chris chabre

which car had the "middle finger" haha

some KILLER stuff!!! Ill play along, though I dont have many survivors the Riv has a pipecleaner Interior that I ruined like an idiot when I cleaned it. the only modification I made to it was a wheel swap.. I'll eventually clean it all up.. I'm looking for 3mm pie cleaner to redo the interior. The trailer and Lindberg hot rod pick up came from the same collection.

Im digging it!

I have a thread in this forum. My favorite part of the build

tonight's mock up. I ended up with this converted 3 window body and chassis, so of course I had to do something. I ended up modifying a T bed because it needed something. A friend of mine told me it looks like an old WW@ gas ration"pick up" got hot rodded. works for me!

KILLER!!!

Ive always wanted to build one of these as a landspeed car

I really wish I could get a photo of how well the interior fits inside the body!

tonight's mock up has a back story... saw a guy post on FB that he finally found one of these new in the box. I asked him if he'd be interested in selling me a pair of the headers, fenders and interior pieces. he said he'd gladly send me the pieces since he doesn't need them anymore...THIS showed up today...after I picked up my jaw, I went into harvest and mock up mode again. THE PLAN. I want to clean up one of the glue bombs and get it on the shelf. Im then gonna build one using a Revell body and nailhead, along with a pair of slicks and those chrome wheels from what I believe is an American Graffiti coupe

anytime!!! Per usual, I'm really digging what you're doing!

thank you! here's another 5 window (this one a drag city casting) for the mix and a 34 cabriolet I'm channeling and converting into a roadster. Thanks to @tim boydfor the idea of using the AMT 36 roadster cowl piece

I use to build traditional hot rods professionally, Left the industry for various reasons. I have a "9 to 5" fabricating mostly high end stainless work, as well as my own fab shop at the house. I miss it enough where Im thinking about going back on my own and building cars again under my shop name (Chabres Hot Rod and Fabrication, or CHRF) I also started a you tube channel that Covid kind of ended for a bit because when the pandemic hit both the Mrs and I ended up working like crazy due to shortages etc. If anyones interested I can post up some photos etc sometime.

Im really liking the sheen on the chassis! The whole project is coming together awesome!

KILLER!!! my favorite year galaxie!

SAME! this is the top of my display cabinet in my office so its neck height. I have to walk by it everytime I enter or leave my office since its the front room of our house

the blue one is staying as is, its one of a very small group of survivors I have, I do want to get a pair of stacks for it since the original builder had a set on it . I have another someone painted this awesome pink That Im gonna mess with eventually

LOVE what you did with everything so far!!!

i mean the modern OD trans behind it in the engine photo haha

Joels stuff is amazing. He is my go to for motors that I cant kitbash myself. I also have both of his Mazda pick up kits and some misc stuff like the BMX bike etc

Thanks Scott!!! As you can see, Its morphed into a drag car as you originally planned! Time will tell where it goes from here, but I had to put it into the mix with the rest of the Hot rods!!! I have a few more thrown in there as of today

thanks Bill. Mock up is where I hash out my ideas and clear my brain. In awhile, Ill get tired of looking at these and change them up haha

the best part was my little guy helping me. he would go through my tire bin and place them near the 27 body. has the bug for sure

needed to relax and its been too cold to work on my Comet in my unheated shop last night, so I dug out some more stuff to mock up. Mini tubbed the Vicky, put in some blue windows and started blocking my Scott Colmer 40 coupe body as well. my goal? no idea to be honest.

thanks for the paint info Luke! The Sunny looks killer! as do the others!

Coming together awesome! Takes me back!