BHarrison Posted September 29, 2011 Posted September 29, 2011 I know Good Stuff made one and maybe another company as well. I saw one on Ebay the other day but forgot to bid on it. Help!
Art Anderson Posted September 29, 2011 Posted September 29, 2011 I know Good Stuff made one and maybe another company as well. I saw one on Ebay the other day but forgot to bid on it. Help! If all you need is one, that is NOT a hard body to come up with! The actual Model A A-400/32 Ford B-400 was a factory modification of the Tudor Sedan! All you would need to do for one with the top folded, is to alter the shapes of the quarter windows, after you remove the roof. Art
Rob Hall Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 I'm surprised R&M of Md haven't done one yet..they've done a bunch of '32 Ford bodies.
Art Anderson Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 was the B-400 based off of the Victoria or the sedan? or are both of them workable starting points? i remember Boyd Coddington building one in the late 80's or early 90's and i remember someone building one of them in scale as well as some phantom body styles in SAE around that time too The B-400, just as with the 1030-31 A-400's, was built off the Tudor Sedan, in order to have the extra rear seat room. Art
Frank Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 Try Steve Kohler. He does not have them listed on his site, but I just asked him if he had them and bought one recently. stevekohler@cox.net
Art Anderson Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 reference pics i've found online show that the B400 has really nothing in common at all with the 2-door sedan except that they are both '32 Fords. the bodies are VERY different from each other. as far as the A400 goes i can't tell you there, didn't bother to look. From this factory picture, I would say that B-400 has the same basic overall dimensions of the Tudor sedan, although it does appear that the doors are a bit longer, resulting in a shorter quarter panel. The "so-called" B400 street rods seem mostly to be aftermarket bodies, having a forward-swept rear panel, where the actual, stock B400 body has the same shape to the rear as the Tudor and 4dr sedans. Also, being an open car, it more than likely used the same windshield frame as the Cabriolet. Art
Art Anderson Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 reference pics i've found online show that the B400 has really nothing in common at all with the 2-door sedan except that they are both '32 Fords. the bodies are VERY different from each other. as far as the A400 goes i can't tell you there, didn't bother to look. The factory stock B400 (body by Murray Body Company) has the same basic shapes as the sedans, but of course has the shorter quarter windows, and from appearances, a longer side door (don't have a Tudor sedan handy right now to check that for sure). Of course, the windshield is shorter, with straight header, more than likely shared with the Cabriolet. Factory picture: http://www.carpictures.com/media/images/400/11EOG422811803AA.jpeg Art
Lyle Willits Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 I'm surprised R&M of Md haven't done one yet..they've done a bunch of '32 Ford bodies. I get asked this ALL the time. I just haven't got around to doing one yet for Norm. The only resin one I've ever seen was 24th scale for the older Monogram '32 and it wasn't completely accurate. There may be other resin B-400's that I haven't seen. There is extensive work to be done to make an ACCURATE B-400. Currently. I'm making a '41 Ford coupe body to be used with the NEW Revell '48 Ford Chopped custom kit.
High octane Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 Try Jimmy Flintstone and also Replicas & Miniatures of Maryland for that B 400 body.
Lyle Willits Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 Nick - read above. Reps & Mins does not have one,,,,,,,,,yet.
Dan Helferich Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 Quit bothering Lyle! I want one of those '41 coupe bodies.
Frank Posted October 11, 2011 Posted October 11, 2011 I get asked this ALL the time. I just haven't got around to doing one yet for Norm. The only resin one I've ever seen was 24th scale for the older Monogram '32 and it wasn't completely accurate. There may be other resin B-400's that I haven't seen. There is extensive work to be done to make an ACCURATE B-400. Currently. I'm making a '41 Ford coupe body to be used with the NEW Revell '48 Ford Chopped custom kit. will the 41 be chopped
Lyle Willits Posted October 11, 2011 Posted October 11, 2011 The '41 will be the Revell '48 body with the'41 front end and '41 grilles.
Art Anderson Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 the online pics i was looking at for reference were of steel B400's, some in stripped condition and some as original cars. there are several notable differences between the B400 body and the 2-door sedan that would make me believe that the B400 was it's own unique body and probably shared very little component wise with any of the other body styles. i didn't look at customized street rods on purpose as those bodies were more than likely modified and would not represent the differences i was looking for. in print, the Rodder's Journal has some nice reference pics in various issues of the different '32 Ford body styles and those are a very nice resource to have as well. as soon as i began to look into my own question above about using either the sedan or the Victoria body as starting points for the B400 conversion i had found the differences rather quickly. i was thinking of the Victoria's smaller quarter windows i think when i had asked that question and was thinking they were similar, but really they arent at all. i did go looking through some old SAE magazines trying to find who may have done that body in resin before and ended up distracted and never did find a listing. i did find pics of Jack Davis' phantoms though and was pretty happy and content with that DD, I think we are missing the connection here: A B-400 certainly can be made from the Revell '32 Ford Tudor Sedan, even though the real body shell might not have shared any sheet metal with that particular sedan. However, the shapes are there from which to work with: For example, the B400 would have the very same cowl and firewall as the sedan, the A-posts are the same, but with a straight windshield header across the top (just like on the Sport Coupe (soft, non-folding top) and the Cabriolet (soft folding top). The tops of the doors are squared off, and likely (along with the windshield, slightly) chopped in appearance. The rear quarter windows would have to be made of course, but you can still use the kit B-post, and the lower edge of the window framing, just have to fabricate the C-pillar that curves forwward to meet the line of the tops of the doors. It may also be that the doors themselves are longer than on the sedan, but still, no major problem, a couple of saw cuts, move the upper B-posts back to as close to the length of the door as you can. This is one of those projects where Evergreen gets to be a very good friend. In the interior, the dash will be the same as in the sedan, as will the seats. Art
Chuck Most Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 I thought Norm did make a B-400? Or am I thinking of the Sport Coupe?
Chuck Most Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 Norman has the Sport coupe and the Cabriolet bodies. i do think that the roof is a little short at it's front edge on the Sport coupe conversion Okay. Thanks for clearing that up. Weird, now that I know there isn't a resin B-400... I kinda want one.
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