1957 Chev Funny Car

This is what i've been working away on the last few weeks since the skyline was finished. :naughty:
Fianlly got around to posting a few pics :rolleyes:

Body needs to be sanded/primed and painted yet but thought i'd give you all a sneak peak while i wait for the decals to arrive.
Fitmet of parts has been a real bastard, but has turned out pretty good.

Hope you all like something different :sunglasse :iceslolan

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/pf2215b9caaa8c90a24425d4aabdbf763/fa843683.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/p1137b127496bed92d13dddf06e29693b/fa843681.jpg

Hot damn! That looks nice what kit is that?? :smile:

You work fast!! The decals should reach you early next week!! :sunglasse Glad to see ya 'round these parts!!

hehehe... they had a chevy of that body style ("nitro coupe") (long nose short deck) at the super chevy show this year.... just in case your wondering; heres what the 1:1 cars run...

http://images.cardomain.com/member_images/10/web/370000-370999/370008_138_full.jpg

There was one like that with a white front and yellow flames with the rest in red that ran a 6.40 or something at the last race I went to.

Nice detail on the chassis.. Cant wait for updates :eek:

Great Work P-Man, I love seeing "different" projects on here, nice to see a change every now and then. great detail, love your work.

Nice choice Pman, This like a doorslammer or something? It's nice to see someone building these kind of kits every now and again. This'd be like a 572 hemi, right?

p man sweeet ride

got the same kit. nearly it was already painted and decaled :disappoin (not very well), i don't know how to turn it into something good
so, where did you get new decals for it?

That is Tom "the Mongoose" McEwen's '57 Chevy Funny Car. It was an exhibition car he campaigned in the early nineties as "The World's Fastest '57 Chevy". It's no doorslammer.

Strangely enough, it's also not the first flopper '57 ever kitted. Monogram produced a kit based on the chassis from their Snake/Mongoose pair (a 'Cuda and a Duster in the Snake/Mongoose Hot Wheels colors from 1971) that had a wildly modified '57 Chevy body. The kit was called the "Plum Crazy". It didn't last long, but I have one somewhere at the bottom of my stack.

I'm glad to see you're building something great out of the Revell McEwen kit, P-man. I like this a lot.

DAYUM! I got to get me a old drag model jsut for the tires and engine, I know jsut the model I will put them in too..
After I finish all the models I got coming and lying around at the moment I'll have to do this, put some drag car parts in a, uh, nice car I know of

Wow really cool, like always from you P-Man !
What colour it will be? :smokin:

Tom "the Mongoose" McEwen's '57 Chevy Funny Car. .....Will be painted bright red

didn't you say, you're waiting for the decals to arrive? don't you use the decals coming with the kit?

Ttt

what means ttt?

Thats looking really nice P-Man, reminds me of going to the drags with my Dad when I was a kid.
Hey speaking of racing you are in New Zealand right. THe other day I sawa these crazy boat races where they race around a manmade channel thats a race track, ever go to one of those. Mn they look like fun , bug blown engines in a little nimble boat.

Anyhow look forward to seeing the 57 completed

Outstanding work as always PMAN.:bigthumb:

what means ttt?
Tu teh top! :biggrin:

i'm hoping for a update, that's why I did it.

to the top?? meaning it's a good job???

thx purpura delujo.
now I see!
to the top of the postings, 86 sr5!!

oh, that makes more sense.

those slicks look so realistic, did they come with the kit like that?

those slicks look so realistic, did they come with the kit like that?
I think he sanded them to give them a 'yea, I used them' look.

if you guys are interested in 57 chev funny cars you gotta check this out, a 57 chev funny car with a 504ci block with a 14 71 lower makin about 2000 hp! out best run to date is a 7.47 but it wasnt enough to pull off a win at the ihra rocky mountain nationals in edmonton alberta canada, yes where from canada, if you wanna find out more about the car check out www.dragracing.ca, one more thing this body aint no replica this came from the exact same mold as tom mcewans "the mongoose" 57 chev funny car!

http://www.dragracing.ca/images/niceburnoutatcalg2002sophoto.JPG

yeh quite nice

Hey speaking of racing you are in New Zealand right. THe other day I sawa these crazy boat races where they race around a manmade channel thats a race track, ever go to one of those. Mn they look like fun , bug blown engines in a little nimble boat.

It's amazing just how quick those jet sprints are, it looks quick on TV, is even faster when your there. Always amazes me when they talk of them as the world jetsprint champs, is a bunch of kiwi's and aussies and 1 or 2 americans, hardley a world event.

Anyhow, nice work on the chev PMan, looking forward to the finished thing.

Have you "blownalcoholboy", "kt100" and "dveus" read rules: "DO NOT POST THREADS WHICHS ARE OLDER THAN MONTH"!!

You guys should read rules!

If i had realised it was that old i wouldn't have posted, was at the top of the list, figured it was new

if i would have known that i wouldnt have!

Have you "blownalcoholboy", "kt100" and "dveus" read rules: "DO NOT POST THREADS WHICHS ARE OLDER THAN MONTH"!!

You guys should read rules!
BFD , at least his post was
1) relavent to the topic
2) clearly written with punctuation and everything
3) Interesting

Who really cares how old it is!
blownalcoholboy thanks for the link , thats pretty cool

BFD , at least his post was
1) relavent to the topic
2) clearly written with punctuation and everything
3) Interesting

Who really cares how old it is!
blownalcoholboy thanks for the link , thats pretty cool
Yeah, but... but... whatever :banghead: :banghead:

Btw: I thinks our mods cares :cwm27:

Yeah, but... but... whatever :banghead: :banghead:

Btw: I thinks our mods cares :cwm27:
Yeah I hear you but come on at least it wasn't some damn jibberish like half of the posts here, or the same question on how to paint or lower my integra, or who has pictures of this because I am too lazy to do a search myself.
Just my :2cents:

yeah anytime, who cares if its old! really whay does it matter, hopefully we can win the rocky mountain nationals, we won 2003 but lost by a hundreth of a second in second round eliminations this year, oh well :disappoin theres always next year, just to let you know im training for a position on the crew, im not just an obsessed fan.

hey man where can i find a model like that, if you could tell me that would be helpful

Yeah I hear you but come on at least it wasn't some damn jibberish like half of the posts here, or the same question on how to paint or lower my integra, or who has pictures of this because I am too lazy to do a search myself.
Just my :2cents::iagree: