Corvette Indy concept car 1/25 Revell 1980s

[polybius]

In the mid to late 80s, GM had some seemingly radical concept cars including the Pontiac Banshee, Corvette Indy, and Olds Aerotech.  Revell and Monogram tooled them up as kits, and a few years ago I'd finished up a Banshee.  This Corvette Indy was next up, and since it's a rather basic kit it shouldn't have taken as long as it did.  I'd been back and forth about the color, as there were different iterations of the 1:1 concept car in red, blue, and silver.  After hosing the body down in some Tamiya LP-11 silver I was pleased with the choice.  

The only assembly issue that popped up was with the sequence for the glass, interior, and chassis.  Without paying much attention to the instructions, I'd planned to secure the interior into the body and then slip the glass "dome" into position. What I hadn't planned for was discovering it was nearly impossible to simply "slip" the window unit in once the interior was in place.  The unit is molded with the partition between the interior and engine bay, so it is actually slotted into the the interior bucket directly under the "basket handle" roof structure.  Rather than pulling the very securely glued interior out, I opted to trim the rear partition section of the window unit and managed to slip it in without too much fuss.  The silver version of the concept car had clear front and side marker lenses, so I was stumped about how to make them clear without causing a calamity.  In hindsight I should have cut out the recessed lens areas on the body and maybe some clear resin or styrene would have worked.  

It looks at home next to the Banshee on the shelf, and there's an open spot for the Aerotech whenever it makes its way from the project stash.  There's a lot of great reference material since the Corvette Indy was covered extensively in the press at the time.  Thanks for looking!

[atomicholiday]

That looks terrific.   Never seen one of thesebuilt.   Very cool! 

[KWT]

Very nicely done

[kelson]

Looks nice,!!i never knew they came in different colors.

[ncbuckeye67]

Very nicely done! Now 40 years later, we finally have a production mid-engine Corvette.

[Rattlecan Dan]

Did a real nice job on it. Thanks for posting.

[espo]

Great looking build. This is the Corvette they should have built at the time rather than waiting 30 years. Like the paint and the clean looking assembly. 

[karbuildr]

Very nice. First one I've seen built as well. Well done.

[ChrisR]

Very nice!

[slusher]

Looks really great!

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[spencer1984]

Great job on this!

[iamsuperdan]

On 6/10/2023 at 6:36 AM, ncbuckeye67 said:

Very nicely done! Now 40 years later, we finally have a production mid-engine Corvette.

If I recall correctly, I think GM had been talking mid-engined Corvette since the 60s!

 

[ncbuckeye67]

29 minutes ago, iamsuperdan said:

If I recall correctly, I think GM had been talking mid-engined Corvette since the 60s!

 

Yeah, I remember hearing that over the years. The idea was met with fierce resistance, by the "old school" GM execs, that wanted the conventional front engine/rear drive set-up.

[Smitty]

I too am a big fan of GM concept cars from this era, so it’s nice to see this model built up so nicely. Great job!