'57 Chevy High Roller

[Spottedlaurel]

I built the Camaro High Roller when I was about 15, brush-painted Humbrol black. It was OK but eventually demoted to the parts box. It then donated its running gear to a Monogram '57. I think I started it back in the '90s, it got finished in 2009:

Monogram 1:24 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 'High Roller' by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

This was how it had sat in a box for some years - I'd done all the difficult work, don't know why I stopped - maybe the prospect of all that BMF?! I painted it in Purple Velvet, a 1970s Ford UK/Europe colour. Back in the '90s it was easy to pick up funky random colours like that from the car parts shops.

Circa 2008, I resurrected it:

Monogram 1:24 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 'High Roller' by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Monogram 1:24 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 'High Roller' by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

I don't know where the blower came from, maybe the Monogram '55 Chevy? I know that's where the hood scoop originated. The engine might be the one from the Camaro?

Monogram 1:24 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 'High Roller' by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Monogram 1:24 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 'High Roller' by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Monogram 1:24 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 'High Roller' by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Monogram 1:24 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 'High Roller' by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

As I recall it was pretty easy to add the high lift suspension to the underside of the '57. From a mention I saw in the thread below it doesn't seem like Monogram adapted the base car at all, so it would be easy enough to do this on pretty much anything.

Although it looks like the Camaro and Chevelle got a higher lift than the trucks? Or at least different wheels and tyres.

Don't worry about the Camaro, It had a bath in a tub of brake fluid a few years ago and is in a box awaiting a rebuild one day.

[Rbray47]

I dig it!

I like those old Monogram kits. 

[slusher]

Very nicely done! Very cool!

[PappyD340]

Cool indeed!

[doorsovdoon]

Very nice.  I remember the funky colour paints in the Motor shops you mention. Motorworld was an old favourite of mine.

[ChrisR]

COOL!!!