This will be a fantasy build, a shop car for Frank Baron, Bob Tattersfield’s partner in the famous Tattersfield-Baron 4-carb manifold for the Ford Flathead. A modeling friend of mine cast up some resin 4-carb manifolds and sent me a few (he doesn’t want me to reveal his name since he doesn’t want to go in the resin business). I decided to build a 4-carb flattie and install it in a Jimmy Flinstone chopped ’36 Ford 3-window coupe. The car will be a streetable lakes car.
The idea is that Frank used the car around town and ran it at the lakes, circa 1948 when he and Bob first launched their line of speed parts. So far I’ve prepped the chassis, lowered the back end, scratch built some skirts, adapted the AMT 5-window ’36 Coupe hood to the 3-window cowl (see pics below) and completed the bodywork. The bumpers are ’40 pieces. The car is in white primer. It will be Duplicolor Oxford White with red lettering and paint accents, inspired by Bob Piersons’s white ‘36 3-window featured in the August, 1948 issue of Hot Rod Magazine which ran 120 mph that year.
Thanx for lookin’,
B.
The Pierson ’36:
…And my initial steps on this project:
The AMT 5-window has a shorter hood with a different shape than their 3-window:
Scratch built skirts from sheet styrene:
Photoshop mockup of decal scheme:
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/979910.aspx
Christijan Albers Michele Alboreto Jean Alesi Jaime Alguersuari
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