Tub #4...from the way, way back machine....

[tim boyd]

To the best of my recollection, this was the first of the ten (so far!) "tubs" I've built in my modeling career and is celebrating its "50th" birthday since completion this year. It was built from the 1967 revision of the AMT '27T Phaeton/XR-6 Trophy Series kit released once in 1963 and never reissued,   

The 1967 update (which is being recreated with a few missing parts restored right now by Round 2 for a 2026 reintroduction) dropped all the XR-6 parts and added a few new parts for the '27T including a super-nice dropped tube axle, (IIRC) an up top with three diamond shaped windows in the back, and a few other updates.  At that time, most of the original double kit hot rod hot rod version parts for the '27T were also dropped, including the torsion bar straight front axle, front radius rods, front wire wheels, dual quad headlamps, and so forth.  Later versions of that kit included the Hillbilly Hauler, the '27 T Hot Rod Fire Truck, and (with fewer parts) the Laurel and Hardy '27T and most of the other reissues since then.  (Another, previous release based on this tool was the "my mother, the car" kit, but that's an anomaly for another time....).  

Now some may consider a "tub" to be only fenderless "touring" or "phaeton" body styles, but for me both fendered and fenderless versions count.

I built the street rod version of the 1967 kit release, adding the rear axle/radius rods from the AMT 1973 "'29A Double Kit" release, and plated front radius rods that may have come from the Revell Anglia kit.  The engine was a Ford Pinto I-4, a popular 1/1 scale swap at the time this kit was built around 1975 or so.  The "funny far" carpeting actually looks a little better in persons (not as bright as it seems here); I was using this material in most of my hot rod builds at the time.  The wire wheels were from the AMT Silhouette and 1965 Riviera kits; the tires were the MPC hollow bigs and littles.  The plated windshield frame and engraved wing windows were from the Revell Buttera series '27T kit, which must have been just released at the time. 

"Resto Rods" were very popular in 1/1 scale at the time, and they were the inspiration for this project.  As was the bright green with black fenders color scheme, lifted straight from the late 1960s to early 1970s Rod and Custom magazine features.  I remember painting the Testors Candy Green over silver in my parent's upstairs bathroom, then quickly trying to mop up all the green overspray left on the countertops and mirror. Yikes! (I remember do getting all of it, thank goodness).

More later....and thanks for checking this out....TIM 

[Kanada Kustoms]

Great looking tub... Love the engine and the green carpeting in the interior!

[DJMar]

Man oh man, that screams late '60s goodness! The green & black are classic, and those wires just complete the look.

I can smell the enamel in the air!

[falcon wagon]

great looking hot rod 

[carrucha]

Cool Model T tub!