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Awesome job with a true custom! I particularly love how the independent suspension went in

"Impeccable" should be the name of this build. Just excellent!!!

Tokyo Drift baby! I love it!!!

Excellent work, especially on the many panels that are very difficult to align on this kit!

What a beauty! I drove one of these working at GM at the time. It was long enough for sure, but it was also WIDE. You could be sitting in one zip code, while your passenger was in another!

Man, that is one SEXY build. That's the car John Wick should be driving!

Beautiful lines on that car, and fantastic color combo. Well done!

I love the idea and execution!

I'm digging this build!

Thanks much guys!

Wicked cool, the both of them!!!

Thank you for the suggestion TJ, I will definitely look into it. BTW, yours is a beauty in its own right!

That is so beautiful, and it's a car I didn't know even existed! ?

Phenomenal job on a great vehicle choice. Thank you for posting!

Thank you Oliver, it is a beautiful car and I hope my build does it some level of justice.

What a great build of a fantastic car!

Thank you Michael for the encouragement. I have been to the Bowling Green museum a number of times - most recently after the sinkhole incident. Such a cool place! I also got to see Impostor at last year's SEMA show - it's incredible how low, wide, and beautiful the actual car is. I will do my best to do the car justice with my model build.

Thank you David. I got to see the actual car at last year's SEMA show (along with about ten other Foose creations), and fell in love with Impostor all over again. To me, it is the perfect custom car, although some don't care for the relatively stock Corvette interior. From what I understand, the owner wanted it that way so the vehicle could be serviced at any Chevy dealership just like a Corvette.

Thank you Dennis. This one is testing my amateurish abilities to the limit, that's for sure

Thank you much Sir!

You are very kind for the offer. I think one dash will suffice, but will keep you in mind. Thank you!

This is the kind of stuff I love! The wilder the better I say

I saw pictures of Chip Foose's Impostor for the first time in 2016, and waited with bated breath for it to be released as a model or a diecast. When nothing materialized, in 2017 I bought a 1:25 scale Revell 2005 Corvette C6 kit, as well as a Foose Design 1965 Chevy Impala. I began my build that year, knowing full well this was beyond my capabilities. Starting with the Impala body, I followed the recipe that Foose used to shorten the body, move the rear axle forward, chop the roof, and tilt the A pillars back. What I came up with was a fair simulation of the 1:1 car, although the rear end still doesn't look just quite right, probably because I cheated the lines a little: Since the Impala body sits on a Corvette chassis, next up was lengthening that by 5mm and narrowing the width. The undercarriage is also smoothed and painted, so the same had to happen to my build: In 2018, I worked on the engine and drivetrain, which is pretty much stock C6, except for lengthening the torque tube and adding a supercharger. In my case, I couldn't find just the right blower, so I made one out of a spare muffler and some drywall tape: After a five year hiatus where I have been honing my skills a bit, I have gotten back to this build. The interior is coming together pretty well, although the virtually stock C6 dash is presenting some real challenges mating to the Impala body: I will be working on adapting the dash to the wider body, and integrating the door cards to follow the dash lines. Stay tuned and please provide feedback as you see fit.

Just brilliant I say!