caapa Posted August 27, 2012 Posted August 27, 2012 (edited) The Mako Shark II was unveiled in 1965. There were 2 cars made. A non running "clay" car followed by a running prototype. The original non running clay car had a unique side exhaust and the interior features an aircraft style square steering wheel and a huge array of gauges. The model of the clay model was built from a MPC Custom Corvette kit. The kit was not komplet so I used only the body, the mold of passanger bay and seats. A simple chassis, exhaust, dashboard and steering wheel were scratcbuilt. Wheels and tyres are made of resin. I loved this car from the begining ! The built of this model made me the most enjoy. There was a lot of things to scratchbuilt, to make templates for mold parts from resin or to carve the dashbord and draw the instruments on computer. Edited May 25, 2013 by caapa
TooOld Posted August 27, 2012 Posted August 27, 2012 Really great looking build ! I like what you've done with only a body to start with . Really like the doors and top .
59 Impala Posted August 27, 2012 Posted August 27, 2012 Nice job of building this from the custom Vette. I have that custom one and I have one of the Mako Shark II kits that I'm going to rebuild. I built it when I was a kid and I never painted it, so it should be kinda easy to rebuild. I hope that I can get as good a paint job as you did on this one. Great job. Dan
rustybill1960 Posted August 29, 2012 Posted August 29, 2012 Beautiful indeed! thank You for sharing Later Russ
Dennis Lacy Posted August 30, 2012 Posted August 30, 2012 I have always thought that the Mako Shark II was a really cool and aggressive looking show car. Your model is an excellent representation of the real thing. Awesome work!
Ace-Garageguy Posted August 30, 2012 Posted August 30, 2012 WOW ! WOW ! WOW ! That IS fantastic !! Beautiful, beautiful work.
W-Machine Posted September 13, 2012 Posted September 13, 2012 Really great looking build ! I like what you've done with only a body to start with . Really like the doors and top . I second that.
jcbigpaw Posted September 13, 2012 Posted September 13, 2012 Nice work. I've always wanted to do this one. Good work
gtx6970 Posted September 13, 2012 Posted September 13, 2012 WOW, Nice looking build. I was just thinking about this very car a couple days ago and was wondering if there was ever a 1/25th scale kit of it( I have the metal open cockpit car........Franklin mint maybe ?) I never knew the closed car was a non running clay mockup.
caapa Posted September 27, 2012 Author Posted September 27, 2012 Many thanks for the nice coments ! I`m happy to see that you enjoye this auto/model as I do after more years till today too.
Silver Foxx Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 Very nice model - looks really great.
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