CorvairJim

Uh, people? Take a look at the date on the original post... The voting for this contest ended January 11, 2010!

I can say absolutely, positively, and without a doubt in my mind that this is the honest-to-goodness REAL Dodge Deora II Concept Car.

I remember the "Thorndyke Special" well. The car was bright yellow with a broad black stripe in the film.first appeared in Peter Thorndyke's showroom, and Thorndyke himself later used the car in the epic race. It I looked at the Wikipedia article and found that I was at least partially right in my assumptin that it was styled by Bertone, in that ex-Bertone stylist Franco Scaglione did the final styling revisions ont he car.

Chuck, this is my favorite of all of your builds that I've seen so far. You make looking BAD look real GOOD!

Great save, Grzegorz! Rebuilding glue bombs is almost always more satisfying than starting out with brand new parts from a sealed box! I rebuilt an AMT 1970 Camaro annual myself a few years ago.

The 1970-73 Camaro is the best-looking car ever to carry the Camaro name. I don't care whether it's a "Split Bumper" Rally Sport or a standard version, they're just gorgeous cars. You did it proud.

I think I knw the design firm/body manufacturer that did this beauty, and I have a pretty good idea whose name is on the badge, but darned if I can find any reference to it!

But INDIA used to belong to Britain!

I really enjoyed Overhaulin'... back when we had cable. That was one of the first things we got rid of when the economy tanked. My wife and daughter had sent Chip several requests for him to do my '66 Corvair. They figured that, since they had already done an example of every other Chevy available in 1966, they had to do a Corvair to complete the set. It might as well have been mine! Due to the economy and not getting overtime at work, I had to sell the car in 2009.

Ditto...

Isn't that a beauty? I think that Pontiac could have sold a boatload of them, but since so many Pontiac dealers were dualed with GMC, I don't think they would have wanted it to compete with the Caballero. I worked in the body shop of a Pontiac/GMC agency in 1979 and installed Trans Am "Hood Birds" and Trans Am Special Edition-style pinstriping on several Caballeros.

Sounds interesting, but I have a couple of questions... 1) Where do you get an old phone booth? 2) Where do you PUT an old phone booth!?!?!

Good to see that 'm not the only one modifying the heck out of the old Jo-Han Plymouth wagon! I'm building one for the Cannonball CBP with the chassis and drivetrain from the AMT '57 Chrysler 300.

I'm not even a Ford fan and I like this one. I might even be tempted into looking into building my own. Car-trucks like the Ranchero/El Camino/Aussie "Utes" have always appealed to me.

I built a '77 Firebird Esprit out of a Monogram '78 Trans Am t the request of an on-line friend as a surprise gift for her father who owned the 1:1 car when he and her mother were first married. I offered to do it at cost, but she was so pleased with the result when she got the model in the mail that she paid me $50 over the agreed-upon price. Still, I got the most satisfaction out of 1) building as exact a replica of the car that I could from just a single, slight;y grainy photo and 2) seeing the look on the man's face in the photos she posted of him opening his gift.

I plan to be there and bring some of my models. I'm nowhere near as good as many of the guys on here, but that's not the point as far as I'm concerned. See you there!

Diggin' the Corvair mill, man!

Just out of curiousity, I went over to the emodelcars website to see what it was all about and try to register. The good news is that registration was a snap... The bad news is that theuy have exactly eight items listed! EIGHT! Seriously folks, what good is an auction site with so few items available? Still, I did leave a question for a guy offering a resin-cast, twin-Judson-supercharged Olds V-8 from the 1964-65 Cutlass annual.

I recently saw a Crosley-powered quarter midget at a car show, and I know of a couple of Mazda Wankel-powered Austin Healey Sprites, so if you can imagine it, go for it! Sure, it might not be legal for racing, technically speaking, but why let that stop you? And then you could stuff the RX-7 full of a turbocharged Chevy small block and have TWO unusual models!

I simply can't afford the prices most "New-In-The-Box" vintage kits demand nowadays, but I really enjoy rebuilding old built-ups and glue bombs. Sometimes I really enjoy the challenge of fixing some misguided kid's mistakes from 40-50 years ago. Like Chuck commented above, it's possible to build an old model today to a level not imagined back when the things were originally made. I have about a dozen rebuilt/restored models on my shelves, and at least 2 DOZEN Corvair annual models of various years already disassembled and stripped, patiently waiting their turn to be restored. Since I can get rebuiildable annuals on eBay/Craigslist or at model swap meets sometimes for less than the price of a new modern kit, I'm set!

What the heck. I'm not 100% certain about this one, so I'm going with my gut and bucking the trend... REAL!

Not that it's my CBP, but if it were, I'd say it just gives you the pole at the start! Getting across the country is another thing entirely...

Turns out the street rod I was thinking of was a 1939 model, not a '38:

Now all you need is a "Custom Continental" to go with it!

I got it right off. There's a great street rod in my area based on this car.