Daddyfink Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 Quite a few of the early Funnies where still based on actual steel bodies and had working doors. Except for this crazy looking flip top beast, which still looks like it has working doors
Snake45 Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 That flopper Corvair looks like it might be a rebodied Altered. Several of the early funnies were done this way, including at least two Mustangs I can think of right offhand.
Ben Posted January 24, 2015 Posted January 24, 2015 I thought the term "funny car" came straight from the Fact of bodies lifting up??
Snake45 Posted January 24, 2015 Posted January 24, 2015 I thought the term "funny car" came straight from the Fact of bodies lifting up?? The term "funny car" predated the first flipping bodies by at least a year, maybe two. It came from the altered wheelbases (the rear axles, or both front and rear, moved forward). The cars looked stock (or stock-bodied), but "funny."
Snake45 Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 I see no provisions for it to tilt up in the normal funny car manner. That chassis is based more or less on the McEwen '65 Barracuda chassis. The body didn't flip up on that car. Flip bodies didn't start becoming common until '66, and didn't completely take over the class until well into 1967 or later.
unclescott58 Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 That chassis is based more or less on the McEwen '65 Barracuda chassis. The body didn't flip up on that car. Flip bodies didn't start becoming common until '66, and didn't completely take over the class until well into 1967 or later. So does the body of model just sit lose on the chassis? Or is there some way securing it? Scott
tim boyd Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 So does the body of model just sit lose on the chassis? Or is there some way securing it? Scott The body stretches over the completed chassis. It's pretty secure when finished. But you have to trim the rear of the chassis as shown in the instructions, PLUS additionally trim triangular sections of the outboard rear corners of the floor board (not shown in the instruction), for it to fit the Corvair body. I only had to trim the rear wheels wells ever so slightly from the inside (no radiusing of the wheel opening from the outside is required.) The front axle also should be moved forward slightly (as is the case with virtually all of the AMT A/FX style funny car kits). And, the instrument panel leaves a slight gap between its forward edges and the windshield/cowl of the body. Not too unsightly, particularly if you finish the IP in black. All in all, it's a fairly cool look when finished. TB
unclescott58 Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Started some basic work on my Chevooom tonight. Things are looking pretty good. One of the first things I did was to cut off the rear section of the chassis as shown in the instructions. By the way, my instructions do show the triangles that also need to be cut from chassis. Test fitting the chassis I can see why these cuts need to be done. And the chassis fits well after the cuts are done. Scott
tim boyd Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Scott...that's interesting because my instructions only showed cutting the back end - not the triangular pieces. Wonder if they did a quick update during the production run? If so, that's good news...TIM
unclescott58 Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Good question Tim. I just got my Chevooom a couple of days ago. They make no real note of it, but the triangle areas are shown in gray in the instructions just like the other part that needs to be cut off. Sorry I'm unable to post a picture of my instruction sheet. But, it's there. Your comments about need to do the extra cutting got me to notice it. If you hadn't brought it up, I might have missed it at first. So thank you pointing out the need for extra cutting. Scott
tim boyd Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 Scott...thanks for the feedback, Maybe I missed it myself when I built the model. TIM
Regularguy868 Posted February 9 Posted February 9 On 7/11/2014 at 9:30 AM, Brett Barrow said: I don't have one, but here's the instruction sheet - http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/amt-instructions/straightline-competition/amt-corvair-funny-car/ *edit* - Pictures are fuzzy, but it appears to be based on the Hemi Under Glass kit as was pointed out below by Daddyfink Very simple, similar in its execution to the AMT altered wheelbase kits from around that same time. One built up box stock here about halfway down the page: http://speedcityresin.com/Model%20Gallery%20Page%202 Hello, does the Funny Car Corvair kit have black tires or white tires? Please advise. Thank you.
Tim W. SoCal Posted February 10 Posted February 10 20 hours ago, Regularguy868 said: Hello, does the Funny Car Corvair kit have black tires or white tires? Please advise. Thank you. 20 hours ago, Regularguy868 said: According to the instruction sheet in the Drastic Plastics website, it has the white styrene tires 1
Tim W. SoCal Posted February 10 Posted February 10 7 minutes ago, Tim W. SoCal said: According to the instruction sheet in the Drastic Plastics website, it has the white styrene tires I just found the Right-On-Replicas build video from the latest release of the CheZooom kit, and it now has vinyl Goodyear Blue Streak slicks as well as the white styrene tires
Mark Posted February 10 Posted February 10 Even with the vinyl slicks, the front tires are probably still the plastic ones. The small vinyl front tires in the Chevelle and F-85 funny car kits weren't tooled yet when the Corvair was last issued.
Tim W. SoCal Posted February 10 Posted February 10 40 minutes ago, Mark said: Even with the vinyl slicks, the front tires are probably still the plastic ones. Yes, they are...
Regularguy868 Posted February 10 Posted February 10 3 hours ago, Tim W. SoCal said: Thank you Tim for taking the time to respond!! Kind Regards!
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