Foose Eldorod... but Rat Rod Flavor!

[slusher]

Very cool, and unique!!

[Claude Thibodeau]

7 hours ago, slusher said:

Very cool, and unique!!

Thank you Carl!

CT

[PappyD340]

On 8/2/2020 at 9:11 PM, cobraman said:

Another cool creation from the house of Claude.

Yes, I agree!

[ewetwo]

That looks great.

[Nazz]

I like it Claude! Very creative !

[Claude Thibodeau]

4 hours ago, Nazz said:

I like it Claude! Very creative !

Thanks for the comments!

CT

[1320wayne]

This is awesome.

[Claude Thibodeau]

On 8/8/2020 at 9:26 PM, 1320wayne said:

This is awesome.

Thanks Wayne!

CT

[Claude Thibodeau]

On 8/8/2020 at 10:55 AM, ewetwo said:

That looks great.

Thank you David!

CT

[89AKurt]

Well done, but was expecting more rust. ?

[Claude Thibodeau]

56 minutes ago, 89AKurt said:

Well done, but was expecting more rust. ?

Hi Kurt!

Quite a request from a guy living in dry and sunny Arizona...LOL!

I contemplated rusting and piercing the body as the kind of damage you would expect here in the Great White North... But I went for the "southern surface rust" technique instead. Just laziness on my part, I guess...

CT

[89AKurt]

On 8/19/2020 at 9:10 AM, Claude Thibodeau said:

Hi Kurt!

Quite a request from a guy living in dry and sunny Arizona...LOL!

I contemplated rusting and piercing the body as the kind of damage you would expect here in the Great White North... But I went for the "southern surface rust" technique instead. Just laziness on my part, I guess...

CT

Yea yea, nothing rusts here.  ?  Along Route 66. ?

[Claude Thibodeau]

7 hours ago, 89AKurt said:

Yea yea, nothing rusts here.  ?  Along Route 66. ?

Hi Kurt!

That's what I meant by "surface rust".

Such a "pristine" model A just doesn't exist here in salt land... It would look like lace at the bottom of the quarter panel and cowl. That gives sense to the expression "fair body retrieved from the desert" that we read so much about in Hot Rod Magazine during the 60's.

Just a fantasy in my neck of the wood. 

CT

[Slimguy]

Claude...what an awesome and creative build on this model.  You really have some incredible skills.  I love all the builds you post.  

[Claude Thibodeau]

26 minutes ago, Slimguy said:

Claude...what an awesome and creative build on this model.  You really have some incredible skills.  I love all the builds you post.  

Hi David!

Thank you, but... experience showed me that sometimes, loooooong hours at the bench can make up for average skills. I built real rods for a living, so that may help,,,

CT

[Claude Thibodeau]

On 8/8/2020 at 4:08 PM, Nazz said:

I like it Claude! Very creative !

Hi Jerry!

Sorry I missed your entry the day you posted it. Thank you for the comments. 

CT

[Paul Payne]

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Now that's a hearse of a different color- and the rent a casket business- brilliant!

 

[Hermann Kersten]

Very nice build, the paintjob and the weathering are awesome.

 

Hermann.

[Ctmodeler]

Put a skeleton in the driver's seat for Halloween ! Lol

[Claude Thibodeau]

9 hours ago, Paul Payne said:

 

Thank you Paul!

CT

[Claude Thibodeau]

4 hours ago, Hermann Kersten said:

Very nice build, the paintjob and the weathering are awesome.

 

Hermann.

Hi Hermann. 

Thank you. I was inspired by a report I saw online of the famous Heartland National, a few years ago. I think the car was a Flintstone body, but the paint job got me! (see picture below)

I must pay credit to this builder. His pic sat over my bench for a while, and the Eldo panel was the good subject for me. 

CT

 

[Claude Thibodeau]

12 hours ago, Ctmodeler said:

Put a skeleton in the driver's seat for Halloween ! Lol

Hi Kenneth!

Well, I saw they are at a big discount, since the Halloween rounds of candy prospectors will be curtailed by Covid this year... Might as well stock up on old bones!

CT

[Ctmodeler]

Lol ! Or will it be in full swing because they will just have to have Halloween masks on anyways ? I have 3 kids I'll let you know and yeah definitely stock up on them old bones !!!

[Claude Thibodeau]

On 9/12/2020 at 5:55 PM, Ctmodeler said:

Lol ! Or will it be in full swing because they will just have to have Halloween masks on anyways ? I have 3 kids I'll let you know and yeah definitely stock up on them old bones !!!

Hi Kenneth!

The irony is, this year, old folks might be afraid to open their doors, and not because of the creepy creatures knocking, but because of the virus, alas...

CT

[Ctmodeler]

Hm true