Customarily, when featuring a someone's finished build you'd post up a picture of the finished build. Logical, right? Well, after 3 hours sleep last night due to a bed determined to return itself to component form, all bets are off in the logic competition. Besides, this awesome ride becomes an even awesome-r one in the end so I kinda get to feature two awesome builds in one blog, almost.
Model Cars Mag forum member Dub picked up this little "Gluebomb" for a measly $5 from a club meet. It's a 60s issue AMT Model A in a cool burgundy/black/brass scheme with, for whatever reason, snow tires. Snow or no snow I'd love that rubber on a rod of mine. There's something very cool in the road less travelled, its these little touches that would seem plain odd today that make old hot rods so appealing to me. Little things that seem a little quaint or perverse today. Yeah, I'm into the quaint and perverted.
Anyway, cute as this build is in the pic it was low on detail and high on scruffy conversion work so Dub got to work stripping her down and making her cool again. He stripped the paint, lost the fenders, put a new chassis together and replaced the SBC that had been shoehorned in there with a nicely built flattie.
I wont reveal too much about the finished build cos half the fun for me was following the progress and kinda guessing where it was going to go - even though Jonathan was kind enough to send me an awesome shot of it all wrapped up to use here. This one is a story worth telling from the beginning though, so that's where I suggest you go right now. Enjoy!
JB
Model Cars Mag forum member Dub picked up this little "Gluebomb" for a measly $5 from a club meet. It's a 60s issue AMT Model A in a cool burgundy/black/brass scheme with, for whatever reason, snow tires. Snow or no snow I'd love that rubber on a rod of mine. There's something very cool in the road less travelled, its these little touches that would seem plain odd today that make old hot rods so appealing to me. Little things that seem a little quaint or perverse today. Yeah, I'm into the quaint and perverted.
Anyway, cute as this build is in the pic it was low on detail and high on scruffy conversion work so Dub got to work stripping her down and making her cool again. He stripped the paint, lost the fenders, put a new chassis together and replaced the SBC that had been shoehorned in there with a nicely built flattie.
I wont reveal too much about the finished build cos half the fun for me was following the progress and kinda guessing where it was going to go - even though Jonathan was kind enough to send me an awesome shot of it all wrapped up to use here. This one is a story worth telling from the beginning though, so that's where I suggest you go right now. Enjoy!
JB
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