Barn Find! - '41 Plymouth Gasser

‘41 Plymouth Gasser Barn Find

My first “deep weathered” project, done to gain experience in using the salt technique for corrosion and weathering powders for color and detail. This year’s NNL West (March 12th in Santa Clara, California) has as one of its 2 featured themes Rat Rods. I want to do a car for this so it was time to get friendly with Mr. Rust.

The basic kit was the AMT ’41 Ford Kit. The Gasser part was done by using the gasser front axle and spring from the AMT ’32 Ford Phaeton. The extra power was provided by using a finned head for the (rather obscure) Chrysler Corp. P-series flathead six. The carburetion was achieved by scratched building a manifold for a triple set of Stromberg 97’s. Other than that it’s pretty much out of the box.

Here are the details and more pictures.

Thanx for lookin’,
B.

Chassis and suspension: Kit 1941 Plymouth chassis and rear suspension. Front suspension is  the tubular straight gasser axle and transverse leaf spring from the AMT 1932 Ford Phaeton kit. All other parts from the ’41 Plymouth kit.

Wheels and tires: AMT Firestone front tires and Goodyear slicks from any AMT kit you’d care to think of. Hand painted sidewalls using Tamiya acrylic white. Front steelies from AMT ’37 Chevy kit, rear reversed offset steelies are NASCAR deep dish items courtesy of Performance Plastics.

Motor and transmission: Basic motor and transmission from the kit. Scratch built finned log manifold. Triple Stromberg 97’s courtesy of the late Ron Royston at Early Years Resin. Exhaust manifold from the Plymouth wedge head V8 in the kit, adapted to fit the flathead six.

Paint and finishes: Underlying paint is Duplicolor Red Primer and Duplicolor Hampsted Green Metallic. Special thanks for advice on the salt technique to simulate body corrosion courtesy of countless military modelers and to Virgil Suarez (Dr. Cranky) on YouTube. Weathering powders are dirt and two shades of rust courtesy of Bragdon Enterprises and Raul Perez (Thanx Raul!).

Looks pretty sweet.

Rust and weathering looks spot on, but I would have added some rust holes at the bottom of some of the panels.

Good rust B but I agree with Morrie on the holes.
Also, more rust on the chrome work wouldn't go amiss.

Having said that, it's an excellent build and you wouldn't know it was your first time trying this out.  Well done.

Looks great Bern. Like you I am new to rusting techniques, and you certainly have done a great job on this one. Inspires me to give it a good go.

Morrie wrote:Looks pretty sweet.

Rust and weathering looks spot on, but I would have added some rust holes at the bottom of some of the panels.

Not necessary if it is a barn find.  Looks like one that was kept in barn or shed somewhere and probably covered with all sorts of debris, dust and dirt. Surface rust would be about all you get.  Looks sweet.

Thanks everyone. I can see where this weathering thing can be habit forming! Big Fun!

I've started the NNL West Rat Rod which is also rusty, but not as extreme. I hope to post some build pictures soon.

Nice rust job cool build

Turned out pretty good Bern, well done!

This would be a great barn find. Very nice workmanship.