yellowsportwagon Posted March 17, 2019 Posted March 17, 2019 (edited) This thing is finally done. I set it aside for a long while cause I hated the bumpers and chassis. I slapped a TBird chassis under it to cure the chassis issue. I filled the spoiler groove in the trunk lid and made a thinner spoiler for it. Reshaped the wheelwells added the upgraded bumpers and grille to it. I used the kit engine but put the TBird trans and oil pan on it. Added the overflow and a frt spoiler. Stainless screen over the grille. Edited March 17, 2019 by yellowsportwagon
bbowser Posted March 17, 2019 Posted March 17, 2019 Well done! I've got this one on the bench right now. Did you use the stripe decal as a template for the color separation? What did you use for the silver?
yellowsportwagon Posted March 17, 2019 Author Posted March 17, 2019 I used 2016 Ford code UX for the silver.. I photocopy the decal sheet then cut the stripes out to use as a template
Dave Van Posted March 18, 2019 Posted March 18, 2019 Much improved.....the leaf springs and torsion bars drove me crazy!
yellowsportwagon Posted March 18, 2019 Author Posted March 18, 2019 (edited) 14 hours ago, DoctorLarry said: Is that the Salvino kit? The body engine, minus trans and dashboard is. The rest is TBird parts. Not one of my best efforts. But it’ll do. Edited March 18, 2019 by yellowsportwagon
Dave Van Posted March 18, 2019 Posted March 18, 2019 3 hours ago, yellowsportwagon said: The body engine, minus trans and dashboard is. The rest is TBird parts. Not one of my best efforts. But it’ll do. If you get to where you don't like it any longer.....You can send it to me for safe 'storage'!!!
MarkJ Posted March 18, 2019 Posted March 18, 2019 Looks Awesome , Tim. Your choice of chassis really improves the authenticity of the build. Excellent build in every way. Its weird that the real car did not have 1/4 glasses. Did Nascar out law them or did the car actually run better with out them?
yellowsportwagon Posted March 18, 2019 Author Posted March 18, 2019 17 minutes ago, MarkJ said: Looks Awesome , Tim. Your choice of chassis really improves the authenticity of the build. Excellent build in every way. Its weird that the real car did not have 1/4 glasses. Did Nascar out law them or did the car actually run better with out them? I don’t know but none of the Colonade cars ever ran the opera windows.
MarkJ Posted March 19, 2019 Posted March 19, 2019 17 hours ago, yellowsportwagon said: I don’t know but none of the Colonade cars ever ran the opera windows. Yes, I know the colonades and the monte carlo did not have windows but I remember that the 1973 Malibu teams were complaining that the big missing quarter glasses were making the back glass act like a parachute. And that is why they came out with the colonades in 74 and beyond to help that situation. The olds had a colonnade roof in 77 but it came with the flat nose grille instead of the more wedge shaped grille the gray ghost used. I guess the grille is more important than the roof for speed. The open big quarters did not seem to hurt the gray ghost at all. It dominated the Daytona 500 that it won.
yellowsportwagon Posted March 19, 2019 Author Posted March 19, 2019 The flat nose Cutlass was a supreme. They had the Monte roofline.
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