chris chabre

I may need another one of these in my collection. Drag and 60s era custom Corvettes are the only vettes for me I'll be watching

so Life has been a no stop flurry of activity and work. tonight is the first night I'm not working all day and late into the night, so what do I do? some mocking up pf course. I ended up with the Mercedes as a falling apart survivor in a sense. Im not a big European car guy BUT it hit me that it could be a KILLER custom. Imagine taking a coachbuilt Mercedes to the early masters like Westergard or Jimmy Summers, even SAM Barris amd they take it to the next level. picture if you will a car smoothed of its barbs, headlights molded low into the fenders, 49 Jag xk120 wheels and wide whites. the altitude adjusted etc. Im picturing skirts and maybe even extending the front fenders to give the car a fadeaway look. the shoebox is a body I recently picked up cheap. It's alittle rough around the edges due to the really bad paint, BUT I'm thinking I can block it all down, and give it a fresh look. the canted quafs, vette covers and 57 chevy rear custom tail along with the roof scoop solidly put it into the last 50s. I threw some old AMT wheels and tires under it for now.

i have 3 49 Jag xk 120 roadster Danbury mint diecasts. One I restored, one Im turning into an early custom and the third Im turning into an early landspeed car.

Ill be watching! I love early land speed and drag cars. I also use to race on the salt

I have one of these bodies kicking around do I've been thinking about doing the same thing too!

thanks guys, I havent been able to even think about doing any building lately. Between sick kids, getting my loose ends on the house tied up for an appraisal and other projects, there just hasnt been any time. IN FACT I recently ended up with a collection of survivors and I ended up with a few cool customs. Ive gotten as far as washing them and checking for missing parts. I havent even been able to mock them up. Paul, Im actually thinking about maybe trying my hand at a 3 window 40 since I ended up with a few stock height 36 roofs. That will be late on though I currently have a Foose 56 Ford Im planning mentally. IF I can find the time.

Ill check it out. thank you!

THANK YOU! sorry for the late reply, been insanely busy. I hardly ever finish anything, so Im sure youre well ahead of me in that department. I use models to flush out designs since I cant draw very well

thanks! That lines up with what I've found as well. Im told this one appears all stock. I've found individual piece pricing but none complete. I think my new goal is to find a clean Banshee and a piece of track to display them on together

hey guys, anyone versed in BZ cars? I ended up with this and I'd like to research some accurate information on it. I'm not selling it BUT I'd also like to know value as I've heard/seen all kinds of numbers... I dont need another hobby, but In doing some prelim research, I've seen some really killer stuff that I'd love to collect but I'd like to go about it responsibly thanks!

KILLER!!!!

You know I love it @Kit Karson!

well that didn't take long to completely get over run haha

AWESOME custom! I forgot all about that kit! THANK YOU! I guess I know what I have to do with mine now!

I remember the 1:1, I figured it was MPC? just couldn't find it. based on pricing, I wish I had the rest of it haha

I'm gonna say that's what it is! thank you!

I got this with a pile of parts. Anyone know what kit it is? I'm not gonna do anything with it but before I put it up for trade, I'd like to know what I have.

when I got it from the original builder, it was just the body and a shortened frame. It needed more length to look right so out came the truck beds in the stash. the T bed looked right, esp when I move the rearend back. I envision it as sort of a WW2 ration type car that got turned Into a 60s era hot rod. tje paint job on it will be stripped and something more appropriate will go on

thanks! it's a cutdown 32 3 window that I put a cutdown T bed onto. I didn't start the project, I got it in a pile of parts. I think there's a few photos in the Hot Rod mock up thread

time will tell what goes in there. I have no issue cutting to make something fit. haha

I'll see what I can do. I almost made it narrower but decided the width of the cowl was enough. Next I'm planning to narrow a deuce frame for it

the 40 isn't the prettiest girl at the dance BUT she's a piece of modeling history I feel needs to be saved. If I had built the 49 coupe, I would have sectioned the nose of the hood to drop it down, but I don't really want to cut it all apart so I'm gonna tweak both hoods alittle and see how bad I can mess it up haha

I'm not done with the rollpan area, it will all blend seamlessly eventually. It's always been on the to do list, Just ran out of time before the show and now that it's been seen, I have other things to attend to. Trust me when I say it was an unfinished area from the start

THANKS! it's an AMT 40 Ford. if you go to the WIP forum, I have a bunch of photos in my mock Mock Up Custom thread

DO IT!!! Id love to see another take on it. My friend Collin did one, @Bullybeef has one or 3 in the works, and I stole the bed idea from @Mr. Metallic The primered coupe is a Scott Colmer body that he did for me. I first saw his build in the May 93 Street Rodder and it stuck with me. I had started a few of my own versions when I found Scott online and asked if he would be interested in doing a body for me. I still have the original photo, the one I blew up, and now the body. My goal was to build it as a real land speed race car and go 250 on the salt with it. The model though has seemingly taken on a more 60s drag influence at least for now. I want to get it fully blocked and in fresh primer since I chipped the primer thats on it.