ScrappyJ

Very cool!

I appreciate the kind words on the Ghia! I love the pro-touring/G-machine genre and have seen the Vette before in several publications. This is a difficult one to capture because of the various styling ques, but you are nailing it and doing good justice to a worth-while project. While my project has porsche power in a Ghia, in the real world, your project would still smoke mine, LOL.

Very cool project, Ken! I love the front end treatment too!

Thanks for the continued kind and encouraging words, Gents! I did get the front spindles and the rear axle housing done. Unfortunately, I think I have to redo the driver's side front spindle as it is a little off and the car is like a trike right now (but hey, at least I don't have zooming muffles jacking my car up). I thought I would have some good time to work this weekend (it being a 3-day weekend and all), but there is a mustang show in town and one of my friends from STT wants to go. For most that know me, I am more of a bow-tie guy and not a huge fan of the blue oval. [ Sitting on all fours: This will likely be it in term of the quantity of updates for a while.

LOL! Not really, Bill. A lot of this has been done in the last month or so, just haven't been able to get to posting pics.

Thanks, George! MCM did a feature, but not Scale Auto.

Definitely glad that you're back on this one, Sherm! Every time I see that motor, I forget that it isn't 1:1. Can't wait to see more.

Getting ready for the spindles a and axle housings for the rear:

That is a really cool idea and you're off to a great start, Pat! I think you're nailing it right on. Love the bumpers, exhaust and the way it sits.

Very nice and meticulous work you've got going there, Brizio!

Nice work so far, Derrick!

Here are pictures of e upper and lower control/A-arms mounted: The aluminum tube in the last picture is to set the proper distance between the arm attachment points. Then a pin is slid through the two brass pieces, as well as the aluminum piece and should be pretty straight and makes soldering a little easier. The way it was supposed to sit:

Nice! Looks like something I wouldn't mind driving down the boulevard.

Very, very nice work, Mitchell!

Very nice, Tom!

Very nice, Ira!

Thanks, Gents!!! I really appreciate the kind words! I can't find one of the resin plugs I used to make e tires, but I do have one of another tire I did. In the pictures, you will see what seems to be a plug and that is pretty much what it is. I basically machined a plug so that I could slide the tire onto, then once I pulled the resin out, it gave me material to clamp in the three-jaw chuck, in the lathe. Despite my best efforts to have the tire on the plug and trued, it still wobbled once I took it out of the mold. What I didn't realize until later, is that I could chuck in with the tire in the chuck, true the plug part and then reverse it back to machine it. The other thing I realized is that the tires aren't perfectly round either, so once you have the pieces to glue and piece the tire back together for the master, I couldn't get it exactly now I wanted it (good enough for gov't work, though):

I've been following this one and have to say that I really like the whole thing (from concept to execution). Great job, Ira!

Cool build, Bill! I might need to get me one of these too. I bought the notchback from them, but my work room is so cluttered, I can't even find it. You always have a way with these VW builds, but then the "empinut" name would suggest you would .

Very cool!

Yeah...that looks good too. I agree that this style fits your project better.

Very nice project, Shane! I like the color (my favorite) and the stance is right on point too. Everything about this project is cool.

The tires came from a Maitso diecast notchback, but they were a little skinny, so I widened them. I had to cast the tires in resin so that I could widen them and then had to recast then back into rubber (I use a product from Reynolds called Task 14 and it comes out more "rubbery" than most kit tires). In order to get them done, i had to cast two separate molds (the first to make it in resin and then the second for the master). The original mold had he tires set in a plug that I can use to chuck-up in the lathe and machine the tire and separate each half. It wasn't until i was too deep into it that i realized I should have cast three molds (two for the resin tire since it is directional). Here are pics of the masters once I widened (the center is just some type of butyrate plastic I had bought from Small Parts, Inc. and machined to the proper ID and OD: Here are masters for the censors of the Fuchs wheels that I also got from the Maitso diecast: And then the wheels (machined outer and inner sleeves, with cast centers) and cast tires: I'll try taking some pics later of the resin plug I used for one of the tires and also put the originals next to the new ones for comparative purpose.

Thanks for the kind words, Mr. Bob!

Very nice work so far!