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To start this thread I would like to show some more recent inspiration photos I found last night. I have wanted just such a look as pictured here, now I have some better stuff to work with!

Obviously, the Ferrari Enzo, since introduced in 2002 is a fantastic car, even by today's standards, but to be perfectly honest, the shape of the body always left me a bit cold. It is too "truck like" for my taste. Too angled and not smooth enough. Remember the 330 P4 from the mid sixties? It always got my attention. So rounded and sensual. Sexy by anyone's standards. Well, a few years ago I got, for free, a Revell Enzo kit. I have the Tamiya kit, which one day I will build, along with the LaFerrari and FXXK. But the Revell kit was expendable, so is offering up its engine, chassis and the interior tub for a car of my design. My inspiration for the design of this car is the a fore mentioned 330 P4. I did a quick side elevation rendering of the Enzo and the P4, and then my design, borrowing much from the P4, but adding a bubble top to the design. The chassis of the Enzo is used without any modification to the engine mount, placement of the interior and the wheelbase. I was thinking about how, back in the day, Ferrari would build a chassis and have a custom coach builder craft a "one off" custom designed body. That is basically my thinking here. I sketched out the basic design and then carved the shape out of sign foam. I then vacuum formed the body and the clear bubble top. Here is the side elevation of the 2002 Enzo, followed by a quick side elevation of the 330 P4 and then the Bollo that I designed so I think you can follow the progression of the design. The 330 P4 And then the Bollo design. Here is a 3/4 front view I worked up The plan is to have the back part of the bubble tilt up and the front section to tilt up and forward, then the doors slide into the body and under the seats to allow easy entry into the cockpit. Here is the mold buck for the vacuum formed body Here are the buck and the "raw" formed body Here is the buck, body and clear body that will provide the bubble top (and my big toe), once tinted darker. Here is a side shot of the clear body and the molded body the molded body Here is a very early under construction shot On this you can see I was experimenting with a few different designs for air scopes and exits. This shot gives you a better idea of how it will look as it gets closer to the finish The headlights will have multiple LED lights running from the top of the fender forward and the amber turn signals are the on the bottom from left to right Rear shot without spoiler And finally, a shot looking down on it..... there is a ton of work to be done to this, the rear spoiler and lower extended body panels are not added yet.so it will be in the "shop" for some time, but I wanted to get this on the forum so I will be forced to finish it.

I grew up in Rome, NY, the next town over from Utica, where Phil was from, and he was my boyhood idol. When he passed away at 69 a few years back, I decided it was time to honor him with a model of the car he won the 1971 NHRA AAFC championship in. The model uses a Revell body over a slightly stretched Johan chassis. It's the Revell engine with Bantam Blast rear wheels (stripped and sprayed with Alclad Brushed Aluminum), MPC hard plastic slicks from the 70s, and a fuel tank made from a gas can in the AMT Boss Nova. Paint is Duplicolor White with Testors Hot Pink, all of which was airbrushed. I designed the decals ,and Chuck Boerner printed them (he also did the "Custom Body" words on the decal.) It took almost 5 years start and stop to get this done, and I am proud to honor my boyhood idol with this build!