A Rescue, or sort of one.

[Lovefordgalaxie]

I've being without time for building a new model. I like to start and finish a model within a resonable time, let's say a week, or two at most, but I have a '40 Ford sedan sitting inside his box with only the body painted for more than a month without being touched.

Last weekend a friend of mine, knowing I had a VW bug kit he was looking for, called me, and I went to his house to make some deal with him. I ended trading the bug with a AMT '51 Chevy Fleetline that was still sealed. While we were talking I spoted, inside a cabinet in his working room what I thought to be the rear fin of a '57 bel Air. He showed me the model, that was sitting among a pile of old spray cans, paint cans, tools and a compressor. It was a scratched and very dirty 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, to be more precise, the Monogram 1/12 scale edition of it he had built back in the late '80s. I went home with two Chevys.

I took the '57 apart, and washed it with care.

The paint was in bad shape, but I wanted something to do only over the weekend, so I decided to clean and polish the paint the best I could, and only rebuild the frame and engine, doing some weathering, to make the car to look like a barn find that someone rescued, and made roadworthy again.

That's how the Chevy was when I brought it home:

And this is after I did some "restoring" to it:

[slusher]

Nice project, good save.

[91blaze]

Very nice restoration. Paint looks alot better than I expected.