Mike;
Just figured that maybe sometime You would do the same car as a Beater! YOU sir could make it come alive fer sure! Just think, You Build Like New autos,The best I’ve seen in a while. Why wouldn’t A beater done by YOU be awesome?
I know what you are trying to do. You are trying to get me to build in a style that I do not want to build in. Show me some respect by not trying to change my style of building. This is my model and it is not yours! If you want to build a model that is a beater, then build it yourself!
I don’t build beaters! If it ain’t shiny, it ain’t mine! It’s as simple as that!
I finished the interior for now. I still want to add a tachometer to the dash. The engine and drive shaft has been installed and the chassis is complete.
More Plymouth to come…
I wanted to add a tachometer and I had a PE tach from Detail Master that I thought would fit the bill. It was a scale 5 inches in diameter and the more I thought about it, the more I thought that it was too large. I used a spare tach that came in the Revell Foose '67 Coronet kit and I detailed that to my liking and installed it. While I was at it, I made an ignition coil and installed that as well. Then I detailed the grille with Tamiya X-11 Chrome Silver for the headlight buckes and Tamiya XF-1 Flat Black for the grille itself.
More Plymouth to come…
Hey;
Back up here! It was a suggestion because of your Talent. Not wether you should or not is always up to you. I like your building Style and will never change ny opinion therein. So Please Chill !
I went and finished the grille and front valance with lights and prepped the rear valance for additional stripes coming down from the taillights.
More Plymouth to come…
That looks quite Good at this point!
I masked off the rear bumper and valance and then I painted them with Tamiya TS-29 Semi Gloss Black. And, I couldn’t resist doing a mockup. I’m liking this!
More Mopar to come…
Well this is quite a WIP!
Unstated but most impressive to me is the extreme depth of knowledge of the real subject.
When you got the grille, nose painted up, the design of the car just leaps off the screen.
I wonder who/ what studio was designing for Mopar in the late 60’s?
Bill
Thanks Bill! This build is taking me longer than I had anticipated. I keep on thinking of things that I would like to add to this build. If I had to venture a guess on who designed the new Chrysler products, I would say it was Chrysler themselves.
I won’t hijack your thread, so briefly. I’ve always been interested in car body design as I’m a designer myself in a different field.
A quick search comes up with the names Virgil Exner (50’s-60’s- think massive bodies and tail fins), Elwood Engel (60’s to early 70’s- Fuselage bodies) and Don Wright. all at Chrysler.
Bill
I won’t hijack your thread, so briefly. I’ve always been interested in car body design as I’m a designer myself in a different field.
A quick search comes up with the names Virgil Exner (50’s-60’s- think massive bodies and tail fins), Elwood Engel (60’s to early 70’s- Fuselage bodies) and Don Wright. all at Chrysler.
Bill
Bill, I’m not worried about you hijacking my thread. Back then, cars had a distinctive look to them. Today, many of them look the same. Same shape. Even SUVs are starting to look the same. You have to look for the manufacturer’s symbol to find out who built it.
Full confession.
The whole fuselage thing rendered body styles across the manufactors so similar that a Camaro could look like a Firebird by 1970. The Mustangs by 1972 were ugly.
So give me a 1965 Fury III two door with a three speed automatic.
Or a 1964 Pontiac Goat.
"Yes officer, I came up the onramp at excessive speed and passed you ".
Bill
Well, I never. [humph] I take offense to that. I had a '73!
No, I really don’t take offense, I’m just yanking your chain.
They were ugly, and the only claim to fame to my '73 is it was the first year of the 5mph rubber bumper. Not only that, it was the most unreliable vehicle I’ve ever owned. Among other things, the engine used to like to quit when making left turns whilst accelerating. A real treat when making left turns against oncoming traffic.
Me too! I had a '72! GRRRR!!! [:@]
Hehehe. Nah…they really were ugly, but it was a cool ugly. People used to tell me that mine looked like it would eat Bambi.
[:D]
My high school buddy’s older brother took to calling me “Mustang Sally” back in the day.
LOL Greg!
What did you have in yours? Did you have the Cleveland? LOVED THAT ENGINE!
Sorry for the OT banter, BTW. [sn0ps]
Mike - the mockup looks fantastic. Really coming along - and the paint looks beautiful.
Thanks keavdog!
I am backing off a little from all of my builds. Too much going on around me right now. Upcoming events and such.