Green wood Corvette

[treehugger]

So After getting a nice rc500 i find myself joining the long line of people with fatter wallets than Me, looking for a nice body.
And as bondo is no short supply i decided to make my own body .
And the wife being outta town for a week means the hobby room has just gained 1000 square feet of room .
This is what i am looking for finished

And this is 10 hrs into the project 15lbs of bondo , a quart of resin and a roll of mesh tape.

[treehugger]

.This is what i have so far for the rebuild





i could not resist and opened the new front bulkhead and did a dry run missing a white front arm but the black one is new ,

got a new K&B .40 to . bit big but hey this was a fast straight line car BITD

Paul

[treehugger]

ok so ill post updates this week i have to be done by friday so i can clean the house for her royalness

Paul

[bearrickster]

Wow thats looking cool, I will be looking waiting for the finished body

[RedScampi]

Simply amazing. That is going to be killer.

[m_vice]

This is AWESOME!!! man, Love it.

[treehugger]

ok so quick update 22 hrs into it got some nice gold filler today for the final shaping im hoping to get into primmer tonight

[treehugger]

ok so it gone from being a 1981 to a 1975 and with that wing gone its now starting to take back that old corvette lines again Tricky part is bringing the rear window back and changing the lines to a hard top ,the pic shows two reinforcing bars that i will mimic in the mold .Giving me a center window to cut out for the engine to keep cool.


so i cut a piece of lexan with the curve i needed and then built the edge up with 3mm glazzing tape so to give me some shaping room

[treehugger]

so after removing the rear wing we are getting somewhere i also put a hard top on it


i have added more material to the ass to round in a nice curve



the front end is going to be low!! i will have to rework the front as the model has three vent one off set .

[bearrickster]

Great Job Paul

[a01butal]

All the while looking at this thread and thinking "Strange Encounters of the 75 Greenwood Vette Kind". Paul, you were off the board for a short spell, were you abducted

[murphy3428]

On your next body you could try something like this

[Charlie don't surf]

I apologize in advance if that is your vette- but it looks like the end result of HRM's "vette hack"

[treehugger]

I apologize in advance if that is your vette- but it looks like the end result of HRM's "vette hack"

i was thinking it was brave to photo that in front of your house

[murphy3428]

No not mine to much going on for me I like more of a sleeper plain jane this was from that movie corvette summer