CorvairJim

Definitely "Gaposis", since Gapitis" would mean oversized gaps! A few of these gaps just look too tight to me, and the one at the top of the front bumper isn't even stright (Look around the front doghouse latch in front of the front wheel). Between that gap, the lack of weight on the tires, and a couple of other things just not quite loking "Right" to my eye, I'm going with MODEL on this guy.

Well, Niko, I guess you COULD interpret it as a guy buying a "Brand New 409" engine over the counter and installing it in his '32 Ford hot rod, but I've always thought he was meaning he bought the whole car from his local Chevy dealer. (To me, it was always a dark blue '62 Bel Air bubbletop.) Hey, personal interpretation is what his build is all about, so what the heck, go for it!

Over a decade ago, I built a mid-engine, 12-cylinder Corvair "Speedster". The look seems to work well with lots of different body styles, especially for drag models, even though mine was built more as a LeMans-type endurance sports racer. I'll see if I can post some photos later on if you like.

This beast is coming along great! I've been following it from the bleachers since you began, and your inmagination has been inspirational. You've got me thinking along the lines of an 8-wheel (12-wheel?) early-50's Chevy COE car hauler now... Chopped, dropped, channeled, etc, of course! Keep up the good work and keep those happy snaps coming!

Definitely not a Buick. This old guy's from a few years before Buick first added "VentiPorts". (But I DO know what it is! )

Wow. It's been nearly a month since anybody posted to this CBP. Is anybody still out there? I finally have the Little Old Lady's Dodge in paint, and the interior is nearly complete, but with other commitments I still have a ways to go on it otherwise. On a lighter note, I've been thinking about a side project to go along with this one. The song? "The Little Old Lady From Pascagoula"! Never heard of the song? Here's a taste of the lyrics: Well the Little Old Lady from Pascagoula, Lives in a tumble-down 40-footer, And parked in her muddy old weed-choked yard, Is a dented-up, rusted-out, primer-gray Ford... Ane everybody says there's nobody cooler, Than the Little Old Lady from Pascagoula, She drives through the mud and she drives over rocks, or she did until her four-by-four went up on blocks, She's THE LITTLE OLD LADY FROM PASCAGOULA!

I spent some quality time this evening on my long-delayed '65 Corvair annual rebuild. The body is just about finished now. The sheet of BMF I'm working with is pure GARBAGE! I wound up touching up the areas where it just wouldn't stick with silver paint. The interior is completed and ready to go in after the glue holding the glass in sets up. (Note to self: In the future, add the sun visors AFTER the windshield is in place! ) I got frustrated with the spark plug wires too, so it won't be wired. Oh well. I've detail painted the 1965 front plate and added a replica of the actual plate the 1:1 car had on it when I owned it on the back. Now I just need to dig up a couple of correct wheel covers from my spares, scuff up some nearly 50 year old whitewalls, and do the final assembly. I have some more photos of the progress, but I haven't had the time to put them into the computer, much less post them to my Photobucket to put them up on here. We go on vacation in a week, so hopefully I'll put in a couple of evenings on it before we go away and get it posted by then.

Hmmm... "vairman"... A kindred spirit, maybe?

This is one fantastic build! I'm enjoying the heck out of it. (and it's not even Corvair powered... )

"Corvair motor"? I like the way this is going! The "Blueprinter" engine set has a Corvair engine with the factory turbo setup, but a pair of 3-barrel Webers would look great on it too!

I could see the hatch area opening like on the late, lamented Dodge Magnum. Just cut it back into the roof a tad at a straight line past the crown of the window. Use the top of the bumper as the base of the hatch, like the decklid of the 1:1 coupe did.

"Full Classic car nut" - Yes. "Screaming like a little girl" - No. Even if this were a 1:1 car, I figure if a guy holds the title to it, he's free to do whatever he wants with it, even if it obliterates it's value! This model is outrageously cool. It's great that he can build in plastic what no sane car buff would build on an original million dollar + car (assuming the original was even in restorable condition). I was at an NSRA show in York, PA a few years ago, and there were, by my count, five "Full Classics" there that had been rodded. In talking to the owners of three of them, they were all pretty badly gone when they first bought them (one was given to the owner!), so the way I look at it, rodding them saved them from just slowly rotting away to nothing.

Hey Chuck: If you hit it with some Chromallusion or some other color-shift paint, you could call it the "Rainbow Trout"! (Actually, with that body's curves, color-shift paint would look great on it!)

We've all been there, Todd, and we all hate it when it happens. All you can do is do it again and make it even better next time. Just treat the first go-round as practice! I'm in the middle of redoing a 1964 Corvair annual for the "Glue Bomb" CBP, and the clearcoat made the white color coat look flourescent yellow! OK, I like yellow (the best 1:1 Corvair I ever owned was yellow), but this is supposed to be a replica of a friend's 1:1 car, so yellow just won't work. My usual stripper, Royal Purple, wasn't touching it, even after a couple of weeks. I made a real mess of it trying to scrape it off with my fingernails, which left some nice gouges in the paint which I was afraid to try to sand out of it. A couple of days in brake fluid, and a busted windshield frame later, and it was back to the workbench for it.

Chuck: I am SO looking forward to seeing this "Bathtub" tubbed out! With Halloween only a little more than a month away, may I suggest the name "Monster Nash"?

I haven't given up guessing - yet - so this time around I'm guesing MODEL for the reasons others have already given. Personally, I think the countertop is marble, but at first I took it for granite too!

What a beauty! I love all the underhood details. This model inspires me to post some pix of the phantom '65 Chevelle Z16 wagon I built a few years back. It's roughly the opposite in concept to this one - This is a low-horse cruiser with appearance mods while mine is meant to look factory stock with all the go-fast goodies the factory could have equipped the car with. The body and basic interior are from one of the many reissues of the AMT '65 Chevelle wagon, while much of the remainder is from the Revellogram '65 Chevelle Z-16. I even used the front bench seat from the wagon kit (in modified form) to add a rear-facing 3rd seat, which was not available from Chevrolet in the car at all in 1965, just as a "Gotcha"! For mine to look anything like this good, I'll have to do some MAJOR work in the engine bay at the very least!

Great build! I'd like to do something like this with a Corvair Rampside pickup if I could get my hands on a decent one. Too bad there was never a decent one made! Premier did a Rampside in about 1:30 scale back in the mid-60's, but it was one really rough puppy! Still, those kits are the "Holy Grail" of Corvair models. (I thought that the chain saws looked pretty good without paint. With paint it "STIHL" looks good! )

I think I see one of these in my future. It definitely looks small enough to be pulled by a Corvair!

I love it, even though it IS a "Water-Pumper" now. If ol' Ralphie were dead, he'd be spinning in his grave right about now...

With your project's name, you have to know I'm going to be following this one! (I built a Demolition Derby Corvair for a CBP on here a few months ago named "Nader's Nightmare"! )

Goin' with the flow on this one - MODEL! ("Bet the ranch but not the dog"!)

Great build! I'm a wagon guy from way back, and I've done a couple of transformations like this in the past too, but now you've inspired me to do a conversion like this using the Nomad roof on a '49-'54 Chevy coupe. With the exception of the rear fenderline, I'll be borrowing liberally from your design - slender, sloping pillars, for instance, and a tailgate with the same angle and in the same plane as the back glass. Unfortunately, my "To Build" list is a couple of dozen models long at the moment, so it may be a few years before I get around to it!

That's one sharp looking Esprit! I never think of these cars in black, but it really looks good on it, especially contrasted with the white interior.

Yep, Niko, that's the car I had in mind for my build. Now picture a teenage girl in "Daisy Duke" cutoffs and a tank top sitting with her legs over the side of the fender, leaning back on her arms, maybe with a can of beer sitting on the hood next to her and a few friends standing next to and in front of the car. That's my vision for my second CBP entry. (I have to check for a resin "Barefoot Girl and a few other figures... Jimmy Flintstone, maybe?)