1959 Dodge - My "Tunaboat" Replica - FINISHED

[Jantrix]

That looks great Rich. Excellent work as usual.

[TFchronos]

Amazing build of a very beautiful car.

[Jon Cole]

WAY nice job on that, Rich!

[Ramfins59]

Thanks very much everyone.

[Maindrian Pace]

Pretty!!!

-MJS

[S. Svendsen]

That's very cool.

[Ramfins59]

Thanks guys. I emailed pictures of this finished model to my younger brother in New Hampshire and he replied, asking me where the curb feelers were..!!! I had them on the real car and totally forgot to add them to the model. I'll put them on today.

[the goon]

Very well done. congrats.

Mark

[PARTS GUY]

Very nice build. How cool to be able to build a car that you actually owned. It does make a difference in the deatails when you know how the real car looks. Sorry to hear no longer have the car, we all have one of those stories.

[realgone58]

Beautiful build Rich!

[Drgon63]

hey rich speefreak see that as a space ship... ya gotta show him ZZZZZZZT

[kendog261]

Very nice and I love the name

[Ace-Garageguy]

That's one sweetheart of a ride I'd dearly love to have in 1:1. Wouldn't even mind paying for all the gas it would take to cruise in that much cool. Great looking model, sir.

[Ramfins59]

Thank you all very much for your great comments.

Bill, that car got an average of 16 MPG. It only had a 20 gallon tank and I used to have to fill it twice a week if I drove it to work every day. You are so right about cruising in that much cool...!!! The car turned heads wherever I drove it.

Yeah Tom, I'll bet he would like the ZZT Dodge.

[jeffs396]

Turned out GREAT Rich!

Hope to see it on Sunday!

[Ramfins59]

Thanks Jeff. Yes, you will see it on Sunday in Castle Shannon and I look forward to seeing you again. I'll also be bringing the '56 Nomad that you helped me out with the parts for. See you there.

[am73grand]

This is really, really, nice!! You really nailed the look of the real car!

[TooOld]

I can't believe I missed this one . . . another real beauty !

[John Goschke]

Sharp looking model!

[Ramfins59]

Thanks a lot guys.

[thatz4u]

very nice

[kruleworld]

your model looks fantastic, but BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH! the 59 dodge is an ugly car.

[Helix]

Very nice build Richard

[Jon Cole]

Rich, how did you tint the windows? Did you airbrush them? Looks so fine!

[Ramfins59]

Thanks very much guys.

Sorry Walter, but while you are entitled to your opinion, I tend to disagree with you.

Jon, there's a bit of a story about the windows. The promo kit that my friend John gave me had a one piece clear glass piece that had the front, rear and side glass. I didn't want the side glass in the car so I decided to use both my razor saw and my dremel to remove the side glass. I inserted the glass piece and scribed a line with my XActo knife along the front edge of the rear B pillars. Being a smart Alec, I thought that I could saw the front windshield off by eye instead of scribing a line along the rear edge of the vent window posts...... WRONG...!!! I wound up cutting it about an 8th of an inch too short and about half of the vent windows had no glass...!!! Fortunately I had 2 '59 Dodge promo glass pieces in my parts stash but they were tinted green instead of being clear. I chose the one that was tinted a lighter shade of green. I then inserted the glass piece and scribed a line on the green glass along the rear edge of the vent window posts. Then I carefully cut both the front glass from the green piece and rear glass loose from the clear piece with the saw about 1/16th of an inch short of the scribed lines and used sanding sticks to remove the remaining glass up to and including the scribed line. I polished the front green and rear clear glass with Novus 2 polish to remove fine scratches. At final assembly a drop of CA glue landed dead center on the inside of the front glass about 1/4 inch below the window molding.!!

I spent about an hour or so polishing out the CA glue mark with the glass being attached to the body..