Kit car kits

[Atmobil]

On 8.6.2018 at 6:37 PM, Greg Myers said:

 

 

What is the driver doing? Trying to stop someone stealing his wheels?

[Bernard Kron]

On 6/7/2018 at 11:14 AM, MrObsessive said:

I don't think there was ever a kit of this car (Devin D), but I'd sure love for there to be! One of the sexier designs of the late '50's/early '60's (I think this is a '60), and you could make it either Porsche or Corvair powered!

The Devin D, while never kitted, could be done as a resin body only and then converted from a VW bug platform chassis, just like the 1:1. A lovely idea.

Ane just as cool, perhaps more so, would be the original big brother to the D, the Devin SS. I would settle for just the body and then scratch the rest, but the 1:1 could be had as a complete car with a very nice bespoke chassis and Corvette power. The chassis, oddly enough, was built for Devin in Ireland, and early example of using cheap but skillful offshore labor.

The Devin SS complete factory car:

Bill Devin with the Devin SS factory chassis and tri-power Corvette motor:

And the most famous Devin of all  Shouldn't Revell have kitted this one back in the day?:

[Bernard Kron]

While at least a full kit, or just an aftermarket resin body, of the Devin D or perhaps the Moonbeam for an SS is at least somewhere in the realm of possibility, even if just barely, the incredibly aggressively style Kellison coupe is available in the aftermarket - see T.M. Resin Kellison J4 . It's on my "maybe" list for 2018 - I'll probably buy it and then try to figure out a chassis and interior.

TRaK member ChrisV actually owns three of these sweethearts in 1:1!!!

They were a popular drag car body as well as a road car:

 

[Bernard Kron]

The other great, aggressive and outlandish road racer body of the same period as the Devins and Kellison, were the Bocars. Now this I doubt will ever be done in any form, but what a beautiful model it would make.

This was another car available with a complete factory chassis. In fact most Bocars were sold that way:

There was even a Meister Brauser Bocar (Meister Brauser III) with it's trademark Scarab-style paint job:

And even less likely to be kitted, but perhaps someone would be crazy enough to make a body (????) is the final Bocar, the Stilletto, with its long nose to accommodate a Potvin blower (!!!!).

Edited June 9, 2018 by Bernard Kron

[MrObsessive]

I've never seen this car before till today...........what a beauty!

[Phirewriter]

Devins and Bocars show up regularly at the historic races at Road America. I'm fortunate to live in reasonable distance and go to these events when I can. The last event I was able to attend had the Cheetah reunion, those were something to see racing. Going to the vintage motorcycle event tomorrow, could go to events all summer if work and life didn't get in the way.

[Snake45]

3 hours ago, Bernard Kron said:

The other great, aggressive and outlandish road racer body of the same period as the Devins and Kellison, were the Bocars. Now this I doubt will ever be done in any form, but what a beautiful model it would make.

 

This was another car available with a complete factory chassis. In fact most Bocars were sold that way:

 

There was even a Meister Brauser Bocar (Meister Brauser III) with it's trademark Scarab-style paint job:

 

And even less likely to be kitted, but perhaps someone would be crazy enough to make a body (????) is the final Bocar, the Stilletto, with its long nose to accommodate a Potvin blower (!!!!).

And photographed on the ramp with an F-100! How cool! 

[oldcarfan]

Not designed as a kit car kit, but I have an extra Countach kit that is missing the engine and I have been thinking of building it as a kit car version. Maybe with a NASCAR V-8 or something.

[Snake45]

I'm thinking of doing this one as a kit car, of sorts--Palmer '66 "Corvette." It's just wonky enough to look like an obvious fake. 

Unlike most of the Palmers, this one is actually somewhere in the general neighborhood of 1/25, at least in overall length. I think I can sort of section it a little, and finagle the contours, and make it look like something someone might have made to drop on a VW chassis. 

[iBorg]

The Scarab was done as a resin kit by Mini Exotics and in the early sixties as a staic model by Stombecker.

[Greg Myers]