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Posted

The old modelers solution of painting the entire chassis ect. gave it away for me . Is this the original Jo Han Polara body . I am looking to get two converteble and one hardtop of these . Any help ? Thanx..

Posted

I'll say real. As others have said some of the small details look too good to be for a model and, I also think almost any modeller would have put bigger wheels and tires in the rear?

Posted

I'll say real. As others have said some of the small details look too good to be for a model and, I also think almost any modeller would have put bigger wheels and tires in the rear?

No kidding, even if it only had a warmed over 383 and loud mufflers, I would have stuck more tire on the back of it!

Posted

Hi....im going to have to say its a model,but at first glance i wanted to say real....the reason for saying model is the tires arent squiched from the weight of the car.....thats the only reason though. very nice!!!

I think it's real, the tires may just be overinflated... ;) !

I'm going with real... check out the weatherstrip in the wing-vent windows- I don't see how ANYBODY could replicate that as well as it looks in the photo. Then again, I'm a ham-fisted, semitalented hack, so what the hey-all do I know!? :lol:

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Guest promodmerc
Posted

Wake up call #2.

Let's have it Harry.

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Yo Mike-O, WE'S ROLLIN big time! See I told ya's it was real!!!! Look under the rear quarter, you can just barely make out the leaf spring behind the tire. If it's a model that spring woulda had to been Photo Etched! . Plus the drille was just tooo real lookin ta me.

Guest promodmerc
Posted (edited)

Yo Mike-O, WE'S ROLLIN big time! See I told ya's it was real!!!! Look under the rear quarter, you can just barely make out the leaf spring behind the tire. If it's a model that spring woulda had to been Photo Etched! . Plus the drille was just tooo real lookin ta me.

Not to mention the chrome trim, wing window and the shape of the roof in the rear.

I'm rollin in it to Georgie Boy :D

I was the first to post and I said real :huh:

Edited by promodmerc
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Not to mention the chrome trim, wing window and the shape of the roof in the rear.

I'm rollin in it to Georgie Boy :D

I was the first to post and I said real :huh:

Yup! That was the first clue to me that this was real. Not to mention the weatherstripping/window channeling and the headliner........something that most modelers don't include when making a replica stock.

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Yup! That was the first clue to me that this was real. Not to mention the weatherstripping/window channeling and the headliner........something that most modelers don't include when making a replica stock.

That's what kind of tipped me off.... sheesh, not even Bill goes to that level of detail! Well, not on the wing window weatherstripping, anyway!

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Yo Mike-O, WE'S ROLLIN big time! See I told ya's it was real!!!! Look under the rear quarter, you can just barely make out the leaf spring behind the tire. If it's a model that spring woulda had to been Photo Etched! . Plus the drille was just tooo real lookin ta me.

Yepper we sho did this week!!!

and when I followed that link.....Harry didn't photoshop it.....somebody else did!!:lol:

Posted (edited)

Real or model, Harry did a heckuva Photoshop job on the shadow and reflection. (It's obvious that the shadow is computer generated, but it's still beautifully done.) I give it a very uneasy "real car" vote, mainly because the hood scoop material is so thin.

Edited by Ddms
Posted

I followed that link, too. Interesting that the car in the original photo didn't have an antenna.

Why did you put that in there, Harry?

Posted

I followed that link, too. Interesting that the car in the original photo didn't have an antenna.

Why did you put that in there, Harry?

I didn't do anything to the photo... I posted exactly what I found.

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