dino246gt

I started building this as a pro-street "Blazer", from a pickup kit, over 30 years ago! Dug it out and refined some old bodywork. Not sure what I'll do with it as pro-street is no longer "cool". Can't make it modern with those gigantic tubs, the rolled pans, ZR-1 tail lights, all outdated. I MIGHT just build it though as it would've been when it would've been cool.

Great headlight solution!

Beautiful!

Here's that Phantom Woodie. I chopped the top, not the wood, grafted the '50 Chev pickup front, made it into a 2 door and re-worked the wood to incorporate the Chevy rear fenders. Interior will have to be scratch built! BUT I love doing this stuff! Cheers!

Nice work! What did you use for the headlight buckets?

This might not be the look you're after but I found the tires I wanted and the big wheels that fit them, but I cut out those wheel centers and fitted the Fireball rims and dog dish caps that you have. After finishing, here's the result:

Man that looks fantastic!

WOW! Are we going to see it "live" this Sunday?

This could be the coolest Eldo ever!

Wow, great color! Going to be very Kool!

I know that the Starliner engine is not correct. I changed the oil pan and transmission though, parts from Fireball. Maybe the '57 Ford from Revell would have a better engine choice?

I used the engine from the Starliner kit and made some mods, made that front exhaust crossover from sprue and bits of styrene.

Looks like the new kit will have the bumper separate from the grille AND clear headlights, YES!!! Here's the original, must be better, must be better, LOL

I did use that on my original issue:

Interesting!

I'm excited to see what you do with this gorgeous car!

Fantastic!

Those door to fender to cowl seams looks SO much better now! Nice work!

I have the same dehydrator and I've never turned it up higher than that, so I wouldn't chance it. If anyone has though, I'd like to hear about it!

Thank you fellow model car builders! Yeah, I've always dreamed of a resto-mod 308GTB in real, but now that I'm retired, my income has disappeared! LOL Building dreams in scale is much more affordable and a lot safer financially, instead of hundreds of dollars, it'd be hundreds of thousands of dollars! Cheers!

Greg, this is the frame from the '55 kit I built, is that '53 kit frame the same? The front sits too high and all wheels are too far outward. I changed all that, but this is from the box:

99% finished! I decided to glue the passenger door shut, and pushed it in a bit too far! And so it's staying like that. If it wasn't a resto-mod, I'd say that's factory correct! LOL

So back to the 308, to make all 4 exhaust tips identical, I cut round toothpicks short and after angling the aluminum tubing tips, placed them on the toothpicks so I could file them down, all to the same length. The mirrors got drilled and new faces made to be foiled. The pins of course make mounting them better but also provide a place to hold them for airbrushing. I tried to bend one of the wipers, but no luck so I cut it off and made a new one to match the curved windshield, from 3 tiny pieces, I mean really small, then sanded and painted them. Then I made the door latch, exterior door handles, weather stripping and door edge red light. So here are all those, mirrors, wipers, exhaust tips and door end details in the last picture, cheers!

I'm not building this BUT I really appreciate this kind of info from a fellow modeller! I sure if Peter doesn't already know all this, he appreciates it too! I encourage this kind of info from our great builders here and I thank you Sonny!

You foiled that in an afternoon? Wow, I thought it'd take a week! LOL Looks great and I love that engine!