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Plymouth Valiant - Finished 9/5
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Mon Aug 28, 2017 7:16 pm
by dge467
This is a old Premier model kit that I picked up as a built model. After stripping off a beautiful heavily brushed on paint job :roll: , it revealed a equally nice marble plastic finish! :lol:
I mounted it on a Monogram stock car chassis. I will probably use the stock car interior too. I will have to make the windows as these kits don't come with any glass. I haven't decided on the paint yet. The kit body is a little larger then 1/32, but smaller then 1/25 as compared to the old SMP kit. I am going to use either a H&RJack Rabbit motor or a Slot Car Corner Tuna motor. More updates to come.
Re: Plymouth Valiant
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Mon Aug 28, 2017 8:41 pm
by Dundee Denny
Super unique build you have there!!!
Look forward to your "added touch" to this Plymouth.
Dundee Denny
Re: Plymouth Valiant
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Tue Aug 29, 2017 12:27 pm
by waaytoomuchintothis
Re: Plymouth Valiant
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Tue Aug 29, 2017 2:12 pm
by glasshorsevh
I absolutely loved my '62 Valiant station wagon! It was the first car I ever owned (white with a blue interior). I did everything I wanted it to... good on gas, and you could haul half my bands sound equipment. Someone was able to convince me it wasn't cool, so I traded it in for a '69 Monterey.. really dumb move!
Anyway, really great car to have in any scale... or any year for that matter. I also had a '74 that again was the best daily driver while my beloved '68 notch-back Barracuda was waiting out New England winters.
Wonderful build!
Val
Re: Plymouth Valiant
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Tue Aug 29, 2017 7:34 pm
by bill from nh
I learned to drive on a '62 Valiant sedan, 3-speed on the floor. When my parents were done with the car, they sold it to one of my friends for $200. He used it two years for commuting back & forth to school as well as for teasing the local police. :lol:
w
Re: Plymouth Valiant
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Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:47 pm
by HomeRacingWorld
What a great project. Very unique.
Re: Plymouth Valiant
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Thu Aug 31, 2017 9:07 pm
by dge467
Thanks for looking! The Valiant / Lancers were so weird, that they are cool!
I had unfortunately sold my 1961 Lancer a few years back. It had 66,000 original miles on the little 170 ci slant six! Also a 3 speed on the floor and radio delete.
Re: Plymouth Valiant
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Tue Sep 05, 2017 8:36 pm
by dge467
Re: Plymouth Valiant - Finished 9/5
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Tue Sep 05, 2017 9:36 pm
by Wobble
That's weird in a cool way ... or cool in a weird way. Whatever, I like it.
Plymouth Valiant - Finished 9/5
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Tue Sep 05, 2017 9:41 pm
by Mebrown
That motor looks wrong.
Your car on the other hand looks great. Period correct paint I take it?
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Re: Plymouth Valiant - Finished 9/5
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Tue Sep 05, 2017 9:54 pm
by waaytoomuchintothis
The Slant 6 always looked wrong to me at first. The first time I saw one, I thought the engine had torqued over and fallen off the motor mounts! I was so young... It became one of my favorite engines over the years.
Re: Plymouth Valiant - Finished 9/5
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Tue Sep 05, 2017 9:58 pm
by HomeRacingWorld
Just great modeling. Kudos to you for the overall finished work. Your effort on the tailights are commendable.
Re: Plymouth Valiant - Finished 9/5
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Tue Sep 05, 2017 10:15 pm
by Mebrown
Re: Plymouth Valiant - Finished 9/5
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Wed Sep 06, 2017 9:14 am
by Dodgefarmer
Fantastic work as usual. Not sure where that intake came from but it certainly is not a stock production piece. The runners appear to be about 8"-10" longer than stock and it has 3 extra venturi. :lol: Somewhere back in the late 50's Chrysler had discovered that the longer intake runner was, the lower down in the rpm range that max torque was achieved.
Randy
Re: Plymouth Valiant - Finished 9/5
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Wed Sep 06, 2017 9:14 am
by bdsharp
The "Leaning Tower of Power". The slant-6 was effectively shorter to fit under the hood of the new Valiant.
https://www.allpar.com/slant6.htmlThat intake looks like a factory Hyper-Pak piece. Clifford Performance also made a lot of speed parts for the slant, including four-barrel intakes.
https://www.allpar.com/mopar/hyper-pak.html