"Strawberries&Cream" Forty Coupe

This one deserves it's own tread now as I'm still working away on it,

Here's were it was..........



I haven't made great headway but more pix soon

Great colours Paul. what do you call that type of charger? besides 'root'... or is it just called 'old style'?

looking good so far are u painting the runing boards a flat colour.

slowlylearning wrote: what do you call that type of charger? besides 'root'... or is it just called 'old style'?

It is indeed a Rootes type supercharger, so called because they were originally designed by the Rootes Group for Commer Truck engines (Rootes Group was a British company that made Hilman & Humber cars as well as Commer Trucks and was later taken over by the US Chrysler Corporation.) The same type of supercharger was copied by General Motors and used on their GMC/Detroit Diesel's, this is the blower that is very common on hot rods. Although nowadays they are made by many manufacturers for the automotive performance & drag racing markets.

The smaller blowers with rounded cases and fine fins are Italmechanica superchargers and are also known as SCoTT superchargers (I'm not sure if I have the capitals right) and were often used by hot rodders in the early days before the availability of GMC blowers in the US.

The only scale SCoTT or Italmechanica blower I've seen is made by Replicas and Miniatures of Maryland and it's a beautiful piece.

allan wrote:are u painting the runing boards a flat colour.

Yes Mate.............Black!


...........thanks for answering KC's Q Carps


Here's an update, today I got some clear on the body - leather paint on the interior and a body colored Dash and Cage plus I kicked the engine into gear by whipping up some pulleys!!


I will run twin standard belts for the blower etc, and a single belt to the alternator......... I mean Generator!!! seeing as Carps says Flatheads should never run alternators

.....I'm thinking the Blower pulley is a bit to big diameter wise....but it'll do



......now why is it that of late, everytime I'm halfway through a project I get inspired to start another out of the blue??.....here's what I got mocked up yesterday arvo after seeing some car art on the www.


I picked this up as an already built original issue a few years back, it was box stock with I reckon a whole tube of glue sticking everything together , now she's chopped and channeled and looking like a fun build!

that's going to be a cool low pick up,paint it in flat colour.

Sweet as - nice pulleys!

Like the pick me up as well. Those '34 Ford wires look great in orange...mmmmmm giving me ideas...

That is looking so cool Paul. Love that old Ford body style and the way you're modifying the car.




PS - Like the new build too!

tezza43 wrote:That is looking so cool Paul. Love that old Ford body style and the way you're modifying the car.




PS - Like the new build too!

'40 looks good Paul.

S.C.o.T. IIRC
Superchargers of Turin.
The blower in the AMT old mould '57 Chev (with the twin sidedraft webers) is meant to be an S.C.o.T.
According to Wiki "Roots-Type" refers to brothers Philander and Francis Marion Roots of Connersville, Indiana, who in 1860 patented the design for an air mover, for use in blast furnaces and other industrial applications.
This surprised me as I thought, as Carps did, that it referred to the Rootes Group.

Philander Roots...? Are you kidding me...?

That can't be a real name...

It does sound "sus" doesn't it, but check it out on this link - it's real. (Philander and Francis Roots, brothers).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_type_supercharger

zenrat wrote:According to Wiki "Roots-Type" refers to brothers Philander and Francis Marion Roots of Connersville, Indiana, who in 1860 patented the design for an air mover, for use in blast furnaces and other industrial applications.
This surprised me as I thought, as Carps did, that it referred to the Rootes Group.

I don't usually believe everything in Wiki, but that actually makes more sense than the Roote's group deal. However, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the Rootes group had some linke to the brothers. Something worth a little more research maybe.

allan wrote:that's going to be a cool low pick up,paint it in flat colour

That's pretty much a certainty Al............cause the body has some serious glue damage that will just add to it's caricature!!

Bryce wrote:Those '34 Ford wires look great in orange...mmmmmm giving me ideas...

Dunno what your cooking up but I'll gladly take some blame

I've always liked the style of you builds and this one is no acception.

Looks great

Thanks Guys

Here's an update on the Flathead,


.........so far so good.

so very very good.

Nice...I like the body colour blower trick - might have to steal that one...

Here's a shot of the completed interior, all set up for some street racing!!



I've also got the plug and coil leads all done with 90o boots!

flock me that looks great! engine looks to die for Paul, hope your going to leave the bonnet off of it for displayingness

Yeah, this one's running hoodless

Bit more................

I added a generator from the Revell '32 Sedan kit with another machined pulley along with belts made from electrical tape!