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CorvairJim

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  1. Well, since I've been meaning to replicate my beloved (former) 1966 Corvair Monza coupe in scale anyhow, and my wife and I ran several TSD Rallies and EconoRuns with it over the 7 years we owned it. The car was pretty well modified mechanically, putting over 220 h.p. to the wheels from a 164 c.i.d. engine with a .040 overbore, bigger valves and 4 bigger single-barrel carbs, a hotter cam and low-restriction intake and exhaust. The suspension was lowered about 1" all around and had adjustable gas shocks and poly bushings. It was a real screamer that surprised many an unsuspecting 5.0 Mustang in a straight line and more than a few BMW's in the twisties... I'll get going on it as soon as I have a couple of models on my work table out of the way. I'll scratch up a clipboard and handheld stopwatch to go in it, along with the number placard that the car wore in all of the moving events at the 2003 Corvair Society of America National Convention. We ran mid-pack in the rally, 2nd in class in the EconoRun, I ran 3rd in my class in the Autocross and my wife was 5th in hers.) Can anyone recommend a good source for something that comes close to 1966 Chevy "Lemonwood Yellow" in a rattle can? It looked nothing like a drift car. It actually looked basically stock if you overlooked the slightly wider-than-stock tires and the almost unnoticibly lower ride height. Since Corvairs ride pretty low already, an additional 1" drop didn't raise too many eyebrows.
  2. Glad I could help, and I'm glad you took my comment in the spirit in which it was intended. It's a big block Chevy; of course it has balls and there's no reason not to advertise the fact.
  3. This is turning out to be a real looker. It kind of reminds me of the 1947 Hudson Coupe Pickups. Any idea of a color for it - I think the gold that was on it already would look great. I did a 1940 Ford "Ranchero", based on the AMT Sedan Delivery kit many years ago, in maroon with black fenders.
  4. VERY cool. I started a conversion like this on one of those shortly after the model came out, but I never got around to finishing it. I don't know right offhand where it got to. Anyhow, welcome to the "Longroof Family", Zenrat! It looks like a 1-2-3 sweep for us out in Long Beach... with my ol' Hemi Plymouth leading the way, of course!
  5. Just one question: I've participated in several low-key Time-Speed-Distance and "Scavenger Hunt" rallys in conjunction with local and national Corvair clubs I belong to. I did these in ordinary, mainly stock Chevrolet Corvairs, with the aid of nothing more than a navigator (in one case my then 11 year old daughter - we finished in the top 1/4 of the field and it was her first time navigating in any rally!) with a stopwatch and a clipboard. Would a replica of one of the cars I drove in one of these be eligible? I realize that you're aiming this at primarily Pro Rally-type cars, but this kind of grassroots rally has a following too. If you don't consider this type of thing in keeping with your theme, no problem. Just thought I'd ask.
  6. Yeah, I thought so. Once again, nice work!
  7. Well, it isn't that some fool let a perfectly good GTO go so badly to pot! Knowing your fine model work, I got it.
  8. We're coming into the home stretch with this one now. The interior is done, with the molded-in pedals gone and new ones suspended under the dash, along with a dimmer switch. The homemade base Firebird wheel is in place. I put the glass in it this afternoon, followed up by the homomade dome light and sun visors (withthe driver's side visor folded down) I had to rework the wheels, since I'm using the tires and wheel fronts from the Monogram '69 GTO Judge, but the wheel backs from the Firebird kit. Those backs are too shallow for the tires and not quite as bug around as they need to be. I had to add a spacer between the wheel halves to get them to the right width and to trap the axle keeper between them so that the wheels didn't flop around. The finishing touch to the tires is a set of Shabo dry transfer Goodyear lettering.
  9. Hey, wait just a doggone second here! A stock Chevy Stovebolt had the ponies, and DEFINITELY the torque, on a Ford flattie, and a modded Chevy would have the legs on an equally modded flathead. Let's get our facts straight here. Total cylinders, and the hype that goes along with them, don't mean squat in the real world! Overhead valves, which the Chevy straight-6 had at it's debut in 1929, made all the difference over Ford's flathead design, which was already outdated when it came out in 1932. The bottom line: Chevys were faster then, and they're still faster today. End of story. (But your model still looks great! I like where you're going with the body! I'm a real fan of "Fadeaway" fenders. )
  10. FYI: Just filling the trim opening in the SS427 hood doesn't make it identical the the standard Impala hood. The whole center bulge would have to go away, leaving just a center ridge.
  11. Forvevr THE MAN, Forever a fan!
  12. Of course you won't have access to the Internet during the 1962 Cannonball: Al Gore didn't invent the Internet until 1969!
  13. Sad to say it was sheer laziness. I was tired and just wanted to get something accomplished on it that evening before turning in for the night. Fortunately it isn't quite as noticible in person. They say the camera adds 10 lbs; I've noticed that it seems to exaggerate ALL flaws!
  14. This 1961Mitsubishi 500 had me going for a while too:
  15. Now the 2005 model......that should be made by Pixar Studios... AWWWWWW!!! It's so CUTE!!! (Sorry I couldn't figure out how to get the quote function to only copy the one image, Mike, so here's the credit to your sleuthing for this pic. You're right, this one should have been a reporter in "Cars 2".)
  16. I forget what it was that inspired me to start this build a year or so ago. I started off by cutting off the roof of a coupe and shortening the body about 9 scale inches behind the doors, making it into a 2-seater. I intentionally made no provision for a convertible top. (It started off as a rat rod project but I got sidetracked along the way!) Anyhow, I finally got the decals I needed for the build, which got me going on it again. I had the interior components pretty much ready to paint and install, but in the year it was dormant, the reworked instrument panel, control yoke, and the control stick shift lever all managed to disappear! At least I know where the cut-down interior bucket and chassis plate, and the replica WW II bomber seats were. This evening, I got started on redoing the missing interior components. The "Control Yoke", cut down from the 1969 Corvair kit's steering wheel, and the new instrument panel overlay: The new instrument panel, drilled out for it's gauges and switches, mocked up in the "fuselage", along with the "control yoke". The panel will eventually be faired into the top of the dashboard: And finally, a beauty shot of the "nose":
  17. Bill, the "Tugamypudin" corporation bought the body and trim dies from Dunderpoop after they ceased production in the early 60's. All Dunderpoops were right-hand drive, but everybody knows that all Tugamypudins had LEFT hand drive! (Matt, EVERYBODY is from "the other side" of one "pond" or another to someone else somewhere: To someoine in Vermont, you folks in Nebraska are on the other side of the Great Lakes!)
  18. Well, DUH! Whaddaya think the "C" in "GTC" stands for? You're thinking of the 1955 model, and this is clearly a 1956! You gotta look at ALL the details when you're identifying a classic Dunderpoop! The "Cloud-O-Fog" hood ornament wasn't even available in '55...
  19. I've got a 171 h.p. 2.4L twincam Ecotec inline-4 hooked up to a Getrag 5-speed in my '06 Cobalt SS. My old '66 Corvair Monza had it's 164 c.i.d. horizontally-opposed six (factory rated at 140 h.p. gross) taken out .040, compression bumped up to 11:1, a mid-race cam, bigger valves, low restriction intake and exhaust, all 4 carbs bigger than stock, and it put over 220 h.p. to the road... With a 3.89:1 Posi rear, 5.0 Mustangs beware!
  20. I paid something like $350 for over 100 kits (running anywhere from sealed to almost completed), 3 or 4 dozen builtups needing work that were generally too nice to be called glue bombs, a model box full of tires (about 10 lbs of 'em, including a couple dozen vintage whitewalls and redlines!), another model box full of various paints, a cigar box full of various decals, and plenty more. I managed to get everything into the Chevy Beretta I had at the time to get it home, but it took the whole trunk and the back seat loaded to the roof to do it. Much of the build I'm planning for this CBP will come from this collection.
  21. Darn it, I'd love to get in on this one, but money and space to park it once it's done make it really unlikely that I'll ever build one. Even with the suggestion of the 1/32 kit, I like to keep to 1:24/1:25, so a 1:32 bus won't look right on the shelf with my other builds.
  22. Yeah, Chris, but to finish ahead of my Mighty Mopar, first you have to CATCH it... and we both know that ain't likely!
  23. Just my two cents worth, but I like it. Sure, there are a couple of things I would have done differently if it were my build... but it isn't MINE, it's Chris's. My only real problem with it is that the stripes are about 4" scale too far back for a stock build but then, this ISN'T a stock build, now is it? I'm more old school as far as rolling stock goes, but these don't look nearly as "wrong" as many that I've seen on GTO's (We have a purple one in my area jacked up, "Donk"-style, on rims that have to be at least 26"!) In fact, after going back for another look-see at the model, I kinda LIKE em'! That engine room looks great, and I like the black-out trim around the windows too. I think I would have done the rear bumper in body color to go along with the Endura front bumper - all that black out back just looks a little heavy-handed to me. Still, it looks like one great Goat to me!
  24. Hey! I didn't realize you'd moved to Oz! I've used lots of the stuff and swapped a lot more of it for stuff I wanted more... At a huge profit, I might add!
  25. Good to see someone agrees with my assessment that a high performance longroof is the way to go on this one, for the same reasons I had! Looks to me like it's gonna be a Hemi-Fury Suburban/Lincoln-56 Ford S-D 1-2 finish this year! Is that how it looks to you, Chris?
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