Superbird McMonte

Mine is still just the body. It is going to fit the AMT 55 Nomad chassis.

It’s got a 440 4 barrel with automatic on column. Black bench interior. More pictures soon.?

I just bought this car a couple days ago. It’s on its way up from the Carolinas. So I had to start building a model of her! Started life as a 1970 roadrunner big block with automatic transmission. Bench seat red interior. The conversion was done two owners ago. The interior was converted to black. All of the body modifications are done with Janak fiberglass. The only thing that has not been changed is the rear window. The owner that started the conversion passed away. The next owner picked off a few things on the list of things that have not been done yet. But other obligations gotten away, and the car went up for sale, and I bought it from him. I started my replica with a Jo-han Superbird. I took the back window out of a derelict GTX promo. My next modification will be to the front wheel openings. I plan on sectioning in the openings from the 70 Dodge Coronet.

You’re very welcome! Happy to see them put to use!??

Beautiful! I love replica builds!

I’ll be watching this one as well! I have all of the 1/8 scale Corvettes. They are on my hit list!

Superbird nose cones were steel. The only fiberglass was the pop up headlight assemblies.

Some aftermarket nose cones are fiberglass.? Janack productions is a popular one.

Living on Long Island, First thing I thought was, completely stripped out on cinderblocks, and left on the side of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. ?

My best friend had a 1969 Eldo after high school in the 90’s always thought those were the nicest looking Eldos!? I look forward to seeing your build!

That’s gonna be sweet! Can’t wait to see it done!

Bouncing back and forth between the red car and yellow car, I noticed something about these Motion cars that I hadn’t noticed 30 years ago. These Motion cars are a bit wider than the Eckler cars. The inner most taillights are not that close to the license plate cut out. And the hatchback opening is over the middle taillights.? I marked off my cut lines on the bumper cover. And then I started piecing it back together, spacing everything out and adding an extra quarter inch. The hatchback opening is not going to line up exactly where it should with the tail lights, but the extra width does help bring the widebody fenders out enough to almost go straight back. There’s still a slight hourglass back in towards the bumper cover, just not as dramatic as it was out of the box. I hope to do some test fitting tomorrow.

I always have a lot of Motion projects in the works. Some of them have gotten pushed back quite a bit. Working on the Eckler‘s Can-Am Corvettes recently brought these two Corvette projects to the surface. In 1993 Joel Rosen gave me three pictures of a red Can-Am Corvette built by Motion. I had never seen these types of Motion cars before, but I knew I had to build one. AMT had just released the Eckler‘s Corvette kit, so I grabbed a couple. Started over 25 years ago, as evidenced by the squadron green putty. (I haven’t use that stuff, since at least that long ago!) If it hasn’t cracked by now, I guess it won’t! One was molded in red plastic and the other in white. So it was a no-brainer to do the candy cane car using the red plastic model. I finished up the bodywork and put the car in primer. A couple little tweaks here and there, and it was ready for paint. I decided to use Tamiya Italian red on this car. Since Joel was always fascinated with Italian style sports cars, I figured it was a good choice. The plan was to draw the decals in my artwork program and print them out with my special ghost printer cartridge. It’s a white toner, LaserJet cartridge, that you have to fool the printer into thinking you’re printing black. Works pretty well! I had a couple rolls of automotive pinstripe hanging around and thought I might give that a try. Cutting it to the correct widths and getting it on the car wasn’t too much trouble. But in the end, they did not look right. They kept popping up in corners and you could see the scale thickness was out of whack. So I carefully peeled it all off and set about my original plan, drawing the decals. After a couple test prints on standard paper, I was where I wanted to be. I ran the Decal film through the printer and was on to Decal application. Some of the decals are quite delicate, especially about the back window. That was put on in one piece. I didn’t want any seams between any of the decals. I did, however, end up with three seams on the car. I’m happy with the way. It turned out this time around. Joel Rosen has officially pulled himself out of the automotive industry. At 83 years old, he’s had enough. He was recently in the hospital, so I had a mutual friend of ours, pass these pictures along to him. As for the real car, last I saw it was in the Dan McMichael‘s collection. It may have gone to auction in 2012.

I have built at least a dozen of these Monte Carlo kits since they came out in 1998. I understand you clamping issue.? The main culprit is the firewall. It has to be installed just right, otherwise it creates a seesaw affect with the chassis and floor assembly. I love the color combination you picked. And the whitewalls suit those cars quite well! Can’t wait to see it done! ??

That came out very nice too!

This is the second one I did. The main purpose was to post here. Here are some pictures of the first one.

That is a beautiful color! Nice paint work!

The 1970 Riviera was always my favorite! There is a 3D printed one available from Too Many Projects on Facebook. I ordered one and should get it soon. I have all of them from 63-65, 66 and 69. good luck with the build!

Hi Bill. The wheels I sent to you were printed with clear resin. I also have clear red for taillights. Although it’s not red enough, I’ve heard a little pigment can be added.

Thanks! Yes, that is the Monogram Superbird with a Johann wing.??

That’s exactly my point. I think my local hobby shop still has them sitting on the shelf from the last time it was reissued…??

Yeah, I get that. I guess I’m wishing out loud….?

Seven pages of conversation here and nobody’s talking about the 71 Monte Carlo super stocker. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge Monte Carlo fan! But I think AMT is missing the mark here. It’s not a very desirable kit as far as I know. I think they would be better off updating the current 70 Monte Carlo into a 71 or 72. Would be a big hit with musclecar fans and Lowrider fans.

I just found this one! I don’t know how I missed it. ? It’s looking good so far!

I’ve always considered doing the 74, I simply like that body style little bit better. But I like what you’re doing with this one! Can’t wait to see it through!