1958 Chevrolet Impala

[Lovefordgalaxie]

This Impala was built the first time around 1996-1997. Back then, I painted it silver with a black interior.

Fast foward to 2011, I saw a 1:1 Impala at a car show, in this beautiful metallic blue, and thought the color suited the car very well, so I decided to take it apart, and to repaint it.

Since the original paint was Tamiya spray paint, and I had some tubes of a very nice Tamiya metallic blue, I didn't have to strip the body, just removed the foil, and repainted it in blue.

The interior was repainted in blue as well, but the engine, and frame were left as they were.

Before the repaint:

After the "rebuild/repaint":

Hope you like the old glue bomb rebuilt!!

[rctruk]

That is a nice job

[cobraman]

It wa nice but it looks much nicer now. Good job !

[rmvw guy]

That's a lot of chrome on a '58. Excellent job on the rebuild!

[george 53]

GREAT rebuild!! The pettern on the seats is too cool! Is that a decal or did you hand paint it? If you did, MAN do you got a STEADY hand!!! OUTSTANDING job!!!

[W-Machine]

Sort of a scale version of "Overhaulin'"

[Lovefordgalaxie]

GREAT rebuild!! The pettern on the seats is too cool! Is that a decal or did you hand paint it? If you did, MAN do you got a STEADY hand!!! OUTSTANDING job!!!

I wish I could find a decal to that seats

I had to hand paint them. I airbrushed the base blue with Testors enamel, and then hand painted the seats's centers with acrylics.

Maybe a little better tha Overhaulin', since the car resulted factory stock looking

Maybe I'm gonna catch a fight here, but I really hate what Foose does to cars on Overhaulin' (and in general).

When he cut the top off a T-Bird I wanted to punch him.

When he ruined a '50 Ford, that was black and beautiful and ended like something from a circus I wanted to punch him.

When he killed a '67 Galaxie convertible, I took the decision to never watch the show again.

Yep, I'm a car fan, but I like cars the way the factory built them, with very few exceptions.

[Foxer]

Very nice! I couldn't imagine ever BMFing that TWICE!

[trogdor]

Very nice details all done right.

[Eshaver]

Tulio, that Silver is pretty darn close to an O. E. M finish . The origional had some Blue to it . You might wish to go to Auto Color Library.com and see what WAS avalible as you seem to like the stock builds . Great work on the car though !!!!! Ed Shaver

[Dr. Cranky]

Great models, I love the blue one. Perfect beauties. Nice, thank you for sharing.

[Lovefordgalaxie]

Tulio, that Silver is pretty darn close to an O. E. M finish . The origional had some Blue to it . You might wish to go to Auto Color Library.com and see what WAS avalible as you seem to like the stock builds . Great work on the car though !!!!! Ed Shaver

Thanks Ed,

I did that to my '58 Edsel, that I painted in Frost white and Horizon blue.

[Qwit Pushin]

Gorgeous!!! I have tremendous respect for you guys who 're-purpose' these old build-ups,.....and do it so well!!

[PARTSMARTY]

i absolutely love doing rebuilds and yours is awesome!

[Dominik]

58 Impala - i would give my small finger for a real one, to call it my own ride...

Beautiful before the blue paintjob, beautiful after! It looks very nice, clean and in my view perfect! L O V E it.

[Danno]

Very nice!

[Kustom Rodder]

Turned out sweet liken the blue nice job.

[Harry P.]

Yeah, the re-paint/re-build looks great... but I have to be honest, the original looked pretty darn good to me!

[Lovefordgalaxie]

Yeah, the re-paint/re-build looks great... but I have to be honest, the original looked pretty darn good to me!

Yep, that was my good old laziness speaking. I wanted a blue Chevy, just like that one at the car show. I gave my assembled Chevy a look, gave the box with the unbuilt kit I also have a look, and thought: "That thing is already painted in silver, that is a great primer for the metallic blue, and I won't have to paint the frame, engine..."

You pretty much know what happened next

[CorvairJim]

The model looked great the first time around, but like many 1:1 car owners, sometimes it's just time for a change so they get the old ride repainted a different color. All I can say is you have Maaco and Earl Scheib beat a mile!

[W-409]

That sure is nice color. I painted mine almost same shade of Metallic Blue few years ago. Great job on the Impala, everything looks very good on it.

[Lovefordgalaxie]

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I really love to hear what people think about my builds (don't we all?).

This week I'll start yet another rebuild, of a '57 Ford Fairlane I got really, really cheap out of Brazilian e-Bay.

I'll post some before pictures as soon as it arrives.

[ShawnS]

Another great 50's build. You have a great talent for capturing the clean 50's look. Well done.