1942 FORD STREET ROD

[Ramfins59]

Last Friday my wife took me to my LHS for a belated Christmas present of a "shopping spree". While browsing though the store I wandered through the military model section and came across a Tamiya 1/48 scale 1942 Ford Army Staff Car model. Ford stopped production of civilian vehicles at the start of WWII but they made Army Staff Cars. Since it is such an "unusual" subject I thought it would make a "cute" little Street Rod. So while I was waiting for the paint to dry on the '36 Ford Highboy I've been working on, I decided to check out this little car. There were all of about 20 pieces to this kit so I just dove right in on it. After a few hours over the weekend this is where it stands at the moment...

I painted the plastic tires flat black and tried my best to paint whitewalls on them. I had a set of MCG aluminum baby moon hubcaps that perfectly fit into where the kit's hubcaps go. I polished up the aluminum caps and glued them onto the tires for full moon discs.

The interior has a dashboard, steering wheel & column and front & rear seats. I painted the floor flat black, the seats tan and the dashboard tan and chrome silver with some small gauge decals for detail. The steering wheel was painted leather for a wood color and the column chrome silver.

I drilled small depressions under the headlight openings for amber MV lens turn signals, and also drilled depressions into the rear fenders for red MV lens taillights.

All that's left to do is paint the body, apply a couple of small decals, install the glass and dashboard, mount the body to the chassis and attach the grille, bumpers and lights. This is one cool and cute little project and a fun break from my other projects. Thanks for looking in on it.

[cobraman]

Thats pretty neat. Good idea.

[Chuck Most]

I've got one of those kits laying around, and I was planning on doing more or less the same thing with it. Keep us posted!

[bigphoto]

Very cool!!

[slammedi'am]

Sweet!

[Ramfins59]

Thanks for the comments guys. I have to get back to this little build sometime this weekend, along with the '36 Ford HiBoy project. I had my NY friend come to pick up the '65 Rambler model that I built for him and I "entertained" him from Tuesday through this morning so I wasn't able to get in any bench time for most of the week.