stock 32 fords update

[Frank]

Hi guys I have taken on the project of building one of each body style of the 32 ford.

I have gathered most of them, Amt and Revell mainly, the ones they don't model such as

B 400, cabriolet, sports coupe, sedan delivery and closed cab pick-up I have got from resin casters.

The others, phaeton tudor and roadster pick-up I will modify from kits.

The 1st problem is that Revell kits only come as street rods, so I have to modify the chassis back to stock

to take the AMT front ends and diffs and chase up these and stock wheels and tires for them.

If anyone has any spares of these parts I would appreciate some I am quite prepared to pay.

This is the AMT phaeton body I modified into a tudor,

This is what I intend to duplicate in model form.

I will put up more pics as I get going.

Here are a few pics of the resin bodies I have.

This is almost finished.

I have started on the roadster pick-up 1st rough in, now for putty and sanding.

Edited June 22, 2011 by Frank

[charlie8575]

You, sir, have my attention!

I'll enjoy watching this come together, espeically how you convert the Revell '32s.

Charlie Larkin

[pepperdrumstix]

Nice idea. I do remember an older builder that had some builds and articles in the old car model hobby magazines that did something like this with '32 Fords. Maybe it was Bill Colter but who ever it was researched and build most of the stock '32 Fords. He had only the AMT kits to use and he scratch built a lot of the different type bodies. I saw how he made a '32 Ford truck out of the MPC '34 truck by modifying the moldings on the back of the cab. Another builder named Jack Davis made a bunch of '30s Fords out of the kits availible then. He made them curbside with dark tinted windows to hid the non-finished interiors. He was a welder, header fabricator and didn't have the time to detail these models but the paint jobs were excellent. He was the first to make some B-400s from '32 to '33 to 34s.

Bill Colter, if he was the one to do all the stock '32 Fords, had about a dozen or so of factory models that the model makers never made or even considered. I think he also did the factory stock builds of AMT '39-'40 Fords too. He pointed out the differences between the standards, the deluxes and the year to year changes. He pointed out that the '39 Deluxe was the '40 standard the next year and the base models each year had only one tail light and windshield wiper. He built all the styles from coupes to sedans to sedan deliveries. Factory colors too. Sorry to ramble on but your idea and the models you have ready to build reminded me of the older articles. Sorry I don't have the years, issues and magazine name but I believe most were in the first years of SAE in the mid '80s. Before it was bought by Kalmback. Someone like Tim Boyd would remember more. Or Dennis Doty. Keep us posted and keep building. Patrick M