"Choppers" latest. 68 Eldorado mild custom.

[ViperDave]

[mademan]

looks great, I really like it. great color. great build!

[Dragon7665]

Ahhhh Another Fantastic Job by Chopper I will Always be a Fan of the Wrong Wheel Driven Gentleman's HotRods B) B)

[george 53]

great build!Now that's the way a Eldo's sposed to look!really smooth an clean!Beautiful color too!

[Dave McFly]

Dave, where did you GET the Eldorado kit? i would LOVE to do a model of this car but stock (well kinda stock ).

[george 53]

Dave,That's the ol JoHan kit.You can find em on the bay,or sometimes atswap meets.It's a REALLY nice kit.Very accurate.I got a couple of em jus caz there Caddy's!

[John Goschke]

Absolutely beautiful, as always! Where are the wheels from?

[Joe Handley]

Very cool!

[Zed]

Wow ! I don't know that Cad, but it look great that way !

[RodBurNeR]

tell him that sucker is sweet! it's TRaK-able too

[chris731]

That is really nice and clean, I love the color.

[Harold]

Killer Caddy. The '67-68 Eldos were always my favorites, and yours does them justice. Wow.

[ViperDave]

tell him that sucker is sweet! it's TRaK-able too

I thought about it but didn't know if it would get kicked out because of the seat cover pattern.

If you think it would pass I will post it.

Thanks Dave

[george 53]

2questions, 1 Whats wrong with the seatcovers? looks like leopard,or zebra,are you afraid of PETA? 2,How did you get that insrument panel so down? is it a decal or was it painted freehand? Either way, It just makes a fabulous model all the better!Still a 2 thumbsup an a snap!!!

[ViperDave]

2questions, 1 Whats wrong with the seatcovers? looks like leopard,or zebra,are you afraid of PETA? 2,How did you get that insrument panel so down? is it a decal or was it painted freehand? Either way, It just makes a fabulous model all the better!Still a 2 thumbsup an a snap!!!

Chopper was very aware of PETA. Someone must have really enjoyed the Leopord burgers. After all PETA is for People Enjoy Tasty Animals.

The dash was painteded white first then the black was put over the insturments. Then the tops of the numbers were scraped off without going through the white paint The Details were hand painted.

I will catch you later. I still have to finish off the Leopard stew.

Dave

[bsoder]

WOW...That's a classy Caddy!!

[Guest roadkill2525]

Excellent build, its seems like it would look good crusin' to the Peter Gunn theme.

[Guest zebm1]

So is Chopper...Viper Dave's altered ego?

Oh yeah, very nice Slammed Caddylac......

[ViperDave]

So is Chopper...Viper Dave's altered ego?

Oh yeah, very nice Slammed Caddylac......

We started our club back in 91. Ted "Chopper" Lear was building models at the time but not up to the quality of what he does now. He was chopping up bodies and we use to ask him if he took a new kit and chopped up the box then opened what was left and tried to make something out of the pieces. Me and my buddy Rich gave him the Chopper nickname around 91 or 92 and it has stuck with him. Chopper and I go to a lot of shows together and sometimes we have things entered in the same class. 2 weeks ago we were in Indy and in curbside he took first and I took 3rd. I did take a first in Factory Stock which is what I do best and also the Best Foreign car with my 67 Ferrari 275 GTB-4.

Chopper got his computer less than 2 years ago and he just got a new digital camera but hasn't got the downloading part down pat yet. I have been taking all of his pics of his projects and posting them on Spotlight, Scale Auto, Model Cars, B & M, Everything models, Mad modelers, and sometimes on TRaK models.

I'm glad you like his work. When we taught him how to sand and rub out his paint jobs we didn't have any idea he would do so good and now he whoops our hineys.

Thanks Dave.

[kasteer]

Wow. Great detail and even greater paint!

How'd you get that detail on the dash guages???

[slant6]

Looks F*&^@ng excellent. I gotta finally as though, since Ive seen so my models on this site with a lowered suspension. How do you do it?