1932 Ford Highboy So-Cal version

[Reeves Racing]

I am not really a Hot Rod guy. Muscle cars and race cars are my true love so this kit was destine to be raided some more and eventually broken up into the various parts boxes I have....
But the other day I saw this car in another thread on here and had to build a model of it. I have always liked the old nostalgic So-Cal logo so I want this car on my shelf.

I had raided the kit pretty badly so I am going to use a Boss 302 from the Revell 70 Mach 1 kit from my parts box and some headers and exhaust from the parts box. I will have to make my own SoCal decals.
I tapered the kit frame to blend with the body sides more like the real car.
I filled the indentions with strip stock and then ran a few stair stepped strips of layers to make it beveled. Kind of boat hull shaped.
Next I had to fix a low spot on the left front corner of the body. And started fixing up the engine. I didn't follow the real car on the colors of the interior. I used some very thin styrene rod to make piping to flow the body stripe into the interior a little.

I imagineered a fuel injection set up for the Boss 302 using the upper and lower manifolds from the Revell 99 Mustang Cobra kit.

I stole the disc brake parts for use on anther kit so I got some drum brakes from my parts box. They are from the AMT Mercedes 300SL kit.

I made some decals on my inkjet, not the best but okay. I had painted the black stripe. I didn't clean the body well enough after I color sanded the red and the clear reacted and turned out a little lumpy. I think I can sand it with some 800 and 1000 and polish it back out.

It won't be my best build but it will look good on my shelf. This my first Hot Rod build in about 35 years.

 

 

 

 

[wayne swayze]

Great idea! You're doing a fine job here. I love highboys!

[Foxer]

That is a stand-out car and you are doing it justice!

[Dann Tier]

Very cool!  Q: how did you do the black pinstripe?   Sorry, re read it, Great job freehanding that pinstripe!!

Edited December 23, 2015 by Dann Tier

[68shortfleet]

Very nice. I too, really like the paint design that SoCal uses. I have a similar build planned.

[horsepower]

Nice build, but it may have looked like a shadow in your photos, but the So-Cal roadster used stock style stampings that had the factory reveal on the frame rails in place, like the Revell kit was originally, it just needed a little rounding off of the edges so it wouldn't appear quite as crisp.

[Reeves Racing]

Nice build, but it may have looked like a shadow in your photos, but the So-Cal roadster used stock style stampings that had the factory reveal on the frame rails in place, like the Revell kit was originally, it just needed a little rounding off of the edges so it wouldn't appear quite as crisp.

Yeah, that's the issue with modeling a car from one picture... that and I don't know much about 32 Highboys.

My build isn't a faithful replica in many ways so the frame mods will have to fall on the artistic license and lack of research list of things not quite right. 

 

[horsepower]

Now you need to do another So-Cal built car, get some pictures of Jimmy Shine's Ford pickup, or if you can find some of the videos from the show, they did a really cool '55 Chevy gasser, and the apprentice they ended up hiring has a super trick Model A coupe with a Hemi engine radiator under the deck lid street rod that looks like a gassser coupe..