32 3 Window Coupe

[bill-e-boy]

This is my effort towards the 1932 90th anniversary

I started this way back in 1997 when the kit was first released. The top was cut at least 3" with the top of the turret stretched.

The build theme started as a road coupe then I thought of building a hemi powered Bonneville racer. The hemi is from an AMT parts pack as has modernised induction with port injection and using the blower scoop as air inlet. The original intent was to leave it as a Hiboy but I saw a pix in a recent mag of a channeled Tudor with some very tasty early AR mags with slicks - a light bulb moment. So I dug this out of storage and nearly put it back as the box did not have the chrome tree with the front end etc. I had a further look and found it in with another project. 

So to now - below is a mock-up of the coupe channeled

  I will look at it as a Hiboy next but am liking what I see 

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Yup, definitely likin' that.    

[Slotto]

Yeah man, do it!

[Zippi]

Kewl looking Hot Rod so far.

[mrm]

And it's white. You don't see many of those. I'm loving it. 

[Dennis Lacy]

My intuition tells me it won’t look nearly as cool as a hiboy. Great looking mock up. I’d just go with that. 

[misterNNL]

Unique color choice for sure.

[Andrew McD]

Channeled rocks!  Love the mocked up stance.

[NOBLNG]

That mock-up looks great!?

[Chevy II]

Can't wait to see you bring this hot rod build home.

[bill-e-boy]

And as a Hiboy

The gap is just too much above the rear wheels so I am tending to favour the channeled look

And the reason for refrigerator white is to show off these decals from the "other magazine" 

 I am looking at the smaller two #20 decals which will fill out the doors nicely. Maybe even the large #20 on the trunk lid

There are a lot of prepped parts with the coupe such as smoothed interior painted silver and a roll cage. If I channel it all these will need to be altered but I am a beggar for punished 

 

 

[mrm]

I believe you are about a decade late to that 20th anniversary, so I would just skip those decals. Besides, that magazine is not even published anymore, which is a shame really. Anyway, looking forward seeing how this evolves. 

[Kit Karson]

I'm back & forth on this 3W Coupe Bill... follow you gut & throw a bit of yourself into it! -KK

[bill-e-boy]

Going with the channeled version

Marking and cutting the interior

And marking the rear inner guards ready for cutting

And filing the front spring for more drop - can never be too low

 

This gains about 3mm drop in the front

On being low - my street car has been lowered and I need to be careful when the front suspension bottoms out - it rubs metal off the sump - darn - I have fixed it once and no doubt will need to again

And a mock up with the interior inserted into the body. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[FLHCAHZ]

Killer!

[Dennis Lacy]

Stance is perfect!

[Mr. Metallic]

That chop is well executed, and the stance is right on. Love the rear wheel/tire combo, hopefully you can find something complementary for the front.

With regards to the decals, I'm assuming you're not using the Scale Auto logos, just the nicely rendered number decals.

[Kenmojr]

Gonna look awesome when completed... 

[Street Rod]

Lookin’ good, channeled body was definitely the way to go!

[Chevy II]

Where did the tear slicks come from?

Loooks really good channeled

[Mr. Metallic]

On 8/9/2022 at 6:21 PM, Chevy II said:

Where did the tear slicks come from?

Loooks really good channeled

I could be wrong, but they look like AMT Parts Pack items from a few years ago.

[slusher]

Great looking stance!

[bill-e-boy]

Where did the tear slicks come from?

And the winner is Mr Metallic - yup they are from an AMT parts pack - I have seen these recently so must be available again

I have been working away at the coupe, mostly sorting out thigs that were started on the first build. I will post more pix when I next do some work on it

 

 

[bill-e-boy]

Took a couple of goes at getting the rear wheel wells channeled = pix latter 

Meantime I have been working on the wheels. I am using the kit Americans. The rears were easy - just a little trimming on the internal tire diameter to fit the wheel

The fronts were way too wide. The outer part fit OK bit overall the wheel was too wide for my wheel choice. I cut down the back rim and cut the spier from what was left and tapered those to look better

  

And looking much more better now - just need to finalise the stance and cut the firewall 

Thanks for looking

[espo]

Nice job narrowing the front wheels. A little detailing and they'll look like they came that way.