'40 Ford Sedan Delivery - Raked 60's California Street Rod
Jan 1, 2022 20:02:18 GMT -4
Post by BERNARD "HOT ROD" KRON on Jan 1, 2022 20:02:18 GMT -4
’40 Ford Sedan Delivery Hemi Powered Street Rod
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This was my final project for 2021, begun on the afternoon of December 28th with a self-imposed deadline to get it done by year’s end. I did complete it on the afternoon of December 31st, so basically a 96 hour build. My motivation was that 2021 had been a kind stale year for me with only 4 projects completed so I wanted to challenge myself to get No. 5 on the board.
Like most of my projects this year this is a spare-parts kit bash. The basic kit was the AMT ;40 Ford Sedan Delivery, one of my favorite parts kits for doing late ‘40’s and 50’s customs because of its flipper hubcaps, baby Moons, ribbed bumpers and tubular nerf bars, and also for the tri-carb Buick Nailhead. As a result I’ve got plenty of spare bodies and chassis to work from.
I wanted to do a 60’s style raked California style street rod. I had a blown 9\392 Hemi from the Revell Miss Deal that I had recently gotten in a box of Miss Deal parts I won on eBay and I felt this would make the perfect exaggerated street rod statement to go with a heavy dive-bomb rake. I used the front and rear axles from the Revell ’32 Ford hot rod kits, shaving the front axle spring to get the front end in the weeds as much as possible. I radiused the rear wheel openings to clear a set of Revell Goodyear drag slicks. The slicks and the AMT Firestone blackwalls were modified to fit a set of Torq-Thrust mags from the Revell Deuce kits. The nerf bars are from the AMT ’36 Ford coupe kits and the bucket seats for the interior are from an AMT ’37 Chevy kit. Paint is Duplicolor Flame Red for the fenders and Brite Touch Black Primer for the body and hood.
Thanx for lookin’
B.
