CorvairJim

I've been planning the same build for a while now, adapting the Revell transporter trailer to the modified GMC tractor. I was planning on modifying a pickup body, but I might just go for that resin body instead. My plan revolves around Anchor Motor Freight, which was the company G.M. used in the 60's and 70's. They were painted nearly the same color as the Leaseway rigs above - I wonder if the two companies were somehow related? I want to build the transporter and fill it with a set of various 1969 Chevy models. Thanks, Anton, for the recommendations for the donor chassis.

The only time I'll be seeing Daytona taillights, son, is when I'm coming around again to lap your sorry butt, probably somewhere in Kansas... Seriously, forget about the vent window and go for the aerodynamics of fixed side glass like on a pro mod drag car. You'll have to fab up a window frame to rivet the plexiglass to, but that shouldn't be too tough. On the other hand, it WILL make toll booths harder, unless you have EZ-Pass. Then you just blitz the booth at about a buck ten and dare the smokies to try to catch you!

The Stang's stance is PERFECT... Just watch out for speed bumps, parking stops and driveway curb cuts. That front spoiler looks like it could be in serious danger. Who cares? It looks great!

Here are a few shots I've taken that seem to fit in with this thread. I'll start off with "The Windmill Restaurant" in Morgantown, PA. My wife and I go to visit my elderly parents most Sundays and we end up having dinner at The Windmill fairly often. The vanes on the windmill revolve at about 5 rpm. That's them on their way inside, with my wife's Malibu Maxx in the foreground: This Mack is for sale at a truck repair shop near my folks' retirement community in Honeybrook, PA: A 1956 Buick Super that used to 'live' in my neighborhood. It's tags and inspection were long since expired and it had quite a collection of parking tickets on the windshield last time I saw it anout three years ago: We spotted this '57 Bel Air Sport Coupe slowly returning to nature along Route 611 somewhere north of Easton, PA a few years ago: This 1929 Chevy dump truck was parked in the front line of a used car lot on U.S.Route 30 in Paradise, PA a couple of months ago: Those Edsel pickups earlier in the thread reminded me of this Packard pickup that I shot at The Corvair Ranch in Gettysburg, PA the same day I shot the '29 Chevy tipper: While we're talking about old trucks, how about a 1960's Dodge wrecker?: And finally, one of my old '66 Corvair Monza, which I had to sell about three years ago when we were hurting financially due to this blasted recession. I really miss this car, but I sold it to a good friend who promised me (in writing) the right of first refusal should he ever decide to sell it. This was taken at a roadside ice cream stand near Stroudsburg, PA in the Poconos:

I think my favorite part of this travesty is the blower hat bolted directly to the hood, clearly not through the hood attached to the engine! (It's probably all just to make up for the car only having a V-6, not a Hemi!)

Got a "Smart Phone"? Go to either Michael's or Hobby Lobby's websites on your phone and bring up the coupon. They accept that just like a paper one! I don't think toey'll let you use your phone coupon for "five seperate transactions" at the same time, but I don't see why the bit about going back through the line 5 times wouldn't work.

I finally got around to taking a fer happy snaps of my progress on my "Widebody" mid-engine ZR-1/Corvair. The first couple of shots show the mid-engine chassis with the basic ZR-1 engine/Corvair transaxle assembly mocked in place with a nearly stock Corvair chassis for comparison purposes. That chassis is actually the one for my Flying Tigers Tribute model, and has been shortened 9 scale inches but it's good enough for comparison purposes. I've already installed the basic Corvette front suspension, but I still need to add springs, shocks and an anti-roll bar: Here's the model mocked up as it sits at the moment. It is shown with the wheels from the ZR-1 kit, but I plan on using a set of BBS-style lace spoke wheels on the completed model. The splitter for the front air dam, shown in front of the model, will be installed after the body and chassis are finally assembled, since it'll get in the way of assembly otherwise.:

Welcome aboard, Michael! I'm liking what I see of your 'Stang so far. The body mods are really creative, especially the use of the later Mustang bumper as the front spoiler. I like the way you adapted the later Mustang hood to the earlier body... It looks like it was made for it from the git-go! I'm curious about the pencil outline on the right-side sail panel - is that an idea for a new quarter window? It blends well with the lines of the car and predicts what Ford would do 20 years later on the European Ford Sierra (Merkur XR4Ti here in the states). I guess this makes it official: The old rule about any song only being 'done' once has gone by the boards. Let's see how YOU interpret ANY song that you like, even if someone's done it for this CBP already. Thinking about it, that's the idea of the build anyway: To see how different people interpret what they hear.

This model would fit right in with the "Cars of Rock 'n' Roll and Country Music" CBP that I started last year. The whole focus of that community build is to see how the builder envisions the car/truck in the song. I'd like the builds to be as true to the song lyrics as possible, but if YOU truly see this car as a 1970, not the 1965 that's mentioned in the lyrics, well I guess that's how YOU see it. I want to get other people's impressions of the song cars. For instance, Jantrix did a great job on the "Flatbed Ford" from The Eagles "Take It Easy". I always saw that truck as a kinda beat-up white-and-primer mid-60's model while Jantrix built his as a '34 street rod! I originally said that no song could be done twice and someone has already spoken for "Black Sunshine", but I recently decided to waive that silly rule. Feel free to jump into that CBP with this model.

Let me add my own two cents to this: To me, a REAL CAR is one that isn't built from tubing and carbon fiber with a fully race-prepped engine, and that actually rolled off of a factory production line!

I remember this one clearly enough. My parents both worked in the early 1970's, so we had a housekeeper/babysitter to take care of my brothers and me after school until they got home. For Christmas 1971, she gave me the 1:25 MPC 1972 Corvette coupe (that's back when MPC offered Corvette annuals as both coupes and convertibles in both 1:25 and 1:20 scale!). I had just turned 9 at the time. Over the next month I managed to screw it up pretty badly, but that didn't stop me from being willing to try again when she got me the MPC '73 Camaro for Christmas. That one went together pretty easily with a coat of Testor's gold brush paint on the body and the decals from the '71 'Vette! After that Camaro, I was well and truly hooked and was building at a rate of a couple models a month... until girls and 1:1 cars took over my time a few years later. I still have most of those builds and have plans to rebuild many of them as they should have been built in the first place. At least the ones that aren't too far gone with my youthful attempts at customization, that is. After a hiatus of maybe a decade, my (now ex) wife surprised me by bringing me another model to build, an MPC Fiero (I forget what year that one was). From that point, I've been back at it, and have built probably a hundred models in the past nearly 30 years.

There's nothing I can say that hasn't been said already. Your Camaro is fantastic, and your photography shows it well. Congratulations!

Feel free to jump in any time you're ready, Mike! I always enjoy looking at your builds. (Can we have a hint about what you're thinking of? )

Do you think I could get them to shut down Philadelphia for a few hours so I could go run wild in the streets there? Seriously, this was fun to watch,there's no doubt that Ken Block is a master of car control, but how many hundreds, if not thousands of people were inconvenienced by the filming of this? Closing down the Bay Bridge for how long? Even 15 minutes from set-up to knock-down would cause major traffic tie-ups.

I don't think it's an International, but they could have copied MANY worse-looking grilles than this one. This old roadster is one great looking car!

"Slow and steady wins the race", Dave. Good to hear that you're still here and still hanging in on the build. The original deadline was waived many months ago, so waiving another ground rule won't be any precedent-setting big deal. I'll put you down for the first "Yea" vote.

Glory, Hallelujah! I managed to spend about 3 hours up in my workroom this evening! I'm making strides on my mid-engined, ZR1-powered Corvair. I already had the chassis cut and had the front subframe from the 'Vette spliced into the 'Vair's pan, and had installed a crossmember for the front of the engine. I had to remove the custom crossmember that I had in place for the transaxle mount (too far forward) and fabricate another one. This required doing the basic assembly of the engine and attaching the Corvair's T10-based 4-speed transaxle. After cutting the rear springs one coil and tacking the rear trailing arms in place, I was able to slip the rear axle through the arms and the transaxle to get a read on where the rear transaxle crossmember had to go. I took some measurements and fabbed it up from Evergreen tube stock and some wire-core plastic rod for stiffness and bendability. I know what I want to do as far as hanging the mount from the crossmember goes, based on the original one that I had to remove. While I was at it, I reworked the interior bucket, removing the back seat and most of the package shelf area, just leaving the part that goes around te back - the hinges for the engine lid are attached there, and that section will also conceal the base of the rear window. Hopefully I'll think to shoot a few pictures of my progress tomorrow.

Even though I'm a Chevy man, I've liked the Magnum since it came out. I guess that's because Ilike wagons too, and the more power the better! In my opinion, the Magnum died too soon. You did a great job on this model - the color shift paint worked out real nicely! (I didn't realize RustOleum made a color shift paint! I'll hae to look for it.)

Looks great so far! The flame decals from the kit itself might look pretty good on your pickup, depending on what color you decide on. I've got a 1955 version of this build in the works at the moment myself, but mine is going to be a phantom replica stock version in 150-series trim. I'm even considering going with a straight-6 engine.

You sure like your red Trans Ams, Nick! This one is gonna look real nice parked next to Sammy's car on your shelf. I'll be waiting for you with my mid-engine V-8 Corvair when you arrive in California with your pretty red T/A!

I've been thinking, guys: This CBP has been kind of foundering of late, with only one or two posts per month. What would you think if I were to lift the "One Build Per Song" rule as laid out in the first post? Nick wants to build a car that's already been taken but I haven't seen any progress on in half a year. By now, I'm sure some of you guys have ideas for some of the cars that have already been done, or have even thought "NO! How could he have gotten the idea of that song so entirely WRONG???" So let me know. If there's enough interest one way or the other, I'll happily go with the consensus. If I'm met with a collective yawn, I'll just go with my gut.

One basic problem with your proposal, Nick: The basic guidelines to this CBP as I laid them out in the beginning state that each song is only to be done once. (A quote from the first posting: "HERE'S THE CATCH: There will be only ONE of each car or truck eligible for this Community Build. So if you want to build a Little Deuce Coupe" - Not that that one hasn't been done to death already! - you should probably get your name on it early!") Back on November 24 of last year, 57peppershaker requested that build. I haven't heard from him since, and at the time he didn't have the engine for his Deuce. Get with him; if he's OK with you taking over the song, it's fine with me. After Sammy's Trans Am, I'm looking forward to seeing what you have in mind for The Boss's Ram Rod!

Make it three. I'm always rebuilding old glue bombs and I like showing off the results. My second planned entry for this build, a 1964 Corvair Monza Spyder annual, is temporarily stalled due to other committments (and one bloody hot, non air conditioned workroom!) but it's not too far from completion.

I like where you're going with this. I've done a few car-to-pickup (or flower car, depending on the size and style of the car) conversions in the past, and in fact have a '57 Chrysler 300C in the works at the moment. You might consider entering this one in the "Because We Can" CBP that's based on the theme of these car-based pickups. I don't see why a dedicated flower car wouldn't qualify.

Even though I'm a novice to this sort of thing, might I make a suggestion: Would it be possible to overlook the "Electric Vehicle" aspect of the literal "Car Wars" theme for the sake of this CBP?