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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.

.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

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

Paul

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

Simply amazing. That is going to be killer.

This is AWESOME!!! man, Love it.

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

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

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 .

Great Job Paul

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

On your next body you could try something like this

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

Charlie don't surf wrote: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

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