chris chabre

help me decide. I ended up with these killer lake pipes which Im usually not a fan of... the car is being built to represent roughly 1963. soo...yay or nay

thank you!

SO BITCHIN!!!

WOW! We may need to talk about that collection haha

very cool! Im just getting into Danbury mint stuff to be honest. It started with a few cheap pieces that needed restoration. Then it turned into "well what do I do with these parts diecasts" and now Im hunting ones I can afford haha Looks to be a few in that photo I may have to find eventually. That Daytona is KILLER the 2 ferraris that drug me into the Danbury world...haha

kids fell asleep early so I sat at my desk. normally Id z the frame up at the firewall, and then back down for the radiator support but since Ill be cutting the first 6 inches of the nose off I didnt do the drop back down at the radiator support. at least not yet. I got the front clip tacked back in but I may shorten the wheelbase a bit still. I started modifying the trans tunnel and firewall, but Im gonna have to move the motor back some. Ill redo the firewall with the indent from a revell 3 window firewall. i may have to cut the front crossmember too. for now its kind of on all 4s at ride height.

thank you. I try to keep them as clean as I can, makes it easier in the long run to not lose interest haha thanks. I always liked 150 and 210 57s as straight axled, radiused quarter drag car that sit low but there never were a lot of customized ones, and the ones that were, ended up gaudy in my eyes. Im trying to but a radical custom that isnt gaudy...Im gonna have to pull some tricks out of my ass haha I ended up buying a small collection and it was in it, I figured I would sell it, but I decided to keep it.

thank you! Im hoping I can make the body mods look like whats in my head haha The yellow one is an out of the box Danbury Mint diecast

thanks!

Thanks, I really have to get back to it and get the body cut. This way I can start fitting the frame

havent really touched this due to being busy, but I did cut off the front of the willys frame and glued in the front crossmember from a revell 3 window kit. this will allow me to run a transverse leaf up front and keep the car low like I want. I also started a 57 chevy custom build for a FB group Im in. started a build thread today

so Im staring at the Ferrari Im turning into a drag car (WIP drag racing build thread) and while Ive done some more work on it, Im part of a FB group that challenged us to build 55 to 57 chevys...in car or truck variants. I have 2 in stock, along with a pile of Drag City Casting resin parts for them, so I guess Im building an early 60s era custom 57 chevy.. My goal is to use a bunch of the AMT 1st issue custom parts even though I have to modify them to fit the Pro shop body as it is wider for whatever reason... I sat down and went through my parts boxes, ended up with a set of Danbury mint 58 Ferrari wheels, tires and brakes (left over from my Danbury Mint restoration and the left overs from my drag car build) Also from the parts box is a dual quad Buick nailhead from a Danbury MInt 53 skylark custom i parted out I threw a bunch of parts in a box and sat down at my bench. First goal is to make the Ferrari wheels, tires and brakes fit the suspension, next step..make it sit like a respectable early 60s custom. Ill be redoing the plug wires in black and most likely getting rid of the Hydro on the back of it for a 4 speed First step to the z...make some room well that was easy I flipped the spindles which required drilling the lower control arms out for the locating pin, The now upper pin is smaller and Ill use the clearance there to set the camber I had to open up the hole in the "brakes" to fit the spindle, I used the factory indention to set track width up front quick mock up with some coils from the same Buick I got the motor from so the back had big squares in the drums/backing plates.I took the 57 chevy wheel hubs and fit them to the ferrari backing plates, but that made the track width way too wide...Thats when I modified them to narrow it up. When I got to that point, I sanded the front side to make them fit the wheels tighter, positively locating them inside the wheel and fitting the car the way I wanted them to couldnt get the rear low enough so I cut the snubbers off...Unfortunately I ended up sanding off the brake line detail but the axle touches the frame rails now. Ill most likely C notch the frame a bit The inner wheel wells had to be cut as well. I ended up taking most of them out but this in process photo shows how I did it. Who doesnt love mock up photos My next step is to finish up the front of the frame and radiator support. Then Ill start fitting the motor, trans and cutting the driveshaft tunnel out...Hopefully Ill have some bench time this week. thanks for looking!

I LOVE IT!!!!! Im actually planning to do this with one of my Chezoom bodies, Im also always looking at dragster chassis' for just the right ones haha here is a modern Funny car chassis and AWB Falcon I started messing with and set aside

thats what I was thinking haha

i for some reason now want a set of those wheels haha

good looking hot rod!

I dig it

I had a 88 DX hatch on Lifts (hydros) back in the early 2000s. Im gonna be watching.

looks like a killer start to a land speed Audi

Looks killer!!!! I spent my afternoon cutting on my 57 build. I sent you photos on Instagram

awesome!

yeah, Update! its freaking cool

NICE. There have been a few cool Lowrider Camaros built

looks awesome!

Thats what I figured haha At first I thought my eyes were messing with me