Street Rodder Magazine Cover Car/Modeler's Corner Project Car

[tim boyd]

Tim Boyd’s 1939 Chevy Sedan Delivery Street Rodder Magazine Cover Car   
 

·         How-to series featured in multiple issues of Street Rodder magazine’s “Modeler’s Corner” monthly column, circa 1980/81  

·         Combined main parts from Monogram’s 1939 Chevy Sedan Delivery and Five Window Coupe kits,

·         Body chopped 5 scale inches, doors opened and hinged, cargo compartment door hinged

·         Fully detailed and wired Chevy 427 Rat Motor, Chrysler torsion bar front suspension, Corvette Independent Rear Suspension

·         Metalflake brand automotive lacquer pearl yellow with builder-designed graphics in multiple shades of candy colors

·         Fully upholstered interior with late model Instrument panel and real wood cargo compartment floor

16 more images at this link.  Thanks for looking...TIM 

Edited November 27, 2019 by tim boyd

[Classicgas]

Pic?

[tim boyd]

1 minute ago, Classicgas said:

Pic?

Pix now added to the first post...sorry for the delay...TIM 

[Classicgas]

Lol. Wow that's beautiful.

[Brudda]

WOW!!!

[ryanm]

Very nice

[Bucky]

Exquisite street rod!

[cobraman]

Wow !  That is a very nice model.

[DumpyDan]

Wow, I remember this in Street Rodder Mag.  This is one of my favorite models of all time to build, and this is cool with the chop top, great model.

[Koellefornia Kid]

Beautiful! Awesome engine details!

[bobthehobbyguy]

A very impressive model. Remember following the build up articles in street rodder. That was a great howto series.

[alan barton]

I remember the how - to articles on this awesome model very clearly, Tim.  It was just as I was getting back into model building after the seemingly compulsory break to get a real car, look for girls, go to university etc.  It is a beautiful time capsule of modelling techniques and styles of the time and yet it would be perfectly comfortable sitting on any NNL table today.  

Lots of goodness to view here - the cleanly detailed dash with realistic texture, the precise red and blue fittings (I'm guessing clear paint but wow, talk about neat!) the sharp separation between the black firewall and the gold body, not to mention the effort involved in opening and hinging the very fragile chopped doors, and, thank goodness, you didn't stick those awful chromed louvres on the front fenders - definitely a case of less is more right there!

Cheers

Alan

[Zoom]

Not my kind of "car" but nice and very well done!

[Oldschool4x4]

I think you may have missed a color? Just kidding, very nice, I remember stuff running the streets like that..

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[PARTS GUY]

So cool to see in color. I remember waiting every month for my dads magazine to come in just to see what was next to be done. Was so cool to have a model car section in the magazine.

[tim boyd]

Thanks everyone for taking a look and for your comments.  Kinda cool to hear that a few of you remember the model from its magazine appearances nearly...yikes...40 years ago!

Hope all you U.S. based folks had a happy thanksgiving with your families and best wishes to all.  

TIM 

 

[Spex84]

Dang, that's nice!! Thanks for all the detail pics. I don't build in this style but I can learn a ton from observing the various design and engineering choices.

[stevehansen]

Excellent job, great engine detail

[Bills72sj]

What kit are Enkei gold centered wheels from?

[tim boyd]

6 hours ago, Bills72sj said:

What kit are Enkei gold centered wheels from?

I believe I took those from one of the reissues of the Monogram Tom Daniel 1960 Chevy Sedan Delivery circa 1980 or so...my memory says "Bad Actor" (not located where I can double check right now).  Hope that helps, Bill....TIM 

[Bills72sj]

Ok thanks. ?

[LouO]

That's very cool!

[MeatMan]

Truly awesome!