I was just going to say that you would need to stretch the sharkmouth around the wheel opening, but looks like you're already thinking about it. She's looking great, and I dig those swisschease bomber-style seats.

It may look cool to add some "exhaust" effect on the rear quarters above the pipes, kinda like on the old piston engine powered fighters and bombers.

Where did you get the cheesecake decal in that size?

I angles the exhaust pipes downward so that would'nt really work here...however, if one ran them thru a side panel like the real aircraft then oh yeah it would work{a suggestion for your build?!}.
-The seats are just the nerc marauder spares that I sand blocked at an angle to add the side bolster plates to....then drill{alot}. Replica and miniatures has a bomber seat set but it just didn't call to me - do a search on bomber seats and you'll see alot of different styles including those intended for cars/rat rods.
-Starship modeler {.com} has these JT Graphics decals onsite for the old Babylon 5 Starfury kit. They have quite a few different ones and there's other places online that sell them too. I bought one long ago for my Starfury kit and got two by mistake...sorta since I found out I actually paid for two even though the invoice said one decal- turned out for the best in the long run.

Wow, how'd I miss you...there's an allison under the hood and the driver smiled as he passed the vette alright....well, there was supposed to be an allison in there but it's slated for another project...anybody got a Dodge Omni model...the lil 4 door one?!

Here-
cheesecake decals

...I think "bad penny" needs to get done...{says this as I tap my finger on the mouse and look sheepishly around the room and laugh}...they didn't have that one back when or I'd have it now!

I'm only little, and I don't say much !

Awh sheesh...where's my boots, it's getting deep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


...speaking of where's stuff - where's Hermon! Hope things are fairing well for them.

that's right...

Got the seats in today...maybe some sort of leather looking pads might be in order for the poor driver and passenger...hmmm...I have some leather colored miliput clay around here somewhere.......

Next up is figuring out how to remove the old shark mouth decals so I can paint in the new stuff....and yes, of course, I had already clear coated the car.

the original shark mouth is fine. My eyes are mostly on the modifications of the car anyway

Actually I really like what you did with the revamped front end..like anything in this hobby, it'll take some work!
I'll try and snap a pic of the installed seats later and upload it...

Sometimes you just gotta listen to your kids, even the 6yr olds....I was talking to the wife about how I was going to easily remove the shark nose decals from the caddy when my 6yr old son pipes up, "hey daddy, just don't do like you did with the space ship - ok!" Then it hit me like a pallet of bricks, when I built my Romulan space ship long ago {like 6 months or so} I finished spraying the last coat of sealer over the decals and it was dry but we were getting ready to head out for dinner and he wanted to see it done so I showed him. When I set it down on the table to go I didn't notice there was white tape there {I thought it was paper strips} so when we came home I grabbed the space ship and up came the tape with it...and of course when I tried to remove said tape it took some of the decals with it. I fixed that with some sprayed on battle damage but that basic idea should work here - right?!
It did!

On the tape you'll see the old shark mouths from both sides but everything else is intact...you gotta love your kids somedays!!!!!!!!
The "now" lovely part about this is that even when seal coated the decal won't adhere well enough to stay put when tape is applied and pulled off...the clear coat around the decal will stay because the underlying paint is secure, but that decal doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of sticking.
So, next time you wish to remove a bad decal try this...just don't let any tape hit any other decals that you want to stay! Trust me on that!

haha, well done

Excellent idea. Kudos to your son

Yup, he's mine...smart, good looking, and has a small pack of girls that hit him on a regular basis....you know what that means. Me, I need some good looks and to get my wife to quit hitting me!

oh I like this! that is bloody awesome!

what a great concept.. pure genius and executed so very well!

Awesome...

Thanks Chris...now, as promised I'll show you the seats installed....how low can we go!


...about "that" low, and that's with a raise in height from the origonal seat base!
Please note the "new" windshield...I, uhm, had to since alittle over zealous buffing cracked and split the origonal in two{ouch}...good thing I had another to use. That new one is actually the '57 caddy rear window...hey, it's nice and low to begin with and has no marks like the other one did.

I'll start the white base for the new mouth tonight.....

Sahweeet! lookin good man, really coming together. That scraping stance is outrageous! love it

the interior is is really WWII aero looking too

Super job O-D, I'm loving it !

Cheers, D

Way cool Bob, way cool.

Very cool I love it.

Hi Bob,

I love this car or plane or....?????

Some of the best thinking 'outside the box' that I've seen in a long time!!!

Randy

I don't know if you've seen the 55 Merlin, but I was thinking of your build when I saw it go across the Barrett Jackson auction block.

Bob, that is one awesome build!

Jeremy, that 55 was built in australia too. So it was sold in america?

It would appear so. It started appearing in promotional booklets shortly before it went across the auction block. I believe it sold for $200,000 even, but I'm not certain. They were having trouble trying to start it when it was on the block.