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The Lincoln Futura was built by Ford, the body made by Ghia in Italy. While the car was extreme and even impractical it was a fully operable car. George Barris used the car for build the first Batmobile for the movie about a decade later. The modell is built from a Revell-Monogram kit. To open the middle section of bubble top was an interesting challenge. The other challenge was to make the body straight again because the original plastic was hooked as a propeller !

The XP 882 Aerovette is the closest one ever came to seeing production in 1973. It has a showy, slippery exterior, 72 degree sloped windshield and unique bi-fold gullwing doors. I not only missed this handsome model from my collection but I found the task very attractive to prepare the bi-fold gullwing doors workable. The model was built from a Revell-Monogram kit. I made some additional parts to model as pedals and inside mirror, wiring and tubing on engine, door sealing profile. As I didn`t find any paint Platinum Metallic I mixed 90% Aluminum and 10% Titanium Metallic from Testors for paintjob and clear coated with a waterborn clear lacquer.

The Mako Shark II was unveiled in 1965. There were 2 cars made. A non running "clay" car followed by a running prototype. The original non running clay car had a unique side exhaust and the interior features an aircraft style square steering wheel and a huge array of gauges. The model of the clay model was built from a MPC Custom Corvette kit. The kit was not komplet so I used only the body, the mold of passanger bay and seats. A simple chassis, exhaust, dashboard and steering wheel were scratcbuilt. Wheels and tyres are made of resin. I loved this car from the begining ! The built of this model made me the most enjoy. There was a lot of things to scratchbuilt, to make templates for mold parts from resin or to carve the dashbord and draw the instruments on computer.

The final version of the XP 755 Shark was renamed Mako Shark I after the introducing the Mako Shark which was named II. The car has been fitted with several engines including a turbo charged 427 for the 1962 New York Auto Show. The dashboard was redesigned and the glass double bubble top was no more used. The model was built from AMT Snap Fast kit OOB, only repainted out- and inside.

The early version of XP-755 Shark was still without front bumpers but with the same removable double-bubble top, wire wheels and interior as the XP-700. The engine was now charged by a GMC-4-53 Roots compressor and on the bonnet was Supercharged readable on both sides of the vents of compressor. Bill Mitchell received an original Ferrari steering wheel as a gift from Enzo Ferrari shortly befor he let put it in this car. The model was built from Minicraft Models Inc. kit in 1:20 scale. Nearly all parts of kit had to be altered or changed by scratch built ones. The assembly sequence had to be altered too to give a possibility for the nice body paint black-blue on top with a smooth changing to white at below.. I scratchbuilt new wheels and tyres because the original ones were too smal.

I`m an enthusiast of design studies, concepts and showcars. I would like to show my built ups in this theme in the next time. Chevrolet started to make a new Corvette-study in 1958. First it was a two tone blue hardtop. They replaced it with a convertible top in April and changed the body color to red in August. The final, revised version with longer and reshaped front came in 1960. The first two variants are scratch built from Matchbox #72 Corvette 1962. The final version is altered from an AMT Corvette 1962 Two in One kit and completed with vacuum formed windshild and double-bubble top, side pipes and schratch built wire wheels.