Gramps46

Body is on chassis and will go to Under Glass next.

I really like what you had done on your spyder.

Super nice build.

Well fewer parts left to attach. The challenge will be attaching the body then adding the window surround.

Great story. Thanks for sharing .

Just received my 156 F1 in the mail and quite frankly I am moved. I was a fan of Phil Hill and the model and pamphlet are very well done. Thank you Helmut for letting us know about them.

Many thanks for sharing.

Wow!

Back on the bench again and plan to finish up the GT40 spyder this week. This will be the last addition to my GT40 collection. O Oops, better fix the toe in.

In 1962 Chevrolet was preparing for the introduction of the new Sting Ray in the 1963 model year and wanted to draw attention with a racing version. Zora Duntov and his team designed and built 5 racing chassis with Sting Ray style body work. Unfortunately for Zora the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, including GM, banned manufactures from racing in 1963. Chevrolet went ahead with finishing their racers but made arrangements with trusted Corvette racers including Gulf Oil's vice president for research Grady Davis. The racers were named Grand Sports and the first race for chassis 004 was April 1963 at Maryland's Marlboro Raceway. This model is based upon 1/25 scale resin body transkit by Cheesecast, Historic Racing Miniature also did one, which could be used on either an MPC or AMT chassis. These transkits were released before Accurate Miniatures released a full kit in 1/24 scale of the 1964 Grand Sport version. This build used an MPC 1964 kit and joins my other Grand Sport Corvettes. There is a WIP post.

Well done indeed.

OK, found them on eBay in 1/24 scale. Gotta get the Phil Hill car at least.

Oh my!! What scale are these two? Very tempting. Thanks for posting them.

The next photos will be Under Glass. I still need to adjust the stance and add mirrors. I wanted to show the model as it raced at Marlboro Raceway in its first race but I do not have the correct numbers so #11 it is. Thanks to all for following along with this build.

More progress. Glass is in, taillights are in, fuel filler cap is in and most of the decals.