Car Crazy 81 Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 I Just Bought This Caddy Over The Weekend At Big Lots For 4 Bucks It Was All There The Cover Of The Box Was Missing So The Store Gave Me A Dollar Discount. I Wanted To Do Something Different So I Did I Backhalved The Stock Frame Added A Revell 67 Chevelle Pro Street Rear Section. I Already Fabbed The Firewall,Interior Panels. I Still Need To Fab Up The Frame Extensions,Add Some Sheet Styrene To The Wheel Tubs. I'll Keep Ya'll Posted On This Build.
evilone Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 I Just Bought This Caddy Over The Weekend At Big Lots For 4 Bucks It Was All There The Cover Of The Box Was Missing So The Store Gave Me A Dollar Discount. I Wanted To Do Something Different So I Did I Backhalved The Stock Frame Added A Revell 67 Chevelle Pro Street Rear Section. I Already Fabbed The Firewall,Interior Panels. I Still Need To Fab Up The Frame Extensions,Add Some Sheet Styrene To The Wheel Tubs. I'll Keep Ya'll Posted On This Build. awsome now why didnt i think of that
Car Crazy 81 Posted July 15, 2008 Author Posted July 15, 2008 I Just Bought This Caddy Over The Weekend At Big Lots For 4 Bucks It Was All There The Cover Of The Box Was Missing So The Store Gave Me A Dollar Discount. I Wanted To Do Something Different So I Did I Backhalved The Stock Frame Added A Revell 67 Chevelle Pro Street Rear Section. I Already Fabbed The Firewall,Interior Panels. I Still Need To Fab Up The Frame Extensions,Add Some Sheet Styrene To The Wheel Tubs. I'll Keep Ya'll Posted On This Build. Heres Some Progress I Did To The Frame Over The Weekend. When I Mocked up The Frame I Noticed The Back Of The Rear Section Was Too Short So I Lenghten The Frame Rails With Rectangular Tubing, Added Some .030 Sheet Styrene For The Floor Pan Area, I Widened The Wheel Tubs With .005 Sheet Styrene To Finish Things Off I Bondoed All The Seams To Make It All Uniformed I Still Need To Add Another Layer. I'll Keep Ya'll Posted.
george 53 Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 ###### Isu, betwix this ride an the GTX, you got your work cut out for ya!I like where yer goin with this,Seems like folks have overlooked this particular car to play with, but I think yer onna right track with this one, caz It'll sure be different!
just_a_doodz Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 I will definately be following this one.Ive got both the "donk" and lowrider version of this pig....errrrr...Caddy.I was wanting to pro-street one using parts from both and this looks like a jump-off thread for me to follow.Good luck man!!!Later.
Car Crazy 81 Posted July 23, 2008 Author Posted July 23, 2008 Heres Some Progress On The Caddy I Have Everything In Primer. The Frame Is Just About Ready For Paint But I Have To Put One More Layer Of Bondo On The Wheel Tubs I Still Have A Long Ways To Go For Completion. I Hope Ya'll Like.
just_a_doodz Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 That is going to be awesome.Im definately looking forward to this!!!Drop all the other builds you have and finish this thing NOW!!!!LOL....j/k But it is going to be BAD....in a good way.Later.
Lone Wolf Posted March 3, 2023 Posted March 3, 2023 On 7/9/2008 at 11:28 AM, Car Crazy 81 said: I Just Bought This Caddy Over The Weekend At Big Lots For 4 Bucks It Was All There The Cover Of The Box Was Missing So The Store Gave Me A Dollar Discount. I Wanted To Do Something Different So I Did I Backhalved The Stock Frame Added A Revell 67 Chevelle Pro Street Rear Section. I Already Fabbed The Firewall,Interior Panels. I Still Need To Fab Up The Frame Extensions,Add Some Sheet Styrene To The Wheel Tubs. I'll Keep Ya'll Posted On This Build. Car Crazy 81, I recently started this exact same model, with similar intentions, but will be keeping the stock "furniture" inside (if I can work around it). I can't hardly believe it, but I also happened (by chance) to grab the same Revell 67 Chevelle Pro Street kit for back-halfing the Cadillac model. For me, it was due to the rear suspension looking more realistic than what's in the AMT 67 Chevelle PS kit (i bought several of each, on sale, for parts bashing). I have to ask, do you still have copies of the photos you originally posted, and would you be willing to upload them here to this thread? Have you done anything else to this kit, or did you move on from it? I'm not knocking you if you moved on, I've had a long standing bad habit of doing the same thing, more often than I like. I'm finally trying to break that habit, but only time will tell how that goes? I suppose once I get a little further along (assuming I stay with the build?) I'll need to start a WIP thread on it?
Mike foster Posted March 6, 2023 Posted March 6, 2023 On 7/9/2008 at 2:28 PM, Car Crazy 81 said: http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff189/lsufan70072/NewPictures-2-5.jpg I Just Bought This Caddy Over The Weekend At Big Lots For 4 Bucks It Was All There The Cover Of The Box Was Missing So The Store Gave Me A Dollar Discount. I Wanted To Do Something Different So I Did I Backhalved The Stock Frame Added A Revell 67 Chevelle Pro Street Rear Section. I Already Fabbed The Firewall,Interior Panels. I Still Need To Fab Up The Frame Extensions,Add Some Sheet Styrene To The Wheel Tubs. I'll Keep Ya'll Posted On This Build. I'm a BIG fan of pro street build that come from a car you never thought of. Can't wait to see some pictures
Lone Wolf Posted January 3, 2024 Posted January 3, 2024 (edited) On 3/5/2023 at 7:40 PM, Mike foster said: I'm a BIG fan of pro street build that come from a car you never thought of. Can't wait to see some pictures Mike, I've no idea what's up with Car Crazy 81, but hope (you're) - he's OK and doing well. I was really looking forward to him possibly reposting his original photos but that may not happen? I'd post some of mine but after 10 months since my post above, I've only made minimal progress on it (health problems). After not touching the 85 Caddy for months I actually started working on it again earlier this morning. As for it being a typical pro-street machine, it's really more of a "sleeper semi-pro-street machine" with no hood scoop or other noticeable racy external features, other than the wide rear tires, mounted on polished aluminum tubing rims with Johan 70 Eldorado centers (hubcaps), tucked up under it. I'm going for the look of a "professional working man's sleeper street machine". Something that in real-life would fool other street racers at stop lights, hopefully. Edit - Note: This Revell model kit does not represent a true factory Cadillac. The model year is a 1984, not a 1985. I researched the 84 and 85 models, and the 85 is a FWD, the 84 a RWD. Additionally the 84 has smaller side by side rectangular headlights, not the larger single lights. The 84 also has a smaller (shorter) grille. That said, it was an actual "lowrider thing" for builders to use the larger grille and single headlights from certain later (90's) Cadillac's for a unique look. Edited January 5, 2024 by Lone Wolf
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