Hello everyone. My name is Trevor
Ursulescu and I am the owner of Monster Hobbies in High River, Alberta, Canada.
So this is just a little quick video I wanted to show you a
customization that I am doing using the Carrara Richard Petty cars. So here we go… So here we have a Lee Petty 1960 Plymouth 1960 Plymouth Fury that I'm selling for
$45 Canadian Dollars. This is not a digital car it's just the regular analog but I
wanted to show you what car I am using as a basis. I am actually using a Richard
Petty because currently Carrera has so many of those they do not know what to do
with them. So here I have this 1957 Ford body. This was an older Revel kit that came out
in the 1970's and early 1980's. I think the last one was about 1994 (not totally sure
on that) but as you can see I have taken the Petty Plymouth Fury and the chassis
and mounted this body onto it. I say mounted very loosely because I
haven't actually totally mounted it, but here's how I did it.
So first off… you need to saw off the back end of the Petty Fury on the undercarriage – just a
little piece that stuck out there – and where I cut it, it said "Plymouth Fury" and
had a trademark under there. I cut on top of the Plymouth lettering – sawed it right
across. That seemed to be the right amount and then these are plastic tubes
I think it was three 3/16" or something diameter if you get some plastic you
just need to find the right size because I'm a hundred percent sure. The package is at home, but I just cut them to that length and I took the
Petty Plymouth and I turned it upside down and I measured the length of their
mounting pipes to the Plastruct and I screwed them in underneath and I will need to scrape the paint out of the Ford under here and then put glue on top of
these and then put the Ford down and wiggle around until it is in the right
location and let that all dry and I should be able to unscrew the pegs and I am
going to cut pieces of plastic little triangles just to glue up there for
extra support so if this thing falls off the table it just won't sheer the body
off the posts.
Now over here you can see this I-beam… I cut these posts to match the
Plymouth Petty and then when I put the body on it seemed just to hang down a
bit in the back sort, of like a Lowrider. So I didn't really want that. I wanted
the actual Ford ride height or what I thought would make a good Ford ride
height, so I searched around and I found that little piece of I-beam, another Plastruct
piece, and now if you put that there you can see it has got more of the proper Ford
stance than tail dragging. And I had to put the bumper on just to
make sure that the front of that Petty pan here…
There… fit in and I will unscrew the car from the base here and turn it over and let you see what that
looks like. So here we are underneath the conversion and you can see that here
there is a lot of room still if you really want it to taper the Petty
undercarriage you could but I mean this is quick and it will not hurt it in any way
and then here I will just turn this sideways so you can see that – oh boy! …
shake the camera…- you can see that the front splash pan fits perfectly with that edge of the bumper and there is a lot of room when you move
the wheels back and forth they will line it up properly like the real Ford was
just add your glue you should be able to unscrew the screws but not these ones
but the mounting screws and the pegs all stay in place…
Pull the body off or the chassis, frame, running gear… that I-Beam might be glued in there somewhere… and then your posts will be sticking out
there and I will add some supports in there just to make sure it does not fall
over and crack off when it is race night and then the only other thing I would have to do
is take the interior, when I get that, and cut it and then put a flat pan just like
they did on the Petty one with a half a driver holding one half of a steering wheel,
and it should clear all our running gear which will sit over the top like that. So I am just going to glue the body together and then give her a little test on the track. Okay…so I did a little bit of tool work here
and I just trued up the tops of the posts and then made a couple of notches
in the back of the I-beam because I found that the little round tubes were
sort of hitting it and making go at a funny angle so I just notched those,
glued that on, and then inside the body, I scraped quite a bit of the paint away
also up into the roof there, there is a bunch of those little mould circles with
flash hanging off of them so I sanded that down, actually I hit it with that
knife there, which just got rid of them so that when I glue the glass in it will be nice
and flush and flat up into the top of the body and then I had to scrape away
here and at that nose there just so that I could glue on the mounting pins
so I will get that together and then show you this thing.
And here is the car here –
so as you can see the stance is pretty much right on. The only sort of fault is that this back wheel is a little bit further back from the the edge of the front of
the rear fender well, but I mean, what can you do? On the real Ford this would be up
almost right on top of it however I do not think that should affect too much
for authenticity or performance but there she is! The glue is a little soft and I do not know if I
want to test run it yet…
So we will see! Okay… so the glue is a little soft so I am
going to putter this around the track… oops!
Oh yeah, right into the dead spot! All right, here we go!
"Note the great ride that a Ford gives you." (snicker!) Okay let's go down here… "You will enjoy the new 1957 Ford from Ford because Ford is good!" Right! There we go…
So there you
can see with just a little simple conversion, a couple bits of plastic, and
a good hobby saw, a couple of knives… whatever… you can build yourself a car
that that is unique and amazing. So this Ford will get painted up and
driven because we want to drive our Fords lately… or whatever… anyway
Monster Hobbies… Trevor signing off.. We will see you soon! Find out more about Monster Hobbies by
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Canada". We have gaming events, our Warhammer nights, our slot car races, and
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Bye!.
