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Great looking body conversion. The coupe seems to look more appealing now than it used to. Your hood idea would look good. also.

Good to hear life has given you time to work on your model again. The smooth clean body look should be nice on this. As for bumpers, unless you prefer painted bumpers, I'd leave them chromed. They fit close to the body on this kit and the bumper ends lineup with the fender lines so you wouldn't want to narrow them. Since you're going for a mild custom look maybe cut the bumpers lower portion away and use the front roll pan from the Camaro kit for the license mount and put driving lights where the parking lamps are.

I really don't foresee one darkening my driveway anytime soon, or ever.

There is nothing like the real thing. A cheep price doesn't always mean you saved money if the blades don't perform the way the real ones do. Sometimes you will actually save money by paying more up front to git the real thing.

I really like this setup. I guess if you ever are in need of a lift to work on your car a six pack and a pizza should get it for you.

I'm lucky since most of my neighbors are pretty good about mulching up their leaves, but there're a couple that just seem to want to wait till spring to deal with it.

Great looking seat material. Don't know how far gone you're going to make this one, but an idea for the steering wheel. Have you ever noticed on a very old vehicle that has been out in the elements a long time the steering wheel and the inner metal ring start to come apart ? This will leave some gaps around the wheel where you can see the inner ring exposed. I have had the misfortune to drive such a truck and that steering wheel will rip your hands to shreds in no time. But it might work here depending.

The other problem is that if you do runout of leaves you can count on your neighbors leaves getting blowing into your yard.

I was wondering what you used to make your wagon roof. I also think the design based on the picture looks much better than the kits roof.

The leaf issue this time of year can be a real pain. We have several large trees in our back yard and a very big Pin Oak in the front, it will drop it's leaves in the spring. The trees in the back yard seem to wait and see when I clean up the yard and then another one of them will dump it's leaves. Wednesday if had gathered all of the leaves in the middle of the yard and mulched them with both my mower and the ridder mower. They mulch down to almost nothing and are great for feeding the grass. Thursday we had wind and the yard looks like I never touched it. This will be going on a couple of more times before the trees are all done. My work area in the basement and is nice and warm and I looks out on the yard. All part of living on the edge of the prairie I guess.

The original issue of the AMT '57 Chevy included a chopped top option also. This included cutting the top off the model's body and reliefs on the inside of the top posts were provided for where to cut the top off. The top would have to be cut into four pieces and again there were reliefs on the under side of the top to show where to cut the top. The glass provided for this modification had the front and rear windows combined with the headliner. This part included a raised portion to fill the gaps created with the four way top cuts. The four roof parts were then glued to the glass. The hard part was properly masking the glass to do any body filling and painting. I did one long ago and followed the instructions and it turned out great.

I wondered what had happened to this build. I was following and all of a sudden it was gone. Please restart this one.

I hope to find this issue at my local Hobby Store or Barns & Knobel soon.

Most frames had very little paint coverage and nothing like the body. Usually a shade of Black and very low gloss but not a flat finish. This is the reason when looking at an older cars frame there will usually be a lot of surface rust or worst depending on what part of the country and conditions under which the vehicle had been used. There seems to be far more variables on the underside of the body. Besides what you may expect from one manufacture to another, there would be differences depending on the plant where the body was made. Even this would change from year model to year model. Since the bodies were most often assembled and painted before they were lowered onto the frame there wouldn't be any overspray with a Unibody car being the big exception. If you're building something that would represent a car or truck that had been repainted then body color overspray would be present to some extent.

This is the model build that I was thinking of. I bought a resin body a couple of years ago that may have been cast off of the fastback created here. In the full scale world it was a fairly common thing for Drag Racers looking to lower the weight of an Oldsmobile to use the doors and trunk lids from Chevrolets for a little weight savings for minimum expense. I have always liked the '50's GM body styles and have owned a few thru the years. These pictures illustrate just how these bodies can be altered and that was what I was trying to suggest.

Nice clean looking build. Hard to tell with only the one picture, but the reflections on the hood and roof look as if you have a very shinny finish.

I think that was called Disneyland. Went there when I was a youngster.

Great starting point. The glue should be nice and brittle by now to help disassembly and minimal paint removal.

Interesting engine cover treatment. Wonder if this would aid cooling ? I think the shape and location would not aid air intake.

Love big steam engines. I'm of an age that I remember going to the train station every morning and evening to get my father when he was commuting into Chicago every day. The CNW (Chicago & North Western RR) was still using steam for commuter trains and hadn't completely converted to Diesel - Electric yet.

Great looking truck. Very cleanly done and looks very doable as a 1:1 build. I like how you Z'd the front cross member

I don't know about the wheel covers, they just look kind of Impala to me. I was unable to read the name badge, but looking at the length of the trim part it does look more like it would say Caprice rather than Impala. This is a design proposal and the reason I thought it might be an Impala was based on the roof line. Starting with the '66 year model Chevrolet had a different roof line than the Impala. That said Chevrolet offered the Impala as a Custom which gave an Impala a Caprice roof line. Maybe, just maybe, Chevrolet was considering doing the same on the Caprice model or just use one roof line for both models. That would have saved a lot of cost in my mind. This is the reason I enjoy this thread is seeing what all the possibilities could have been.

They look like parts that might be from the Stacy David '32 Ford roadster.

I question his lack of interest in her. I like real cars as much as anyone, but between the two I'm going with the bikini. At least this guy could do is offer the lady a towel or something other than the view of the back of his head. The advertising of that time always seemed to me like someone cutup a bunch of pictures and mixed them up like shuffling a deck of cards. Then they would line them up with the product they were promoting and non of it made any sense. This is just an example of what was being done at the time, and I'm just mocking they way it was done. Always good for a laugh if you think of the absurdity of the way the did it.

Beautiful looking Chevy. As others have mentioned, the way you did the interior cloth finish is very accurate looking. The body proportions are off on this kit but with then paint work and trim detailing it looks very much like the real car.