Pontiac Batshee

[GerN]

At the Maryland Automotive Modelers Association (great) show 11 May, I picked up a junker Pontiac Banshee. After staring at it (who knows how long), I decided to throw caution and taste aside. Maybe I could blame Ira Dahm; his stuff always looks so good no matter how wild. So, even though this is red plastic, I started hacking. Hopefully you can see the Alfa Bat influence. Of course, a scratched rotary engine and one of my resin chassis are going into the mix.

Edited June 1, 2013 by GerN

[Custom Mike]

This could get interesting, bring on the eye candy!

[Jantrix]

This looks cool. Keep it going.

[GerN]

[GerN]

[GerN]

Sorry about spreading this out, but I was unable to add anything yesterday and I wanted to get whatever I could on the forum while It worked for me. Today I'm using Google Chrome instead of Explorer; maybe that's the difference.

Style decisions: I usually prefer front and rear wheel openings to match, but here I wanted to keep the bulge along the top of the body side from front to rear. The roof is from a '57 T-bird kit, also picked up at the MAMA show. The tail is my resin copy of the current Challenger front. The Banshee kit chassis is poor, and the one with the junker was pretty messy, hence my resin adaptation from the Camaro concept car. I'm not very happy with my scratch-built rotary. I could only find one grainy picture of a GM rotary, and I don't think it has much to do with the rumored Vette engine. I assumed GM would go with cubes for their performance rotary. If anybody has any good info, I'd appreciate it.

[GerN]

Ignore my request for more rotary info. I finally remembered GM was considering a rotary for the Aerovette, did a search and discovered they put together two Vega rotary engines as a possible four rotor Vette mill. I even found photos, but I'm sticking with my big cube tri-rotary. I've done a little more body work:

[Eshaver]

At first, I thought you had mis spelled the car's name . I'm not going to make a judgment on the build as I don't quite see how this may turn out ...................