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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).

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Hey, what are you looking at?

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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.

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I love this angle.

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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.

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:o 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. B)

I consider this a Showrod. It obviously wouldn't be legal in IRL, and it certainly couldn't be street driven.

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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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