Making a replica of my daily driver '99 Tahoe.

[Daryl Romain]

Edited August 13, 2022 by Daryl Romain

[Oldcarfan27]

Cool project. I always liked these trucks. 

Do you have something to duplicate the wheels?

[Daryl Romain]

Thank you Patrick. I do not have wheels like this in my stash. I'm sure, if properly motivated, I could make, or have some 3D printer make, or find online, these wheels. As this is my daily driver, and not one of my 'toys' , I feel that the kit wheels are close enough for what I'm trying to do here.

[iamsuperdan]

That's exactly why I picked up one of these Tahoe kits!

Here's my 99 Tahoe LT. Same colour as yours.

[Tom Geiger]

It's great to build your old cars!  I have my father's red Beetle and my '56 Chevy going right now!

My memory of that era Tahoe.   My family and my wife's brother's family were staying at a waterfront hotel in Wildwood, NJ.   We are all asleep and suddenly around 5am there are sirens everywhere.  We go out on the balcony (which also served as the exit)  and 4 stories down we are seeing a Tahoe nose down, run off the bulk head wall that ended the street.  Drivers door open, cops swarming everywhere.

Turns out that someone robbed a 7-11 with this stolen Tahoe and ran out of road.  My brother-in-law and I went down to catch the news and found out the perpetrator had jumped from the Tahoe and ran off down the beach.   Cops came back with a boot and a bag full of money.  Seems the gentleman got away!

So we return to our wives upstairs.  They ask what happened,  so we told them that they caught the guy a few blocks down on the beach. If we had told them the guy was loose, they would've wanted to go home!  ?   We figured that the guy high tailed out of there and was anywhere but near us!

 

[Daryl Romain]

So Tahoes make good get away cars....Great story, lol.

 

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

Nice looking 1:1. I'm waiting to see how you tackle making the fender flares.