UPDATE - 7 pics just added...chopped 1931 Model A Tudor Hot Rod...anyone wanna race?

[tim boyd]

Over the next year I plan to post pictures of all the Hot Rod sedans I have built over the last 45 years. I've started with probably my most ambitious hot rod sedan, a project that started with a Street Rodder magazine Modeler's Corner column on chopping tops that appeared in the October, 1978 issue, and finishing with a three-part how to series in the April, May, and June 1995 in Street Rodder, just shortly before I gave up the column due to a new job assignment heading up the SVT performance sub-brand of my long time employer Ford Motor Company.

The Revell Model A Sedan Delivery body was modified to reflect the original Tudor Sedan format, requiring some detail bodywork and molding. The top was then chopped a scale 5". The Logghe style frame came straight from the late 1960's funny car chassis found in MPC and (in slightly different guise) JoHan kits. The engine was based on the Boss 429 in the AMT/Lesney 1969 Cougar Street Machine kit released around 1979.

The narrowed rear differential/suspension was from the street machine version of the AMT-Ertl 1972 Corvette Coupe kit, while the front suspension was mostly Monogram ZZ-Top kit components.

The interior was mostly scratchbuilt, including a six-point roll cage with integral cowl brace. The paint scheme was inspired by the old Pete Eastwood Hot Rod magazine cover car, complimented by driveline components in Testors then-just-introduced Boyd Coddington Sunburst Orange paint.

A close inspection of the following photos will show that although the project began in 1978, the finished product clearly showed the "billet era" influence of the mid-1990's in such components as the instrument panel, tailamps, and air cleaners.

I've posted 20 additional photos, including many detail shots, at this link for your viewing.   I'm not sure if this car has ever appeared in a magazine in color form, and I don't recall having posted photography of it myself in the past.  So this is the first time most of you have seen it in full size color pictures, and I hope it lives up to whatever memory you have of the original project.  

Finally, I want to tip the old Boyd model building hat to Dennis Lacy, one of the most talented model hot rod builders I've run across in many a year. Dennis gently nudged me - several times if I recall correctly - to get this car photographed and onto my Fotki site. If you like this one, you'll love to look at Dennis' many hot rod projects that reflect the contemporary hot rod design themes and quality model building techniques now in play as we approach the third decade of the new millennium....such as this chopped 1928 Model A Sedan drag sedan project currently underway on his modeling desk....

Thanks for your interest, and enjoy.....TIM 

Edited February 20, 2019 by tim boyd

[Dennis Lacy]

Just look at that!!! It's just so BAD!!! 

   

[PappyD340]

SWEEEET

[Kit Karson]

Love this, Tim!

[cobraman]

Love the look of that model.

[tim boyd]

Wanna Race? ...Bet you'd lose!   Cheers....TIM  PS - still about 15 more pictures at the link in my original post at the beginning of this thread....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 20, 2019 by tim boyd

[JJ Deuce]

those rear tires from the Batmobile?

[adamelvis]

Nice Engine !

[tim boyd]

5 hours ago, JJ Deuce said:

those rear tires from the Batmobile?

JJ....I think they may have been from the AMT-Ertl 1970 Dodge SuperBee Pro-Street kit.....TIM 

[James2]

I think I'm in love....

[Mr. Metallic]

This is one bad mother. Such an aggressive, yet reasonable stance.

Any idea where the front tires are from? They fit the smaller A fenders just about perfectly. Most tires are too big for them.

[misterNNL]

That look really says "Come and get it" .Love it !!

[chris chabre]

I remember that one from street rodder! I was about 14 haha

[Mr.Zombie]

I'll race you...

[Koellefornia Kid]

Cool! Great stance!

[dino246gt]

Tim, that's awesome! Adam, that's cool, but don't race Tim for money!!!  LOL Of course, both of you have me beat!!

[Spex84]

Beautiful! The 80s/90s Pro Street style isn't really my thing, but I appreciate a well-proportioned and detailed model any old day. The stance is killer, and ditto on those front tires, they're perfect. The exhaust packaging is a treat to see, love how it's tucked in the tube frame. Those billet taillights sandwiched between the huge meats are just so evocative of the era. Nice saddle tanks (Buttera kit?)...and the color contrast between the various frame, driveline, and suspension parts helps everything "pop".  I can just imagine that engine shaking the car like a rag doll as it launches off the line.

The front tires look like close cousins of the Revell-Monogram whitewalls included in the '50 Ford PU, '59 Impala, and others...same general sidewall shape and fine zigzag tread, but they appear to be narrower (?) and smaller diameter. Very nice pieces, whatever they are.

Thanks for the pics!

 

 

 

[tim boyd]

Guys....the Street Rodder Modeler's Corner columns on this car (April/May/June 1995) say that the front tires were from the old Monogram Pro-Street and Pro-Modified kits.  That jives with my memory of same (now there's a surprise...). 

Anyway, I agree with several of you, those tires do seem a near-perfect fit for the fenders and definitely help to contribute to the stance you've commented on....TIM 

[geetee66]

That's a great looking car. I'd love to have a 1:1 version of it!

[tim boyd]

On 2/22/2019 at 3:45 PM, Spex84 said:

. Nice saddle tanks (Buttera kit?)...and the color contrast between the various frame, driveline, and suspension parts helps everything "pop".  I can just imagine that engine shaking the car like a rag doll as it launches off the line.

 

 

 

Chris....sorry for the delay in responding.....yep, they're the Buttera kit series saddle tanks....thx for the comments, too.....TIM 

[ChrisR]

Awesome!!

[carrucha]

Nice build.  Glad you posted the pics.