Jim Jard's 1955 "Bird of Prey" T-Bird

[curt raitz]

At one of our club meetings I was browsing through the May 2018 edition of "Hot Rod Deluxe". I came across an article on the "Bird of Prey" a 1955 T-Bird street-able gasser owned by Jim Jard. Showed the car to the guys and stated "this would be a fun build". That's all it took...got my hands on an AMT 1956 T-Bird, rounded up all the parts needed to build this car. Just had to do a few modifications to the 56 T-Bird to make it look like a '55. Filled in portholes and side vents. reworked the front end of the chassis and installed aftermarket straight front axle and springs. Moved the engine back in the chassis, opened the trunk, hinged the trunk lid and engine bonnet. Decals were home printed. Overall I had fun building this model and it kinda looks like the real car.

The real car:

The model:

thanx for looking...

Edited August 15, 2018 by curt raitz
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[Renegade]

Looks great.

[Scalper]

looks mean. I like it 

[Hi-Po]

Nice representation of the one to one.  Great job.

[olschoolkid]

Cool T Bird. I've always been a fan of the gasser look.

[John Teresi]

Curt.... I saw this Wonderful build at the IPMS  Nationals a couple of weeks ago and told you then that you did a great job replicating the real 1:1 Car ......  you are so good at replicating  1:1 cars and Bikes.....that’s why  the GSL Museum alwAys ask you to build a Replica for the Clone  a  model replica ......love your work Buddy??

[donb]

Very cool. Looks like it could be raced. 

[Curt]

Curt, you really nailed it.  Outstanding work!

[PARTSMARTY]

16 hours ago, olschoolkid said:

Cool T Bird. I've always been a fan of the gasser look.

x2

 

[smhardesty]

Really nice looking build. I guess I need to consider a T-Bird gasser after seeing this. 2 thumbs up.

[unclescott58]

Very kool. Mean looking bird. 

[gasser59]

Kurt - that's kicks tail. Very nicely done indeed. Love me some gassers.

Edited August 16, 2018 by gasser59

[espo]

Very well done. Matches the 1:1 perfectly.  

[cobraman]

Perfect !

[TimKustom]

Nice build! I have a '57 Bird AM/SP car in the works. This one gives me inspiration to get it finished.