The "Illusion" by Rick Dore.......on the Bench 12/9/23

[John Teresi]

Hello......This will be a replica of Rick Dores :  The "Illusion".......It will be a Birthday present for my Father......My Dad was watching The Sema car show on TV  about 4 years ago and saw this car The "Illusion" built by Rick Dore.......My Dad bought the Car ......and I am going to build him a replica of it........I sent a bunch of pictures to my good friend Keven with "Frankies Hobby & Horror Shop" and asked him to draw up and 3D print the body for me......Keven did a Fantastic Job .....I have been doing Business with Keven for a few years now  and his work is just Awesome.......then I asked my good friend Steve A.  to 3D print a GM LS3 engine and Trans. for it, thank you Steve for your Awesome work and Decals......I will be using a AMT Bel Air kit as a donor .......I will be doing a lot of modifications and using part box parts.........the guy sitting in my Dads Car is Chris Sobak my good buddy who has helped me with a lot of my models thanks Chris......thanks for looking

Edited December 9, 2023 by John Teresi

[stitchdup]

Very cool, i'll be following.

[mustang1989]

You can count me in too John. 

[Bullybeef]

Looks like it will be a cool build

[OldNYJim]

The 1:1 is STUNNING - what a beautiful car!

This will be worth watching… ?

[Koellefornia Kid]

I really dig Rick Dore‘s creations! Following...

[Paul Payne]

Amazing and beautiful! I definitely will be following!

[SpikeSchumacher]

Wow, that's going to be amazing!

[Mooneyzs]

John... This is going to be another Amazing Build by you and I know it's gonna turn out Killer!! Looking forward seeing this Beauty come together.

[NOBLNG]

I’ll follow along.?

[BuilderX]

very cool!

[Claude Thibodeau]

Hi Sir!

What a great subject, and we expect your usual mastery of details!

Just curious: I suppose the steel body was hammered by a member of the famous Delay family, of Custom Metal fame in Corona? 

CT 

[Cool Hand]

Great to see you back doing a build thread John. Looking forward to seeing how you work with the 3D printed parts.

[Leo64]

On 12/10/2023 at 2:25 PM, Claude Thibodeau said:

Hi Sir!

What a great subject, and we expect your usual mastery of details!

Just curious: I suppose the steel body was hammered by a member of the famous Delay family, of Custom Metal fame in Corona? 

CT 

I did some research on the car for John to figure out some details for the engine and decals, and the body was done by Luc Deley of Marcel's, but the body isn't steel, it was made out of aluminum.  There are quite a few pics of the car online where it was displayed at like SEMA in raw aluminum.

Steve A.

[absmiami]

Nice - hi john - are the eng parts drawn and printed - appear to be …

[Bainford]

Those are some swoopy lines. Very interesting project. I'm tuning in.

[Leo64]

2 hours ago, absmiami said:

Nice - hi john - are the eng parts drawn and printed - appear to be …

No, I purchase a file of a 1/10th scale Chevy LS3 and a 4L60 automatic transmission for John, and scaled them to the sizes he needed and resin printed them.  I have an Anycubic Photon Mono X6Ks printer.

Steve A.

[Leo64]

5 hours ago, Cool Hand said:

Great to see you back doing a build thread John. Looking forward to seeing how you work with the 3D printed parts.

If you saw John's post awhile back of the Radial Motorcycle build he did with Curt Raitz, I 3D printed the radial engines & some small parts for them, and John did a great job with those parts.  You can see details of both their bikes here:

Plus, John has used a couple of 3D printed bodies on some of his builds.  I don't think it makes much of a difference to John if he is working in plastic or resin.

Steve A.

[James2]

WAIT! Your dad bought the car? Get the F-outta here...

[Claude Thibodeau]

3 hours ago, Leo64 said:

I did some research on the car for John to figure out some details for the engine and decals, and the body was done by Luc Deley of Marcel's, but the body isn't steel, it was made out of aluminum.  There are quite a few pics of the car online where it was displayed at like SEMA in raw aluminum.

Steve A.

Thank you Steve!

Indeed, I know the Deley's always favored aluminium over steel, for its ease of hand-forming. Great project. 

CT

[bobthehobbyguy]

Another cool John Tersei project. Will be a treat to watch ching this come together.

I'm surprised there are no in progress photos yet. Are you slowing down John??

[John Teresi]

Hello......I modified the chassis to get the right ride height......I made a firewall and mocked-up the engine .....I also made some custom Coil Pack Covers and Top Custom Cover......I will work on the interior next.

Thanks for looking.

[John Teresi]

Few more WIP Pics.....

[John Teresi]

and a few more .....thanks for looking

[Danno]

Most excellent, my friends!  What a neat project, John!