´65 Pontiac custom ***NEW PICS***

[empyrium]

Thought I´d show you this one, probably the most radical custom I´ve built until now.

The roof is chopped, shortened and moved forward to the original front window position. That resulted in a big hole in the rear deck, which has been filled. The rear end and the front end are customized. The interior contains front seats from the Bad Actor, and the rear seat is replaced with a padded bathtub from the "Bathtub" show rod. The bathtub have a tv and telephone. The chain steering wheel is made from real silverchain, glued together with superglue. `59 Cadillac rear lights on the front hubcaps, and the bubbleskirts are made from the pen holder from an AMT Prestige series kit. The paint is Marabou metallic green...








Rear lights are six ´59 Cadillac lights. I accidently bumped the door when taking these pics, so the door is "hanging loose"...


Here its easy to see the new lower and shortened roofline


The scratchbuild steering wheel, made of real silver chain


Close up of front wheel with ´59 Cadillac rear light domes in the center


Here´s the famous bath tub


TV, telephone, and some interesting magazines...


Dont know what tv program that is...

[halfasskustom]

That car is sooooooooo bleep badass I LOVE IT. The skirts are are soo nice I have that pin thing to, so thanks for the idea. Love the bullit tip's hubcap's as well.

[johnverkerk]

GOOD STUFF KIM!!!! Man that sure is sweet!!!!,, i might have to change my mind on green color,,i like that color!! What is it?

[empyrium]

John wrote:

i might have to change my mind on green color,,i like that color!! What is it?

Thanks for the nice comments...

The paint is a spraybomb I found at a closing sale years ago. The brand is called Marabou, and the color is metallic green. I have never since seen any paint of that brand, anywhere. I also got a cool pink flake color of the same brand...

[davea]

Kim, that is an AWESOME custom! Well done!

[fredmellini]

Kim!!!..............What do you have? some secret vault of beautifully built models that you just pick from to show us?? ;D ;D ;D.........You have posted some pretty impressive stuff lately!!! I love this car, that would look really good in 1:1!! Great job buddy!!!!!.......................Fred

[chromecop]

Very nice kustom Kim! I remember seeing that one in Molnlycke a few years ago...

[rustybill1960]

Say, Sweet lookin' ride there dUDE!
I too have a '65 Grand Prix Custom in the works here, uhm.....
lets see, uhm.............. somewhere in this stack.....uhm, of kits....her,uhm..... ut,oops, ACK!! OH NO!!!! RUN THE STACK IS FALLING!!!!!!!

lATER DUDE

[A.J.]

Man that is nice KIm! Very nice indeed!

A.J.

[ShowRodFreak Don V.]

Sweet Custom Kim


oneyed

[TheMadModeler]

:oWOW... Great Custom build.. Nice all around..
BiLL..

[Honest Charlie]

Sweet build Kim.

[TheMadModeler]

I was taking another look and would love to see more
of this.. You used a BathTub for the rear seat....
Very itresting..
BiLL..

[Starry Eyes]

Long - lean and green .... Gotta love it !

Chuck

[empyrium]

Madmodeler wrote:

I was taking another look and would love to see more
of this..

Well, I´ll take som shots and post them.
The idea of using the bathtub instead of a rear seat... I really dont know where it came from. I had that bathtub lying around, it was part of a parts box I got from a friend.
When I started this model, I had a friend from our model club visiting. We sat at the table, building, and the ideas just fly back and forth...
Suddenly it was born... Rip out the rear seat, put in the tub, put in a tv, telephone and some magazines, and thats it...
I´ll take some pics...

[ShowRodFreak Don V.]

I need some closeup shots of the frame and engine on your Royal rail KIM. If thats possible.

Thanks
don

[JerryG]

That is one KOoL KUSTOM KIM!

[davea]

Thanks for the extra pics-some wild interior on that!