1966 chevy II 100 series

[keviiin86]

I've been wanting to build a 2 door post car for some time now and stumbled on a couple resin bodies in the aftermarket.  One is from MCW which I ordered..its a really nice casting but just isnt quite right.  The shape of the 1/4 windows are off and overall the roof line isnt tall enough to match the 1:1..looks like they used the meobius 65 nova sedan roof for the conversion..which is not the same as the 66/67.  So I then stumbled on another 2 door post body on ebay from southern motorsports hobbies which looks much more accurate.  When that showed up in the mail I was a little disappointed in how rough the casting was along with being warped pretty badly.  I've spent quite a bit of time cleaning it up and sanding, grinding, filling and priming to get it to where its at now.  At this point I'm pretty satisfied with how it looks to continue on with building it.  Along with all the cleanup and un-warping it, I had to grind out the rear of the trunk lid for the recess area which is normally hidden by trim on the SS and hard top cars.  Also drilled a small recess for the trunk lock that was absent.  Plans are to build just a generic 70s small tire, stock suspension drag car, tunnel ram, fenderwell headers etc.  Been playing around with wheels and tires to get a vision of what I want, sort of leaning toward the fenton gyro slot mags from the old Johan maverick kit.  As far as paint goes I wanted something factory looking, was between a light blue, champagne or the factory Aztec bronze.  I think I can replicate the Aztec bronze pretty close with a combination of paints.  Here's what I have so far.

Edited Tuesday at 07:58 PM by keviiin86

[MeatMan]

Cool!

[NYLIBUD]

Very nice.