V-12 Dry Lakes Modified

[Bernard Kron]

Lincoln Flathead V-12 Powered Dry Lakes Style Modified

Built for the V-12 theme at that year’s NNL West. Not truly authentic given the V-12 theme and the decal I chose, it's still a fovorite on my shelf. Apologies to those who may have seen it elsewhere.

This is a vintage dry lakes style Modified roadster, “Modifieds”, as they were called, were the earliest pure straight line racers in the hot rod lineage with the first ones appearing on the dry lakes in Southern California as early as 1926. Patterned after the board track racers of the period, they were made by taking a Model T body and  chassis and narrowing them to a width just wide enough to carry the driver and the 4 banger motor. Modifieds ran at the lakes until the early 1950’s, evolving to sleek V-8 powered missiles capable of speeds well in excess of 150 mph.

This one is based a cool “Hot Rod Lincoln” Flathead, a scratch built frame and a cut down AMT Ala Kart ’29 Ford RPU body and interior.

Here are the details:

Bodywork and paint: AMT ’29 Ford “Ala Kart” roadster pickup body narrowed ¾”. Scratch built gas tank. AMT ’32 Ford grill shell. Duplicolor yellow paint, homemade “Lincoln V-12” logo decals.
Interior: AMT “Ala Kart” interior, narrowed ¾”, re-skinned with styrene “tuck and roll”. Cut down AMT ’29 Ford dashboard and ’36 Ford steering wheel.
Motor: Hot Rod Flathead V-12 from Early Years Resin. Scratch built headers, exhaust extensions and carburetor stacks.
Chassis: Scratch built from styrene strip with a Revell ’29 Ford RPU rear crossmember.
Suspension & brakes: AMT ’34 Ford front axle and spring and rear axle, AMT ’29 Ford rear spring and rear radius rods. Scratch built steering parts, front radius rods and drive shaft. Resin ’40 Ford brakes.
Wheels & tires: Modelhaus “milk truck” style wheels, Ma’s Resin “Rat Rod” rear tires, Revell ’37 Ford truck front tires.

W.I.P. for this build can be found here: trakinscale.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=trakinp&action=display&thread=13770

Thanx for lookin',
B.

[afx]

I don't recall seeing this before - well done.

[sam]

Excellent rendition. Love it !

[vintagerpm]

Very impressive hot rods, Bernard (all of them you've posted.) But I think this one is my favorite. I'm a sports car guy, but for some reason this one just jumps off the screen at me. I think it msy be because of those Modelhaus wheels. Great choice. Great work.

Mike

[Bernard Kron]

Thanks guys! Glad you all like it. It's from 2012 - in fact it's taken these past 7 years to figure out why the Theme for that year at the NNL West was V12's (2012, get it.., DUH!). Anyway it's till one of my favorites on my shelf and has served repeatedly as a test subject for photography experiments as my photo skills have evolved, The black background pictures arre from 3 years later, for example, by which time I was (finally) using a tripod. That's why the white background pictures look slightly fuzzy!