Fender mounted spares

[Frank]

Can anyone tell me if there are any 32 ford kits that have fender mounted spare wheels.

[george 53]

Find the very early AMT 32 Ford kits. One of them came with wheel depressions in the fenders. I think it was the Sport Roadster or something like that. None of the nice new 32's by Revell have them. Hth.

[sjordan2]

Find the very early AMT 32 Ford kits. One of them came with wheel depressions in the fenders. I think it was the Sport Roadster or something like that. None of the nice new 32's by Revell have them. Hth.

Yup.

[Frank]

Thanks guys, have to keep my eyes open for one of those.

[62rebel]

the recent rerelease of the phaeton had them as well, IIRC. dual sidemounts only seem to work well on stock builds, visually, imho. they deserve really nice tires to complete the effect, and those old firestone jobbies aren't up to snuff.... whitewall insert tires look nice on cars with sidemounts.

[Art Anderson]

Unfortunately, the old AMT '32 Ford sidemount spare tire wheel wells are way too wide, given that AMT Corporation had only a 7:00-15 tire available in 1959 when their first Deuce Roadster kit was released. The actual car used 5:375-18 tires and wheels, and as such, the wheel wells were not only deeper due to the larger outside diameter, but were a lot narrower, and the ends of those wheel wells are round, as in semi-circular, NOT squared off.

Replica's and Miniatures of Maryland has a newly released set of those 18" wire wheels, with tires to match, and if you look around, wheel wells that will work were in the stock versions of the Revell '31 Model A Station wagon kit--the stock versions of it.

Art

[62rebel]

those ubiquitous AMT tires skewed my recognition of what "real" '30's wheels and tires looked like in 1/25th... when realistically scaled tires and wheels showed up, to ME they looked "off"! i never really examined the scale differential in the trophy series '32's... honestly, i took it for granted and was fooled.

[Art Anderson]

those ubiquitous AMT tires skewed my recognition of what "real" '30's wheels and tires looked like in 1/25th... when realistically scaled tires and wheels showed up, to ME they looked "off"! i never really examined the scale differential in the trophy series '32's... honestly, i took it for granted and was fooled.

Just to help out a bit here: With the advent of the "Balloon Tire" (itself the basis for all pneumatic rubber tires since its introduction in 1925), tire sizes have gotten smaller and wider over the years (until the modern passion for large diameter rims, low aspect ratio "rubber band" tires, of course).

With Ford (as well as Chevrolet, Plymouth and other low-mid priced cars), The basic balloon tire started out on a 21" rim in 1925-26, dropped to 19" about 1929-30, then 18" for 1932, 17" in '33-'34, finally to 16" for 1935, which tire diameter pretty much stuck until 1948-49, when the more modern 15" low-pressure tires came to be. Tire widths grew from 3.375" with those 21" tires, to 6" with the introduction of the 16" skins (of course, larger heavier mid-price and luxury cars got wider tires in order to carry their greater weight).

But, with model car kits, certainly back 50 yrs ago or so, it was pretty hard to justify a new tire tool for every model kit, based simply on what was exactly "scale", particularly if the powers that were in the particular model companies could not envision other car subjects using them, or more the notion that there would be any sort of market for exact scale stuff a half-century or more into the future (Crystal Ball technology was rather primitive in 1959, it seems!).

Art