How To Quickly Fix AMT's 1969 Ford Torino Cobra and Talledega Wheel Base Issue
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video we will be looking at doing a quick and easy modification to your model kit's chassis pan in order to align both front and rear wheels into the body's wheel arches.
I chose to completely replace the ancient chassis with AMT's 66 Ford Fairlane and all the underpinnings . This gave me way better detail and corrected the alignment in both the front and rear wheel arches. Some trimming on the front and rear of the 66 chassis was required. I also replaced the front rad core.
How did you get around the wider transmission tunnel on the 1966 Fairlane floor pan hitting into the narrower transmission tunnel of the Cobra interior?
Cool video Trevor. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it. I am really finding out a whole lot of info on this kit. It's a real mess I have to figure out when I get building it.
The NASCAR wheel and tire look like the bigger fit issue, they are too big and wide for the fender openings.
I think your attempt to fit the wheels & tires and make chassis alignment different will cause a huge problem getting the rear bumper to fit. It's not possible to grind off 1/8 inch off the chassis pan without removing part of the fuel tank, and that may play even more havoc with the alignment of the bumper to body. The front bumper would need to be twisted backwards to close a gap up front.
Appreciate your attempt to inform the community about the problem, I have 2 of those '69 Torino kits unbuilt .... one 20 years old, the other is the most recent one. I might look at drilling new holes for the 2 axles, so front and rear bumpers will still fit, and hopefully the oil pan isn't in the way up front for that.
I didn't want to make a video about building this kit for a few years, but I think now that I started showing these fixes, that I will have to bump up that time frame and get going on it.
Thanks for the info Trevor.
You are welcome!
Great tip
Glad it was helpful!
Good tip
Happy to help!
I think you are right,Trevor. I'll look again at mine👍😎.and make new hoses😉. One could relocate new pins for added strength👍looks like it still needs redrilling in the rear axle too. Are you finding the chassis won't fit in properly? I think the interior tunnel is fouling the chassis
Glad you liked the video Pete!
I didn't really notice a problem with the chassis fit when I was making this video, but then I wasn't looking in that area too much at the time.
You could be right that the rear axle hole needs redrilling, even with the front end being moved into the correct position.
However, I will have to get into a more detailed build of this kit to find all the issues. - Something to try in the future...maybe this summer?
You should have the glass and dash in when doing this.
Something to try in the future, although I don't think the glass and dash will effect this correction since moving the chassis pan is underneath the entire interior/glass arrangement.
Glass in..That's another joke in this model🤣🤣
@@petesmodelcarcustoms584 I hear you are having some issues.
@@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage as you can see in my last video,the Cobra rear screen is way out😣
I made a follow-up video to my first one. Hope you can check it out and see my glass.
Not a great kit but looks good when she's done. I address the rear axle on my build of the kit, way off, little love and we can get it right!! Definitely not a beginner model
Some of these old kits have their issues. I didn't want to get into doing a full build video on this car for a few years, however, people are warning me all about a whole bunch of things and I feel I have to build this now to prove them wrong.
@@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage lol. It's not one of amts best kits by far but it's doable!!!
@@carouselofcrazychrisb For sure.
Or just steal the entire chassis/ floorpan from AMTs much better 66 Fairlane
Yes you could. However, this is the "In Box" solution.
Does the '66 go in there without much modification?
I don't know but it's worth investigating.👍🤞😃replacement of that lot was my next move 👍
You could be the first to try it!
@@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage I bet you can guess what I've been doing for the last hour😁. I'm hoping to do a video tomorrow 🤞
@@petesmodelcarcustoms584 Are you putting the 66 chassis under this kit?
The whole kit is a POS
Perhaps, but now I am on a mission to fix it.
Just curious...did you watch the video, or just leave this comment right from the get-go?
Sorry but this is NOT working!I am just building this kit!If you do it this way the room for the engine moves back and the firewall hits the interior tub(makes it very difficult to install the dashboard!)!It much easier to file the holes in the direction you need to move the wheels!And another Problem with this chassis is that the left ride hight is to high in the front
How does the firewall hit the interior tub? The firewall is molded in place.
I am curious to see how you are building this kit. - Did you glue the interior to the inner body or to the chassis pan? I am suggesting moving the body backwards on the chassis 1/8". The direction of travel should move everything backwards so that the rear package shelf would hang out of the back of the car if you glued the interior to the pan before moving the pan back. This is the AMT kit. Are you sure you're not building the Monogram one? I could see something like that possibly happening in the Monogram kit.
@@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage I guess in my 45 years of building kits,and especially Car models(with over 400 in my stash i guess i know a little about Kits!🙃The Monogram is a Talladega and has no fitment problems!I made a mistake in writing the firewall hits the tub!Its that the Engine hits the firewall or sits too far to the front!And in my opinion the file method is much faster and easier!I look if you have an email and will send you some pics(If it works)or !I dont have Facebook or other things except discord!If you have discord i can send you pics there!
@@williwass6837 Not bashing your years of modeling experience...just trying to figure out why I am not having the same issue as you are (And some others as well). - Also, I asked about the Monogram kit because I have had someone in the past tell me I didn't know what I was doing, and then they told me all about a different kit entirely (like a Revell vs AMT) so I just wanted to double check to see if I wasn't running into that same scenario once again. IThank you for stating that I am not.
Anyway, your comment about the issue intrigued me, so I am uploading a new video here soon where I attempt to move the interior and make everything "Go out of whack" by moving the chassis pan back to it's true location and to it's original "Peg and Post" location. Anyway, if you wait and watch the video, you will soon see my attempts to slide the under-pan and make the interior move.
Besides, I have 42 years of hobby experience (Born in 74, started when I was 8 and am now 50, and I have about 600 kits unbuilt and 400 built as well as I have owned a hobby store for 20 years. - But hey...what do I know! (Just a joke)
@@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage I was born 63 and started with 10!So around 53 years of modeling!Btw iam from Germany!I started modelling because a friend of our family,an US soldier stationed at the Peden Barracks here presented me an already build Kit of a Phantom!So thats the way it startedYeah i guess i did around the same number of kits like you!🙂The last 30 years i stopped building OOB!All my kits are modded the one or other way!You can find on build model from me in the Model Cars Magazine Forum under the title "My take on a 34 Düsenberg Pro-Street"
This is a issue on some amt kits.
Hopefully this can be a universal fix for the other kits as well.