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Post by Oldtimer on Oct 3, 2017 6:58:18 GMT -8
Using the GMP Late Model Trans Am Camaro as a donor, and creating two retro versions of iconic Trans Am Camaro liveries.
First, the Sunoco Penske #6.
For those of you familiar with this mold, we kept the bodywork stock to the way GMP delivered them.
Next, the factory Chevrolet Chaparral #1.
Here, we made a modification to the way GMP produced the model, which I feel better represents how the front bodywork actually worked.
Also had previously done a fantasy version, as if I had carried over the livery from my original '69 Camaro.
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Post by Chris K. Hale on Oct 3, 2017 11:08:54 GMT -8
Real Nice, I like the Chaparral...
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Post by Patrick on Oct 4, 2017 12:28:35 GMT -8
Man, do they look good or what!!
Patrick
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Post by dustymojave on Oct 4, 2017 22:57:24 GMT -8
Very nice stuff. And while your Camaro GT1 may have had the front air dam as part of the hood, this here is why the models are made with the air dam that mounts to the chassis while the hood separates at the detail line around the front bumper: (click on the images to see larger version)  The Corvette Group 5 car I worked on was done in much the same way, the lower front and rear bumpers were separate from the upper hood and upper rear body. This is so that when the car is bumped in a minor crash, it doesn't destroy the whole body. Only a relatively small piece is damaged.  I suspect that was a change in typical TA/IMSA GTO/SCCA GT-1 bodywork that came about in the late 1980s due to experience. The earlier body for that Vette had the bumper as part of the hood. The Nash Racing - Elliot Forbes-Robinson Buick 1986 T/A champ I worked on the crew of also had the bumper with the hood |
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Post by Oldtimer on Oct 5, 2017 4:59:54 GMT -8
And that interpretation was also available to the builder. On the Trans Am-spec that my partner and I built, we kept the bumper and fenders as one piece, and had a removable hood.  |
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Post by dustymojave on Oct 5, 2017 16:57:30 GMT -8
I see you had the NASCAR door bars at the time of this pic. Around 1990 my friend and I installed them on Les Lindley's 2 Camaros that had not had them previously.
Nice looking chassis under the skin. Looks a lot like a Roush-Protofab chassis. That's a whole lot more work to build and make work than to throw together an "off-the-shelf" circle track late model with bigger rear tires like a lot of lower budget racers did over the last 40 years for GT-1 and Trans Am.
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Post by Oldtimer on Oct 5, 2017 17:08:25 GMT -8
We started building it in 1982 and finished it in 1986 (long story).
Chassis was based on a Dennis Frings design, but not built by Frings. Stock Car Products front and rear clips.
We learned a lot building it. Car won Best Engineered at the Dallas Autorama the year we finished it.
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Post by robhart on Oct 6, 2017 3:49:05 GMT -8
What paint did you use for the Sunoco blue?
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Post by Oldtimer on Oct 7, 2017 7:33:24 GMT -8
What paint did you use for the Sunoco blue? Unfortunately, the painter I was working with couldn't find a paint that was identical. The newer Camaro is a couple of shade lighter than the older one. I, quite frankly, do not know how or where he was sourcing his paint.
 20171006_224015 by Jim Forte, on Flickr
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