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[impcon]

I have been looking around online as I want to get a resin '59 Chevy 2 door post and a '60 2 door post to go with it. ANy suggestions who's would be the best as far as being the most accurate and clean? I know there are a couple of sources.. I just want to get a good model for my money and not a surprise. I almost bought a really super clean white Bel Air 2 door sedan that needed an engine when I was in my teens. I have wished a million times that I would have bought that car. I like white on most cars and it really suited that one to a "T"!It was white with a blue interior and a 6 cylinder, automatic. Any suggestions are appreciated. PM me if you don't want to put your comments out here.

[Art Anderson]

I have been looking around online as I want to get a resin '59 Chevy 2 door post and a '60 2 door post to go with it. ANy suggestions who's would be the best as far as being the most accurate and clean? I know there are a couple of sources.. I just want to get a good model for my money and not a surprise. I almost bought a really super clean white Bel Air 2 door sedan that needed an engine when I was in my teens. I have wished a million times that I would have bought that car. I like white on most cars and it really suited that one to a "T"!It was white with a blue interior and a 6 cylinder, automatic. Any suggestions are appreciated. PM me if you don't want to put your comments out here.

To do the conversion of the Revell '59 Chevy to a sedan, as in the Biscayne, takes a lot more than just putting a B-post in the hardtop roof. There is a marked difference between the length of the hardtop/convertible greenhouse and that of the sedans, and the sedan roof is noticeably taller, meaning also a different, more vertical windshield and back glass.

I did this conversion for resin casting back in 1994, using the convertible body shell. I started by adding in the windshield framing from an AMT '59 El Camino (which car used the same windshield and framing as station wagons and sedans), then used the entire roof behind the windshield, from a JoHan '59 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special 6-window (in real life, all Cadillacs used the GM A body, same body series as Chevrolets), which was perfect for height and length, but was 3 scale inches (1/8" actual) too narrow, so that had to be widened. The door framing and B-posts for a two-door sedan were done in Evergreen strip styrene, as was the Biscayne side spear. Pics:









Art

[Ron Hamilton]

To do the conversion of the Revell '59 Chevy to a sedan, as in the Biscayne, takes a lot more than just putting a B-post in the hardtop roof. There is a marked difference between the length of the hardtop/convertible greenhouse and that of the sedans, and the sedan roof is noticeably taller, meaning also a different, more vertical windshield and back glass.

I did this conversion for resin casting back in 1994, using the convertible body shell. I started by adding in the windshield framing from an AMT '59 El Camino (which car used the same windshield and framing as station wagons and sedans), then used the entire roof behind the windshield, from a JoHan '59 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special 6-window (in real life, all Cadillacs used the GM A body, same body series as Chevrolets), which was perfect for height and length, but was 3 scale inches (1/8" actual) too narrow, so that had to be widened. The door framing and B-posts for a two-door sedan were done in Evergreen strip styrene, as was the Biscayne side spear. Pics:









Art

This is an excellent body, as I have one to be built. Too bad it is out of production.

[impcon]

This is an excellent body, as I have one to be built. Too bad it is out of production.

I have seen it really OOP? I was looking online and Star Resins has it ( don't know the caster right atthis moment ) for sure..

[impcon]

To do the conversion of the Revell '59 Chevy to a sedan, as in the Biscayne, takes a lot more than just putting a B-post in the hardtop roof. There is a marked difference between the length of the hardtop/convertible greenhouse and that of the sedans, and the sedan roof is noticeably taller, meaning also a different, more vertical windshield and back glass.

I did this conversion for resin casting back in 1994, using the convertible body shell. I started by adding in the windshield framing from an AMT '59 El Camino (which car used the same windshield and framing as station wagons and sedans), then used the entire roof behind the windshield, from a JoHan '59 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special 6-window (in real life, all Cadillacs used the GM A body, same body series as Chevrolets), which was perfect for height and length, but was 3 scale inches (1/8" actual) too narrow, so that had to be widened. The door framing and B-posts for a two-door sedan were done in Evergreen strip styrene, as was the Biscayne side spear. Pics:

Art

Thanks Art, What your pictures show is exactly what I want. I guess if it is indeed no longer available, I will have to make my own..

[ScaleCentral]

There is a caster, I think Hendricks, that has one. I have it set aside for the 1960 Daytona 500 winner. It's not entirely accurate for a stock version as the height of the roof is not entirely correct. There was also a caster that did a resin roof that you can graft onto the plastic kit. It's not for the faint of heart but it will provide an accurate replica. I can't remember offhand who that was. It is either the Modelhaus or Tom Coolidge or both.
Nic