74 Buick Lesabre?

[bandit1]

anyone know where to start to build a 74 buick??? or even point me in the right direction???

[lordairgtar]

A whole lotta scratch building. What particular Buick do you want to make?

[bandit1]

73-74 buick century

[jeffs396]

Isn't the Century the same basic body style as this?

[Jon Cole]

[Craig Irwin]

Yes, but the title says LeSabre, which is the GM "B" body, same as the full size Chevy. The Cutlass kit would be the only starting point for a Century.

[bandit1]

where to find the kit now????

and being a curbside...what kit came with an buick 455 motor???

Edited December 29, 2011 by bandit1

[bandit1]

and correct engine bay?

[Craig Irwin]

The Monogram 70 GS kit is 1/24th, so the AMT 66 & 69 Riviera's may be your only options. Engine bay ?????

[Gluhead]

The LeSabre is a totally different beast than the Cutlass. The '76 Caprice is the only real viable starting point that I know of, unless there's a promo out there I don't know of (which is definitely possible...'74 is newer than I pay attention to on that sort of thing). The body shell itself isn't that far off. It's the little things like headlights and grill, taillights, etc, that would put you to some real work.

[Rob Hall]

Not 1:25th, but there are sweet '74 Le Sabres ( 2dr and wagon) available in 1:43rd currently from Neo Scale models in their American Excellence series.

[bandit1]

Not 1:25th, but there are sweet '74 Le Sabres ( 2dr and wagon) available in 1:43rd currently from Neo Scale models in their American Excellence series.

i dont want 43 scale!...i want 24/25 scale

[george 53]

Under the skin they're the same car. We built the Buick, Chevy and Olds B bodies on the Cadillac assembly line at Fleetwood.

[Rob Hall]

Actually the only things on the outside of a '74 LeSabre and a '76 Chevy that would be common would be the windshield and front 3/4 of the roof. Not only the grille,bumpers, lights, etc be different but every body panel is different too,

Wheelbase is different also. Would be quite a scrachbuilding effort...I'd love to see something like this in resin, but it would be a lot of work to master.

[Gluhead]

Yes, but like George said, the bones are the same. A panel can be reshaped pretty easily if its close, which all of these would be that. Fairly close, in regards to overall proportions. The Cutlass, Century, and Regal...those are all on a different skeleton and are not close in proportions at all. They *look* similar, because they come from the same styling pages, but to actually rework them into the larger boned body style would be much more work than tweaking one from the same platform.

Basically, it boils down to a few wheelbarrow loads of work, or it's time to call the excavators to bring in the backhoes front-end loaders. lol

[GMP440]

Maybe a mix of using a resin Riviera boattail, and AMT mid 70's kit could be a good starting point for this.

resin Buick.