One of my favorites as a kid......Big Al Allison powered drag car

[V8tiger]

I did this about a year ago when I first started to get back into models... pretty much from scratch...

[Steamboat]

That's cool.  I bet it was fun to drive, but not to change spark plugs!

[bondo bill]

nice

[PappyD340]

Very cool!

[ChrisR]

COOL!!

[M W Elky]

This is the ultimate in cool ? did you use the amt body with a severe chop , and where did the decals come from?

[papajohn97]

Great job recreating one of the more creative drag machines from my childhood. I recall AMT offered an 1/25 Allison among their boxed accessories when I was a kid (60’s), was it ever re-popped or did you have to pull your engine out of that Model King “Allison Wonderland” T-Bird kit for this build? 

[Scott8950]

Very nice job

[V8tiger]

Thank you guys for the comments... Yes I did use the AMT body and chopped it. As for the Allison I bought if i remember right I think I bought just the engine on ebay. .. It was all chrome and I had to de-chrome it except for the valve covers.... If I had to do it again I'm sure I could improve on the chop. I'm a year better than where I was when I built it, hopefully..... again thanks for the kind words....

[Ace-Garageguy]

Way cool. I well remember that crazy thing. Nice job.  

Edited April 16, 2023 by Ace-Garageguy

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 4/15/2023 at 11:42 AM, papajohn97 said:

...I recall AMT offered an 1/25 Allison among their boxed accessories when I was a kid (60’s), was it ever re-popped or did you have to pull your engine out of that Model King “Allison Wonderland” T-Bird kit for this build? 

Just for everybody's information, the AMT parts-pack Allison engine, sold as a stand-alone kit originally, was indeed repopped and boxed with several other parts-pack trees over the years.

 

Edited April 16, 2023 by Ace-Garageguy

[Scott Colmer]

Great model of one of my favorite cars from one of my favorite builders. You really captured to look of the car. I believe there is tribute 1:1 version out there now. Your recreation is a very close match.  I'm also interested in source of the decals.

I think the original body is in Garlits' museum. It was a real thrill in the 90's when I saw it going down a Sacramento freeway upside-down on the back of a flatbed. Guess it was headed to Florida.

Scott

[stavanzer]

Big Al, was the name of the car. A buddy of mine saw it once, in SoCal. Said it was unbelievably;y loud!

[Bainford]

Cool build! I'm glad to see a replica of this wild thing in scale. Nicely done. Like many of the others, I was blown away as a kid when I saw a photo of this thing in Hot Rod. At the time I wasn't obvious to me that the driver looked out over the top, and I couldn't imagine how anyone could see out of the thing.

[V8tiger]

On 4/15/2023 at 8:21 AM, M W Elky said:

This is the ultimate in cool ? did you use the amt body with a severe chop , and where did the decals come from?

I'll get back to you where I had the decals made.. He did a great job...

 

[slusher]

Looks fantastic!