Ed Roth and Norn Grabowski's Rods

[Peter Lombardo]

After posting the SWC cars, It got me thinking about the Roth cars that I mentioned......so I thought I would do a quick post on them. There is nothing too special about those cars, the three were built basically box stock with the usual additions like spark plug wires and fuel lines. Tweety Pie, painted with Tamiya purple pearl raddle can spray whicle the Beatnick Bandit and Outlaw have a Mopar pearl white finish with the kit decals......like I said, pretty typical builds

Now the last car is my interpretation of Norm Graboski's famous Kookie T featured back in the 1960's on the TV show, 77 Sunset Strip.......where the car hop, Ed (Kookie) Burns was driving this car. I made a few changes to the car to fit my own tastes.

Here is the real car, and here is my version of it..........

I started with the Tweety Pie 2 kit, and used Modelhus wheels and tires but I did my wheels in red to contrast the blue body color.....I used 1960 Ford dog dish hub caps and then continued the flames over the cowl center area. I did not care for the Graboski exhaust end tip the way it came up in the back, so I left that off. Since I did not have the same carb. inlet trupets I went with a generic round inlet

Thats it, thanks for looking.

[Phildaupho]

These I like too.

[TooOld]

Tweety Pie is one of my favorites !

Nice job on all of them .

[Joker]

[Chris White]

real nice time capsules

[peekay]

Great nostalgic models, way nicer than "typical".

[slusher]

Very impressive builds....

[cobraman]

Very nice clean builds.

[Danno]

Excellent builds! All three.

[PappyD340]

EXCEPTIONALLY NICE builds!!

[Mike 1017]

Greatest custom cars ever built

[Nacho Z]

All four models look great. Neat to see them all together.

[Dinky]

Very nice!

[rmvw guy]

Nice job on all four. Not easy to do any of these. I love the liberties you took on the "Kookie Car".

Edited November 23, 2013 by rmvw guy

[Ramfins59]

Great job Peter. I love the way you did Norm's car.

[jaydar]

They are all beautiful builds. May i ask what you used for the blue/green upholstery in the Outlaw?

Thanks,

Joe.

[the goon]

Cool.

Mark

[Speedfreak]

Beautiful cars Peter. I hope I can do 'typical' builds this good some day!

[fatboycustoms]

nice trio

[crazyrichard]

now thats one cool collection / build(s)

[lower99]

Very cool builds!