34 Chevy Coupe jalopy racer

[alan barton]

As you all know, the rule when it comes to resin parts is "See it, buy it"  Fortunately I bought a bunch of old short track parts from Fred's Resin Workshop before he stopped making them.  I fact, I bought the 34 Chev with the intention of making a hot rod and once I saw how nice it was I thought I had better get another one to do a jalopy.  As best I can tell from some clues inside it, the constructor of the master ( unfortunately I don't know if that was Fred or one of his contacts) used a Monogram 34 Coupe AKA ZZTop to start with but you would never know it.  It is a nice, quality piece of resin.

 

Now I wanted to use a Chevy style frame.  I was thinking it might be easier to kitbash one from a Ford frame but I went digging through my stash to find only three early Chevy frames, the MPC 32 Chev, the AMT 37 Chev and the Monogram 39 Chevy frame.  That was it.  All the 32 and 37 frames were already earmarked for hot rod projects and there was no way something as big as a 39 Chevy Delivery frame was going to fit under a 34 Chev......or was there?

 

[alan barton]

Ya wouldn't believe it but the body dropped right on there like a bought one.  I didn't do a thing to the resin piece and only had to remove the bumper irons at each end and my frame conversion was done.

Edited April 6, 2020 by alan barton

[alan barton]

So once I cut out the roof insert, dropped in the six banger from an AMT 37 Chevy and added a bit of bar work, we were on our way.

[alan barton]

So here is the finished project.  I wanted it to be fairly tidy - a start of season car rather than an end of season car if you will.  The driver is carved from a Monogram sprintcar driver.  Rear tyres are from an unknown 4wd kit, probably Japanese and the wheels are also 37 Chevy.  Paint is Testors rattle can and I wasn't overly concerned about a sharp edge on the masking tape - this thing got painted in the driveway on a Saturday afternoon just before they headed to the track.

Hope all you racers like this one and I will see if I can get some outdoors shots tomorrow.

Cheers

Alan

[Tom Geiger]

I see you are keeping busy!  Brilliant car! 

[TarheelRick]

One very fine looking jalopy.  Those old Chevy frames are fun to work with; I used a 41 truck frame under a Willys sportsman coupe with a Chevy 6.

[stavanzer]

Too Cool! I really like it!

[Rocking Rodney Rat]

Nice one, Alan!!! -RRR

[ChrisR]

Looks great!