Scratch-built Show-car designed XRIII

[RestoModGuy]

This was my senior year of High School 1979 drafting design project. I drew it, built it from sheet plastic and plastic-wood with squadron green putty.

There are a few kit parts, tires/wheels, interior, engine from an old F1 racer but other than that, this one is all my design and build. I was very lucky to have it survive nearly 40-years and still stay together. 

 

[wayne swayze]

Really nice work! Glad it has survived!   

[Intmd8r]

This is crazy!

[louie]

I love it. Nice design. I agree with lntmd8r, it's crazy!    Thanks.   Jeff 

[misterNNL]

Great old survivor with outstanding styling and execution.Thanks for sharing your creativity with us.

[Deathgoblin]

Wow!  Awesome! 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Very swoopy. Lots of nice work. I LOVE to see originality. 

Edited June 10, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy

[Plastheniker]

A really ambitious project and beautifully executed!

[cobraman]

Very slick.

[Intmd8r]

I find a new appreciation for you efforts ever time I look at the pics.

Just noticed the steering wheel-did you source that from the AMT '53 Ford P/U? It looks identical to the one I just used in my '29 Rat Rod. Talk about polar opposites......

[XJ6]

Like ????

[sjordan2]

Wow. Where modeling becomes art.

[unclescott58]

Cool!

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Pretty darn cool!

[mod3l Lover]

    That is very cool indeed!!  It reminds me of

one of the 80's designs by Pinheadfarina.

    Or something like that!!

 

        David S.

[slusher]

Real cool model. Great paint..

[GTJUNIOR]

Very nice scratch building. Awesome that you still have it in one piece as a memento of your youth.

[bbowser]

That reminds me of the Craftsman contests back in the '50s (I think).  Amazing work, I love the paint.

[Yahshu]

Totally awesome, must have some real bad blind spots though, I'd still drive it, and it's survived 40yrs which is really cool. 

[disabled modeler]

Jim... Awesome work and creativity...!  Love the paint work too.

[Spex84]

Awesome. That's a piece of history right there! I'm so glad it has survived. You did a fantastic job designing and building it all those years ago. The fact that it has opening doors is particularly impressive, considering the materials it's constructed from!

[Rider]

The paint layup is bang good, I dig it. 

[Hubert Rollins]

That is waaay  cool!!!!! I certainly hope you made an A!!!

[Sixties Sam]

That's a work of art! Great design and scratch building work!

Sam

[V8 Trucker]

nice idea made very beautiful and well photographed