A Chevy for Sherman 18!

[Sherman 18]

Yep thought I would do a Chevy with so many Fords being built hmy: Kinda funny since I'm a dye blue Ford brand guy.

Give my hand at a 55 Chevy Gasser! I love the look of these cars done this way. As a base going to use the Revell 55 Chevy Street Machine.

base kit

A molded in exhaust!!!!!! That just is not going to cut it.

Yeah I cut the floor out

Started to take the molding off the side

Until next update

 

[moon puppy]

All right! Looking forward to this Jeff.

 

[Bagge]

Love the look of those 55's! Will be following your build!

 

[randy_ditton]

Hi Jeff, This should be fun

Randy

 

[Gene]

Looking good!!!!

 

[Iron Mike]

Yeah, the molded floor had to go!! Go, man, go!

 

[Sherman 18]

Having so little time to sniff glue.............. I mean model

Here is the progress I have for the last eight weeks in this double nickle Chevy. Yeah some of the pictures are not the best.

Mostly have the passenger compartment floor roughed in.

Here is a dain bramage moment. I was thinking I could do the floor just as GM did.
It did not fit. Took two weeks to figure that out.

Here is the floor I'm sticking with

I cut away the from part of the frame. I was not going to do this but I feel it will pay
out in the long run. Should be easier to mount the front spring/s and axle.

I removed the kit supplied transmission. I'm going to use the B&M transmission from Revells
Willy's Gasser kit.

I also removed the oil pan from the engine and with a little cutting I'm using the oil pan
from the Willys kit too.

Thats it for now everyony have a good one.

 

[moon puppy]

Well that was well worth the wait!!

 

[Bagge]

 

[Iron Mike]

Making progress! Good to have you back!!

 

[randy_ditton]

Hi Jeff, Nice scratch work going on here Looking forward to more!

Randy

 

[Gene]

Nicely done thus far!!!

 

[Dave wahl]

Thats gonna be an interesting look on that 55. What color are you going to do that in?

Dave

 

[SA Dave]

Nice job so Far Jef

 

[Sherman 18]

Thats gonna be an interesting look on that 55. What color are you going to do that in?

Dave

Thanks Dave, I'm kinda thinking orange, maybe in a kandy

 

[Sherman 18]

I have been working on cutting out the floor with a #11 blade. It was taking for ever, and that I only worked on it for about 20 min. at a time. After 3 weeks of this a bulb came on while driving back to school a couple of sundays ago. Just drill it anf then file off the rest. I know I'm hard headed at times.

 

[moon puppy]

Er...whatcha do that for?

 

[Sherman 18]

I hope the scratch built floor will show up. :idonno

 

[moon puppy]

AH!
in that case..

 

[Iron Mike]

Cool! Good to see you back on this one, Jeff!