1954 Chevy Bel Air

[Koellefornia Kid]

Hi there,

here is my ´54 Chevy Bel Air, built in 2010.

It started life as a Monogram 1953 Bel Air kit but I didn´t like the front very much. I used a Revell ´54 Panel Truck to borrow the font part of the hood, grille, bumpers and the frenched custom taillights. I shaved all handles and emblems, frenched the headlights and chopped the top a few scale inches. Suspension was lowered and I mounted Pegasus Centerliners and tires.

Revell´s Vette Agin kit provided the engine.

Thanks for looking, comments welcome!

Greetings from Cologne, Germany

[Scalper]

looks nice.. when I saw 54 chevy I wa slike never seen that kitted

[cdgamble]

Nice Build, cool color also

[Bucky]

Your work makes it look long and low!! Great looking build! I really like the color, too!

[cobraman]

Very nice !

[Sixties Sam]

Great build! The chop looks great! Nice colors, too!

Sam

[Rider]

Neat looking chopped custom. Ya don't see many chopped '53's. 

[ChrisR]

Cool!!

[BeakDoc]

That is one sharp looking build! Love those Centerliners on this particular body style. I currently have a set mocked up for a 70 1/2 Camaro build but I’m not sure how I feel about them on it.

[Koellefornia Kid]

Thank you for your kind words!

Color is Opel apache metallic and VW crystal silver for the roof, both from the spray can.

The build was inspired by a car that Chip Foose built for Wes Rydell in 2007...

...but I thought a car like that might look cooler with a chopped top...

I wish that Revell would have offered a kit of the Cool Air among all the other Foose-kits. But building it on my own, with a few personal touches, was a lot of fun, too.

[Againmikewins]

On 8/29/2018 at 12:54 PM, Scalper said:

looks nice.. when I saw 54 chevy I wa slike never seen that kitted

https://www.amazon.com/Revell-53-54-Chevy-Gasser/dp/B000K2896U

There's this kit, but I can't remember how "stock" or "non-gasser" it can be built. If I recall correctly, there was trim parts for the '53 and '54 in this kit. 

[Againmikewins]

Great job! Love these style Chevys!

 

[Oldcarfan27]

I like yours better, something about Foose's cars look too "trendy" to me. It's kinda like how dated Boyd's Chezoom, Cadzilla and Alumacoupe look these days - Very 80s!

[Koellefornia Kid]

Thanks Patrick,

I spent my teenage years in the 1990s so I was very much influenced by the cars of the Boyd Coddington-era. You´re right, they´re dated but I still like them. The Cadzzilla is definitely on my to-do-list.

[ewetwo]

Really nice custom.

 

[crazyjim]

Looking excellent.  Good color.

[DumpyDan]

Well done looks good

[El Caballo]

Sweet copy, gorgeous color.