Jimmy Flintstone '60 Chevy Sedan Delivery Questions

[impcon]

I have been eyeing up the Jimmy Flintstone '60 Chevrolet sedan delivery bodies that are for sale on Ebay but it looks to me almost like it is just a casting of the old "Quicksilver" kit that cannot be built stock. The body on Ebay has the same goofed up upper door frames which are really El Camino doors.. that can be fixed but is the body proportioned in such away that a person could cobble together a stock looking version of the car? I understand that his castings are pretty good but if anyone has purchased one of those models, I'd like to hear your views on what you got for your money. I'd like to do a stock build but I would like some feedback before purchasing. Thanks in advance, guys.

[george 53]

Gary, Jimmy just put the Quicksilver roof on the R/M 60 Chevy. I have one, only paid 10 bucks for it at our yearly toy show. It does mount pretty easily on that chassis. You WILL have to mod the interior to make it a delivery van, but the rest of the R/M chevy parts fit pretty good. Just the usual type of work needed that you'd put into any resin conversion . It DOES build up nice. :)

[impcon]

Thanks George.. DO you think that a Modelhause '59 sedan delivery interior would fit? I think that I can correct the door issues.. what do you think?

[george 53]

Gary, never haveing seen the interior of the 59 kit, i honestly couldn't tell you. BUT they were almost the same on the REAL cars, and as long as you don't mind MAYBE grinding on some resin, it think you could very possibly get it to fit. After all, it IS only Plastic/Resin.

[charlie8575]

Not having seen things up-close enough to really be able to say, what are the differences between the doors on the sedan delivery and El Camino? I thought they were simply Brookwood 2-door wagons altered from the front doors back?

Charlie Larkin

[Eshaver]

Charlie, the two bodies were one of the same .......... . However , the same could not be said of earlier G M sedan deliveries . take for example the 1939 Chevrolet sedan delevery used the doors from a fordoor sedan . Ed Shaver

[Craig Irwin]

The slanted "B" pillars are wrong, and it looks kinda "chop topped" to me, it wont build stock without some work.

[impcon]

The sedan delivery and two door wagons shared the same doors with their squared off top edges as shown here:

The two door sedan doors do not interchange because the top door edge slopes downward a bit to accomodate the roofline of the car. It is hard to discern in the picture below but the roof does slope downwards and the rear of the upper door frame does definitely have a slight slope to it - around 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch I believe.

The upper door frames on the Flintstone sedan delivery are definitely El Camino doors with their distinctive forward rake on the rear door frame edges..

I have wondered if the body height is out of proportion but without being able to measure the heigth of the side panels from the bottom edges to the roof rail drip moldings and comparing those measurements to the Modelhaus '59 sedan delivery that I have, it is hard to say. It is possible that the slanted door frame gives the roof the illusion of being lower than it really is. I don't think that the old Quicksilver model was proportionally really all that accurate but then I have never had one to examine first hand. It may also be thatthe lower body is too thick that makes the roof look like it may be chopped slightly.

Maybe I'll have to buy a Quicksilver lit to find out for real...