On the Shelf- Monogram SweeTee by Tom Daniel *LINK*

This is the first in a personal build series of the Tom Daniel designed "true" hot rod kits. I say true in quotations because these were the only kits that he designed for Monogram that were based on already existing tooling (to my knowledge). The SweeTee, Boss A Bone and Son Of Ford were all based on Monograms tooling of the Little T, Blue Beetle and Little Deuce respectively. I've been on a quest over the last few years to capture buildable versions of these kits, and the SweeTee is the rarest (not that the other two are common by any means) so I was extremely happy when I stumbled onto this mint SweeTee kit on ebay one evening with a reasonable Buy It Now. It sat on my shelf for a couple years, and I thought that this kit would be a perfect return to my bench after a long and protracted build slump. This is the first model I have completed in over a year.

Heavily inspired by the polished plastic builds Chuck Darnell and Don Sikora and a similar Box Stock Plus build by Bob Spedding I set about to build this nearly box stock with a few upgrades. The upgrades I added I feel maintain the look and feel of the boxart while giving the observer a little something to spark interest. One major thing was that I made the turtle deck and pickup bed interchangeable with the use of strategically placed magnets since i couldn't decide which option I liked better. Now I have both.