57 corvette 70s bracket car

[keviiin86]

The theme of this one is a late 70s era bracket car. I tried to keep everything fairly era correct and only use parts that were available at the time.  The basic chassis and engine are out of the box but I modified a bunch of stuff also.  Cut the trans off and swapped to a th400 and moved the whole engine/trans further back.  I added resin parts throughout from VCG, Iceman and futur attraction as well as fuel lines from detail master and wired distributor from M.A.D.  Made the rollbar out of aluminum rod, narrowed the rear end and added a cross member and 2 upper control arms to make it a 4 link style suspension.  The paint is GM mystic teal automotive touch up that I had mixed up in a spray can and clear coated.  I threw in a picture of a 62 corvette I found on Facebook a while back which is sort of the "look" I was going for.  Anyways, enjoy!

[Vettegasser]

WOW!!!!! 

[TransAmMike]

So ya got it done huh Kevin?

Outstanding job, love it!!    Now if I can ever get to mine....well maybe one day.

You get my two thumbs up rating??      ??

[keviiin86]

1 hour ago, TransAmMike said:

So ya got it done huh Kevin?

Outstanding job, love it!!    Now if I can ever get to mine....well maybe one day.

You get my two thumbs up rating??      ??

Thanks man, how are you planning to build yours?

[M W Elky]

Looks great very period correct just like it came off the pages of popular hot rodding 

[ybsluos]

Kevin it looks burly!   Nice work 

[Tedly]

  I love that! You pretty much nailed the time period, what did you use on the wheels? The finish is about perfect for the Cragar super tricks from my memory. 

[keviiin86]

1 hour ago, Tedly said:

  I love that! You pretty much nailed the time period, what did you use on the wheels? The finish is about perfect for the Cragar super tricks from my memory. 

Thanks! I like the challenge of finding correct parts for the era.  The wheels I painted with VHT silver caliper paint, and detailed the bolts and lug nuts with a bronze/gold sharpie.

[Zippi]

Nice looking build.  I'm diggin all the mods.  Nicely done.

[TransAmMike]

20 hours ago, keviiin86 said:

Thanks man, how are you planning to build yours?

Pretty much like yours but haven't put a lot of thought to it yet.   At my age it's getting harder to do a lot.  I have 2 other builds to get to after I finally get my '66 Nova WIP done.

 

[bondo bill]

sweet build

[W-409]

This turned out very nice, it was a pleasure to watch this come together. '57 is my favorite year model of all Corvettes and you definitely did it a justice, it just looks right in every way. Beautiful work with extra detailing, too. Nicely done!

[keviiin86]

8 hours ago, W-409 said:

This turned out very nice, it was a pleasure to watch this come together. '57 is my favorite year model of all Corvettes and you definitely did it a justice, it just looks right in every way. Beautiful work with extra detailing, too. Nicely done!

Thank you! It was a pretty fun build..eventhough I didnt live it, the 70s is probably my favorite era for drag racing.

[ChrisR]

Looks great!

[PappyD340]

Super nice Corvette!

[echo]

I like it a lot. Excellent finish work and the details are just right for the subject, beautiful build that you should be proud of.

[dragcarz]

It came out great Kevin!

[keviiin86]

13 hours ago, echo said:

I like it a lot. Excellent finish work and the details are just right for the subject, beautiful build that you should be proud of.

Thanks! Trying to improve my skills little by little, I felt this one came together as planned and turned out pretty well.

5 hours ago, dragcarz said:

It came out great Kevin!

Thank you!  

[dust collectors]

This is a cool one, nice work. I really like the finish on the wheels.

[keviiin86]

17 hours ago, dust collectors said:

This is a cool one, nice work. I really like the finish on the wheels.

thanks, they were resin wheels that I painted with VHT silver caliper paint..added a little detail on the bolts and lug nuts also.

[dust collectors]

1 hour ago, keviiin86 said:

thanks, they were resin wheels that I painted with VHT silver caliper paint..added a little detail on the bolts and lug nuts also.

The little added detail made a huge difference.

[Scott8950]

Very nice