Ultimate family sleeper

Hey there all, here is one i did a while ago, Chevy Alternomad, added a twin turbo, twin supercharged, NOS injected small block chevy, tube front end, a couple of NOS bottles in the back and dropped it a few scale inches, Paint is Spearmint green over Wild violet acrylic.





thanks for looking,

Interesting conversion , only thing to me is the seam line left on top of the brake master cylinder !

Good call, sticks out like dogs-nuts in the pic, never really noticed it in real life, must pull my finger out a bit further next time.

Sweet!! I really like it, great colour combo too, suits it very well. 5 stars!

have looked at this one a few times and always passed on it That's one very cool Chevy custom nomad

scummy wrote: Interesting conversion , only thing to me is the seam line left on top of the brake master cylinder !

maybe its the wire bracket that keeps the top on ? paint it silver and deny all else

great looking wagon Dale

Thanks all, and DSF, found that little wire bracket mate.

Now matbe its finished.

Only thing is the wire bracket/clip goes the other way.

Nice build of a kit that I've avoided like the plague. Well done.

have to track one down now

Radical engine choice!

WOW that's a nice surprise under the bonnet, very nice

Thanks guys, i love this motor, pitty the old J2000 is a bit hard to score now days, it made an awsome donor car.

DeeCee wrote:Thanks guys, i love this motor, pitty the old J2000 is a bit hard to score now days, it made an awsome donor car.

I must have had at least 6 of them and the variants. I only have one motor left - and it's in something.

Ihave another motor in a radical 32 i did years ago,

I think i have a pair of turbo's from another, hind sight would be great, we all would have been a tad more careful with some of the stuff we've all had.

A photo of one of my long lost one:

I also had a version of the same car undamaged, in glorious pink, with massive flares all round. Double wheels on the front, so it does still have a tyre there. Between the two, that counts for 4 kits already.

Sorry, we seem to have hijacked your thread.

Thats cool mate, looks like it would after the keys were given to a teenage son to just go down the shop,(be good now) , funny thing, my first one was done hot pink aswell , and as it was my thread to start with, it doesn,t count as a hijack.

IIRC that engine (possibly without the turbos) was also used in pro street Beretta & 'vette kits.

zenrat wrote:IIRC that engine (possibly without the turbos) was also used in pro street Beretta & 'vette kits.

Correct! That is what I mean by "variants". Quoted from elsewhere: "The Beretta and Corvette version had twin side draught webers on a magnacharger."
It was probably a case of licensing that prevented the exact engine being used!
The only one I have left must have been from the J2000. It has been modded to have the single 4 barrel sitting up atop the magnachargers.

Ilike that thing too, what was it originally? looks mustang-ishh in the rear quarter.

DeeCee wrote:Ilike that thing too, what was it originally? looks mustang-ish in the rear quarter.

It wasn't anything originally. It's hand sculpted out of copper foil and wire, and yes I was using a Mustang as a reference. As it typical of oval track cars though, it's just a few bits of sheet metal hung from the tube chassis.