Scale-Master Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Another model of one of my real cars, in this case my first car. I started with the body from an older AMT funny car kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 This will be interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revstew Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 You have my interest!!! Can't wait to see more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintagercr Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 This should be cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DumpyDan Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 This will be so cool, I like the wagon idea, keep the pic's coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I love Vegas, I will pull up a chair.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Goschke Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Cool. Looking forward to more! My second car was a '71 Vega Kammback! Still remember the sight of the mocha frappacino in the radiator and the oil at 21,000 miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 I never had the head gasket and major overheating problems so many others did, but it still ran hot and occasionally puked in the summer when I took it inland. I always kept a few two liter jugs of water in the well. Ken Hart (khart) generously gave me some Minilite wheels from a Revell Corvette to work with. I cast a resin copy and machined it from a 15 inch five lug into a 13 inch four lug Western Superlite master. I gave the wheel a sand cast texture and added machined lugs/washers and the center cap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjracing Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Sounds like a cool project! I'll keep an eye on this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disabled modeler Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I like the little Vegas too....its going to be cool to see done... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 Here are the copies I cast of the modified wheel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalper Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 This is going to be epic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microwheel Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Cool wheels, nice start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Thanks guys. I installed a Harwood Corvette styled scoop on my Vega. I made a resin copy of a 427 scoop/hood to start with. Cut the scoop from the hood copy. And since it was a smaller than the factory Corvette sized scoop, I narrowed and shortened it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VEGADETH Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I'm all over this! I got 1 in the works as well , will be staying tuned!! John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsDano85gt Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 very cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DumpyDan Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Staying tuned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 The hood that was engraved into the body was the wrong size and shape, even for the body being a bit stubby. I filled in the missing cowl and hood area then rescribed the rear edge of the hood (with an arc instead of a straight line) as well as adding the fender lines and scribing the windshield frame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 I continued to scribe out the hood until I removed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jantrix Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Wow. Great subject. Looking forward to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microwheel Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I'd love to find a old lift back version of one of these. I owned so may Vegas back in the late 70's and 80's. I would love to build a kit of one, sometime down the road. I like where your going with this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exnyman Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 This will be an interesting build to watch. Though I never owned a Vega, A friend of mine had a 74 Kammback, red with the black interior, with black and white plaid like seat material. By 1984, it was so badly rusted that she had tons of WBAB bumper stickers all around the windshield to try to keep the rain water out. Sometime that year, she was traveling back to Long Island from Brooklyn and the car quit running on the Belt Parkway. She got it off the road and called me to pick her up. When I got there, she had actually already walked up to the next exit to call me so, she was standing at a convenience store with her license plates, and a few belongings in hand. When I asked her if she wanted me to take a look and see if I could get it running, she replied, "Nope, it is dead so I'm walking away from it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Great work so far, love the wheels.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 Looking at the photos I'm going to put this one right at 1982, a few months before it got totaled.It's death stemmed from the lower right ball joint going out and the control arm went through the tire, fortunately I was just pulling out so that was all the damage.I called for a flat bed and the driver said I needed to remove the driving lights or they would be removed forcibly, since I was only a few blocks from home I ran and got a couple wrenches. When I returned the car was in flames, a moron decided he could nurse it up the bed. Considering the control arm was embedded in the asphalt, I have no idea what logic he was using.When he tried to start it he flooded the side draft Webers fed by an electric fuel pump and then the car backfired. Dumass left the key on so the pump fed the fire plenty of gas. I was told flames came through the defroster vents and hit the idiot in the face. Served him right.I sued him won the case and bought the '73 Camaro with a few hundred left over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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