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So after posting about the Mustang Estate Wagon and someone had posted a picture of a camero wagon I thought I'd go hunting for more photos. Being a camaro fan and not so much a mustang fan I was excited to see the results. The camaro wagon looks killer and I would love to see the blue one built. 

Has anyone ever built one of these? 

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The problem with converting a hardtop coupe into a wagon is the roof and rear quarter panel contours between the two are quite different. You got straight, horizontal lines (wagon rear quarter windows) mixing with smoothly arching lines (Camaro quarter panel edges), and a near-flat wagon roof which doesn't work well with the Camaro's tapering side window openings.

This design is much more thought out and the styling better integrated:

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There's a good reason most wagons and 4-door sedans used different quarter panels and roofs than 2-door hardtops through the years.

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The problem with converting a hardtop coupe into a wagon is the roof and rear quarter panel contours between the two are quite different. You got straight, horizontal lines (wagon rear quarter windows) mixing with smoothly arching lines (Camaro quarter panel edges), and a near-flat wagon roof which doesn't work well with the Camaro's tapering side window openings.

This design is much more thought out and the styling better integrated:

Slide13.jpg

There's a good reason most wagons and 4-door sedans used different quarter panels and roofs than 2-door hardtops through the years.

I agree with you to a certain degree but then when I saw the photo I wasn't to impressed. I guess it just loses its attitude if that makes any sense.

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The problem with converting a hardtop coupe into a wagon is the roof and rear quarter panel contours between the two are quite different. You got straight, horizontal lines (wagon rear quarter windows) mixing with smoothly arching lines (Camaro quarter panel edges), and a near-flat wagon roof which doesn't work well with the Camaro's tapering side window openings.

This design is much more thought out and the styling better integrated:

Slide13.jpg

There's a good reason most wagons and 4-door sedans used different quarter panels and roofs than 2-door hardtops through the years.

Very italianesque. Bill Mitchell sure loved Europan design at the time.

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Funny thing is I remember on some weird anime show called "Serious Black", I saw what definitely looked like a Camaro station wagon that had some woman driving it. IIRC, the scene played out as the woman was putting furniture in her car (she was jamming it in there with "power attacks), and some pervert touched her romp, then she hit him in the nads, then got into her car and mowed the him down with blood all over the car. Weird and sick, but funny scene! Does anyone remember this?

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You have any pics of that? I'd be interested in seeing how that came out.

Heres the first one I did.

I took a 41 Chevy truck and built the front end so that the 69 Camaro grille would fit and

the tail lights are in the roll pan.

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Heres the second one I did

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Here is a Mustang truck that I built also.

So like I said I beleave I can find a 69 Camaro and mess with it and see what I can come up with.

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Earl, sorry I didn't see your post before but those are some really sweet looking builds. Thanks for posting them up.

No problem Jason

Thats a nice resin kit that guy is selling and a good site for some custom build ideas.

Looking at the photos up close the resin looks good and smooth.

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