Hairy Dude
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Yenko produced the 427 Nova in 1969 only. There were around thirty built with only seven or eight that are accounted for today. This is the very first one produced.
This 1969 Yenko Nova was a car described by Don Yenko in one of his last interviews as “a beast, almost lethal, a car that they should not have produced; as they were skirting the edge of product liability when they built this car”. The Nova was not a COPO high performance 427 motor from the factory. It was built with a transplanted 427 motor as Yenko did with the 1967 and 1968 Camaros.
Although GM put factory 427s in Camaro’s and Chevelles, it is known that the GM factory apparently would not put a COPO 427 motor in a Nova. Why not? The most obvious reason would be just as Don Yenko describes himself; using the word “lethal”, and a matter of liability. The body weight of the Nova was less than that of a Corvette. Stuffing a high performance L72 427 Corvette motor in a car of less body weight certainly had to result in tire-smoking performance
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todays work
Cheers,
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Better pictures when primered!
it was a PITA to get those decals on
Bye,
Richard.
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i will give sandpaper a try but when it doesn't work, i just scratch a new one.
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Sorry, didn't quite copy that.
If you meant the front clip, then it's out of the box but if u meant front splitter, it's just evergreen styrene cutted to right shape
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Few normal quality pictures too.
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Thanks Jim.
And I just realized today that my kid days are about over
I may have to grow older, but I never have to grow up!
WORD UP, BRO!
, and happy birthday afterwards
Very, very nice Dart! Gotta love those purple headlights
Best wishes,
Richard
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Going with the BBS's i think
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I need help guys, i want to do the legendery 426 HEMI detailed but i dont know alot about engines, especially about HEMI's...
...plugs or pipes connect into those things ive show'n with red arrows? and where do they go? I know they go somewhere underneath the air filter but i've never seen a hemi with my own eye and i think ive never seen a picture without air filter too...
I can say that i hate wiring V8's
This picture show's the color of wheel centre's so good...
Just a bad picture.
Sorry if my english isn't the best, not from a countrey where we speak english
Bye,
Richard.
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It's a manly car you know
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Now i know how to do it. Didn't see the " full editor " thingie before, thanks and you will see updates on Challenger soon!
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Got started with another project. 67 Corvette C2, going to be racing style too. Could anybody change the title of the topic to Challenger T/A & Corvette '67, please.
Bye,
Richard.
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Hahaha, thanks guys,it will have camber but not as much as on the picture. I am trying to get the look of
and this
melted together but it will be sitting very low!
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Got inspiration and started on it again, body went through brake fluid, got new rims for it ( Cragar S/S with some Goodyear tires )
Today, i finished the interior, it's modificated for racing. I tried some techniques for making a real welding but they got too big, now i know how to make good welds...
I am not going to reveal the body color yet but it's going to be something beautiful ( atleast for me
:D ) Bye,
Richard.
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It is an Revell GTX 2n1 kit, and yes, those rims are included in the kit. i will post pictures of details soon!
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Bye
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These rims are not from a kit, they're bought separetly. They're Aoshima's BBS LM 20". Aoshima has got some kits which include these rims but i cant name them at the moment.
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This is a car that i really love, for me, it's a symbol of car's. It's my beast. Until i can't own the real one, i have to own it as a model.
I painted it metallic blue, needs one more coat and then lacquer, got these wheels from Japan and they fit so good in my opinion so those will stay!
Engine is 426 HEMI with SIX-PAK carburetor or with weber carburetor's, havent decided yet. I didnt like the front lip which was in 2 pieces so i glued a bigger piece of plastic on them, now it looks perfect to me. In future, i will get a Cuda, so i could have 2 brothers sitting side by side.
Richard.
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Thank you Ian!
Yes, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are all beautiful places to live. About the model, i cant wait my Challenger to arrive so i took 440 engine from my parts bin and installed it there. I also found wheels under the Bee, they're Hasegawa's Ferrari 328GTB wheels, center's painted black.
Cya, Richard.
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TIME FOR REBUILD!!! Will have a 380 sixpack engine with supercharger, probably will have BBS LM's under it and black paint, no chrome, interior will have details and i'll probably cut the trunk open
I have already finished the grille, i cut the original lights out because they we're molded in, put some styrene behind the holes and painted it all matte black, then added some light glasses too!
Greeting from Estonia!
Richard,
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Finnaly, after along time being in the box and waiting to get assembled, it's ready! Was fantastic kit to me, not too hard and not too easy
. Just a mather of time until i get one of those again . The hood is opened and it will be on a diorama. Diorama will be kinda junkyard or something like that
Here you can see that the hood is not painted well,
Undercarriage, i changed the exhaust.
Mud, i wanted to do rust but it accidentaly looked more like mud
Too sparkwires missing, will have a 1/24 scale people next to it repairing the car
More pictures when i get better camera
Bye, Richard!
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Thank you! Yes, i like Mopar's very much, at some time i was thinking building only mopar models
Ive seen your Bee's too, they look very awesome, good luck to you with them ! It's only matter of time to me buying few more of those bee's. Bye!
they look so ###### perfect for this car....
Yenko Nova
in WIP: Model Cars
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got some work done, gotta repair some places on the engine