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A handful of '57s : Brand spankin new '57 150 Black Widow blastin up Pikes Peak! Kodachrome slide of a '57 Bel Air Nomad wagon with factory fuel injection.. '57 Bel Air El Capitola, man, what an awesome kit build THAT would be, right? This is the very last kustom car built by Sam Barris, and I always get hated on for this, but, this is also the very last truly great kustom car built at Barris Kustoms, as Sam had the lions share of the talent in that outfit.. Everything Barris Kustoms put out after this was either built by someone else, or was some gaudy thing built for movies or TV shows.. The Barris Kustoms golden age ended in 1960, in my opinion anyway, but, whatta I know?? I wasn't even EXTANT until 23 years later! Holy smokes! An original Dealership Showroom license plate, I've heard some people call them booster plates, but idk, for a '57 150 Handyman wagon! This is the ONLY '57 Chevrolet anything dealer showroom plate that I've EVER seen.. I think it'd be so very cool if the guys at the model kit companies that design the decal sheets would include these style of dealer showroom plates instead of some generic personalized license plate that NONE of us ever use.. BESIDES that, I'd absolutely love to find an original one of these for a Bel Air sedan for my dads car.. These pretty much gotta be the ONLY Tri-Five Chevy parts that are NOT available as a reproduction..

Some really cool '56s : '56 Bel Air 2-door sedan in one of my favorite color combinations.. Slick '56 Bel Air sport sedan with rare accessory bumper guards and painted in a pretty uncommon color combination.. '56 Bel Air with tri-tone paint! Probably not factory done, BUT, who really knows? Only one I've EVER seen, and it sure does look pretty sweet! Dig this '56 Bel Air painted by Larry Watson.. These almost look like 1955-56 Ford factory colors, just pearlized.. This would make for one awesome lookin kit build for somebody to do!

So, I'm always on the lookout for old automotive related Kodachrome slides and vintage snapshots, and recently came across some more Tri-Five stuff too cool not to share.. I'll post the '55s first : This new, or nearly new '55 Bel Air drag racin.. Identical pair of '55 Bel Air 4-door sedans somewhere in the woods.. '55 Bel Air Indy Pace Car.. Looks like a 1955 Indiana Dealer license plate.. One of the cars supplied for Official Use, someone put the checkered flag decals on backwards.. The actual Pace Car.. Another Bel Air convertible supplied for Official Use, but Turquoise an White.. Has completely different decals than the Pace Cars, and if I can figure out how to create a sheet of em, I'll be buildin another Revell kit to go with my '55 Pace Car build, looks like 1955 Indiana Dealer plates on this un too..

Yeah, as much as they advertised these things, it is a wonder that a promo was never done.. Especially the Pontiac version.. I was a kid when these things first come out, and they were EV RE WHERE

You got one headed yer way!

Oh dang, that's a new one on me, never woulda thought somebody tooled one up! Make it refrigerator white, keep the chipped up paint, and lose the hubcaps, and that's what mine looked like.. Thanks for posting this!

This un is traded! THANKS DUDE! Please remove this post!

I mean, the decal sheets that Rays offers are second to none AND priced modestly! Naturally, a great many people wanna get hands on em.. And, so far as I can tell, there's Ray, and one other fella, and that's the extent of their operation.. Those factors combined, not even mentioning the print company, add up to : EXPECT THERE TO BE A WAIT TIME personally, my only complaint about em, is really a non-issue, which Ray will probably get around to eventually, and that is I wish he had more Indy Pace Car sets available.. Big takeaway - You WILL wait a while, but when yer order does show up, you'll be blown away, and curse because you didn't order MOAR!

Would be sweet if they did one of them newer Alfa-Romeo Disco Volantes by Touring.. Such a cool car!

THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm down for at least a couple of each of em!

ALSO, because of Moebius' proven track record, this could be the first of a whole series of 1942, '46, '47, and '48 Chevrolet cars.. Aerosedans, coupes, convertibles, even a 4-door knowin them! How killer would an Indy Pace Car version of a '48 be?? I only know two things about this announcement - 1 - Whatever Moebius has in mind for these, it's gonna be cool! 2 - Just like with the Hudsons, Chryslers, Pontiacs, Dodges, Plymouths, and Ford pickups, I'll be buying and building every '46-48 Chevrolet that they release!

Me too dude, me too! I had a derelict, but perfectly drivable '48 Pontiac 4-door sedan for a while in 1999 that I picked up for a few hundred bucks in a Dennys parking lot randomly one weekend.. Always wanted to make a model of it somehow.. If there is ANYBODY that can make a '46-48 Pontiac kit happen, as well as the stones to do it, it's Moebius!

Oh man, NO WAY! I gotta grab a few of these things up!

Uhh, but, the 1954 Skylark was the pinnacle of Buickdom though, indeed!

Man, I love crawler tractors, this thing is so cool!

Yeggi is basically just a search engine specifically for 3D models.. Everything on that site is just search term hits from other sites.. Any model you click on will redirect you to a much better site.. Yeggi is trash more or less..

What I'm interested in tradin for Lindberg '53 Ford Indy Pace Car, AMT '56 Ford Crown Victoria, AMT '57 Ford Fairlane 500, Revell '57 Ford 300, Del Rio, Fireball Roberts race car, & police car, Monogram '59 Ford Galaxie Skyliner, Monogram '78, '79, '93, '94, & '95 Indy Pace Cars, Monogram '82, '84, '96 Corvettes, Monogram '82, '83, & '85 Trans Ams.. ya know, stuff like that.. PM me if yer interested in this unique project up for trade! Thanks! Later -

'64 Eldorado Biarritz conversion, project, corrected convertible windshield frame, correct rear wheel wells, upgraded engine compartment, chassis & running gear from Monogram '59 Cadillac, headlights drilled and backing plates installed for seperate clear headlights, pad-printed tires with correct size whitewall, foil-cast molds and casted parts for emblems, has all parts to complete with the exception of wheel covers, as it only has 1, lots more details, site won't upload my post if I write em all! Next post is a general idea of what kind of stuff I'm interested in..

Cool thread OP! Also, I happened across several more Tri-Five pics in my file collection.. This really, really is the last of my pics! '56 Bel Air - I really dig this color combination.. My next '56 kit build, a Del Ray, will be painted like this.. '57 Bel Air Convertible Those silver an yellow seats are wild! '57 Bel Air 4-door sedan - THIS ^^^^^ car is NEARLY identical to the one my dad owns, save for 3 things : my dads is a V8, 283 4bbl/Overdrive, it has accessory front bumper guards, and it has accessory spinner wheel covers.. At the inaugural Tri-Five Nationals, he scored a set of incredibly rare Vermont-only rear bumper guards.. NOS parts too! Car is pretty far from being from Vermont, but those rear bumper guards are very cool because they each have a license plate light in em, as Vermont required TWO license plate lights at the time, instead of the industry standard single light mounted above the rear license plate, the ONLY state to do so in '57.. Anyway, I had a few more pics of rust buckets too.. '56 Bel Air convertible, looks like it was originally solid white.. '56 Bel Air convertible that looks like it was originally light blue an white.. '57 210 4-door sedan same color as my dads car.. '57 Bel Air sport sedan.. '57 Bel Air convertible, same colors as the restored one I posted.. '57 Nomad being eaten by Kudzu.. These last two cars were from that Lambrecht Chevrolet auction, they were IDENTICAL Colonial Cream an India Ivory '57 210 4-door sedans with V8s, and both of them had less than 5 original miles on them, one was stored indoors, the other stored outdoors.. The indoor car, had, I think, 1.7 miles on the odometer.. The outdoor car, had something like 3 and 1/2 or 4 miles on the odometer, and somehow, seems to have fared better than the other one, in spite of being parked in the grass for 60 years.. That auction was crazy, and I doubt we'll ever see the like of it again!

Cool cars! What are those wheel covers on the black one off of?

Yes.. And I mean just about ANY Dodge pickup truck body style! '48-53 B-Series would be sweet, '54-60 C-Series would be preferable, even the most likely to be kitted D-Series would be OK too.. Anything, ANYTHING besides another whole kit series dedicated to either FoMoCo or GM! THAT SAID, I'll be buying this new '69 Ford ramp truck kit.. And, should there be additional kits in this Ford series showing up in the future, OR, should they begin to release a series of '67-72 Chevys, or please God, '73-87 Chevys, I'll be buying them too.. If it says MOEBIUS on the box :

Excellent build, great car! That Toomanyprojects has some really, really cool stuff available..

I found a few more Tri-Five pics in my digital stash, they're the last of em.. All scans from old Kodachrome slides.. My dad has a '57 Bel Air 4-door that his dad bought new, it's Colonial Cream & India Ivory, which is likely why I saved these scans - Looks like a brand new '57 210 2-door sedan with 1957 Michigan plates.. '57 Bel Air sport sedan, the best looking '57 Chevy body style, in my opinion.. '57 Bel Air convertible on the sand at Daytona.. '55 sedan delivery Pepsi truck! How COOL is that??

MCW Finishes lists a complete resin OHC 6 for $10 bones on their website, looks like it's from the AMT '69 Firebird kit..

Lately, I've been looking into all of the techniques and whatnot that goes into making rust buckets.. I've always wanted to build a few cool junkyard cars.. Some of the junkyard reference pics I saved happened to be some pretty rare, and forlorn Tri-Fives.. Maybe one of these will make one of you guys build a heap too.. '55 Bel Air convertible, looks to be a well optioned car.. '56 Bel Air 4-door sedan, amazing how well that paint job has held up! '56 Bel Air convertible, been sitting there for a really long time.. '56 Bel Air convertible.. '57 150 4-door sedan, old U.S. Army fleet car, how cool is that? '57 Bel Air convertible, yes, really! This picture is recent, hard to believe that nobody snapped this one up in the 50 or so years that it's been sitting there! '57 Bel Air convertible, same goes for this one! And that's the extent of my '55-6-7 stuff..