This is a little project I’ve been working on for the last three weeks. While I’ve built quite a few Revell ’32 Fords for some reason I’ve only ever built one full fendered one. So I decided I’d build two at once, a chopped 3-window coupe and a roadster. The plan was to stay close to kit-stock, trying to keep them fairly similar in construction techniques, using a large box of spare parts from these kits I’ve amassed over the past few years, but still changing key elements so that they would land up being quite different in “flavor” when I was done.
Both cars are based on a kit-stock Revell ’32 Ford chassis with the front spring shaved to bring the nose down. Both cars use kit wheels, the 3-window coupe using the Torq-Thrusts that can be found in all the Revell Deuce kits, and the roadster using the steelies from the 5-window kit, but with AMT ’40 Ford Deluxe hubcaps which are shallower than the Revell kit ‘caps. Both cars use the Goodyear GT Radials rear tires from the original Roadster kit, and both cars use AMT Firestone Deluxe Champion front tires. In the case of the .coupe I used Dirk’s very cool stick-on vinyl whitewalls which totally changes the look of the tires.
The chopped 3-window coupe is a resin piece purchased on e-Bay from “gregory23c”. Flawless styrene-like white resin and very reasonably priced. Highly recommended. I used the interior from the 5-wndow coupe, along with the hemi engine from that kit, with lots of chrome and a bright Tamiya Camel Yellow (PS-19) paint job finished with Testors Wet Look clear for a 60’s car show vibe. The crummy little 4-barrels from the 5-window kit were replaced with two of the dozens of 4-barrels from the Revell Deuce small block Fords I’ve collected over the years. The air cleaners are of unknown origin from my parts box.
The roadster is inspired by the Jim Shelton and Gray Baskerville roadsters, both classic full fendered cars. It will have a chopped windshield like the Shelton car and the Testors Mythical Maroon paint has been finished out with Krylon semi-gloss clear for a more worn look similar to the Baskerville Deuce. The motor is a Revell Parts Pack small block Chevy with stock Chevrolet script valve covers and ram horn exhausts from an AMT kit, and the transmission from the Deuce kit small block Fords to minimize any mods to the drive train. With the blackwall tires, steelies, semi-gloss paint and plain-Jane SBC I’m going after the funky late 50’s street rod look of the Gray Baskerville roadster to contrast with the shiny slickness of the coupe.
In keeping with the roadster’s Old School vibe I modified the kit interior by raising the seat about ¼ inch in order to have the bolster on the seat back stand out above the rear deck as was so common on older roadsters. The dashboard is the kit piece but with the stock face with its cassette player and air conditioning outlets removed and the kit instrument cluster cut out and modified to fit over on the driver’s side of an otherwise plain panel.
I’m close to finished, with maybe another week of bench time to get them both done. Here are some shots of the cars so far.
Thanx for lookin’,
B.
