CorvairJim

Have you tried the old freezer trick to get the seats out of the interior bucket? Just stick it in the freezer for a few hours, then dip it in hot water. This causes the glue to fracture and the seats should come right out. If you can find that " that creamy yellow" in a rattle can, let me know! I've been looking for it for about 8 years now to replicate my '66 Corvair Monza. 1965 Butternut Yellow and 1966 Lemonwood Yellow (Chevy's names, Pontiac had the same colors under different names) are so close you have to park them side by side to tell which is which - Butternut is slightly 'yellower', while Lemonwood is paler.

Darrin: The "Chevy Van" looks fantastic! so far. You're a lot closer to being done than I am. So, are you thinking some groovy murals on that bad boy? Manuel: Yeah, I did a little personal research into that, and found the info that was given on here wasn't right. I didn't want to make a big thing about it at the time, but thanks for setting the "record" straight . Just running Survivor's "Eye Of The Tiger" through in my mind, I can definitely hear the voice. It would have been nice if Ides Of March had charted with more songs. "Vehicle" shows the kind of potential they had. Here's a link to the band's Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia...._of_March_(band)

But did anyone ELSE get the 1959-61 Jaguar Mark IX on the trailer in the background???

It's YOUR model, so YOU do with it whatever makes YOU happy! Personally I think it's pretty cool as it sits, sort of like a model car barn find. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find another '40 coupe if you wanted to do one your own way, even replicate what this one would have looked like when it was first built, if it had been built right. I enjoy rebuilding glue bombs myself, but I have several on display that I thought were just nice examples of what was the state of the hobby from back in the day. I only re-do the really bad ones!

Pretty cool (although I agree with what Andrew said about the 'music'... I muted it after about 10 seconds). Too bad about a '70 SS454 being too far gone to save and being sent to the crusher... on top of a GTO, no less!

This model takes me back to my high school days, before I got into small cars in general and Corvairs in particular... A black 1973-77 Monte Carlo was my dream car. I wanted the same basic car but with tan trim instead of the red (and after looking at your model, I'm beginning to think I was wrong), with those white letter tires wrapped around Chevy Rally wheels instead of your chrome jobs. I agree with Andy above - yours is the best example of this model I've seen so far.

I agree with Robert, but I reserve the right to demand equal time for the "Bowtie Brigade: How about stuffing the Supra kit full of CHEVY POWER???

What really caught my eye about this photo is the way it's laid out with the big ol' sedan in the background. Notice the styling similarities between the two cars - the swept fenders, the continuous curve along the top of the side glass, the slightly bulged-out trunk - that the photographer was trying to play up. This is NOT a hint, since the two cars may or may not have anything at all to do with each other (even though I DO know what both cars are... ). I just thought the layout was pretty cool.

It sure is, and I don't even like Mustangs!

The '55 is looking great, but I can imagine it will be a chore to drive cross country with it's evil handling and mind-numbing noise! I guess if James Taylor and Dennis Wilson could do it, you can too... At least it'll keep the driver awake, and the navigator too, for that matter! Definitely a white-knuckle ride. I still think a relatively quiet, ordinary-looking station wagon with a police-spec suspension and drivetrain, and plenty of stretch-out room for a 3-person team so there's always a co-driver rested and ready to go is the way to go in this race!

Having seen a few of your other similar builds, I've been following this one from Day One. Now you've gone and done it! You've got me thinking about doing the same thing to a Corvair! The fenders from the same Camaro, same basic shortening treatment to the body (with a possible windshield chop as well, laving the roof stock height toward the back), a blown Zinger V-8 out back, etc, etc...

I know how that is. As soon as I lifted the deadline from this CBP, all the other ones WITH deadlines seemed to take precedence! I have at least half a dozen other CBP's I'm building for myself too.

The '77 Firebird Esprit conversion I was building for a friend is done and I'm back on the "Little Old Lady" Dodge full-time now. The body is red and polished out , the engine is nearly completed, the interior IS completed, and the chassis is well on it's way. (I'm considering the crazy thought of using the Jo-Han '64 Polara 500 body instead, just to be different, if the Lindberg 330 interior will fit right. I don't want to use the crude Jo-Han interior. I have photos of one of five Super Stock '64 Polara 500's out of 153 Super Stock cars Dodge built for 1964, and it's shiny and RED!), I hope to get some photos posted soon. How is everyone else doing? Any updates?

Oh come on, Chuck! I used to have a fantastic '73 Chevelle Laguna wagon, and I thought it was a pretty darn good-looking car! With a worked 4-barrel 400 SBC with dual exhaust and a TH400 with a 2,000 stall converter and a shift kit it was the fastest grocery-getter in the neighborhood. We're talking 13 second 1/4 mile times on pump gas at over 100 mph. BTW: This was our family car at the time, and those speeds were recorded with two (empty!) child seats strapped into the back seat!

Heck, I don't even like Mustangs and I like this one! It's tough to chop a fastback properly (I once did an AMT '51 Chevy), and your 'Stang looks spot-on to me. The rest of the bodywork looks just as good. Keep it going!

Fine work as always, Chuck!

Now all you have to do is post these photos in the "Glue Bomb" CBP Forum! This beauty NEEDS to be seen by the other guys involved in that one.

I gotta do something like this some day. Your model reminds me so much of the 1:1 427-powered1969 Kingswood Estate my folks had when I was a kid. That thing was the ultimate sleeper! (I already have a 1:25 1965 Z-16 Chevelle wagon in my collection... )

I have several, mostly rescued Glue Bombs. The first is my Phantom 1967 Corvair Yenko Stinger convertible (All Stinger convertibles were '66 models. There's some discussion as to the actual number - somewhere between 5 and 10. The 1966 Stingers were white with blue stripes, while most 67's were blue with white stripes.) This one was a '66 annual that was a real mess when I first got it. I thought that it looked sort of like those old, used-up cars that you occasionally see some optimistic guy trying to sell in his front yard. Light bulb time! I decided to actually "Restore" it to that appearance. It turned out to have a nearly perfect body, but I was so psyched about the idea that I trashed the body for the build, perforating the body with rust as well as various other damage. This model was an absolute BLAST to build! AMT 1965 Corvair Corsa annual - Before... During... And after being transformed into a replica of my first 1:1 Corvair, a Monza Sport Coupe: AMT's 1970 Camaro annual. I got this one partially assembled and badly painted: AMT '65 Chevelle wagon/Monogram Z16 kitbash:

I just watched the video. Funny, I thought it was Mickey that drove it in the race. I guess those Brits are just better road racers than us Yanks! As to the prior comment about (just another old, used race car" and it's value today, that's just what it was back then. The Daytona coupe was obsolete and nobody really held onto obsolete race cars back then. My brother-in-law used to be the pattern photographer for The Franklin Mint, and he's been to the Petty race shops in N.C. several times. When there, he noticed maybe 20 old #43 stock cars just parked out behind the shop in the weeds, slowly rotting away. We're talking cars dating back into the 60's, and this was in the 80's and 90's. (What am I bid for a "Rougn 'n' Rusty", but restorable, one-owner 1972 STP Charger ? )

The Magic 8-Ball says "REAL"...

Darn it - Skunked again!

Maybe easy for you, but all I see is a reasonably pleasant looking generic early 1930's coupe. I want to say it's something from some G.M. division, but I sure as beck cam't find it!

This thing is looking great! Looks to me like something that Plymouth really could have sold back in the day.

Ron: Do a search for your car on Google Images. You'll get a good idea of what colors were available and how they were laid out. That's what I did for my wagon and it was a huge help. I'm thinking a gold/white two tone with a gold-tone interior for mine. When I say "Gold Tone", I mean that the interior has different shades of gold, tan, beige, and off-white. Definitely more interesting than todays expanses of black or gray plastic and vinyl!