Traditional AMT '34 Ford Pickup

[Fish_65]

So I'm pretty new here and nobody has really seen any of my work. I'll be posting a few of my builds over the next week or so. I feel guilty looking at everyone's models and not participating.

I built this late last year and wanted to do a early 60's style hot rod. It was one of those bucket-list builds as I built one as a kid and that one is long gone. I really don't build much hot rod stuff, but I had a lot of fun with this. Started with the 70's issue AMT '34 Ford pickup kit (orange body-black fenders on boxart). Deleted the side mount tire hole in the passenger front fender and a couple other minor body tweaks. I used 2 '59 El Camino toneau covers to make a bed floor and door panels from them as these kits really lack on interior detail. I swapped in a Revell '32 Ford chassis which went in like it was made for it - very little to make it work. I robbed the Fuelie SBC from the '62? Revell Corvette kit and add a MAD distributor. Tires and wheels are Pegasus chrome steel big & littles. Body was painted with Testors Nassau Blue straight from the rattle can and then cleared with Testors One-Coat. 

Hope you like. Comments are welcome.

[stavanzer]

I do like! Very Sweet Build.

[espo]

Very clean looking build. Nice paint and finish. The white interior and inner fenders does put it in the early '60's. The small block Chevy is a much better choice than the two the kit provided. 

[Spex84]

Sweet! This is a very clean build and definitely has that 60s feel. Love that Nassau Blue, it looks a lot like a candy blue.

[Classicgas]

Beautiful.

[tim boyd]

Scott....super-neat job and thanks for posting.  That Nassau Blue came out great!   And good to know that the Revell '32 Ford kit suspensions were an easy swap, too.  A perfect period build!   TIM

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Sharp, that really appeals to me! Nice one!

[Fish_65]

Thanks for the positive feedback guys. Much appreciative. 

Tim, I actually swapped the whole Revell 32 chassis.

[tim boyd]

1 hour ago, Fish_65 said:

Thanks for the positive feedback guys. Much appreciative. 

Tim, I actually swapped the whole Revell 32 chassis.

Scott....so did you use the '34 Ford kit center crossmember setup in the Revell '32 chassis?  If so, very clever idea!   TIM 

[Fish_65]

10 hours ago, tim boyd said:

Scott....so did you use the '34 Ford kit center crossmember setup in the Revell '32 chassis?  If so, very clever idea!   TIM 

I stand corrected. I had to look back at my build progress pics...you had me wondering what I did Tim. I did not use the whole Revell chassis, but swapped in the suspension parts. I do suffer from CRS from time to time 

Edited June 29, 2019 by Fish_65

[larman]

Beautiful build! Great colors! 

[Can-Con]

Super sweet ! 

[crazyjim]

Sharp truck in SHINY

[Dennis Lacy]

Absolutely beautiful! Nailed the 60's look!!!

Love the blue and white with the chrome-reverse wheels, killer stance and the Rochester-injected small block is a perfect choice.

[tim boyd]

13 hours ago, Fish_65 said:

 I do suffer from CRS from time to time 

Me too, Scott...me too!  Thanks for the update.....your model makes me want to drag out an AMT '34 Ford pickup and do something very similar!   TIM 

Edited June 29, 2019 by tim boyd

[slusher]

Beautiful!!

[Koellefornia Kid]

Brilliant! Very nice ´60s Rod!

[BeakDoc]

Man, that’s as pretty a truck as I’ve seen in a long time. Well done!

[carrucha]

Cool custom truck.  Very period correct.  Good job.

[Cpt Tuttle]

Nice 60s look on this one.

[PARTS GUY]

Awesome job! like the interior detail and the white under the fenders. Very sixties custom.

[ChrisR]

Looks great!

[TarheelRick]

Very fine looking model.  AS the others have said, it does look period perfect.  You did some really nice body work on those fenders to remove the spare-tire well.

[Fish_65]

Thanks for the super nice comments guys. 

I would encourage anybody to build this kit. I really enjoyed building it and for an old kit it goes together fairly well.

[shoopdog]

Super nice build!