65 Chevelle wagon

[Spruslayer]

This is a project based on a real car my brother co-owned and drove. It was the middle 70s and i taged  along sometimes acting as the the water wagon mule!

I started with the AMT #6505 65 Chevell Station Wagon as the body,AMT -636 66 Chevy Nova Prostreet for the chassie and suspension and the 350 automatic from the MPC 1-3708 25th anniversary Corvette

 

 

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[Mr mopar]

Interesting   do you have a pic of the chassis ,I would like to see if you stretched it ?

[Spruslayer]

The chassie did need an extra .225 or so to make it fit.and about .190 had to come off the width also.

 

These are not the wheels i plan to use,i have some Firestone Drag 500 slicks on the way from Speed City and the 65 Chevelle PE set from model car garage.When i get those ill be looking for a set of centerline style wheels 

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[Mr mopar]

Ok thx ........ I'll be watching this build !

[Flatout]

Nice start Mike...those fat tires look good tucked under there!  Looking forward to seeing your progress.

[Spruslayer]

Have to give Speed City Resin  a plug here.Ordered the Firestone Drag 500 slicks  on 11/5,got them today

Heres some shots with the slicks and the stance i want to acheive when done

Now to find a set of wheels!!

 

[vintagercr]

Mike, it's going to look great!

[disabled modeler]

very cool Mike...!  I am a huge fan of the 60s wagons....we need more kits of them.

[Deuces]

Yep! What he^^^^^sez..... ?

[Alan]

I don't mean this critique in a negative way but a constructive way .......To replicate a more accurate build you should have used one of the 67 Chevelle PS full frame chassis, as a Nova unibody with leaf springs is not correct .........

Alan

[Spruslayer]

I agree 100 + Alan.This has turned into sort of a nightmare so now im to the point i just want to endup with a usable model.Not only bad choice of frame  i also did the interior tub wrong that ended up costing a lot of work.In hindsite, i would like to do this again with a better choice of frame and not destroy the interior tub next time.Maybe if R2 would reissue this wagon it would be easier to get doner bodies

[Spruslayer]

Heres a few pics of where im at now.

[Snake45]

Great work so far! Your last pic reminded me a lot of one I took at about the same stage of my own dragwagon I built a few years ago. Hope you don't mind me posting it, I apologize in advance. 

[dragcarz]

I like it keep posting!