Pro street woody

A recent splurge at AK Collectibles - Monogram 30 Ford Woody and a Snaptite Z28 Camero .
I wanted the Camero because for $18, I could get all the pro street goodies!
Here's how nice the folks at AK are! They had the Camero listed at $18. When I called, he didn't have the Camero. He asked me to give him a day to locate one. When I called back, his wife told me he was across town checking with another dealer, and would call me back. About a half hour or so, I got a call. The other dealer had one, and AK would hold the price at $18 they had listed. :cheers:


The Camero comes with an upper and lower chassis. I have used the woody floor plate as a template and trimming the sides a tad, got the upper portion with the tubs, fit into the woody body. I'll have to do something about a front clip, but I'll deal with that after I get the lower Camero plate with the suspension mated to the upper tubbed half.



I might have to channel the woody some to get it down. We'll see . :drunken:
Will probably be pulling off this build a bit to deal with the salt community build. :drunken:

Excellent start Clay, Sounds like you have good people to deal with.

Great start Clay, interesting to see how you do this so I'll be watchin. John

Excellent Clay! I like the direction this is heading! Keep up the great work! I think a lot of people's projects are gonna slow down a tad when the CBP starts. 8)

I'm kicking out the wheel wells a little. I don't like to see tires protruding past the body sides without a flange or something. That pill bottle is the exact circumference as the cut out. I really don't know exactly how I'm gonna work this .
I may have bobbed fenders on the rear and fenderless in front.


I found an new front clip from a 5 year old Craftsman truck that I have been raiding from. It reminds me kinda like a Fatman IFS kit.. We'll see about that also.
I'm really digging around in hoarded stuff. I have a Parts Pac Pontiac that I have had for several years. It just got 90% dechromed with Oven cleaner. :drunken:

Lookin' good Clay! I would go with fenders in the rear to cover the massive meats. And something like Plymouth Prowler/Motorcycle style fenders in the front. Be an interesting looking Hot Rod then. ;)

That front suspension is spot on. I hope you can use it.

Hmmmm,
I do have some motorcycle fenders somewhere.
Thanks, I hadn't thought of that !! :idea:

Nice concept Clay.

I agree with Jason on the front fenders.

On the rear, seeing as the Woody body is all 90 degree angles, I thnk straight, bobbed 90 degree fenders would look good.

Had a quite extended senior moment that spanned a couple of days.
After deceiding to have bobbed rear fenders, I went ahead and made extended wheel openings with the pill bottle plastic, and epoxied them in. :sleep:
Beeing tubbed, the wheels don't stick out that far. So I spent this morning grinding them back out.

This has the looks of another quality build, Clay. Now the real chalenge is to fit the Camaro body on the Model A chassis! :D :D

Cheers,

Chris

Coming along right nice and the front end looks detailed and a real change from the usual leaf spring. Take your time and good luck!

webby wrote: This has the looks of another quality build, Clay. Now the real chalenge is to fit the Camaro body on the Model A chassis! :D :D

Cheers,

Chris

LOL !! That aint gonna happen, Chris....I think

The new wheel wells look like they will work nicely. I like what you got going here. You don't see many Woodies Pro-Streeted. I don't think I have ever seen one.

Back on the woody, I got to looking at the parts pack Pontiac 421 I was going to use, and thought, dang, that looks kinda small. I compared it with the Monogram engine that came in the. woody. They're both touted to be 1:25 scale. I'm going with the Monogram engine. Can't have no dinky lil out of scale* engine in a prostreet !!
*Not sure which is the correct scale, but I need BIG !!
Revell parts pac - green.
Monogram - black


And I have the rear fenders narrowed and raised some..

Nice update Clay. I am with you 100% bigger is better. No doubt about it.

Interesting idea. The outcome should be good.

Re the engines, the Monogram Woodie is 1/24 scale, that's why the size discrepancy.

I need to fit the woody's cowl so I can build a front clip.
This caused a bit of carnage to the Camero's floor pieces. ;)



Yeah, yer right, Steve, My quick glance at the box this morning wasn't very accurate. I think maybe I was too anxious to bash Revell .

Gonna be interesting Clay to see how you pull this elephant out of that hat. LoL Keep up the great work. I'm waiting to see more.

Wow!!! Looks like Igor took a torch to it. Is he drinking again?

Zbuckster wrote:Wow!!! Looks like Igor took a torch to it. Is he drinking again?

Igor's been sneaking up to Washington a lot lately.

That explains a lot.

Just read this through and I am liking it a lot Clay. :50:

Here's today's mockup of the frame front being scratchbashed for the woody.
I can assure those of you that may be rolling your eyes and groaning, that notching the bellhousing to fit between the frame rails is a standard in the manual of Imagineering.

Looks like twin NOS Bottles in front of the tubs. Big motor little car, I am loving it.