1924 Indy 500 Racer - Barber-Warnock Special 1:12

This is my interpretation of the 1924 Ford Barber-Warnock Special Indy 500 Racer in 1:12 scale. I modeled it using reference information from photos of modern replicas along with many photos and drawings of other Ford Model Ts.

Here is some Information on this car from the Henry Ford Museum web site:
(https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/39448/)
When did Fords use Chevrolet parts? In the 1920s, when brothers Louis and Arthur Chevrolet made special overhead valve cylinder heads for Model Ts. Sold under the brand name Frontenac, they helped racers triple the horsepower of the stock Model T engine. Such "Fronty-Fords" became terrors on the small dirt tracks and in 1923 and 1924 Indianapolis auto dealer Barber-Warnock Ford decided to enter Fronty-Ford powered cars in the Indianapolis 500...The Barber-Warnock cars finished fifth in the 1923 race and 14th, 16th, and 17th in 1924.
 

Since not much information can be found on the original Barber-Warnock cars, the modern replicas are each a bit different in the details. This model is a mix of the modern replicas and what I could glean from a few photos of the original cars. I'm sure purists will notice things that aren't quite right, but I did the best I could with the information I had.

 

You will need some tiny pan head tapping screws (M1.4 and M1.7) to attach the wheels and steering components. If you don't care about the wheels turning or steering, you could use some short pieces of filament and glue. A set of small tapping screws of various sizes can be purchased on Amazon or elsewhere. 

 

Note that if you use the raw STL files, these are 1:10 scale.  To keep the model to a reasonable size, I scaled the parts in the print profile to 1:12 (83.3%).

 

See the Other Files for a PDF to be printed on white and clear water slide decal sheets for the body markings. Print the sheet at full scale for the 1:12 scale model.

 

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