Beverly Hills Hornet - Covid Car Show

[Tom Geiger]

Hey! I have an idea.. as I was going through my Fotki albums I realized I had models I had never posted here on the board, or at least in a very long time. So why not post them here? Let’s fill up the Under Glass categories with neat builds to give folks some content to read?  Tag your post as “Covid Car Show” since it’s a virtual car show in lieu of the 1:1 car shows we are missing!   Here goes...

Here’s the Beverly Hills Hornet. I built this one back in 2010. It is a combination of the old Monogram Green Hornet chassis and the Beverly Hillbillies Olds truck.

From the Olds I took the main cab, custom pickup bed, custom engine and wheel / tire set.

The bed is the custom one for Jethro’s rod. I did cut down the length at the front. When I saw this part in the kit, I immediately wanted to use it on a project since I never saw it done. California plate reads BH HORNET 

 

Interior has photo etched gauges, brass pin knobs and I hand wood grained it. The Hornet kit only has one seat with a fuel tank in the passenger position so I took a seat from a second kit. The shifter is a pin, where I painted the white dot and added an 8 decal from some decal sheet where it was a decal number.

I made the gas tank from Evergreen tube, and found a pair of round disks to fit in my parts box. I did wood grain the bed using Testors acrylics per a method that Irv Arter taught. This was my first try and it worked well.

Custom Olds engine from the kit. Headers came from the boat in the Model King release of the 1970 Pontiac.

The body is not glued to the chassis, which is the way the kit was designed. I love this Green Hornet chassis and have future projects in mind for it. 

The Hornet had the open floor so I built it this way. 

And since it was all open, I scratch built a shifter assembly complete with rods, simply to see if I could do it!

The Beverly Hills Hornet is still one of my favorite models. Hope you enjoyed reading about it!

Sooo,  who will post next?

And here we are with a stock build of the Green Hornet. 

Edited June 16, 2020 by Tom Geiger

[Deuces ll]

Oh,  heck yes!!!!!...... ??

[PappyD340]

SWEET!!

[slusher]

Nice pair!