Ramcharger Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 Ha! Made ya look! You thought it was going to be a Chebby! In the spirit of the recently completed "BattleFord" '57 Land speed car, I thought I try to do another '57 Ford for the Ohio Challenge. I have about 2 months to finish this, but I got a good start today, I had a snow day! Yay! NO School! (I'm the teacher). So, I spent all day cutting, grinding, measuring, chopping, filling and gluing and my evil plan is coming together. By day a mild mannered Dr. Jekyll family car, a 1957 Ford Custom 300 2 door sedan. At night the mad doctor gets out the blue wrench and the welder and it becomes; Mr. Hyde, a fuel injected, fire breathing, psychotic thrill ride filled with 427 cubic inches of Cammer powered terror! The rear wheels are moved forward, the front frame rails are replaces with rectangular tubes and the interior has been modified. Watch out Chevy drivers, the doctor is about to allow the inner beast to come to life!
Lovefordgalaxie Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 That's gonna be good!!! By the way, this is not a Custom 300, it's the base model Custom Tudor. The Custom 300 has a full length chrome spear on the side.
OldTimer50707 Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 This is going to be interesting. We have another "Mad" doctor in the house.
Len Woodruff Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 Very Kool! I will be watching the progress!
Ramcharger Posted February 7, 2014 Author Posted February 7, 2014 Thanks guys! I hope it turns out as nice as the other '57. I might be able to get the body in primer tomorrow, we get together at the local hobbyshop on Friday nights and I usually can get a lot of sanding done then. Then tomorrow, it's back to the lab!
Ramcharger Posted February 9, 2014 Author Posted February 9, 2014 Well, the doctor was in the lab all day sanding parts and mapping out a strategy for the monster. I'm thinking ladder bars for the rear suspension and a straight axle on leaf springs in front. I shot some primer on the body and I will resand a reprime tomorrow. I hauled out a resin 427 SOHC from my stash and began mocking that up. I also did some work on the interior floor and mocked up the resin van seats from Competition Resins, I need to build some risers for the seats. More to come!
PARTS GUY Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Cool build. I can see a 4-speed and wheels up.
Ramcharger Posted February 9, 2014 Author Posted February 9, 2014 Thanks, James and everyone else. Kyle you are correct! It will have a 4 speed, I've always thought that drag cars are no fun unless they are a "hand shaker". I hope to get a lot done today, this is going to be a quick build.
Lovefordgalaxie Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 I'm loving it!!!!! I have the utmost admiration for this kind of work (scratchbuilding) as I think I'm incapable of doing it...
Ramcharger Posted February 10, 2014 Author Posted February 10, 2014 Hmmm, a flip front end, sounds like a pain in the butt to engineer and make work correctly. So I'm on a short timeline, lots of scratchbuilding, and lots could go wrong. In other words, heck yeah, why wouldn't I?
Ramcharger Posted February 10, 2014 Author Posted February 10, 2014 Thanks, Paul, I'd really appreciate that!
Ramcharger Posted February 13, 2014 Author Posted February 13, 2014 I had some time in the lad last night to work on the monster. I built the front leaf springs out of a soda can and some strip styrene,
Lovefordgalaxie Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 WOW, those are great looking leaf springs!!!
bryan_m Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 wow! i missed this one! very nice work.......the modifications you did to the body look really nice, and those springs......wow! keep it goin cheers bryan
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 Nice work ! I did a tutorial a while back on a technique that works for just about anything you want to do "flip-nose", and it guarantees the nose fits perfectly every time it's closed. It's simple and quick. Maybe it will help you out. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=70025
bryan_m Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 nice tutorial bill! ill have to give it a shot next gasser i build! cheers bryan
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