I read this neat story, done by a model car club many years ago, and just remembered it again today. Maybe some of you have seen it.

If you haven't, it is definately worth a look :cool:

Try to read it by scrolling down slowly and NOT looking ahead at the pictures in advance. :)

http://tnmcc.com/chevelle.html

How cool of a project was that?

pretty neat!!

Thats pretty cool, but they seem to be missing the after 1984 era, where some guy pays $10k for that hulk, spends 10 years hunting down all the original parts, and then restores it back to original...

Thats pretty cool, but they seem to be missing the after 1984 era, where some guy pays $10k for that hulk, spends 10 years hunting down all the original parts, and then restores it back to original...

Right.

Maybe they're working on it right now :D

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Thats pretty cool, but they seem to be missing the after 1984 era, where some guy pays $10k for that hulk, spends 10 years hunting down all the original parts, and then restores it back to original...



paying $100 each for reproduction GM Hoses and $5 each for correct Marked Bolts.

I know it's a model, but it still almost makes a guy tear up....I need to go to Hallmark and get myself a teddy bear now. Justin

That's pretty cool.

Thats pretty cool, but they seem to be missing the after 1984 era, where some guy pays $10k for that hulk, spends 10 years hunting down all the original parts, and then restores it back to original...



paying $100 each for reproduction GM Hoses and $5 each for correct Marked Bolts.

They also forgot the part from 2007 where the car surfaces on eBay with a questionable buildsheet showing it to be numbers matching L78/M22 and a "Buy It Now" price of $125,000.

They also forgot the part from 2007 where the car surfaces on eBay with a questionable buildsheet showing it to be numbers matching L78/M22 and a "Buy It Now" price of $125,000.


That would have been the ulimate ending :)

Now THAT is accurate modelling! To look at it makes me cringe, yet it makes me remember. It also makes me glad to be the 2nd owner of a '67, the 1st was an elderly lady (my aunt). Now you see why I never sold it, I couldn't bear to see it raped & murdered.

As old Art still tries to justify selling the original long block and all of the car's accesories that fatefull day at the flea market years ago for a grand total of $216.50 ...


Little Arty (the IIIrd) explains the ins and outs of eBay and how they can either:


Buy the $157,000 dollars worth of parts to restore the Chevelle to a $40,000 dollar car or ...

Sell the cowl tag and original paperwork for $55,000 and forget it.


http://img38.picoodle.com/img/img38/9/8/29/f_manatpc4m_79f9ba6.jpg

I say rebuild it :thumbsup:

I've seen that before, but its still sweet, alot of detail went into it for sure.

Awesome story. But why did they have to bastardize the car so bad. :(

Reading it i expected a better ending like they bought it back and it was restored to it's former glory.The ending was nothing short of sad.

As old Art still tries to justify selling the original long block and all of the car's accesories that fatefull day at the flea market years ago for a grand total of $216.50 ...

Little Arty (the IIIrd) explains the ins and outs of eBay and how they can either:

Buy the $157,000 dollars worth of parts to restore the Chevelle to a $40,000 dollar car or ...
Sell the cowl tag and original paperwork for $55,000 and forget it.

I say rebuild it :thumbsup:
LOL :D

Just had to bring this post out of the archives for our new readers!!

The stock car part is how many old Chevelles ended up in the 70s & 80s. They were common, cheap and easy to work on so were popular with stock car racers. Most of them went to the scrap yard from the race track.

Pretty cool!!!!

The stock car part is how many old Chevelles ended up in the 70s & 80s. They were common, cheap and easy to work on so were popular with stock car racers. Most of them went to the scrap yard from the race track.


I have to confess, I was one of those guys who tore up a perfectly good Chevelle on an oval track. And while it was generally just considered an old car in 1978, even then I had a feeling some day I'd regret doing it.

http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy173/dmuller27/Racing/scan0036.jpg

Cool

Although I see, by your signature, you have ANOTHER one on the way! :hurray:

I remember seeing that picture story when first published in SAE, and thinking (as a West Coast Car Guy) that we would rebuild it a few more times before junking it,if really rotten, or parking it and forgetting it for a while until we grew bored.

And then starting all over again.

Tom

Cool

Although I see, by your signature, you have ANOTHER one on the way! :hurray:


Yes I do, and I promise not to beat the crap out of this one! :D

I have to confess, I was one of those guys who tore up a perfectly good Chevelle on an oval track. And while it was generally just considered an old car in 1978, even then I had a feeling some day I'd regret doing it.

http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy173/dmuller27/Racing/scan0036.jpg

AWESOME! I wouldn't regret it one bit... I bet that as a stock car, it provided you with way more fun than most Chevelles will ever provide their owners today. ;)

I still wouldn't hesitate to cut up a Chevelle for race car use if the car was rough enough... in fact, I'm sort of looking for one to do it to. :yes:

Yes, it was a lot of fun.

That car was actually a two-fer in terms of destroying classic muscle cars. It originally was a '64 GTO. It had already been stripped when I got it and had bondo from end-to-end, but no rust. Would be worth a bit today. Anyway I ran it as a Pontiac in '77 and it was very competitive, but kept blowing engines. I decided to switch to Chevy the next year but didn't want to build a whole new car. So I pulled the old barely running 327 out of a '62 Impala I had been driving for an engine, and found a '66 Malibu which I figured would fit the frame. I cut off the GTO body leaving the floorpan and firewall, and cut off the Chevelle body and dropped it on. Worked out pretty well except for one minor detail. Turns out the GTO frame is a little longer in the back. I had to notch some of the inside rear of the trunk, but I got it to fit.

It was just as fast with the 327 for the first half of the year, then the tires started going away, and I had no money, so I got slower and slower. Dropped out at the end of the season for personal reasons, took a year off, and re-invented myself as a bracket racer, still with the same 327, but in a '69 Camaro.

Its not easy to heat up plastic enough to create an realistic looking dent like the second pic. As for trying to dent up the chrome plated parts and still make it look chrome. No way, those would have to be replated. Which when I look at the workmanship that went into each model, even makes it more cool.

Thats pretty cool, but they seem to be missing the after 1984 era, where some guy pays $10k for that hulk, spends 10 years hunting down all the original parts, and then restores it back to original...

This model kit would come from China or Taiwan which would make it even more authentic and all the parts would have to be refitted.

Reading it i expected a better ending like they bought it back and it was restored to it's former glory.The ending was nothing short of sad.

I agree, I hoped for a better ending. Well done story tho.

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Thats pretty cool, but they seem to be missing the after 1984 era, where some guy pays $10k for that hulk, spends 10 years hunting down all the original parts, and then restores it back to original...



paying $100 each for reproduction GM Hoses and $5 each for correct Marked Bolts.

I want to see the diorama with the guy swearing and kicking his cheap repro parts that don't fit worth a darn