Sleeper city--'65 Chevelle 2 door wagon

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

This was a fun, relatively simple model that I've worked on for the last 6 months or so. The body is a $10 Jimmy Flintstone resin 2 door replacement for the old AMT 4 door '65 Chevelle wagon. Most time was spent cleaning up the body vs. painting/detailing/assembling. The color scheme and parts count is dead simple. The body needed a lot of TLC, I had to grind out troughs for the glass to fit and do a lot of filling/sanding/finessing/rescribing. I had to cut sheet styrene glass to fit; the kit glass was too large to fit properly. The sheet styrene looks a lot more realistic anyway.

Steelies/tires were from my parts box, hubcaps are resin '69 Camaro COPO units, paint is custom-mixed Boyd's Bright Green/True Blue Pearl/Silver to match Testors HORRID craptastic Artesian Turquoise rattlecan lacquer that looked like friggin' metalflake when sprayed. Clearcoat is Testors clear lacquer from the rattlecan.

I love the sleeper look on this style wagon-old restored wagons, especially ones that are lowered and have a bit of attitude really catch my attention at cruise nights and car shows. The real 2 door wagons are very rare, this was built to look like a modern "restification" that you'd see at a local cruise. Looks simple, but slightly sinister w/the wide wheels and lowered stance. Like it's got a bit more under the hood than just a 6 banger.

Not my usual subject, but fun nonetheless !

[Merkava]

Bad-Ass! These wagons are the ultimate sleepers, as you say, yet so easy to find!
A good friend of mine has a '94 Chevy Caprice Classic wagon with the LT2 V8, and the lowest stance you'll find on a production family car.

Excellent build, beautiful color, sweet wheels, etc.etc.

Do it again.

[blubaja]

Beautiful! I think you must put out at least 1 model every 2 days. Quality and quantity! Keep up the great work Bob!

[SirWelshy]

A very nice build

[Honoturtle]

Have an engine in there? I really like the overall like of it, especially the rims.

[Wheelin75r]

So nice & clean!! Great color!

[Eric Cole]

Nice looking wagon Bob. The paint came out looking really good. Looking forward to seeing this one in person.

[willimo]

Excellent! Coolness factor x100! You're completely right about how sneaky wagons can be and how cool they are for it. Awesome build.

[ImolaEK]

looks awesome. Paint is fantastic ! Very nice work

[GvEman]

Very nice build dude! I like it allot.

[Dean23]

Wow that is beautiful. Great colour.....love the steelies, very very cool. So what is under that hood?

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

Thanks for the comments!

As for the engine, it has none, I built it as a curbside. I had to cut away the radiator support so the grille/hood would fit (there were problems w/this $10 resin body-it was a bit smaller than the donor kit probably because the molds had shrunk) and wasn't worried over doing it full-detail anyway.

I use my imagination...maybe an LS1 provides the motivation

[NOSFERATTU]

Good work.Congrads.

[Cobra Colors]

Looks like you did a damn fine job whipping up that match for the factory color. Very smooth!

[CADguy]

Cool wagon!
Great stance and the color came out great..