Psychographic

Thanks for the compliments everyone. Corvair Jim, How about a Pro Street or Pro Touring Corvair wagon?The place I got this body from makes a wagon body, you would probably only use the roof and even that would need some modding to get it somewhat stock appearing,

After the body was cut to take the kink out of it, a bulge along the body line became quite obvious and needs to be addressed. If you look over the rear tire, you can see the bulge in the body along the body line. Here is the first pass with sanding and filling, it's pretty straight and even now.

Some interior shots with the body in place.

Thanks, I'm looking forward to finishing this myself as this would be the first model I've completed in about 35 years.

All the loose ends are getting finished at a decent pace. A couple engine pics. I think the only thing left to do to the engines, is paint the front mounts and mount the outer headers. A couple of interior shots. I made a small skull shift knob out of of a chunk of bondo.

It's in the upholstery shop now. The Corvette seats and steering wheel are being wraped in some 60's style metalflake boat vinyl. The seat inserts are left the factory plastic, I think it's a nice contrast in shine. The floor is flocked in a chrome yellow, the back wall will be flocked in black.

Both engines are in, plumbed and wired, well except for the coils. I don't know where the glitch was, design is blaming it on fabrication, fabrication is blaming it on engineering, and they're out to lunch. So it looks like I need to make and mount some coils.

The first engine is mounted and in the process of being plumbed. This is more tedious than I expected, but it is getting there.

Some more plumbing, got the radiator done, just need to fit and trim radiator line to the left engine. I also need to tie the braided front & rear brake lines to the hard plumbing and the chassis is done. I painted the floor pan black with gold flake, it's a nice compliment to the chassis color.

Getting some of the details on the frame started.

Reassembly of the frame is underway.

We have some color finally. The color is a pearl yellow, but reflects a lime gold hue. It's very hard to photograph. Testing to see if everything fits. The frame. I played with the color balance of this pic, it's closer but still miles off.

4 banger for sure!

So let me get this right,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,You're calling out the special forces?

Perfect stance on that thing. What about a tractor grille, I don't know what's available, but some of them are way cooler looking than a car grille.

Great weathering techniques and thanks for sharing how it's done. A cool build for sure.

An interior shot with the shifter on the tree and pedals mocked up.

The frame will get one more "once over" with the bondo and it's time for paint. A dip molding was added to the roof, the dash is close to being done, probably another "once over" for it too. I got a lot of pieces primered and painted .

It looks like you really nailed the tradition custom image. I'll definitely be following this build. Tuck n roll interior?

That picture was the inspiration for this build.

Next was to come up with some air cleaners. If you look close, you can see one of the oil filters I made. Then some custom oil pans, to clear the frame.

Well it seems we've reached an agreement we can both live with, so on with the show. Lets see, where was I, oh yeah the build. The start of the worlds most strange header. This was the 3rd set I made and to be honest, I was just about to give up and put some ugly manifolds on the inside heads. Trying to line up the tubing to engines that aren't securely attached to the coupler, which is not attached to the frame was no fun. I bet it took 3 hours to make this header, but in the end, I think I came out victorious. this is the one that goes in between both engines, A couple of shots of it in place. Yes, it dumps to the front.

It's quite possible that there will be no more updates on this build. There is a conflict between what I feel is protecting myself and the rules of this board. So chances are my posting privileges will be soon revoked. It's the boards rule and I choose not to abide by it, so they have every right to remove me. To all who took the time to reply, thank you.

I think they do. As in real life, the first things you see are the paint and then the wheel tire combination.

How rude of me, thank you to all who have commented on this thread.