'60 Corvair A/FX /pre-funny car

[Vettegasser]

Very cool 

[papajohn97]

Hey Eric, really enjoying watching all the scratch-building you're doing on this one. This build is making me fantasize about building a later body ('66 - '67) Doug Thorley/ Hayden Proffitt/ Randy Wells topless Corvair early funny. Wonder if the recent AMT Chezoom ('69?) Corvair body could be a suitable donor to cut the top off and use for a '66 -67 body?

Mike (iBorg) - thanks for posting those two history links....the source of my scale modeling fantasies! What a brief but awesome period of drag racing history!

[Quiet Eric]

2 hours ago, papajohn97 said:

Hey Eric, really enjoying watching all the scratch-building you're doing on this one. This build is making me fantasize about building a later body ('66 - '67) Doug Thorley/ Hayden Proffitt/ Randy Wells topless Corvair early funny. Wonder if the recent AMT Chezoom ('69?) Corvair body could be a suitable donor to cut the top off and use for a '66 -67 body?

Mike (iBorg) - thanks for posting those two history links....the source of my scale modeling fantasies! What a brief but awesome period of drag racing history!

Thanks!

As far as I know, there's really not much difference from '65-'69 so I don't see why that wouldn't work, especially for racecar purposes. I call this one a '60 and I don't recall why I landed on that year, because the resin kit I bought was sold as a '63.

[Quiet Eric]

I decided this one should be something close to Evening Orchid/Iris Mist...well I didn't figure that out before my last Scale Finishes order, so this is my compromise. I decanted and mixed a couple Tamiya colors and came up with this. It's pretty close to what I had in mind and I'm excited to see it with some white detailing and decals.

[FoMoCo66]

Thats a pretty good looking color, I like your compromize.

[Quiet Eric]

Couldn't resist adding some decals this morning.

[TarheelRick]

Really cool looking Corvair, like that color. Some very nice scratchbuilding also.

[Shark]

Lots of times when I check in on in progress builds regularly I lose interest in them, but not this one.