Nosalgia Race cars

[Fender]

Here are a few . The Jegs is a phantom with fuel injection. It's just for looks. The kit wasn't very detailed. It's an early sixties( I think) Nova. Tubbed and has wheel wells moved forward. This is somewhere in between gassers and Funny cars.

The willys is fashioned somewhat after a Willys Pickup from the early sixties that was featured on the cover of a recent Hot Rod special magazine. It has a hand brake/ foot brake combo. It's got the killer Gasser stance, and cool blue windows which was hard to do. It has a scratched tractor battery in the trunk. It was fun to build.

Early Nascar 40 Ford with driver. I love old Nascar stuff.

My first day on the site has been fun. I have been spending an awfull lot of time on the models lately. I just finished A Rat Model 41 Chevy Pickup truck with a 426 Hemi moved back. It has parts from about 10 or more kits. It's not real low. I wanted to make a kit like something I could drive around and not scrape bottom. What better than a 426 Hemi Pickup? It has a 34 Ford bed, 32 Ford radiator, and other assorted parts. A real Rat Model. I did a ton of fitting and moving and building. Kind of like you would do to a full scale Rat Rod.

Sorry if some of the shots aren't real clear. I took them with a flip camera.

[sobpinstriping]

I like them all you did a great job on them. I wouldent call that truck a rat rod, It looks more like a old school hot rod to me!

[maltsr]

Excellent builds, nice detail Welcome to the forum, you should fit in well with builds like these.

[Greg Pugh]

Very nice! I like everything you've shown here! Glad to have you aboard.

[Fender]

There is a debate these days as to what a Rat Rod is. I'm sure there is a very long thread here about what is and isn't a Rat Rod. I read the article in the "Model Cars" December(?) issue.

I did alot to my (version of a Rat) 41 Chevy Pickup. The body is moved back (scale) 12" along with the engine. Doing that opened up a whole new can-o-worms. That caused almost everything in and on the truck to be modified. Removed and added frame rails, engine and tranny mounts, driveshaft length, interior floor and hump mods, body over frame mods, bed mounting, radiator placement- the whole nine yards. Test fits "a million". Switched to outboard steering with the steering box in the cab - there was no room for stock placement of the steering box. It was a whole exercize in problem solving.

I added copper washers under the seat (31 Ford back seat), and aquarium gravel to the engine block and scratched gas tank for extra weight. Hey - I needed weight for traction and balance! A 426 Hemi may tend to need as much grip (in a light truck like that) as it can get.

I'm not a machinest so it's not a Gerald Wingrove but it was great fun to build. The build was about as far as I go in time, detail, parts and neck pain.