Model Car Garage - 1953 Studebaker Miss Deal Funny Car Model Kit By Revell - A Model Car Unboxing
Channel: Monster Hobbies Model Car Garage
Date: 14/12/2018

Your "Miss Deal" Funny Car - It looks like an ordinary car - yet it doesn't. The body is right. But the wheels are too far forward. Or is the body too far back? Something's funny. It's a funny car!

Fans flip when they see this full-bodied car stand up and do a wheelie, then go like crazy, smoking up the strip with its big slicks. 

The secret of the wheelstands is the altered wheelbase. Moving the wheels forward puts up to 65% of the car's weight on the rear wheels and gives it the traction of a dragster. 

Flip-up Top - The one piece body flips up and the driver slips under it into the bucket seat. The roll cage protects him during sped runs up to 150-160 mph. The drag chute in the rear is an auxiliary brake. The driver "pops" it open to slow down. Center steering gives him better control of the car. 

The interior is stripped for lighter, better performance. Even the scenery's been shifted - the engine is sneaking toward the front seat and the driver's cockpit toward the rear. 

"Run What Ya Brung" - Funny cars got their start in 1964 when the Ramchargers, a group of drag-racing Chrysler engineers, put together a pair of match racers which entertained drag fans at strips in the South. Others copied them. Because the cars were "funny", track officials outlawed them from regular competition and they were allowed to race only against each other. 

There was no point on holding the line on engines. The order was to "Run what ya brung". Racers all over the country went wild with their hopping up. Expensive and hazardous nitro and alcohol fuel stepped up speed. Blowers supplied more horsepower. Metal bodies were acid dipped to make them lighter and faster. Now, all fiberglass bodies under 200 pounds are widely used, and engines pulling over 1000 horses are becoming common. these lightweight dragsters in disguise go over 170 mph - a quarter mile in less than nine seconds. 

Funny car championship events draw dozens of top cars from all over the U.S., racing for purses of up to $10 000.

Welcome to the wonderful world of the funny car - where anything goes! - Revell model kit instructions.

In today's Monster Hobbies Model Car Garage we will be looking at the 1953 Studebaker Miss Deal Funny Car Model Kit By Revell. This is a Model Car Unboxing video. 

To begin with, we have a 40 piece Blown HEMI motor that is reminiscent of the Revell 1955, 1956 and 1957 Chevrolets (the hard to build ones with the opening doors, trunk, hood and have steering wheels). The engine consists of a four piece block (Solid bottom with a crank case, left and right top halves with cylinder holes and valve rods and a block top face), oil pan, starter motor, flywheel housing, scattershield, left and right transmission sides, valley cover, cylinder heads, rocker arm assemblies, blower manifold, valve covers, a 7-piece 6-71 blower with scoop, breather tube, water filler, magneto, 10-part exhaust manifolds, and blower drive cover. All this awesome engine needs to finish it off is some spark plug wires from the magneto!

The rest of the Revell 1953 Studebaker Miss Deal Funny Car is all about power! The Miss Deal Funny Car Model Kit has a 2-piece rear axle with right and left hand side rear torque bars, brake backing plate, 3-piece rear tires, elliptical rear springs, left and right shocks, front bar axle with Model T Ford leaf spring, front radius rods, brake backing plate, metal rivet axles, tie rod, 3-piece wheels and tires, shocks and a driveshaft to hook the engine to the rear axles. All these parts glue to the chassis/frame panel. 

For the interior, you won't find any carpet, radio, dash board or any of the other luxuries found in a Stock 1953 Studebaker. The 1953 Studebaker Miss Deal Funny Car Model Kit By Revell is stripped down to bare bones. You get a seat, shifter lever, 4-piece roll cage, steering support bar, 2-piece fuel tank, push bar yoke and extension, a 7-piece steering wheel and rod assembly and a firewall with pedals. 

The body of the 1953 Studebaker Miss Deal Funny Car Model Kit By Revell opens via a series of body lift yoke retainers, pivot bosses and rods. there is a seperatly molded hood, chrome headlight bezels, drag chute and a "Pushfoot" for the push bar yoke extension part. Also included is a template for cutting out a clear sheet of polystyrene for the front windshield. 

The decals are very nice and include "Miss Deal" lettering and a deck of cards. 

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