AF Lowrider contest entry: '63 Impala

Started with the Revell '63 Impala lowrider kit.
http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1020.jpg
After some houres it looked like this
http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1026.jpg
The roof is cut off and I made a convertible boot by making the AMT '62 Impala boot 1 mm shorter.
http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1025.jpg
The trunk with three pumps, 4 dumps, 1 amp and 2 10" subwoofers (the second will be at the other side).
http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1024.jpg
It will get some gold daytons
http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1028.jpg
and dark metallic green with white interior.
http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1029.jpg
I hope to find a better engine and start painting it tomorrow.
http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1030.jpg

Cool!! Your paint looks like Flake paint?? :sly:
Where did you find those subs?

cool!! :smile:

Very cool. I like the choice of paint for the car. I'm sure it'll look great on there. Nice work cutting the top off. Keep us posted, and good luck.

Nice work man, I loved this kit when I built it, I still havent gotten around to buying Bigger rims, but Nice stuff, Im loving the lowriders

Excellent work on it!! :sunglasse

Man that's SWEET! I dig the way you chopped the roof and built the leather casing. Well done. That's a hellified green flake, wicked cool. Keep up the good work bro.

J. Barry

Ok time for an update.

http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1032.jpg
http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1033.jpg
Two shots of the chassi painted. The paint realy sparkle this much, looks realy cool. And it didn´t take some months to dry like testor color do, it was rockhard in some days!

http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1031.jpg
I couldn´t use the windshield frame on a covertible. So I cut it off and started looking for a new one.

http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn0917.jpg
And after looking at the pics I took at the show last weekend I saw this. Don´t know how many times I looked at it at the show and didn´t see that it has a '62 bubble top (not sold in '63). It looks just like it was made that way.

http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1037.jpg
So I dug out a '61 Impala convertible and stole the windshield frame and windshield. Fits almost perfect, just had to make the side windows a bit shorter.

http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1043.jpg
http://www.kungsholmen.nu/jon/dscn1044.jpg
I have also chromed a lot of parts like the frame and suspention, the pumps and some engine parts.

I hope to start painting the body tomorrow.