Double Trouble: '57 Chevy: The Second One

[T-Ray]

This is the sister build to the other '57 Chevy that I am working on. The first car is supposed to represent a '57 Chevy ordered by a man for his wife as it came from the dealer and the second, this car, is supposed to that same car after being made into a gasser in the 1960's. Anyway! 

The first thing that I had done was to cut the frame as I had planned to make a new front for it. This was a mistake on my part, I was not happy with the front that I had made for it and after viewing the Flintstone Flyer thread, I realized that I didn't have to do that 
So, I cut the front off a Nascar Lumina and grafted it onto the '57 Chevy frame. 
 

Here is the frame after removing the section that the Nascar Radiator mounted to.  You can also see the steering wheel for the stock Chevy. 

[T-Ray]

I also have started on the interior


Here's the interior tub after I shaved the details off the upper half of the seat, installed the 210 trim and drilled holes for the roll bar to fit into.  The bottom half stayed as a Bel Air because I didn't want to sand anymore but for the sake of the story, I'll just say that somewhere along the lines, the bottom half of the seat had gotten torn and ruined, and when the guy who made the car into a gasser got it, he just took the seat out of a junkyard Bel Air.  I also removed the posts for the bench seat as I plan to install buckets. 

These are the seats I plan on using. They're from the 70 1/2 Z28 which I know isn't accurate for a car built in the mid to late '60's but that's what I had and I think they fit the bill. 

Lastly, I have modified the roll bar from the Old Pro Nova so that it fits better in the Chevy. 

[T-Ray]

I did some bodywork to allow the Big Block that I plan on using to fit more comfortably. 

Here, I have grafted in the tip of a plastic spoon to make a recessed firewall. 

I also grafted in a piece of plastic spoon on the interior tub to mate up with the recess in the firewall

Don't worry, by the way, that is not the final bodywork 

[T-Ray]

It's not much, but it's something 
A couple weeks ago, I stripped the instrument panel and bumper of its chrome. The idea was to cut up the bumper to make it lighter and make it look as if it was a fiberglass copy of a Chevy Bumper 


As you can see, I removed the bottom "lip" and cut out the middle. The mesh is from a dollar store splatter guard and will get painted black later, don't worry. I think it looks pretty good. 

[TarheelRick]

Got my attention with "Gasser", my favorite all-time drag class. I like what you have done so far, looking forward to updates.

[T-Ray]

Thanks! 

[T-Ray]

I didn't do much to this one, I seem to be focusing more on the stock car. 


All that I did was put some black paint on the mesh to make it stand out a little more.