Ron Hamilton

Beautiful!

Beautiful!

It is a lot more than that. The '68 through '72 442 Hardtops had different trunk and fender contours than the convertible. When doing this one, the first time, I cut the roof and trunk kid from an AMT '69 442, and grafted it to the Revell convertible body. Needless to say, it did not work. The second time, I used the roof, and quarters from a JoHan 442 body, retaining the front clip, doors, and part of the quarter panels from the Revell body. After a lot of fitting, filing, sanding, puttying and eyeball engineering, I think I have a body that works. The interior is another matter. The '72 442 Hardtop had the Cutlass S seat stitch pattern, which is not present in the Revell kit. So I re-did the interior to the proper specs. Johan's '70, which I based my conversion on, had a weak interior, with moulded in front seats and console, with faint detail at best. The Revell parts were much better defined, so I used them as a base. I used plastic sheet and rod, along with a little carving, filling and sanding, to "re-upholster" the interior. Sorry, I did not take any photos, but I think it came out fine. I used a combination of Johan and Revell parts to make the interior work, and I can tell you, it was quite a bit of work to get the "jig saw puzzle" of the interior and glass to fit in the body and chassis. The glass is from the AMT '69 442, which had to be trimmed to fit.. Last week, I painted and foiled the body. Earlier this week, I fitted the interior, glass, and chassis. At this time, I am attempting to download pictures to photo bucket, which is fighting me all the way.

The strange thing is, I have, or have had most of those. I happen to like 4-doors. I have a plan to master a '63 Pontiac Bonneville, or '63 Chevrolet Impala 4-Door Hardtop.

Killer!!!

Looks good!!!!

I like it!!!!!!

Interesting.

Very Nice!!!!

looks good!

Very Nice work!!!!!

I have an unbuilt AMT '64 El Camino, which has a 230 6 in it. I may look into having it cast in resin for a van and a pick up project. I am not too crazy about the hole in the block, but it may work. Have you looked at the Chevy 6 that is offered by Replicas and Miniatures Co. of MD? I had one, and it looked very nice.

Another beauty J.C.!!!!!

Lookin' good!!!!

I like this one so far. In the past, I have done a '67 (Ice Blue/White Interior-Mild Custom), and a '70(Triple Black-Replica Stock), and I an restoring a '71 Eldorado Glue-bomb. Sorry I cannot post pics, as photobucket is acting silly.

Mine is still in the box, as it has been too cold to paint until the last few days. It's funny, when I bought the conversion kit, I was gung ho to do the project. It will still get done, as I have a lot invested in this one. I also have an AFX in Scale '69 2 Door Hardtop. A modeling buddy mastered a '69 Corrected front end, which I have yet to compare with the DMold piece. I will let you know when I progress with the project.

A nice job on a rare model.

Very Nice!!!!

I have been trying to insert the pictures of the model in its current state. For some wierd reason, I am not able to get Photobucket to work.

They look good to me!!!

The rally wheel with the short "Disc Brake" cap was standard equipment on the '67 Model year Corvette, as well as any disc brake equipped Chevrolet, which replaced the normally standard wheel covers on the Corvette, and other models with an otherwise standard wheel cover, or the dog dish caps with steelies. The Revell '67 Corvette Fastback has the Rally Wheels, but they do not have the "Disc Brake" styling on the center cap. The Model Car Garage '67 Corvette photoetch set has the wheel centers that has the correct look for the Rally Wheels for any '67 Chevrolet with Rally Wheels, even though the disc brake wording is not on them. The finned aluminum wheels in the Revell Corvette Convertible kit are the optional "Bolt-On wheels, and are correct. On your model, in my opinion, any wheel you choose for the build will be fine. I have built a couple of '67 Corvettes in the past, and either wheel you are showing looks good to me, including the '68 up "Derby" Capped Rally wheel.

Very handsome!!!!

That looks really nice Steve. I have the original annual, and a "Tiger Box" kit, both un-built. After looking at yours, I may have to take the plunge and do one.

I did a ;71 Toronado when it was a new car, and I would love to have it back to re-do. Well, I recently found an unbuilt '72 In my stash, which is on the "to do" list. I thought those cars were so cool.