1927 T Traditional Hot Rod

Waiting for paint to cure on other projects, so I'm resurrecting this old project I set aside, while searching for parts for it.

I've always like the look of a 27 T, channeled and given some nice hop ups in the traditional fifties style....flathead with some shiny parts, baby moons on steelie wheels, tuck and roll interior.
There are no kits of a 27 T hot rod in the traditional sense., lots of 23, 25 and 29's...and 30's,
I found a decent resin body shell.....in dark amber resin. IIRC it was a now OOP  company, although I believe there are Jimmy Flintstone 27 T body shells still to be found on Ebay.
Starting with nothing but a resin body shell the search for everything else sent me to the kit stash.

Been collecting vintage aftermarket speed equipment from various sources....so now is a good time to put them to use...and get working on it,  -and finish it.

Putting a Z in the rear of a Revell model A frame was the first "to do" task.
Rear cross member and leaf spring are from AMT's 29 roadster,

Getting the correct stance sitting on some Revell Rat Rod white wall big and littles, with the kit steel wheels came next.
Lowering the body on the rear axle with Z'd frame,  along with the Rat Rod kit's nice dropped front axle got me where I wanted it.

Replicas and Miniatures has some very nice flathead components to start engine placement and mounting points on the chassis.

Model Car Garage has the best vintage looking resin Stromberg 97s ...(lots of engraved detail) and Detail Master has nice machined air cleaners.
Vintage beehive oil filter comes with the R&M resin flathead engine kit.

I have some Parts by Parks baby moons for the kit steelies. The kit wheels have some nice chrome beauty rings.

The vintage resin/PE banjo steering wheel is a Model Car Garage item.

I don't see many '27 T roadsters in scale model form, maybe because as far as I know there was never a styrene kit of that body. Your build is looking good, looking forward to seeing more of it.

ozmodeler wrote:I don't see many '27 T roadsters in scale model form, maybe because as far as I know there was never a styrene kit of that body. Your build is looking good, looking forward to seeing more of it.

Thank you..and yes...there may have been a touring 27 by AMT, not sure there was anything other than that.

.....what time is it where you are? It's getting near dinner time here.....you up early?

When I started this build, I set it aside after struggling with the interior. Had to scratch build the floorboards, side panels and dashboard.
Lots of trial fitting and accommodating the engine bell housing. Had to make a new firewall and do some mods on the resin body shell.

Cool roadster in the making.

Thanks guys.
I think that brings me up to date on past work...now I'll get some pictures of where I am currently.

I put major parts in white primer...Tamiya surface primer.
Then began thinking on the color scheme.
A nice guy on another build thread sent me this picture for inspiration.

27 T hot rods, just gotta like them.

I've been debating the color scheme for this '27 T  in my head ...what I was sure of...I wanted a dark body/grill color with complementary (opposite) color on the wheels/engine

Black is a bit too often used, I like red too, but that is a bit common as well.
Been reading Al Drakes book on fifties hot rods, there were purple cars back then, even some on the dry lakes.
I thought maybe a very dark blue/violet metallic with red or maybe yellow orange steelie wheels.

After searching the rattle can racks I couldn't find exactly what I wanted....the choices:

Tamiya Blue Violet........ value too pale, hue a bit bland light blue, a solid color, a metallic might be better

Tamiya Deep Metallic Blue......right value, dark, but hue was too blue, not enough violet

Model Master Deep Pearlescent Purple enamel.........dark enough but not exciting

Model Master/Rustoleum  Ford Ultra Violet Pearl Lacquer.........the right value, dark, and a deep violet hue, and its a fast drying lacquer

Made  a decision, went with it.

Before painting I dechromed ( a liquid plumber product takes the chrome off in half an hour ) several kit chrome parts in anticipation of doing Alclad II chrome over gloss black base...to keep all the shiny parts consistent in finish.

So here's the initial results of the paint job. Trial fitting the parts with tape to get the overall impression.
I like the complementary colors.

Interior is in white primer...I'll be trying a Tamiya white pearl on the side panels and seats, with semi gloss black pleats.

Nice Purple on it.

Jim, you're a "Doctor Frankenstein" of the model world... A little bit of this and a little bit of that and then create something "AWESOME"!....

Love the colour,and the white interior really pops against it.

Thanks guys. Working the engine and chassis details.

Exhaust headers are a Replicas and Miniatures resin piece, cut off the collectors on the end, with 3/16th aluminum tube added.

I got an aftermarket parts order in (finally) for several projects.

Got some resin flathead exhaust headers from Replicas and Miniatures,  that will fit nicer over the frame, and the pre bent muffler pipes pulled from the Revell 29 roadster kit that might solve my problem trying to bend aluminum tubing underneath the rear axle.

I wasn't thrilled about hanging straight pipe below the rear axle and  tie rods.

Trial fit and then went to ALCLAD on the parts.

Looking nice and traditional, super job with the Alclad chrome. Keep up the good work "moonbird"

Worked on the interior and got that in a pearl white overcoat after finally getting a good white base and then mask off  the black pleats.
ALCLAD on the headlight brackets and windshield frame.
Need to get back on the flathead engine details.

Working the front suspension after seeing track width of the front dropped axle needed some adjustment.
Looks like the posts inside the backs of the front wheels and the posts on the front poseable discs need to be shortened to reduce the overall front width.