Psychographic Posted October 26, 2011 Author Posted October 26, 2011 Getting the driver situated. I built a rollbar and fuel lines from the filler cap to the interior panels (not shown and can't be installed until after the back window is in). Hey, what are you looking at?
stulee11 Posted October 26, 2011 Posted October 26, 2011 this is looking amazing would be sick to see a 1:1 scale done lol keep up the brill work !!!
DumpyDan Posted October 26, 2011 Posted October 26, 2011 Man oh man this is cool, great work great look. BRAVO!
Psychographic Posted October 26, 2011 Author Posted October 26, 2011 (edited) I won't bore you with the 5 or 6 rounds of filler I did. How about this, we skip to getting some color on it? The base is DuPont black basecoat. If you look I added a scoop on the right side of the roof, it's a headrest from a Deora with a wedge cut out of it to match the angle of the roof. While shaping the grill area and cutting slots for the front wings to fit into, I managed to break the bottom of the nose off. I set it aside to fix later on, and of course, lost it. As soon as I gave up looking for it and made it from scratch, I found the stock piece. This was good as I like my nose better, I think the wider flat bottom is meaner looking. I love this angle. It might seem like I'm breezing right through this build, but it was started in late August, you are seeing a month's worth of progress to get to this point. It was then set aside while I started the Corvair build. I'm just now getting back to this for what I hope is final assembly. There are countless hours into mating the Lola to the Vette. It didn't help that the Vette was already chopped to pieces. Getting the undertray to fit the body took the longest, but now it fits like a Snaptite model and feels extremely solid. In fact, while painting it, I dropped it 4 ft onto concrete nose first and it just put a small gouge in the plastic. Edited October 26, 2011 by Psychographic
bobthehobbyguy Posted October 26, 2011 Posted October 26, 2011 (edited) Just keeps getting better. What are you planning for the graphics? bobthehobbyguy Edited October 26, 2011 by bobthehobbyguy
Psychographic Posted October 26, 2011 Author Posted October 26, 2011 On 10/25/2011 at 11:25 PM, LAone said: at first i thought this was going to be a show rod, then i saw the other pics and was blown away! it's looking awesome. keep up the great work. I consider this a Showrod. It obviously wouldn't be legal in IRL, and it certainly couldn't be street driven. On 10/26/2011 at 6:17 PM, bobthehobbyguy said: Just keeps getting better. What are you planning for the graphics? bobthehobbyguy I might put a number on the sides of the rear wing, but there are no graphics going on the car, I think the body and my choice of color will be plenty.
Dominik Posted October 27, 2011 Posted October 27, 2011 You are crazy! Within 4 Days such a awesome build! Still crazy...
FASTBACK340 Posted October 27, 2011 Posted October 27, 2011 In post #29 Dave mentioned it was started in August and put aside for the Corvair build. Regardless, there's some great stuff coming off that work bench. Thanks for sharing your build progress!
Psychographic Posted October 28, 2011 Author Posted October 28, 2011 Thanks for the compliments everyone. I'm getting the cockpit ready and the front suspension is going back in. I didn't take into consideration how tight it was under the "hood", before I painted the body the dash just fit, now it doesn't. I had to re cut the area for it so it would fit lower. Once I'm sure it won't be in the way, I'll mount it.
bobthehobbyguy Posted October 28, 2011 Posted October 28, 2011 The color is great. Love the idea. bobthehobbyguy
Psychographic Posted October 28, 2011 Author Posted October 28, 2011 (edited) On 10/28/2011 at 4:50 PM, bobthehobbyguy said: The color is great. bobthehobbyguy Which one? Click on the pic. Edited October 28, 2011 by Psychographic
4bangen Posted October 29, 2011 Posted October 29, 2011 loving it. I tried the color change paint a few years ago, yours looks much better.
Psychographic Posted October 29, 2011 Author Posted October 29, 2011 A little more progress to share with everyone. The front suspension is painted with Alclad, the discs are mounted and the lines run. The engine and rear suspension are in.
Ryan S. Posted October 29, 2011 Posted October 29, 2011 I'm not a big fan of the flip flop paint, normally, but this is the perfect type of build for it and it looks really good!
Psychographic Posted October 29, 2011 Author Posted October 29, 2011 On 10/29/2011 at 5:46 PM, Ryan S. said: I'm not a big fan of the flip flop paint, normally, but this is the perfect type of build for it and it looks really good! On a boxy body like a 66 Nova, I think they look crappy, but on something with a lot of curves, I like them. And this thing has a lot of them. BTW, the color is DuPont Absolute Purpleen over a custom mix DuPont black basecoat, the clear is Nason.
Psychographic Posted October 29, 2011 Author Posted October 29, 2011 A shot of the engine and rear suspension. Yes, that is a starter hanging off the back, who wants to use an Indycar starter to just run to the store? You can see I finally had enough of that ugly plenum that came with the kit and swapped it for a scratch built one. The pipe coming from the turbo goes up to the scoop on the side of the roof once assembled.
Psychographic Posted November 4, 2011 Author Posted November 4, 2011 She's been moved to the under glass forum, thanks for following along.
Alyn Posted November 4, 2011 Posted November 4, 2011 great concept. that thing would be a blast to drive.
CorvairJim Posted November 5, 2011 Posted November 5, 2011 AHA! I just saw this mopdel "Under Glass" and had to find it's build thread. I never looked at this one while you were building it, and I'm sorry I missed out. Man, you've got SKILLS!
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