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I grafted the rear part of the 50 olds from Revell for this one. Having seen one in the movie Angel heart . I liked the shape but no model is available for it except the bel air and the fleetline . Probably not accurate but I like the looks. I might re build it, though I don't like the poor fit on the top. Having the rear part of the fleetline I grafted it on the olds.

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A business coupe, if Chevy made one in '51. Did you leave out the back seat like a proper business coupe? Cool build, and the color is nice. Well done.

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I have a real soft spot for the ‘49 to ‘52 Chevys. You undertook quite an ambitious project here, and It’s nice to see this model in a different body style. We’ll done!

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Great looking body conversion. The close coupled coupe design could be had with or without the back seat in the Chevrolet. The Oldsmobile would have had a back seat. Many drag racers using Oldsmobile bodies would often switch out the trunk lid and even the dolor in some cases since the Chevrolet parts often would weigh less than the ones on the Oldsmobile. 

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8 hours ago, espo said:

The close coupled coupe design could be had with or without the back seat in the Chevrolet.

Good info. I was under the impression the base coupe had no back seat, radio, nor heater. I once owned a 47 Plymouth Coupe that was plain like that.

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14 hours ago, bisc63 said:

Good info. I was under the impression the base coupe had no back seat, radio, nor heater. I once owned a 47 Plymouth Coupe that was plain like that.

I knew of a few of these in both styles. Many of us with little or almost no money trying to buy a first car and had to shop for the least expensive and often least desirable secondhand vehicles we could find. This was during a time when many companies and utilities would buy fleets of the least expensive cars to be had and the ones with the rear seat delete where often what they would order. The same basic body style but with a more complete interior was also offered as a low-price leader type car.  Since the difference in price between the small coupe and what was referred to as a two-door sedan was not all that much and did offer better room for anyone who would need a back seat leads me to believe that far more of the sedan style were sold to the general public and with large fleets of the stripped-out cars flouting around with no back seat and a ton of miles made them affordable for those with little financial recourses. A lot of these got picked up by racers since they were cheap and weighed less than other similar year model cars. I do recall at least two people that I knew that owned a coupe from the '49 to '51-year models with a back seat and a couple who bought old Phone Company cars. The Phone Company cars I recall were a '55 Chevy and a '56 Chevy and they were under the basic 150 series, and I think they were even called Utilities and had the same shape as a two- door sedan at that time. 

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