Late 1950s to early 1960s flavored hot rod roadster - a heavy kitbash of the original AMT 1929 Model A Roadster

[tim boyd]

This one was built about 15 or so years ago.  It used the AMT 1929 Model A body, an extended tubular frame derived from the Revell Henry J/Austin/'43 Willys Pickup gasser kits tooling, an interior with parts sourced from the AMT 1940 Willys Gasser kit, the tri-carb Nailhead Buick from the original AMT 1932 Ford Custom/1940 Willys Gasser double kit, headers from the Revell Nailhead Buick Engine Parts Pack, suicide front and transverse leaf rear suspension (IIRC) from the Monogram Little T/follow-up reissues, Halibrand Quick Change rear from an I-don't-remember kit source, 1958 Chevy Bel Air tailamps and bezels, and IIRC not quite period correct Buick Riviera wheel covers on skinny tall/n/taller aftermarket sourced dual sided whitewalls.  The trunk was cut out and hinged and filled with 1960s car show type display content.  The paint is MCW Automotive Finishes 1959 Buick Lido Lavendar Metallic.  Thanks for checking it out...TIM    

 

Finally, a comparison shot or two of this project alongside a box stock build of the later Revell Hot Rod Channeled Model A Roadster....

  

Edited October 9, 2023 by tim boyd

[XYHARRY]

Nice 29, you captured the era well. 

Cheers, 

David. ??

[ChrisR]

Awesome!

[espo]

Beautiful looking Roadster. Like the engine and chassis detailing. Can you imagine how hard it would be to keep a real engine looking clean if painted white? 

[Dave Darby]

There's another cool period build. I like the extended front end, and 58 Chevy taillights. Great use of the AMT Willys interior - going to put that one in my recipe book. The paint color is icing on the cake.

[karbuildr]

Beautiful build, especially like the color, great use of varied parts sources. Period custom touches look great.

[Yeah Nah]

Real nice! Excellent finish and detail work.

[Zippi]

Now that's a snazzy looking little Hot Rod.  That Buick Nailhead looks right at home in the business end.  Lot of nice details and I'm diggin the gear shift knob.  Nice build.

[Koellefornia Kid]

Great looking roadster, nice work!

[slusher]

Excellent build!

[ewetwo]

They are both beautiful. Colors are great.

[thatz4u]

Tim, nice pair of 29's, both are nice, well done

[Dan Hay]

Really cool, where'd you get those 58 Delray tail lights? 

[tim boyd]

2 hours ago, Dan Hay said:

Really cool, where'd you get those 58 Delray tail lights? 

Dan....I will have to do some investigation, but if forced to guess I'd say the AMT Buyer's Choice reissue of the 1964 Mercury ParkLane....can anyone else confirm?   Best...TB 

[tim boyd]

Thanks everyone...comments and questions are appreciated.   As most of you know, I posted three different channeled '29 Model A Roadster builds over the last week.  Interesting to me to compare the relative number of views of this vs. the early-mid 1960s and the mid-late 1960s themed builds. 

Dave, I vaguely recall the use of the AMT Willys Gasser interior parts did require some slicing and dicing to then live in this application....but thx and...hmmm... maybe I need to try this again on another build myself.

Best to yothu all....TB 

Edited October 12, 2023 by tim boyd

[spencer1984]

Beautiful job on this! The photo next to the Revell roadster really shows what the suicide front axle does to the wheelbase.

[Mr. Metallic]

Very cool. The flavor of the extended wheelbase of a T, but with an A body.

Like Dave said, great idea on the interior.

[alan barton]

Hi Tim, this one would really ride nice and smooth with that long wheelbase!

Looking at your suspension, I cant help wonder if both front and rear came from an AMT 25 T. The front axle looks too narrow for a Monogram Lil T and the skinny quickie and long rear radius rods also smack of the AMT version, as do the hairpins. Having just finished a few AMT 25 T's these components rang a bell as they say! Just a thought!

Cheers

Alan

[carrucha]

Nice hotrod.  Cool body color.

[tim boyd]

On 10/12/2023 at 9:53 AM, Dan Hay said:

Really cool, where'd you get those 58 Delray tail lights? 

Dan...confirmed today, they're from the AMT 1964 Mercury Marauder annual kit and the Buyer's Choice reissue of same....you can see them illustrated (in a vertical position) on a rear 3/4 view of the custom version on the box side.......TB 

[Dan Hay]

1 hour ago, tim boyd said:

Dan...confirmed today, they're from the AMT 1964 Mercury Marauder annual kit and the Buyer's Choice reissue of same....you can see them illustrated (in a vertical position) on a rear 3/4 view of the custom version on the box side.......TB 

Thanks for the info Tim! One of my favorite tail lights for customs.