Nick Winter Posted July 20, 2009 Author Posted July 20, 2009 Your cousin has the Olds? Is it resin? And yes, I made a Bluesmobile out of a '69 Ford Galaxie sedan. It took alot of scratch building. No there 1:1. Nice you sould email me some pictures. I plan on doing it using a 70 impala as the base.
Guest Mustang3.8 Posted July 20, 2009 Posted July 20, 2009 My mom had a beautiful 1:1 '87 Cutlass Supreme Brougnm. I'll send you some pis of the Bluesmobile. I'm not sure about the '70 Impala as a base car, but it's worth a shot. I actually found and bought a resin '74 Dodge Monaco from Ebay.
Nick Winter Posted July 20, 2009 Author Posted July 20, 2009 Well i put the engine in and I put the wheels and tires on. IT HAS A MEAN STANCE IF YOU ASK ME.
Nick Winter Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 Ok well i started to scratch build the front end, I finished the interior and painted it. Enjoy, Nick
Guest Mustang3.8 Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 Great job on the interior, 'cuz. The stance is awesome. I can't wait to see this beast finished.
Nick Winter Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 Great job on the interior, 'cuz. The stance is awesome. I can't wait to see this beast finished. Thanks. Funny enough about the stance that was actualy a screw up when i was building the front suspension, it was suposed to be the same as the rear, this is one of the only times I'm probley going to say this but I'm glad I screwed up. Well maybe in a day or two. Ok well I finished the nascar style buick front end last night. I got one coat of cheap rattle can black. I also finished painting the interior and added guages wich I over looked. I changed my mind on the color and style, my idea now is that this would be a prototype Buick, a nascar inspired street car, built off of the 1985 Buick Grand National, So time for the pictures.
Nick Winter Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 Well I finished up painting the wheels so they resemble the Grand national wheels, I showed my dad who had a Buick T- type, and he said that the wheels looked almost perfect.
B_rad88 Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 nice job nick! and my dad owned a buick grand national! but i want the buick gnX! its ever more rare and a little more horsepower! can't wait to see it finished!
Nick Winter Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 Well I put a second coat on the buick let it dry then put it in the photo booth and took some pictures.
B_rad88 Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 hey nick, you really like those buicks? this will bet any cars azz! take the gnx turbo v6 add nitrous and drop the engine into a geo metro body! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j89gCCuA57o...feature=related
Nick Winter Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 hey nick, you really like those buicks? this will bet any cars azz! take the gnx turbo v6 add nitrous and drop the engine into a geo metro body! Yeah I like buicks. Yweah that's one sweat ride. Funny thing I found out my dad had nothing but G body Gm's all throught the 80's and the last half of the 70's, My dad had a 76 pontiac gran prix, then a 78 oldsmobile cutlass, then a 81 Chevrolet monte carlo, then his 85 buick regal t-type, after that he had odd ball's some of this some of that.
dwc43 Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 this will bet any cars azz! take the gnx turbo v6 add nitrous and drop the engine into a geo metro body! I don't know about that. Check these out. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http:/...l%3Den%26sa%3DG http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/define...-426-hemi-2.jpg I know it wont beat the Hemi, and I bet it wont beat the jet car either. lol.
Nick Winter Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 I don't know about that. Check these out. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http:/...l%3Den%26sa%3DG http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/define...-426-hemi-2.jpg I know it wont beat the Hemi, and I bet it wont beat the jet car either. lol. If my buick was real i would say that the Hemi would have competition. 426 VS 454, I have more cubic inches.
dwc43 Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 If my buick was real i would say that the Hemi would have competition. 426 VS 454, I have more cubic inches. The 454 was never any competition for the 426 Hemi, at all. And now there are larger versions of the Hemi as well. I think the biggest stroker kit for it is a 472. By the way, the stock Hemi was some where in the area of 520 hp, no the 426 hp that was stated by the manf. They fudged it quite a bit back then just to get around the insurance companies.
Nick Winter Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 The 454 was never any competition for the 426 Hemi, at all. And now there are larger versions of the Hemi as well. I think the biggest stroker kit for it is a 472. By the way, the stock Hemi was some where in the area of 520 hp, no the 426 hp that was stated by the manf. They fudged it quite a bit back then just to get around the insurance companies. Well my 454 is not any where near stock it's built like a stock car engine.
dwc43 Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 Here's you a couple NASCAR 426 Hemi pics. NASCAR never ran a 454 though. Biggest was the 428, 427, and 426. http://www.allpar.com/images/plymouth/1964/ackerman-hemi.jpg http://media.photobucket.com/image/NASCAR%...rlington-vi.jpg Hope you like them. Here's a suggestion for your build if you want to try it. You can rotate the tires in direction of travel on some course sandpaper to make them look like they have been driven on and take away some of that shine to the road surface part of the tire. Makes them look pretty real that way.
Nick Winter Posted July 22, 2009 Author Posted July 22, 2009 Here's you a couple NASCAR 426 Hemi pics. NASCAR never ran a 454 though. Biggest was the 428, 427, and 426. http://www.allpar.com/images/plymouth/1964/ackerman-hemi.jpg http://media.photobucket.com/image/NASCAR%...rlington-vi.jpg Hope you like them. Here's a suggestion for your build if you want to try it. You can rotate the tires in direction of travel on some course sandpaper to make them look like they have been driven on and take away some of that shine to the road surface part of the tire. Makes them look pretty real that way. Yes I know there was never a 454 used in nascar What I said was that I built it "LIKE" a nascar engine using nascar parts on a 454 block. by the way that's a good idea I'll give it a shot.
Nick Winter Posted July 22, 2009 Author Posted July 22, 2009 Duke- this build is looking AWESOME!!! don't know why I didn't see it before, but I'm glad I looked now. Keep it rockin little bro! Ok If you say so.
Nick Winter Posted July 22, 2009 Author Posted July 22, 2009 Well i put the door decals but i'm denbating weather or not i should put sponsors. I painted the front and rear.
Guest Mustang3.8 Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 Well done, 'cuz. You have captured the '80s racer look to the letter. The numbers look great!
Nick Winter Posted July 24, 2009 Author Posted July 24, 2009 Well done, 'cuz. You have captured the '80s racer look to the letter. The numbers look great! Thanks i chose the white numbers because i thought it would look good with the black.
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