1965 Revell Shelby Cobra 427- WIP

BigJim

You should have noted this when looking over the model and test fitting before building!

He did, just two posts above that one...which is why he drilled the holes and added the wires. 

JohnnyK

I drilled holes in the windshield frame and superglued wires into the holes. The wires will be superglued into the holes that were previously drilled into the fenders of the model

You should have noted this when looking over the model and test fitting before building!

Yup. I pin all stuff like this to include outside rearview mirrors on alot of my builds. Too easy to get knocked off without 'em.

Progress is looking great Johnny.

I drilled holes in the windshield frame and superglued wires into the holes. The wires will be superglued into the holes that were previously drilled into the fenders of the model

I haven't seen a Cobra in those colors before, Gulf stream. Very cool. It really looks good like that.

BK

Over that past two days I added the decals.

It's time to install the windshield, but it is designed so that two little bumps (red arrows) are supposed to be glued into two little indents on the windshield (yellow arrows). How long before the windshield is knocked off of the body? I think that I will need to drill holes into the posts of the windshield and glue steel pins into the holes. The pins will be glued into holes that will need to be drilled into the body.

mustang1989

Man you are SMOKIN through this build Johnny!!! Love all the details too. Those M.A.D distributors are the bee's knees!! I've got half a dozen of 'em in the stash and they work PERFECT. I used to take the time to drill holes in OOB distributors but the heck with that!!! 

Looking forward to more on this beauty.

 

Man you are SMOKIN through this build Johnny!!! Love all the details too. Those M.A.D distributors are the bee's knees!! I've got half a dozen of 'em in the stash and they work PERFECT. I used to take the time to drill holes in OOB distributors but the heck with that!!! 

Looking forward to more on this beauty.

You're off to a great start Johnny

Looks like French Blue!

The model was painted Tamyia Light Blue which is darker thatn the 1:1 car was painted. I never liked the 1:1 car's blue color. I thought that it looked washed-out and faded. I'll need to polosh that paint and then add the decals.

lurch

Thats looking grreat. Fantastic idea for the cable. 

 

Thats looking grreat. Fantastic idea for the cable. 

The dash is painted Tamyia Rubber Black. The gauge decals are larger that the gauges. Decal setting solution fixed that problem. I put some Testors' Clear Cement over the decals to simulate glass. The bezels were painted with a chrome pen. I painted the floor with White glue and applied a layer of Zing Embosing Powder to simulate carpet. The seat belts are after-market products. The seats are black with a small amout of weathering to bringout the molded detail.

There isn't a lot of detail or interest to the interior.

AHA!

     Now you see why I say anything in modeling is fair game!

Brilliant!

Yes, we have a solution.

And the solution involves a computer cable.

I cut short sections off of the white computer cable and pressed the insulation over the axles.

The insulation provides a nice tight fit for the wheels. No more floppy wheels.

The engine is installed on the frame. I did a test fit of the wheels. The axels are WAY to thin and there is no way of fastening the wheels to the axels. The wheels just flop around! 

To My Knowledge!

 Our Boss at the Ford Dealer in Arkansas Had one and Yes, the engine was Black. I got the priviledge of working there in the evenings as a sales rep. My specialty? T-Birds and L.T.D.s. once in a while, a truck, to an acquaintance or something.

Coming along nicely. Keep up the good work.

Jim 

Stay Safe.

Clamps were required to make the sides of the engine block fit properly.

I removed the chrome finish from the intake manifold, dry-sump pan and carb. 

I purchased a pre-wired distributor from MAD. 

Now comes the $64,000 question. Was the 427 painted blue or black. I visited a number of Cobra websites and the consensus is that a 1965 427 was painted black. So be it.

The engine block is black and the transmission is a medium grey. The nasty looking seam on top of the transmission will be hidden once the model is finished. The intake manifold is painted flat aluminum. I added some "earth" colored weathering to the intake manifold. The cold air box is painted Testors' Aluminum Plate which is buffed to a nice shine. The top edge of the cold air box is painted grey to mimic the foam gasket on the 1:1 car.  The carb is painted aluminum with brass highlights on the float bowls and the choke plate. I think that most of the carb will be hidden by the air cleaner. The valve covers on the 1:1 car were cast and were painted black. After the paint dried I scrapped the paint from the cooling ribs using the back of a hobby knife. The wired distributor adds a nice look.

With those tubes, it looks more like a FAMO chassis than a car frame.

JohnnyK

 

 

wpwar11

Awesome job with the tires.  The Cobra is a super cool car.  Funny thing.  Last Saturday while driving for work in southern Maryland I heard the thunderous roar of a car engine.  In the opposite lane a blue Cobra with the white strip went flying by.  Then about an hour later I saw another one.  This one red and white.  

 

 

 

 

Thanks regarding the tires and wheels. I would guess that the cobras that you saw where "replica kits". I would doubt that an owner of a real Cobra would drive it around town for fear of getting into an accident in a $1.3 million car.

 

A few years ago I was at a car show and a man was showing off his "real" 1965, 427 Cobra. He had the original bill of sales from a local Ford dealership. The invoice indicated that he traded-in his Corvette for the Cobra. He also had a signed letter from Carroll Shelby thanking him for purchasing a Cobra. The Cobra had a number of minor dings in the body and the paint needed to be redone. It looked everypart its age. The man used the Cobra as a Summer daily-drive when he first purchased it. He said that the car was very crude. It had no heater, no interior upholstered panels on the doors,  no door windows and no top. He never drove it when rain was forecast. He said that the car was designed and built for only one purpose. To go as fast as Hell.

 

Looking good Johnny.  Remeber these were race cars, built for speed not comfort.  I built one of the Accurate Miniatures Grand Sport Corvettes (white one) and it had a very similar chassis.

hi johnnyK!

     Listen to you! A man that build one of these and have it all join together with all four tires touching the tabletop, gets my Hurrah of the month!

This is the rear suspension from two different view points.

This is the front suspension.

I don't know about you guys, but these suspension systems look like something somebody made in their garage after a bunch of beers.

This car has a very strange frame. It consists of large diameter steel tubes welded into an assembly resembling a ladder. I painted it flat black and gave it a mild weathering. I'll assemble the parts today and provide an update tomorrow.

Cool car and build. Will be watching this beauty come together.