Speedpro

Started working with the chassis. Did a mockup just taping parts in place to see how everything was fitting and get some ideas for improvement and added details I may want to do. After getting things in place i was able to get a look at the ride hight and making sure the tires are centered in the wheel well's. The little piece that was taken out of the bottom of the interior bucket worked perfect allowing the chassis to move where it needed to go. Everything is looking pretty good at this point except the firewall. When the tires are where I want them to be, It's not lining up with the body at the top. That can be a problem. You can see in the side shots of the car that the front tires look to be too far back. Thats with the firewall lined up with the body. You can see in the pic of the engine compartment how far off the firewall is with the front tires are more centered in the wheel wells. Started working on the front sub frame. The thing looks terrible! Its going to take some work to make it look right. Took some sheet styrene and cut some pieces that will fill the slots in the frame. Alot of super glue, sanding and primer is making things look a whole lot better. Still working on this part. A few unwanted things were removed from the firewall and the rear suspension parts were mocked in place. More to come and thanks for looking.........................

Been wanting to do a kit bash between the AMT '66 nova ss and the Moebius '65 chevy II gasser kits. It looks like they will meld together pretty good. The plan is to use the body and interior bucket from the '66 nova and use the chassis (bottom of the car) from the '65. The chassis is almost a perfect fit side to side and the wheel base seems to be the same. I'm sure this has been done before but I just wanted to try it. It looks like the interior bucket will fit but the floor of the '65 will need some material remove before it will sit down properly. The black on the floor is what needs to go. After removing these areas, the '66 interior bucket sat perfectly. It was found that the chassis was going to need to move back and forth to get the tires centered in the wheel wells. There is a rise in the floor that is under the back seat that will need a small piece taken out to allow the chassis to move fore and aft. This gives some room for the rise in the floor of the chassis to slide into. With the back seat in place, you cannot see the piece that was removed so there is no trying to hide anything. With the interior bucket mocked into the body, The fire wall was checked for fit. Here are the firewalls from the kits. The top one is the one that will be used as it is from the '65. Again, found that it fits very well but will need alittle work on the sides to fit the body better. So far so good, Thanks for looking.

Excellent Build! love the color and the engine details look very well done.

Tim, Very nice resto on this iconic build. Went into your fotki page and how the paint was done. Will have to try that. This what I love about this hobby, "Always picking up on a how too" even if it was done 50 years ago.

Very nice clean build.

Very nice work!

Excellent build Eric!

Love your builds. Very nice.

Very nice!

Craig, I checked out your scalemates album. Some very nice work. Thanks for sharing

This is a 4 week build I did to have something to put on the table at the final GSL. I had planned on a different powertrain but my idea just happen to be something another builder also had in mind(Mr Mark Weller). So i had to come up with another idea. Ended up building the roadster and kit bashing the Matt Hay pro street T-bird into it. This was rather challenging, being space limited, as the engine from the t-bird is no way just a drop in. But it is a ford. The engine and blower mounts were adapted to the frame and a trans mount was built and relocated. A dog house was built for the interior since more than half the engine was now in the passenger compartment. All the parts for the superchargers were thinned including the drive system trying to get as much room as I could. This really helped getting everything to fit. The front suspension was dropped a scale 5 inches or so by building a new crossmember mount so the radiator would remain in it's stock position. The front axle was also drilled and the drag link was modified to clear. At the rear, The four bar links from the t-bird were used and required new mounting points to the frame. The rear end was narrowed to pull the rear tires inboard to keep the same track width with the front. A drive shaft was also built. Tires came frome the parts box and the wheels were taken from th Bob Glidden Pro Stock kit. Brakes are drums all around. The bottom of the floor was smoothed by removing all the ribs. Then a exhaust system was built using the mufflers from the '66 nova ss kit and round tubing. The system was then alcad chromed. Alclad chrome, polished aluminum, and aluminum were used to finish all the parts for the engine and suspension along with the MCW Nassua Blue Metalic body color. The interior was done with light earth brown and the floor finished with embosing powder. The hurst quarter stick shifter and gauges were used from the t-bird. I added a little something to the front seat to give a little character. Was surprised I even got it done and is missing a few key components. Even so, It was a fun build. Thanks for looking, Speedpro

Happy Birthday Brother! Your lovely wife donna is doing a fantastic job taken care of you?

Mark , Enjoyed talking with you also. I'll have to keep my eye on your future builds to make sure i'm not building the same thing ?. Seeing your '29 gave me a good perspective of what I was going to build without having to build it. It was going to turn out awsome just like your's

Tim, It sure was a pleasure meeting and chatting with you. I'v been in this hobby for over 55 years now and you have been greatly inspirational. When @Kit Karsonasked me for some help doing a repaint on his '29 tribute build, I never thought it would lead up to debuting the truck and meeting you to do so at the last gsl. A pinnacle momment in my hobby say the least. To see the photo of the truck when i opened your post was also exciting as you got to post the first picture of the truck finished on the forum. I'm so glad you got to do that. Again, Thanks for everything you have done for the hobby and it was great to meet you. Speedpro Paul Tolonen

A 29 roadster I'm working on

Very nice! I like the color combo.

Fantastic build! The detailing on them four engines looks great. I like this alot.

Love the old monogram pro stock kits. Great job!

Nicely done. Like the details.

Very nice! Great photos too

Super nice bel air! Nice paint, interior and engine details. Perfect!

Very nice! Clean looking build. One of my favorite movies because of the car.

Really good looking merc! Your effort shows. Those wheels really set the car off.

One of the coolist nova's I've seen. Man that paint look's good! Love the engine detail's. Neat little trick with the license plate. Great build!

Super nice 442! Really like the interior and engine bay. And the paint looks perfect too.