well since the chassis and front suspension broke and i dont have any usable ford kit parts ...i needed to come up with something different

choosen to make a tubulair frame in the front , the rear part will be altered but i'm using the old chassis and floor because that fits great i can build up on this platform



mock up , just for idea's not on ride hight off-course lol



the best i can come up with is this ... then i would make holes in the side panel to run them through and i could make a custom steering rod .. still needs a lot of scratchwork to fit and ...







roof for shape idea .. off course its way too low but for ideas it is handy



i like the overal shapes unique and something i cant find online anywhere

damn i love it
i like your skill its awesome

thnx tuner

well desided to scratchbuild a axle and working steering .. so i started with some brass tubing to have a stirdy hinge point ..

also made the hood of the car one piece with the triangle shaped plate

well i now feel its becoming mnore like my original idea and looks like a racer ... choices lol

i used a piece of a old axle





then kept working on the steering in the end i should have done it different but it is working



shape wise i can sand it and make it more shaped (the plates) atm the pics are all unsanded with glue residue , so pretty rough work still
also have to make a steering rod



i'm happy with the wheelbase





hmmm bonneville racer ??

well got one step further again , lots of trying and making the parts come together

before i could continue styling , engine and details ineeded to set the ride hight and get it standing on its own f.. uhh tyres ..

ridehight >



i like it the rake is nice and the body isnt slammed but still low on the side



next to the '31 tudor



man that tudors roofline is low next to this lol



next to a 3-window coupe



i already build a 32 roadaster saltracer ounce but when stripping the paint the plastic got week and ... hmmmm
on that build i was building a flatbed hauler wich at the same time was a push truck ..
when the racer got screwed i build that into a tractor .. like on the pic ..
now i want to build a custom chassis with smaller wheels and this cab and make a flatbed for the racer .. (when the racer is done)



chassis pictures >

now its all rough and yes it looks like a beetle chassis lol , i used the tube frame of a oldtimer bmw kit and changed some things , lept the stock revell miccle section because that go's in the body and is a perfect platfor to build on the cut tube chassis was glued under the revell base and i can build on that with sprue to match the frame up and make it longer .. also when done the plate wont whow anymore






so i will def make the chassis way cooler with struts and brakets , v8 in the front ..

thnx guys !!

well i added some hairpins / struts to the axle ...




found some great tyres real soft rubber , look 3 times as nice in real life then on the pictures , they are not placed 100% correct on the rims in the pics



seen from behind with the hairpins



sideshot , dont mind the rear wheel i need to extend the axle i can just put the wheels on for a dryfit but they are against the body



found a cool old image of a racer with a different nose



the idea is to put stacks on the engine and let then stick out through holes in the bonnet , will aquire 6 times messuring and drilling ounce lol

and on the hinges i made so the wheels can turn i want to make like those old looking air scoops to cool the brakes , also makes the ugly hinges a bit nicer ... was the first time i scratched steering wheels lol

well building slow and ...i'm flying through this build lol .. just feels like its going on cruise control

after a lot of fitting and looking i decided this is the final set up and ride hight ... looks way cooler lower in the back , low long and sleek .....

i also suddenly love these wheels was using them for mock up .. but they grew on me , maybe i will make some moon discs from brass plate ...

also i worked the dash into the body , like one piece , plastic welded some corners and sanded and bondo-ed it ... this will run through in the doorpanels i will make later on







the frankenstein chassis , all recycled , even the middle plate isnt styrene but hard plastic card from old window blinds





i still need to build rear suspension , build a interiour ... and do detail stuff

really rough still on the pictures but still pretty proud , made of all junk my first scratchbuild steerable ......

the real challenge was to get everything in .. like the nose is pretty big and takes in a lot of space , so putting a steering arm in .. and not get in the way of the engine that has to go in .. i just took a small piece of the bottom side of the nose and i had the space i wanted .. i will round of the edges later and get a boit more shape where i cut the notch for the axle



burned the tips to keep the steering arm in place , that needs some cleaning up , some filing and sanding







now the front axle is against the chassis i had to do that to be able to set up the whole body and chassis and ride hight and to get the body and chassis in a state where i can slide them together , now i will make like a leaf spring i think and make it so when the body and chassis are together it looks like there is suspension .. sometimes you have to cut a small corner when mocking up ... to much cutting in the nose would have ruined it

well there was not really paint on the body but aluminium zinc spray , actually a metal like coat ..
because i wanted it stripped to bare styrene and didnt have anything to put the body in ... and also think the zincspray would not come of that easy .. eevn thinner only got like a micrometer layer of and nothing else happened ....
i smoothened the body ......

that idea was playing in my mind but i did not have the nerve for it , afraid i would ruin the lines ... but then when filing and sanding the zinkspray of .. i thought it would be easy now to clean the bodylines and flatten the styrene completly ..

so i did it .. and after that sanded it and with a file made all the corners and lines rounder ...

in the end i think it fits the racer theme , like streamline ... and fits with the new nose ..

now dont get me wrong i like the ford body better with all those raised lines .. but sometimes going outside the box and trying new stuff is cool too








now i am in doubt if i will fill the speedholes again and close them up

well decided to start with a rough roof set up .. as low as i could