MPC Vette Zinger

[ybsluos]

This came from one of my best friends earlier this year. He gave it to me as a built up and it was missing some parts and had mismatched rear wheels, etc. i took the liberty to take it apart and give it a redo a few days ago. I only have two evenings invested in this, and as you look at it, you can tell that’s the case! In fact, you probably wonder why it took me so long to build this piece of junk!

 It  was mainly an opportunity to use up some tires and wheels annd engine that have just been languishing in my junkyard boxes. The Zinger kits came with engines that I put around 1/20 scale, but theHemi in this one was missing a valve cover. I decided tone down the size a little bit to 1/25 scale because it’s still be ridiculously big and I was able to use up a cool blown small block Chevy built up frim my junkyard.  I did add the headers from Tom Daniel.Bad Medicine painted with Mirror Chrome Spaz Stix. 
I know the rear tires are Monogram , but I’m not sure what the rear wheels are from.  Theycame from a late friend’s  collection and I’m not sure what he sprayed the wheels with, but I’m guessing it was some kind of “chrome” paint .

One of the front wheels was missing the outer rim so I just cut up a piece of plastic tubing that was roughly the same diameter and I painted those with chrome silver trim Model Master  paint. Not really happy with the results… Heck, I’m not really happy with the results on the entire build and I’m almost embarrassed to post it here. But hopefully at least one person gets a kick out of it. The paint is Faskolor Fascescent Red applied with a brush.  Future floor wax was also applied with a brush. I’ll probably give it one more coat.

. I didn’t take this thing seriously …it was just a little too cool to just throw away and it gave me an opportunity to use up some parts.

The body was glued to the chassis so I chose to brush paint it because I really didn’t care enough about the project to try to unglue the body. Not to mention it seemed like the original builder used some astronomically strong glue.  Anyhow hopefully my next completion will be a little higher quality than this lol.  Nevertheless, like I say, I hope it gives somebody a good laugh, whether they’re laughing with me or at me! -Mark

[Moparman18064]

I haven’t seen one of these in ages. At least it was a refreshing little break. Cool!

[slusher]

That’s neat!

[ybsluos]

Thank you guys.  

[PappyD340]

Cool Zinger Vette!