'57 Chevy Gasser 1/12

[marchinos]

Hi to all, my name is Marco, I write from Itlay and I'm building a '57 Gasser model, in italy don't have this cars, but I love it and want to build my gasser car.
I have buy a Monogram 1957 chevy 1/12 scale and want to convert in a gasser model.
no I post some pics and want to now how i modify a stock car to convert in gasser.
I see some car have a stringht axle and some have indipendet sunspension on front... what is difference?

please excuse my english but I don't speack evry days :flute:

the model is same this

http://www.fast-autos.net/diecast-cars-models/diecast-car-image-large/monogram-57-chevy-sport-coupe-1-12-scale-model-kit_180622265200.jpg

[marchinos]

for frist time I have open the box!!! :)

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/57Chevy006.jpg

for Starting project I have cut the front chassis (indipendent suspension) and need to rebuilt straight chassis for straight axle and take a steering sistem from indipendent suspension, after I have cut out the front bumper, and take only chrome parts attached on front fender (I don't think how named)

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_0206.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_0207.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_4349.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_4351.jpg

[marchinos]

I start to think about my gasser and I like Enderle Style air scoop, and I take one from '67 Vette but need to enelarge a hole in the hood, and after i have made holes on air scoop for rebuilt a butterfly on air scoop

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_0203.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_0208.jpg

[chevender]

Nice work!
Rick

[MikeC55]

I am liking this! Keep posting pictures.

[15055chevy]

Very nice.....looks like a fun project. Please post more pics when you get it done ok.

[rj57]

I'd post pics of the blue '57 Hardtop I built back in the early 1970s before I even owned a '57 Chevy. BUT...... one day in the 1908s my dad smashed it and threw it away.

The car had a 327 in it just like I wanted.
A 4-speed with shifter.
Cragar S/S wheels.
Wide tires.
A straight axil.
Bucket seats.

All the things I wanted my '57 Chevy to have if I ever owned one.

Just to show my dad isn't 100% uncaring. He bought another '57 Chevy kit and gave it to me. That's when I told him the '57 he smashed was a one of a kind.


PS. I scarfed the needed parts from other model kits to build this '57.

[marchinos]

where is your chevy? in this section of forum?

[marchinos]

under the chassis the fuel tank have an imperfection i have removed, after i go to work inside a car.
I had removed the gas pedal and want replace whit one of mooneyes production, but frist time I have made the floaking in the floor

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_0211.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_4346.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_0320.jpg

[marchinos]

whit this forum I have see the Candy Man gasser, and I go in love for it!!! I decide to made clean car, and remove the crome line on fender and on side

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_0317.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_0319.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_0311.jpg

[marchinos]

now the fris problem... what color i can paint? frist time I think to a matt color but when I have seen the candy man gasser I become unsettled...

[Mr. Jean]

A picture sent to me, of a model of my old car. :cool:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/JEANS32/My%20Dream%20Gasser/lrdone3.jpg

[marchinos]

wow is grat car, nice model and nice gasser
this is in 1/25? or 1/12?

[Mr. Jean]

!/25 I'm guessing. I don't do model. Perhaps this shot will help.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/JEANS32/My%20Dream%20Gasser/lr5.jpg

[marchinos]

very nice!!! but decal? you made with Alps?

[Mr. Jean]

I didn't make the model. I only have pictures of it, not the model. They were sent to me by the model maker.

[marchinos]

the model is built very well!!! now I need to study the modify for make a gasser from a normal kit :anim_25:

[Mr. Jean]

More pictures of it here, if that helps you at all. :anim_25:

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/JEANS32/My%20Dream%20Gasser/

[chevender]

Gasser model by Monogram 1/24th scale.

http://www.trifive.com/photopostgallery/data/500/medium/210_001.JPG

Rick

[marchinos]

I have finished the floor and I start to rebuilt the sides without chrome parts

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/57Gasser014.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/57Gasser030.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/57Gasser031.jpg

[marchinos]

now I'm thinking about wheels, I like the cragar S/S, but have 3 choice. In front I I have white wall tire

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/57Gasser023.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/marchinos/1957%20Chevy%20Gasser/IMG_0312.jpg