polybius

Very nice to see this! Nice job on the build! It reminds me of my great uncle's white '71 LTD 2dr that he kept even after updating to a baby blue '74 2dr. He seemed to like driving both, and seeing your build brings back great memories!

Wow! Beautiful work and nice job with the conversion! One of the first cars I remember riding in as a kid was a maroon '73 Malibu coupe with white vinyl swivel buckets. As the story goes when my mom turned 16 my grandfather let her pick out the next family car, and it was the only one on the lot with an 8-track so that's what she picked. You've so authentically duplicated it right down to those 14" wheel covers. Kudos!!

Very nice build! Is it the AMT '57 Street Machine version that included the C4 wheels? Those kits are hard to find and go for $ if you can find them since they were only released once. Yours looks great!!

Very nice work!

Beautiful work on a rarely seen build of an intimidating kit! Very nice indeed. Inspiring!

Stunning! Very nice work!!

Very nice work! It's frustrating enough to correct the kit's '86 tail lights but doing the conversion for '87 is surely more tricky. Your build looks great!

Very nice! Love it! The '75 along with the erroneous '76 version of this kit are hard to find and expensive so it's great to see one so nicely built.

Beautiful build! It's great to see one done so nicely!

Awesome! I've always wanted to see one nicely built as yours is!! Well done!!

Very nice work! It looks great!

In the mid to late 80s, GM had some seemingly radical concept cars including the Pontiac Banshee, Corvette Indy, and Olds Aerotech. Revell and Monogram tooled them up as kits, and a few years ago I'd finished up a Banshee. This Corvette Indy was next up, and since it's a rather basic kit it shouldn't have taken as long as it did. I'd been back and forth about the color, as there were different iterations of the 1:1 concept car in red, blue, and silver. After hosing the body down in some Tamiya LP-11 silver I was pleased with the choice. The only assembly issue that popped up was with the sequence for the glass, interior, and chassis. Without paying much attention to the instructions, I'd planned to secure the interior into the body and then slip the glass "dome" into position. What I hadn't planned for was discovering it was nearly impossible to simply "slip" the window unit in once the interior was in place. The unit is molded with the partition between the interior and engine bay, so it is actually slotted into the the interior bucket directly under the "basket handle" roof structure. Rather than pulling the very securely glued interior out, I opted to trim the rear partition section of the window unit and managed to slip it in without too much fuss. The silver version of the concept car had clear front and side marker lenses, so I was stumped about how to make them clear without causing a calamity. In hindsight I should have cut out the recessed lens areas on the body and maybe some clear resin or styrene would have worked. It looks at home next to the Banshee on the shelf, and there's an open spot for the Aerotech whenever it makes its way from the project stash. There's a lot of great reference material since the Corvette Indy was covered extensively in the press at the time. Thanks for looking!

This build was recently finished up after marinating for a while on the shelf of stalled projects. The thought of the extensive masking that was needed for all the trim was daunting, but in the end it wasn't as troublesome as feared. The kit is an older tooling from Revell that dates back to the early 80s and has a pretty interesting history of branding and boxing. The only other Mk2 Golf/GTi that I'm familiar with is the Fujimi tooling, and it's definitely different than this Revell tooling. It went together surprisingly easily for the most part. The trickiest part seemed to be the front subframe and engine attachment process. The kit's wheels are base Golf style steelies, and are more fitting on a Mk1 Rabbit diesel than a GTi. I sourced some appropriate GTi wheels from a Fujimi kit, since my plans for the Fujimi kit include an upgrade to some era-spec BBS rims. The Fujimi wheels fit directly on the Revell axle nubs, and required no adjustment at all to get the proper stance and fit. The paint is DupliColor VW Tornado Red followed by Rustoleum clear lacquer. Most of the trim is either MrColor black surfacer or Tamiya semi-gloss black. The interior is basic and the tooling lacks detail, so I didn't detail it much aside from the dash cluster and switchgear. I'm a fan of 80s "pocket rockets" like the GTi, and had owned an '86 GTi 8v for a short while. My '86 was Mars Red, so it was a bit more orange than this darker Tornado Red that I prefer. It brought back memories, and I'm glad it's off the bench and onto the shelf. Thanks for looking!

Very nicely done! The Monogram versions have their own issues but we have to work with what they've tooled over the years. The most amusing one was the Monkees version of the then-new '87 GT vert that had an updated body but retained the '84 chassis, engine, and interior. I hadn't realized the Revell drag version of the LX notch had the stock parts, so that's a great bit of information! It looks like despite the newer Revell being 1/25 and the older Monogram being 1/24 that they look pretty darn close in dimensions. Great work on your build!!

Thanks everyone! I appreciate all the great comments and feedback! It was enough motivation to spend the last few days buttoning up its GT coupe counterpart. I have some ideas in mind for a Cobra coupe project and maybe a Saleen as well. The Pennsylvania State Police confiscated a red '94 Cobra coupe back in the later 90s and decorated it with some decals and lightbar to use for community events and such. A friend who was a trooper at the time had it for a few days, and I might or might not have gone for a ride around the block. The Saleen coupe conversion will be a bit trickier because of the side skirts and different wing options, but it's certainly doable. In the meantime these two will be happy hanging out together on the shelf. Thanks again!