1962 Chrysler 300 bubbletop-custom

Started this build in August/September 2006 but it was set aside later that year. Now I've restarted and the plan is to get it done beford July this summer.

I made a new hood with louvers and the interior will be totally rebuilt using an old Revell Parts Pack.

Good on yer for using the old parts packs instead of "collecting" them.

They were meant to be used for modelbuilding, so it's kind of a natural thing for me I guess!  

The redline-tires and the Hurst-mags are also HTF-stuff so, the entire build consists of old gennie model-parts!

Cool   

Nice look.  What colour combination you thinking of using???

Nice custom work mate, love where this is heading, should have scallops on the paint job i reckon though.

With a bubble top I reckon subtle is a no starter.

Still have no idea about colour/-s but...I guess something like silverflake with dark red scallops could look pretty good, uh?

Still have to decide about the taillights as well...might be something inspired by 1962/-63 Imperial...dunno   

Like the stance on this. Your idea on how your going to paint it sounds spot on. Look forward to seeing this being built

How about a Winfield fade done in a really lary flake colour?

Two things going for this build;
1) Its a bubble top = Kool.
2) Its a   

Nice work so far, look forward to the finished product, promises to be way   

Did some more work on this one today. I'll let the pic's speak....

Developing nicely.

Just what I like ! An all out traditional "OL' SCHOOL" Kustom ! Good one Darryl!

Likeing this, ALOT! great work so far

Looking good, I'm diggin' it.

Interior almost done.....

The grille has been a really tough one to crack....I have many hundreds of different grilles in my stash, but when I talked to a good friend and VERY talented modelbuilder today he finally put me in the right direction. I Went the really old school/TRaK way and used an old Aurora parts pack:

Like the grill...it works.

Thanks! I just decided on building this as a curbside. So the hood will be glued shut and there will just be some kind of Engine dummy in the enginebay to make look OK from below.

I decided to go with the kit supplied Engine for the "dummy". The hood will be glued shut. I had to do some filling to the bottom of the Engine/oil pan and then glued two short pieces of Evergreen tube for "headers". Everything under the car will be semiflat black.

Made a Little more progress yesterday. Still not quite finished with the bodymoulding around the rear part of the bubbletop. The Revell Parts Pack dashboard has been slightly changed. The steeringwheel came with the same Parts Pack.