V-12 Powered Vintage Dry Lakes Modified

[BERNARD "HOT ROD" KRON]

Lincoln Flathead V-12 Powered Dry Lakes Style Modified

Built for the V-12 theme at this year’s NNL West, this is a vintage dry lakes style Modified roadster. “Modifieds”, as they were called, were the earliest pure straight line racers in the hot rod lineage with the first ones appearing on the dry lakes in Southern California as early as 1926. Patterned after the board track racers of the period, they were made by taking a Model T body and chassis and narrowing them to a width just wide enough to carry the driver and the 4 banger motor. Modifieds ran at the lakes until the early 1950’s, evolving to sleek V-8 powered missiles capable of speeds well in excess of 150 mph.

This one is based on the cool “Hot Rod Lincoln” Flathead from Early Years Resin, a scratch built frame and a cut down AMT Ala Kart ’29 Ford RPU body and interior.

Here are the details:

Bodywork and paint: AMT ’29 Ford “Ala Kart” roadster pickup body narrowed ¾”. Scratch built gas tank. AMT ’32 Ford grill shell. Duplicolor yellow paint, homemade “Lincoln V-12” logo decals.
Interior: AMT “Ala Kart” interior, narrowed ¾”, re-skinned with styrene “tuck and roll”. Cut down AMT ’29 Ford dashboard and ’36 Ford steering wheel.
Motor: Hot Rod Flathead V-12 from Early Years Resin. Scratch built headers, exhaust extensions and carburetor stacks.
Chassis: Scratch built from styrene strip with a Revell ’29 Ford RPU rear crossmember.
Suspension & brakes: AMT ’34 Ford front axle and spring and rear axle, AMT ’29 Ford rear spring and rear radius rods. Scratch built steering parts, front radius rods and drive shaft. Resin ’40 Ford brakes.
Wheels & tires: Modelhaus “milk truck” style wheels, Ma’s Resin “Rat Rod” rear tires, Revell ’37 Ford truck front tires.

W.I.P. for this build can be found here: krazyrick.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=sggdgdgdg&action=display&thread=4052

Thanx for lookin',
B.

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Man Bernard that is so sweet
you did a great job on replicating those early modified's
nice paint and detail just superb

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:)Man that's pretty freakin cool good job.

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very cool well done !

[BERNARD "HOT ROD" KRON]

Thanx to everyone. The compliments and appreciations are all very much welcome!

This turned in to a more detailed and complex build than I had initially intended. The V-12 is a bit of a novelty so I'll do another one in the future with a more correct powerplant and bodywork. Hence the Lincoln V-12 logo design and decal - probably more "contest table" friendly...

My modeling friend Curt Raitz came up with it the idea to do "Bonneville" (really more properly called dry lakes) V-12 powered race car for the NNl. I usually don't work well "under orders", but once I started on it I really got into it. Doing a period dry lakes Modified has been on my to-do list for a long time so having the opportunity to try various things out on this project was very welcome. It landed up being a lot of fun.. And it is for the NNL West after all (I suspect it'll be surrounded by an ocean of Ferraris...)!

A tip of the hat to Ron Royston at Early Years Resin for making the nice resin V-12 and to all of those who followed along on the w.i.p. providing the motivation to get 'er done...

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Very nice build
Doug. Loosewire

[BERNARD "HOT ROD" KRON]

Thanx Doug!

As I described above this project was done for the 2012 NNL West V-12 Theme and that my friend Curt Raitz had the idea that we build some dry lakes based cars for the theme table. Well the third member of our unholy modeling trio, Raul Perez, at whose house I stay every year when I make the trek south for NNL West, claims to actually have had the idea, not Curt. But Raul is just getting over a massive case of Builder's Block which has lasted all of the past year, and never was able to finish something for the show. Curt, on the other hand finished a really cool chopped T coupe and even went so far as to build a display based for our two cars.

Here's a couple of pics of Curt's Coupe on the show table:



And here are the two of our cars on display together:



Given that they were built without a single bit of communication of collaboration, I think the way they paired up was remarkably successful!

So here's the payoff...


Pretty cool, huh?

[BRITBOY]

Always nice when hard work gets appreciated!

[JOE66]

WOW Outsatnding build, both are really great and the award is icing on the cake.
I`ve seen the V12 on the Early years web site, after seeing yours I feel a strong need to order a couple.