'32 VICKY
Here's one of my favorite cars that I've built thus far, a pearl orange 1932 Ford Victoria altered drag car. The body is made of resin by Jimmy Flintstone. If you'd like to see all of the Flintstone bodies available, go here. I got the front grill (also made of resin) from the Model Car Garage.
Here's a pic of the body, the way that it arrives. It requires some trimming and sanding to yield a smooth surface for primer. I also used a dremel on the inside to thin it down a little to lighten it even further.
I used one of my favorite chassis for this car, a WRP C-12 narrow inline chassis for 1 3/16" tires. JDS .072" stainless tubing was used for the frame rails, and .062" stainless tubing used for the wheelie down tubes to support the wheelie wheels. After the chassis was silver soldered together, I thoroughly cleaned it and nickel plated it for a bright finish and to keep it from rusting.
The rear wheels are the centerline style from ProTrack and the fronts are JDS 6 spoke stars. A Slick7 guide with Parma braid was mounted up front. The balanced and blueprinted Mura motor is driven with a steel Sonic pinion and an aluminum Sonic spur gear, mounted on a Koford axle riding on Slick7 racing bushings.
I used Createx pearl orange, water-based paint to paint the body. Once it cured, I sealed it witha coat of PPG automotive polyurethane. 24 hours later, I added the flame decals from Radical Decals. About 3 hours later, two more coats of PPG poly was applied to give it a really smooth, glossy and extremely durable finish. It dried like glass and I didn't even have to rub it out! The blown model kit motor was taken from a Revell funnycar kit, painted and detailed with an aluminum distributor that came as a kit that I got from the Slixx decal site made by Scale Modeling by Chris. I made the zoomie header exhaust pipes from some 1/8" aluminum tubing. After the body was painted, I just used a small amount of hot glue to attach it to the body.
In order to hide the guide, I mounted a 32 Ford chopped grille that I got from the Model Car Garage. I used a small piece of 1/16th aluminum tubing and used that to mount the billet aluminum fuel tank from MAS (Machined Aluminum Specialties). Two tiny "L" brackets were soldered to the guide plate and two shortened pins mount the grill and tank assembly.
The body mounting method is the conventional type, using four pins with a floating rear mount.
You really can hardly see it in the photos but the interior was detailed with a rollbar made from styrene rod. A funnycar lexan interior was used to place the driver in the center of the car.
This car has really turned quite a few heads at the local track, and it just might be my favorite out of all of my cars.
Thanks for visiting my 32 Vicky page!
-johnk
