Slowly's 57 Shoehorn

Yup, at it again. Its that 57 Ford Fairlane, pretty good detail and optional parts, but the chassy doesnt fit all too well, so I chopped the front off of it and just glued it on so I can set the ride height and stance without having to tape it together.

Not too sure if putting in an engine, might just do curbside, worked pretty well with the Merc. Plan is for a nice low bum-draggin topless cruisin thang. Iv had this body for ages with the roof almost all off, and im on a 50s kick so here we go aye.

Cleaned it up a tad and glued a bit of sheet styrene to shorten up the cockpit, just going off of whats in my head at the moment, I'll get around to looking at some reference along the way to see how much iv skrewed it up. Only one pic for now, not much happenin. I rekon the front wheels are a bit too far forward so I'll have that change that and it could stand to be a tad higher methinks. Whatcha guys think?



Oh also, whats the opinions on the sort of wheels would look nicer, some hubbies like these, or just steelies? Going with black again, since its the only colour I got atm

Hubbies with the black or if you go steelies then red with white walls...and go as low you can.

Caps on the black. Lookin sweet so far, Nice stance.

Dont worry about ref pics. Just go with whats in your head. If you use ref pics it means ...its been done before.

I like chrome so hubbies would be my pic or moons.

On a roll now KC
If it were me it'd be gloss black steelies with redline tyres to go with the red interior

Cool. Sorta like a big Thunderbird.
Baby blue steelies with trim rings & baby moons would be my vote. And make it lower.

Awesome guys, thanks for all the ideas! gunna try em all out and chuck up some piccies later on!

Dean, so true man, so true!

Zen, Thats what I was thinkin, but not so 'sporty' sort of :S Gunna have to think up some ideas for the helicopter pad though

fixed up the front wheels a tad, could bare to be a tad lower, gunna have a muck around with the wheels and see if iv got some nicer tires, Ill see what full moons and all the other idea look like, heres a quick cruddy pic



Thanks for all the input guys, great ideas for me to try out

I personally like those wheels, chassis up and body down, jet black and maybe put some moulding around the back of the front seats, a bit like an early vette type of style. gunna look good either way mate.

yeah the chassy's a jerk of a thing on this kit if youre going low aye.
seeing what the other wheels look like, whitewalls from the tbucket kit.



aldo added some skirts, whatchas think? any other small mods I could do to make it fit in in the late 50s early 60s?

I like the skirts mate, those wheels look pretty good too, can't help with the 50s style, wasn't alive back then.

ta Dale

Got the poopies with the bottom being all uneven, every one of these iv had have been uneven and warped... shaved it flat, put a strip of styrene along the bottom and chucked a layer of putty on. Friday night shenannigans, what are they?

That looks awesome KC!! I really like the spats. will be the magic touch I reckon

You need some side trim pr something to break up that back area if you use the spats...makes it look tail heavy to me...and the 57 always did have a landing deck at the rear anyway. I all for as low as you can go.

Coming along, turning into a sweet cruiser