonna chop a couple inches offn it, but

it's hot and I gotsa headache

and I sees I gotta do some puttyin. gonna be

a bit of a challenge to paint ifn I wants it to be

more'n one colour--plannin on anodized purple

fer the body parts and white intereior, silver firewall?

ragtop needs a bit of adjustment, little too narrow

to fit on the outside of the tub -- and to help with

installing it after the body is all painted I decided

to add a bit of the pivot detail and throwed a couple

struts in too.

The big honkin hunka spreu is gonna be sliced

after a couple months of dry time to just a lot

mo thicker than any PE stuff, then hopefuellie

I can drill thru the pivot disc (shown abstractly here)

into the body, insert a pin for the disc to actually

pivot on, but moreso as a locater/installation pin,

so's part of this can be considered a snap together

[sdrodder]

nice crapn. Silver firewall would be good. Purple an white interior great. As for your spark problem, have you thought bout usin a torch??? I think it would be easier. Great build. Cant wait till its done.

[CB]

nice crapn. Silver firewall would be good. Purple an white interior great. As for your spark problem, have you thought bout usin a torch??? I think it would be easier. Great build. Cant wait till its done.

Hey Florian, yeah, there been times I thought bout torchin it but I can't do dat! The cool part is I'm havin a blast workin on it, but at the same time I do wanta getter done so's I can get back to my other builds--just gotta figger out how ta stay away from my LHS in da meantime

[Jairus]

This is a great looking rod there Capt!

I am really liking the direction you are going but have to step up and say something, but I could be wrong....

Doesn't a Magneto already have a built in coil? From what I understand... the Mag generates it's own current and has a built in coil which is why it was so popular for racing engines.

Incidentally it only needs one wire running to it to short out the system so as to kill the engine upon shut down sort of like a lawn mower engine.

[CB]

This is a great looking rod there Capt!

I am really liking the direction you are going but have to step up and say something, but I could be wrong....

Doesn't a Magneto already have a built in coil? From what I understand... the Mag generates it's own current and has a built in coil which is why it was so popular for racing engines.

Incidentally it only needs one wire running to it to short out the system so as to kill the engine upon shut down sort of like a lawn mower engine.

Thanks Jairus! I wasn't sure about that myself , been makin up some stuff along the way here just based on my limited knowledge and experiences with the 1:1s. I was just about to drill another teenyweeeny little hole in the top of that 'Magneto', so thanks again--whew!

[sdrodder]

Hey Florian, yeah, there been times I thought bout torchin it but I can't do dat! The cool part is I'm havin a blast workin on it, but at the same time I do wanta getter done so's I can get back to my other builds--just gotta figger out how ta stay away from my LHS in da meantime

Oh u want to know how to saty away from the hobby shop. There are 2 ways. One let the air out of your cars tires or 2 look at the stack of models u still have to build . Thats how i stay away from the hobby shop. Just look through my collection and think why buy another. But if new nice kits comeout or i get old kits offered then i will buy those.