1964 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt Pro-Touring

[Phildaupho]

I am calling this a Pro-Touring Thunderbolt but the inspiration behind it is as a phantom road version of the Holman-Moody 1964 427 Fairlane. Back in ’64 at the request of NASCAR Holman-Moody built a 427 Fairlane to evaluate a unibody car as a possible next generation Cup racecar. This car did race at Daytona but not in a NASCAR race rather it was driven by Fireball Roberts in the Daytona Continental and finished second to AJ Foyt in a Cooper Monaco. Later it was sold to Alan Mann Racing in England and was raced until a crash. In this century H-M has built a few continuation 427 Fairlanes for vintage road racing. For a very interesting article on the H-M 427 Fairlanes check out https://www.hotrod.com/articles/hdrp-0605-1964-holman-moody-ford-fairlane/

My model is based on the Revell Special Edition ’64 Ford Fairlane Street Machine 2’n1 kit with body modifications similar to the HM 427.

-          removed lower body trim

-          reshaped front and rear wheel wells

-          wheels, tires and brakes are from the Revell ’57 Chev

-          suspension lowered

-          seats from AMT ’57 Ford

-          console modified from AMT ’58 Chev

-          dechromed bumpers, wheels, valve covers

-          added a splitter to front bumper and a trunk edge spoiler

-          opened the front licence plate area for extra cooling

-          added an electric cooling fan and a boosted dual master cylinder

-          I wanted to sue the Thunderbolt style air intake but with the stock style hood. To do this I had to reduce the overall height of the entire manifold, carb and intake assembly.

-          I used Testors One Coat Lacquer from the rattle cans and for whatever reason I had some problems with the application. The white is called White Lightning which seemed appropriate for a Thunderbolt and keep with the Holman and Moody look and the silver is called Diamond Dust.

[cobraman]

Very sharp model.

[PappyD340]

SWEET!

[Phildaupho]

17 hours ago, cobraman said:

Very sharp model.

Thanks Ray

5 hours ago, PappyD340 said:

SWEET!

Thanks Larry

[Phildaupho]

[shoopdog]

Looks good, I like the clean look.

[espo]

This looks great. I also read that article and even saved it for reference to build one like this some day. Your colors look perfect on this build. Interior is to nice for all the scaffolding in the prototype. 

[Phildaupho]

4 hours ago, shoopdog said:

Looks good, I like the clean look.

Thanks Keith

33 minutes ago, espo said:

This looks great. I also read that article and even saved it for reference to build one like this some day. Your colors look perfect on this build. Interior is to nice for all the scaffolding in the prototype. 

Thanks David - I tried to get some better views of the interior

[Scott8950]

Very nice build

[1930fordpickup]

I like this a lot. 

[Phildaupho]

9 hours ago, Scott8950 said:

Very nice build

Thanks Scott

9 hours ago, 1930fordpickup said:

I like this a lot. 

Thanks Andy

Here is a better view of the engine compartment

[espo]

17 hours ago, Phildaupho said:

Thanks Keith

Thanks David - I tried to get some better views of the interior

Thank you for the additional interior pictures. I think this and the exterior are a great combination. I'm familiar with the seats you used as I think I've robbed them from every '57 Ford in the stash. 

[Phildaupho]

5 hours ago, espo said:

Thank you for the additional interior pictures. I think this and the exterior are a great combination. I'm familiar with the seats you used as I think I've robbed them from every '57 Ford in the stash. 

David - I have another set of seats from an AMT '57 Ford that I may use in Lindberg '53 Ford which I have thinking about building as Pro-Touring version of a Carrera Panamericana style car but very much the same as the Fairlane with the same colours, same wheels, tires, brakes and engine, same dechroming and same radiused wheelwells like a twin 11 years older

[espo]

2 hours ago, Phildaupho said:

David - I have another set of seats from an AMT '57 Ford that I may use in Lindberg '53 Ford which I have thinking about building as Pro-Touring version of a Carrera Panamericana style car but very much the same as the Fairlane with the same colours, same wheels, tires, brakes and engine, same dechroming and same radiused wheelwells like a twin 11 years older

That would make a very interesting build. I remember when the Lincoln team won their class and overall in I think '53 or '54. The '57 Chevrolet Black Widow and the '50 Oldsmobile kits both offer options of very basic Roll Bars and even a gutted back seat cover. These parts may be handy when you build your '53 Victoria. I hope this year to finally put together my '53 Ford kit with an old Fordallac vibe with the Cadillac engine from an old '49 Ford kit. 

[TooOld]

Very sharp looking T-Bolt !  Very nice work !

[slusher]

Sharp and impressive!!

[Hotrod 97]

Sharp build, Phil. Looks great.

[kymdlr]

T-Bolt came out great with all the mods. Ive also had some issue with the one-coat white lightning color. Ive tried it over  a silver base and a white primer base. Even with the white primer base I had to lay on more coats than usual of the white lightning to get it to look uniform across the entire body. Anyone else?

[ChrisR]

Very nice!

[Phildaupho]

On 3/15/2020 at 8:49 PM, TooOld said:

Very sharp looking T-Bolt !  Very nice work !

Thanks Bob

On 3/15/2020 at 9:38 PM, slusher said:

Sharp and impressive!!

Thanks Carl

On 3/16/2020 at 3:37 PM, Hotrod 97 said:

Sharp build, Phil. Looks great.

Thanks Tyler

On 3/17/2020 at 11:49 AM, kymdlr said:

T-Bolt came out great with all the mods. Ive also had some issue with the one-coat white lightning color. Ive tried it over  a silver base and a white primer base. Even with the white primer base I had to lay on more coats than usual of the white lightning to get it to look uniform across the entire body. Anyone else?

Thanks Ron - It is reassuring to hear I am not the only who has had trouble applying White Lightning. I was hoping it would be my go to paint for a couple of other white pearl projects I would like to do but will use Tamiya instead.

7 hours ago, ChrisR said:

Very nice!

Thanks Chris

[RAMBENNA]

nice job, great looking build