Here's my entry to the WMBMR contest.

It is a Revell/Monogram 1932 roadster kit. Swapped out kit engine for a Cadillac engine, fully detailed, custom made bigs and littles, Billet steering wheel. Also, swapped kit bench seat for buckets, relocated headlights, custom paint - purple potion - nail polish, lowered stance, wired brake lines, custom floor shifter. Two months build time.

Here is what I have got for this CBP the first is a Custom 32 Ford. I add a 429 motor, photoeched parts, and new wheels and tires.

Revell '32 Roadster painted Tamiya Dark Green, with '34 Ford hood louvers grafted in. '36 Ford headlights on home made mounts using silver wire. Scratchbuilt front shocks, posable steering, photoetched wire wheels (with Bare Metal trim rings) and resin tires from Replicas & Miniatures Co. of Md., chromed split wishbones on home made mounts. Highly modified '36 Ford roadster up-top and chopped windshield. Painted photoetched grille.

Quick change rear with buggy spring mounted in modified frame. '51 Chevy tailights. Cadillac engine fully wired and plumbed. Scratchbuilt fuel block with gauge, fuel lines are surgical sutures, resin stock '32 firewall. Modified resin (Reps & Mins) '40 Ford dash and '40 Ford steering wheel from Revell kit. "Carpet" is painted embossing powder, ball-head pin for shifter

If any of you guys have seen my posts before, you know I am very long winded. This is no exception… but please read as much of this as you can. It all works as part of the build. This is more than just a model car. This is a concept…a creation and a tribute. I honestly think this art. This is a performance piece.

In 1925 Errett Lobban Cord took control of the Auburn Automobile Company in a leveraged buyout maneuver. Soon there after Cord partnered with the Duesenberg Corporation which was famous for producing racing cars and the rest they say is “history”. But there is a little untold saga that culminated in the production a “one of a kind” special automobile…. Until now, this story has not been shared with the public…but now, here is that story and here is that spectacular automobile.

During the early thirties, Errett Cord was struggling with his wild, rebellious and stunningly tall and beautiful daughter named Cybele (pronounced Sib-ill) Divina Augusta Cord who was in her early twenties. She had quite the reputation as a “play girl” and in fact, Cybele was a fixture in the high society gatherings through out Newport, Rhode Island, and Long Island’s “Hampton’s”.

It was well known, in those circles, that Cybele had very little love for rural Auburn Indiana. Cybele was often heard remarking that “My flower will die if it is planted in Indiana”. All could see that she wanted nothing to do with the Midwest and her fathers “boring” automobile company. Even though many around her were suffering the effects of the great depression, Cybele showed little concern for the terrible state of the economy in the early 30’s. Despite her fathers numerous futile attempts to rein her in and control her wild spending and all night partying, Cybele only grew more rebellious. There was hardly a tabloid that did not contain wild and sordid accounts of private all night drunken parties and debauchery. In fact, the only things in this world, other than partying, that Cybele showed any love for were her 3 stately and blindingly fast Greyhounds and her Auburn Boattail Speedster.

In one last ditch effort to control Cybele’s wild ways, Errett offered her his two famous auto designers, Alan Leamy and Gordon Buehrig to design a spectacular “one of a kind” speedster for her, if she would settle down and stop embarrassing him and the family. Reluctantly, Cybele agreed to the offer, but that was a roux as it was later learned that she had already decided to settle down with Jean Armando Lebrun, the affluent son of Albert Lebrun, President of France, who had captured her heart. The two met months earlier at “The Elms” mansion, the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Berwind of Philadelphia in Newport.

In the next few weeks, the designers came to her with many ideas and concepts. Cybele settled on one that was unbelievably long, voluptuous and beautiful. The “Cybele” as it would come to be known, was remarkably long, at just slightly under 18 feet in length with an exaggerated hood to house the one of a kind powerful V16 engine. The dramatically large curvaceous fenders concealing huge 30 inch tires with massive disk wheels painted to accent the body colors. The smooth body sat so low to the ground that the rear wheel skirts were just inches off the ground. Cybele loved to fly around the estates in Newport in her one off “special”, her long and full head of gorgeous brunette hair flowing behind her with her 3 beloved Greyhounds running alongside her. Just about everything in this beautiful roadster was custom made for this one and only car. The designers began with a stretched out Auburn Speedster frame and fabricated a hand formed aluminum body, panel by panel. The only parts, beside the stretched out Auburn Speedster frame, to come from production vehicles were the grill housing, headlights and doors. Everything else was custom built for this “one of a kind” roadster. Today, the whereabouts of this “one of a kind” roadster is unknown. Some think it was taken to France after Cybele and Jean Armando were married in The Hall of Mirrors in Versailles, France in a fairy tale wedding. Many think that it was later sold into a private collection when the marriage ended in a bitter divorce. Some think it was taken back to America to be driven by Cybele’s father. No one is sure.

Base on 2004 Barry White's "Concept 36" from SRRC speedshop in Sol Cal.

Body is made from the Testers boydster and rebuilt. all fenders and floor was seem fitted to the body, Firewall was also seem fitted. The interier is done in Camel Tan leather and has stitching done into the seats. The dash was scratch built and use the gages that I made from paint shop pro 7 and machine my own gages. The exhaust was scratch built and so was the rear pig. The brakes on the rear end was moved to the center of the car for being In-line brake. The grill was hand made from using a buck and then vacume foarm and then rap with screan mesh. Motor was done and wired and has all new maching parts from me. The Wheels are "Concept 36" rims 1 off from my design from the real ones and was machine at Eaton Tech in Plainwell Michigan where I used there C-n-C Machine to do the work. Center caps are from Bob Dudek to contect the rims to the axles.
Paint was from HOK Blue Blood Red put on a board and then re matched and made from Du Pont Hot Hues. This also has Pearl Red over it.

Scratch built parts- Rim, grill,dash,gages,interier door pannels, Seats,Rear pig,exhaust,

Flocking on the floor in white with camel tan leather strip.

Peddles was scratch built from the photos of the real ones and also has Concept on the brake and 36 on the gas.

Steering shaft was scratch built. Wheel is from the parts box and chrome plated from me and then painted in camel tan leather.

special mix paint from acrlic water base to make the camel tan color.

Rear end was ingraved and has the 36 on the back cover.

So much that the pics does not show on this car and please over the look the dust as the body was finish 3 weeks ago after being destroyed from the flooding this last summer.

Testors/Jimmy Flintstone "Fire Roadstered" resin and white metal curbside/slammer kit.
Color is HoK Limetime Pearl over a white base. Clear is DuPont ChromaClear urethane.
Tires/Wheels are from Pegasus (Hela style wheel).
ALL chrome, with the exception of the wheels, is polished white metal.
Kens tan carpet flocking and Testors tans were used for the interior.

Every artist has to have their masterpiece... This is one of mine and I'm damn proud of it.

I wanted to build "The Street Rod From Hell"... One that would knock your socks off (or burn your taste buds).

I spent 4 years on it, not so much in the work but in the design... I laid awake at night for years trying to figure this one out and enjoyed every minute of it.

BODY... AMT Model A Ford roadster... Revell Model A Ford track nose
Rear side vents from a Monogram Greenwood Corvette... Testors Aluma-Coupe headlight pods... Headlight and tailights are MV model train lenses... Full belly pan incorporating the body as the frame.

INTERIOR... Revell 93 Trans AM dash, Revell VW Rabbit steering wheel center with aluminum rod rim... The rest was scratch built from sheet/rod plastic... Piping is painted model ignition wiring

ENGINE/DRIVE TRAIN... AMT Berretta 2.8lt V6... Scratch built fuel injection, valve covers, turbocharger and plumbing, fully enclosed modular engine drive... Berretta sub frame modified for rear drive.

TIRES/WHEELS... Rear- Monogram Outlaw (little rears) Front- Revell Pro-Street Moroso with all lettering shaved off... Wheels are JPS with custom made center caps.

PART SOURCES... Model Car Garage, Detail Master, R&B Motion, Replicas & Minitures, R&D.
Brake master cylinder/booster, shifter, wheel centers designed and produced by my late (may he RIP) friend Ricky Couch

I built tis one before the CBP started but have never posted it before. So I decide take a couple pics and toss it out there. The model is box stock and painted witha custom pink mixture.