BEACH BOMB  by Willis Pierce
This is my Beach Bomb Truck. Side View. The girl was introduced to me by Kim Sondergaard. Her name is Sandy Waters. The Truck is painted Testors Pacific Blue. The Surf Fink, and the Beach Bomb decals were designed and made by Dkal Dan.

I made the ice chest and ice from a tool box that was in my parts box and crushed rock salt. 

The tires were found at a thrift shop on a broken battery operated toy truck. I bought it for a quarter.

The wheels were in my parts box.

Sandy's tan was a mixture of the tan paint that was used on the truck and flat white. Her bathing suit was a mixture of gloss red and flat white. I then used Future to make it shine. I also painted her lips and shoes the gloss red. If you look close, you can see I also painted her finger nails.

I used the custom grill shell that comes with the 53 Ford Pickup kit. I then filed the top, bottom, and back side of a 53 Ford pickup grill and mounted it inside the shell. I made the windshield from a plastic Hawaiian Punch bottle. I Bare Metal Foiled the trim along the bottom of the windshield and the trim around the back of the cab. The roof was broken off this truck when I got it so the very first thing I did to this model was file the roof posts off to the cab body. I shaved the side trim off and puttied the body. I used the door handles from a 69 R/T Dodge Charger. 

I was going to have two holes in the hood for the Velocity Stacks, but when I drilled them out, the drill bit caught and broke the piece out between them.

Oh yea, the surfboard was in a parts box that I traded for. Thank you Steve Doing. There is a pair of bongo drums on the front seat. Again they were found in a parts box. You can't see them very well but the springs were from the Destroyer Monster Truck. I cut them down and filed them to make them work. I used superglue gel to make u-bolts. I used quick change rear ends and axles from an unbuilt Paddy Wagon and a busted up built  Paddy Wagon, for the axles. The frame was from a 4x4 Chevy pickup I had as a kid. I cut it and made it work for this truck. It broke numerous times on me.

Some from where I cut and glued and some were not. The front drive shaft was from the Paddy Wagon, the rear was from my parts box. I also used a very short drive shaft from my parts box to go between the transmission and the transfer case. It probably wouldn't work in real life. The transfer case was from the same truck as the frame. My nephew showed me he still has the box that this model came from. Since I didn't use the Ford frame, I had to make floor pans so you wouldn't see the casting side of the bed and interior. I made these parts and the firewall part from the front part of a semi trailer body from my childhood, and a siding part to a model railroad building. The 18 wheeler trailer was from the only one that I ever built. I was taking it to the fair to show it off, and the wind came up and blew it out of my hands. It hit the road and I kicked it as far as I could. I never built another 18 wheeler truck or trailer.

The engine came from my Ice T model that I built as a kid. I stripped it. I shaved the glue off. That proved to me that I built glue bombs back then. I painted it orange , since it is a Chevy engine. I used Alclad Chrome on the tunnel ram and the header tips. The carbs were painted steel as was the transmission. The valve covers were from the 59 El Camino, but they say Cadillac on them. The headers are from a Bad Man with tips from a glue bomb Beer Wagon I got in with some other parts from an Auction that I went in with Steve Hammann. Thanks Steve. Glad you didn't want those Beer Wagons. I will be using more parts in up coming projects. I tried about 4 different exhaust systems on this and I kept running into problems.

I used phone wire to wire the distributor since the wired one I bought is with the 1:1 Uncertain T. I made the coil out of a piece of spruce after I lost the one I had. I didn't realize how few models put a coil in them until I needed one. I must have looked at 25 models. The battery wires are also phone wires. Alan sent me the Velocity Stacks along with some other cool parts. Thanks Alan. I used a tooth pick and painted the bottom inside the velocity stacks with Tamiya Clear Blue .The master cylinder and bull horns are from one opf my parts boxes.

The sand is from Vero Beach, Florida.