DoctorLarry

Made some progress after being away for awhile. Final sculpting, cleaning up lines, scribing and then mold making. A few final details to hammer out here and this one is in the books.

73 Grand Am, 73 GTO, 74/5 Grand Am, 77 Can Am 77 "Smokey" Lemans sedan. Bodies, full interiors, chassis.

I ordered some BOP Quadrajets. Great detail and they will look great when installed. Very nice products.

I have 73 Grand Am, 74/75 Grand Am, 77 Can Am (which could be built as a LeMans) and 77 Leans 4 door sedan (the "Smokey" car). I also have a kit to make a 73 GTO/Lemans with the GA and interior kits for all but the sedan (console, dash, bucket seats, door panels, tub) if you want to build a stocker. They are gravity cast from hand made prototypes I built and I do them when I get some spare time. I am finishing a 76 Grand Prix to cast soon with interior kit as well (dash, console, buckets, door panels, rear tub).

Heading into the home stretch on this one. Bumpers, trim, headlights and tail lights, tightening up the body lines. Almost done.

Sweet. I remember this topic and was in the beginning stages of my project when I saw it. Very nice work, much better than mine!

I have one already. I want to do a 73 Gran Sport. I already have lots of pictures and several JoHan Cutlass donor cars.

Kevin, send me pictures. That body style is on my "to do" list!

Already owned one. Now have a 73 Grand Am sedan. Had a 73 GA 2 door and sold it to buy the 4 door. Pictures are model version versus real thing.

Long term I want to keep doing collonade cars. I want to do a 73 Buick GS and a 77 Cutlass 442. The Jo-Han cars have the wheelbase and for some of the cars the basic roof line. I used that for my Grand Am/LeMans/GTO cars. This keeps me out of trouble and is fun to do. The Pontiacs are really hard because of the complex body lines. At some point I will do a 73 Chevelle SS as well.

More progress. Shortened the front fenders-my scale was off. Re-did the hood as a result. Have most of the driver's side done. I need marker lights and door handle/locks. Passenger side is in body sculpting phase. I hope to have this in resin soon.

Making progress. Smoothing the body, sculpting body lines, checking the shape, and scribing in openings. Also working on details (marker lights, tail lights, door handles and locks). I hope to be done soon and creating the molds.

I agree-I get tired of "belly button" car kits but also understand the economics of mass production. This way I can make what I like, just as all of you do, and then make a mold of it to reproduce copies if I get the urge.

After completing several 73-77 Pontiac projects, some friends asked if I had ever done a 73-77 Grand Prix. I had not, but had several friends growing up who had real ones, including a Hurst T-Top car which was really nice. I started by getting a bunch of pictures and then carved up one of my resin 77 Can Ams for a hood and nose. The rest is a Revell 77 Monte Carlo snap-tite body, a bunch of strip styrene, some Jo-Han Cutlass parts and copious amounts of Squadron and Tamiya white putty. All of the big parts are on it, now it is just final body sculpting and checking for symmetry. After that, a resin casting. It looks like a blob now, but it is moving along nicely.

Got the body in primer. Now need to sand and shoot the paint. Doing the 74/5 seat and interior molds today and will use them in the build. Now I need to get the chassis put together and plumbed and the engine wired. More progress.

After a few months doing other things like finishing a 77 LeMans sedan and beginning a 76 Grand Prix to cast, I spent a few hours this week on my Grand Am. I started the body mods with parts from a 1980 z28 and some sheet styrene. I also started doing correct seats for the 74/75 Grand Am resins. I did the "horsecollar" seats for the 73 and a rear seat tub for the 73 but had never done the correct seats for the 74 and 75. I'm also doing a bench seat interior for the sedan.

Saturday was raining and I could not work outside so I decided to finish a side project that I had thought about before, a 77 LeMans 4 door sedan, popular as a police car in Smokey and the Bandit. I took one of my resin 77 Pontiac Can Am bodies and cut it apart. I cut the roof off the car and removed the rear window frame. I glued on a section of an Infiniti Q45 roof and then added about 3/16" to the quarters to lengthen the wheelbase to sedan length (4" more than a sedan in 1-1). I sectioned the rear window and glued it in. I filled in the shaker hole in the hood and ground off the rear spoiler. I just need to finish the roof off and clean it up. I might cast this one if I get some free time.

What year?

If anyone is still interested, I did a 73 Grand Am, 73 GTO, 74/75 Grand Am, and 77 Can Am in resin. Interiors for all as well and a resin chassis made to fit all three bodies. A 77 LeMans 4 door sedan is in the works as well as a 76 Grand Prix.

First pass at the chassis casting. Still working out the bugs but progress is being made.

Molds are curing on the chassis components. Frame/floor pans, front inner fenders, rear differential and control arms, front crossmember and control arms, front steering linkage and sway bar. If all turns out right the finished chassis and suspension above should be done in resin. Fingers are crossed that it all turns out right!

Here is my 74 kit:

Beautiful car! What size tires on it?

Yes-I have a posting on the Resin Forum. Do you have pictures of your car? I have an 83,00 mile 73 Grand Am myself. I put a LeMans nose on it while I fit my aftermarket fiberglass one. I have resin castings of 1773 Grand Am, 73 GTO, 74/75 Grand Am, and 77 Can Am.

Can anyone tell me how you can make your own decals for a 1/25 car? Thanks!