Chipsta nice group of wish list builds, I know for a fact my wife and girls would love me to build a Chitty chitty bang bang, even had a corgi or matchbox diecast as a kid!!!
My additions would be:
Karmen Ghia
70 Buick Riviera GS
Volvo P1800 S coupe
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Opel Manta
Chevy luv pickup
Chitty chitty bang bang
This is the Sprint I cast some time ago.
I also did a 63 Tudor. They make great stable mates for GTM 64 Sprint.
I think the Luv( Isusu) may have been available as a model kit some years ago.
This is the Sprint I cast some time ago.
I also did a 63 Tudor. They make great stable mates for GTM 64 Sprint.
I think the Luv( Isusu) may have been available as a model kit some years ago.
63 Tudor? You cast a 63 Tudor? You would'nt happen to have a couple of those laying around would you? When I was young and stupid, I built a 1 to 1, 61 Tudor with a Straight Axle and a 427 Medium Riser Wedge! It was Butt ughly, but Hell on Chevrolets of all models, and engine sizes!
I would Love to Recreate that car in 1/32nd scale!
Is the Ocar resin casting good? It appears to be from the picture but I know many are just downright terrible castings full of pinholes and thin spots and just too much work to clean up
but that may just be the person who is casting redos of discontinued ocar?? let me know as
i wouldn't mind tracking down one of those choc-ice!
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The Karmann Ghia exists as a resin kit from OCAR
I considered doing a resin Chitty but haven't got around to it yet, I have the CAD file somewhere!
I would like to build a Sunbeam Tiger and a 63 Falcon hardtop. Those were two very fun 1/1 scale cars. Hard to find either one of the 1/32 bodies, though.
I'm building the Aurora Sunbeam Tiger, on vintage monogram brass chassis w/ GOM minilites as my current project. They can be found on auction for a fair shake. I have been on a fifties and sixties sports car kick lately, doing the Aurora Cunningham, Guilietta (sic) spider and Mercedes roadster adapted on vintage chassis from the box under the track.
01-02 Trans Am WS6
59 Bonneville
69 GTO
62 Catalina Super Duty
81 Turbo Trans Am
70 Grand Prix
85 Fiero Sport Coup
06 GTO
87 Dodge Daytona Shelby Z
88 Thrifty CSX-T
89 Shelby CSX
86 Omni GLH-S
I'm building the Aurora Sunbeam Tiger, on vintage monogram brass chassis w/ GOM minilites as my current project. They can be found on auction for a fair shake. I have been on a fifties and sixties sports car kick lately, doing the Aurora Cunningham, Guilietta (sic) spider and Mercedes roadster adapted on vintage chassis from the box under the track.
Best,
Dave
The Aurora Sunbeam Tiger? I will certainly look for one. Thanks.
I was thinking of building some old school gassers like , Pure Hell , Stone Woods & Cook(Willys) Ohio Georges Mustang or Willys maybe a Tri 5 shoebox , but in order to make em look like the real deal they have to sit WAY to high for a slot car , so maybe build em as drag cars ! I looking for a group 44 model of a Jag XJ or E type , any ideas ?
Michael:Not sure that the C pillar is correct, but just copied the original die cast.
To my eye - as a former Falcon owner and vice-president of an early Falcon car club - the C pillar looks roughly the right shape for a 1962-63 Falcon (the earlier ones had the rounded rear window shape) but the roof height might be too low. The front screen looks closer to the hardtop/convertible size, which was considerably lower than that in the other body styles.
The same is true of the 1963-65 Fairlane hardtop, which has a different roof from the two-door sedan, including the front windscreen, and the c-pillar on those is also further forward than the sedan. This is why it is very difficult to convert those Thunderbolt kits to make Fairlane Sport Coupes.
The roofline on the Sprint looks correct to me, more accurate than another one I have seen which had a stretched look, perhaps to work with a longer donor chassis.
From memory in the USA there were two door lengths in Falcons - a four door sedan and wagon door length, and a longer door length for all two-door variants, including the Ranchero. In Australia only the hardtop used that door length. I might be wrong on this, it is possible that there were three door lengths (four-door, two-door pillared, and two-door pillarless).
This is the best photo I could find. Note this one is a Futura and thus has the side spear trim. Deluxe models had a simpler side trim and the standard model did not have any. By eye the door might be slightly shorter than the coupe.
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