Ace-Garageguy

Amazing how the right color, some pinstriping and detailing can really make a car pop, model or 1:1. I really love love love this body style, and think it's one of the best looking cars ever built, frankly. Nice rework. I see your red is over a silver base. Is it a candy red, or a metallic?

Incredible, impressive, inspiring model.

The car looks absolutely great, Bernard. And your rotogravure effect makes it look like a couple of "little pages" pix from history. Very nice job all the way around on a very ambitious and complex project.

Thanks to everyone for the comments. Glad you're enjoying it. After the repairs were done on both sides, I added a 1/8 inch layer of cotton flock / epoxy mix to the insides of the quarters. Enough structural strength in the fibers to allow me to reshape the lower rear of the panels without worrying about going through the repair. The original car had some protruding molded things to fair in the bumper, and I decided they had to go. Also made a splash mold of the Saleen Mustang hard tonneau, and made a duplicate, shown on right. Not perfect, but all I was after is the shape of the head-fairings anyway. Starting to work in a narrowed Pontiac-ish rear panel........ ...and with the hard tonneau, trying to bring out a little of the Jetsons feel without going over the top.......

Thanks guys. And....I never liked the front end I had, kinda reminded me of a character from Ice Age. Reworked it with higher headlights, new lower pan, different wheel / tire combo. A little more tweeking and I think I'll have what I was after.....

No pix, but I once hauled a small-block Chevy to the machine shop in the trunk of a client's Jag XJ-12.

Wish I'd seen this BEFORE i tried inking in the panel lines on my Revell Gearz entry, just before I took it to a club meet here. The black inking was nice and even, but looked like dog squeeze on the orange metalflake body. And THEN it took me almost half the day to get it off the car withoug damaging the paint, and even after all that, you can still see some traces of my misguided attempt. This was doubly disappointing because the contest car is the first one I've gotten to the paint stage in years. I'll be experimenting with the deep-scribe technique before I paint anything else. Thanks to everyone for the great info.

Absolutely beautiful. I love the old Olds, and this one is a knokcout.

Great looking project.

Mo debinately likin' dis one a'ready. Weathered, as in having had a rough life ex-custom-painted truck, or full-tilt-boogie shiny, it's going to look great.

Poor little car. Probably not restorable. Great job.

Man, that's a jell of a lot of fine looking work on a bunch of "incorrect" parts. Fascinating project.

Really nice rework, and one of my favorite designs.

Beautiful model of a truly striking car.

Jason, since you asked, I have two build threads on here now. The first is a '61 Dodge Dart Phoenix restoration / custom: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=58538 The second one is a re-design of the old Monogram Orange Hauler : http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=58969

Man, this is great. Has everything that appeals to me: unusual subject, experimental techniques, lots of scratch-building, and historical research for accuracy. Really cool project.

Great projects. Naturally I also love to see old models restored and reworked, especially when they have some particular sentimental value to the builder. I like your ideas for both of them, especially the BBS wheels on the T-bolt.

The stretched wheelbase is an interesting idea. Cool little bug.

This one reminds me why the '34 3-window is one of my all time favorites. Great clean car.

Really great photos. Hard to beat reality for realism. Good looking T too.

Thanks Jason. I'm really focused on 3 to finish ASAP. This one is getting lonely, being the only one "done".

I deleted my original post of some content that was subsequently quoted in its entirety in a relpy. All the content remains, just not two copies. Hate to waste bandwidth for mutiple posts of the same stuff.

Yup.

Not to beat a dead horse, but I'm with the guys who loved Indy when it was about innovation and sport....sport including back-yard small-time guys building winning cars. With the influx of huge marketing money and management, to me it's lost its soul entirely. Come to think of it, that's pretty much the way I've felt about motorsports in general these past 25 or so years. Time was, a guy like me could have built an F1 car too. Never again. I usually listen to the audio feed from Indy, just for nostalgia, and I watch some of the in-car work. I have respect for anyone who drives or flies in competition, but it just isn't accessible to mere mortals, and it WAS when I was a kid.

Still enjoying seeing all of it, from concept through execution. Very nice work and a good looking design.