Jairus

Personally feelings are that the trend generated a lot of interest because it was available to the common man with shallow pockets. Careful spending followed up by artistic assembly resulted in a rod one could be proud of. The flip side were those who "didn't get it" and threw tons of money at the project resulting in "clown rods" with skull air intakes and V-12 tank engines. A proper nostalgia rod is only a few thousand dollars away from being a beautiful street rod. One has to know when to stop, but few do... Is the trend over? Doubtful. A trend that lasts this long tends to fade out slowly. Especially since building one is so easy, provided one has proper restraint. For the trend to be totally over... there has to be one to take it's place and so far the only trend growing right now, according to the latest SEMA pics, is one tipping the scales back to big bucks. (No name for it yet but I call it another run at the phantom craze that swept the hobby back in the 80's)

Received here in Oregon today.

Harry posted #8 right after I posted (#7) that I doubted it was designed by Ray. I made the assumption that Harry was on-track to the context of the subject. Didn't know he was tracking on another course.... Never mind.

Yup... right over your head.....

Yes Erik, and Google was not formed until 1998. Obvious answer is that some un-named artist copied Lowey's style and designed the GOOGLE logo. But it seems to have fooled everyone.

Raymond Lowey died in 1986. The logo says "GOOGLE".... you do the math Harry.

I doubt the "Doodle" was actually from the hand of Ray Loewy.

Welcome to the forum Pat! S.A.B.A. is a great club to join if you want a monthly injection of inspiration. I used to live in Gresham btw.

Price? Of what Harry?

If he were a Gentleman, he'd be opening the door for her.

Frankly, I won't do box art for Trumpeter any more because of the issues. Yeah.... they do try to fix some of the errors.... but so many of them do not get fixed.

One year later... the master modeler (and pretty good picture taker) comes through.

Now THAT is really ol'school and very nice!

Everything but the grill looks GREAT! What is wrong is that you left the grill and headlight doors chrome. They NEVER were chrome, but painted a dark grey called "Argent". The only brightwork should be the badge and the surrounding trim. The rest should be flat black or flat dark grey.

And that one didn't. The change in pitch during acceleration unloaded the forward axle resulting in lots of smoke but no traction. The builder said that adding a pivot between the axles (bogey set up like some diesel trucks have) might have worked better.

Sweet build and I like the posts on the build thread too. You should probably add a link to the first post. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=76757&hl=

If you have to total up the cost.... I humbly suggest you find another hobby. Since I take each task one day at a time and only purchase before the need, I rarely consider the total cost for my hobby including time spent because that is not a hobby. It's a business.

Holy cow!

Well, as you can see I am building a chassis for a Maserati 250f with working steering, out of steel wire and brass plate. 98% of it is totally scratchbuilt and soldered together. Wheels were turned on a lathe by someone else and the tires molded by Monogram. The body is hand carved by me from balsa. Driver will be from Fujimi. Ciao

I agree with Mark. The car fits the movie to a "Tee"! So.... if you don't like it then... what would a "Corvette Summer" car look like TODAY if built by a kid today? (But, one should use some styling queues from the original due to continuity you understand.)

Just for that Mike, I just might do a sketchpad illustration of what one would look like! HA! (Imagine what an older and wiser Mark Hamill/Anne Potts would look like in the car too...)

Build a modern version of "Corvette Summer"?

P.S. ready to go cruising with you.... Not intending to steal this thread.... btw. I simply love the year '58.

Hey, leave me out of this one.... but, that's one fine convertible I would not mind cruising the gut with! Nice job.