Another Don Gay altered wheelbase GTO

[Old Coyote]

This is my rendition of Don Gay's '66 Pontiac GTO altered wheelbase "funny car"

[Belugawrx]

Really nice John!

[M W Elky]

Looking good you have to love these altered wheel base cars?

[MeatMan]

Sweet!

[papajohn97]

Nice job on this AWB poncho. Love the look of the red tinted windows with the candy red. Did you move the rear wheels forward on the Revell GTO kit body or use a resin body for this build? I’m hoping to build an AWB ‘65 Chevelle (“Seaton’s Shaker”) and am assuming that I’ll need to use two Revell kit bodies to shift both front and rear wheels forward and fill in the missing gaps behind each wheel well.

[Old Coyote]

6 hours ago, papajohn97 said:

Nice job on this AWB poncho. Love the look of the red tinted windows with the candy red. Did you move the rear wheels forward on the Revell GTO kit body or use a resin body for this build? I’m hoping to build an AWB ‘65 Chevelle (“Seaton’s Shaker”) and am assuming that I’ll need to use two Revell kit bodies to shift both front and rear wheels forward and fill in the missing gaps behind each wheel well.

Thank you for the kind words. That is a Competition Resins body sitting on a modified and lengthened "Rat Packer" chassis. The kit interior was also shortened to reduce the interior/roll bar height. Both the front and rear springs are inverted to reduce the chassis ride height. 

Edited March 3, 2022 by Old Coyote

[EngineerBob]

4 hours ago, papajohn97 said:

Nice job on this AWB poncho. Love the look of the red tinted windows with the candy red. Did you move the rear wheels forward on the Revell GTO kit body or use a resin body for this build? I’m hoping to build an AWB ‘65 Chevelle (“Seaton’s Shaker”) and am assuming that I’ll need to use two Revell kit bodies to shift both front and rear wheels forward and fill in the missing gaps behind each wheel well.

I, too, would be interested to know how John did his modification but if I was to alter the wheelbase as the Seaton's Shaker I would use the body piece removed in moving the entire intact rear wheel opening forward to fill in behind the moved forward front wheel opening. Then I'd make a new filler piece for behind the rear wheel arch out of styrene sculpted to match the body contours. I modified the wheelbase of a '63 Galaxie but, in my case since I didn't move the front opening, I was able to use the removed piece to fill in the rear.

[EngineerBob]

By the way, I forgot to say to Old Coyote "Great Early Funny Car Model!"

[Hmann68]

Cool build and very clean! 

[Bills72sj]

Very nicely done.

[PappyD340]

Awesome build John!