Post Pics of your 1960-1966 Chevrolet & GMC Scale Model Pickups

[64jmb]

Check this model I had custom made! 1/64th scale 1962-1963 GMC Short bed custom Palamino Tan 2 tone with PATINA! ONE OF A KIND!

[theastronaut]

I've got a Revel fleetside that I need to finish. I chopped the front clip off and cut out the trans crossmember to get it low. I had a '53 Vette crossmember that was the right width so it'll get grafted back onto the frame. I picked up the wheels (Pegasus brand I think?)at a model car show a couple years ago, had to narrow the front mounting surfaces to get them to tuck.


First mock up after cutting the front clip, inner fenders, and trans crossmember out. Still too high, especially the rear.




Fenderwells will have to be cut and raised/widened
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'Vette crossmember mocked up.






Sits better, still need to modify the rear fenderwells.








Also stole the motor from the 'Vette model but it'll get replaced with an LSx with four webers just like my real truck will have.

[jdoisher]

no words!
just plain bad ass.

[jonzcustomshop]

markeb, where did you get the gmc grille??

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by jonzcustomshop

markeb, where did you get the gmc grille??

They all came from Modelhaus. Unfortunately the tools wore out and they aren't interested in making new ones.

On the plus side I had a few extra resin parts left over, and I handed them over to another member that is working with a professional resin caster to see if he is willing to put them back in production. If all goes well at least these pieces may again become available. Here’s what’s being worked on:

1960-65 Grille:



1966 Grille:



1960-61 Chevy hood:



1960-61 GMC hood:



1962-66 GMC hood:



Radiator and air deflectors:



And the stock front bumper:



I'll post more info as it becomes available.

[64jmb]

Originally Posted by markeb01

They all came from Modelhaus. Unfortunately the tools wore out and they aren't interested in making new ones.

On the plus side I had a few extra resin parts left over, and I handed them over to another member that is working with a professional resin caster to see if he is willing to put them back in production. If all goes well at least these pieces may again become available. Here’s what’s being worked on:

1960-65 Grille:



1966 Grille:



1960-61 Chevy hood:



1960-61 GMC hood:



1962-66 GMC hood:



Radiator and air deflectors:



And the stock front bumper:



I'll post more info as it becomes available.

Do you have these 66 GMC grilles and hoods available?

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by 64jmb

Do you have these 66 GMC grilles and hoods available?

Sorry, no. I handed everything over to another forum member as he was working with someone that promised to reproduce them. I don't have any spares left now.

[64jmb]

ok thanks for letting me know.

[jbgroby]

Originally Posted by jonzcustomshop

markeb, where did you get the gmc grille??

Here is where I got mine.

http://www.modelhaus.com/


IF you are doing a GMc you willneed to order the hood, tailgate incert and grill bar. I took the '60 Chevy kit and modified the dask to one hu,mp and changed the layout. I'm also building a V-6 out of a Y block.

Jake

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[Shorty Cox]

Thanks for the post. I did enjoy. Looking at the photos made be “harken back” to a project I did about 15 years ago before the time of internet, digital cams, and this site for me. A friend had purchased a “Revell model kit of a ’64 Chevy C-10 for me as a gift. On one cold winter evening, after not putting a model kit together in some 30 years, I took it out of its box and proceeded to start assembly. Initially I was going to make it my “dream truck”. You know the truck I always wanted. However, while doing so, the thought of an actual truck that I see in my area came to mind.
In my area, there is a “handyman” that drives an old beat up mid-60s truck. Flat bed, rust eaten, dirty, trashy, and a combination of several different trucks put together over the years.
The more I thought about it the more I knew I had to build a model of that truck. So, for the next few weeks as time allowed, I would go to places where I knew the guy was known to “hang out”. I’d park next to his truck and study it. Doing so, I learned many things about the truck. It started life as a ’64 Chevy SWB, pale yellow with white top. Bed had been removed and a flatbed fabricated (two model A Ford flatbeds fused together to make one) installed. Saddle tanks (from a “Gleaner” combine) placed under the bed in front of the rear wheels. Both doors were replaced with orange doors, hood, and hood corners from a GMC. The bed has a huge cross bed tool box painted orange.
I gained much enjoyment fabricating parts, creating rust, dents, lights, trash for the dash board; tear in seat, west coast mirrors, and putting that model together. I even made miniature tools, winch, ladder, headache rack, and junk to place on the bed. Upon completion, I wanted to show it to the individual. Not really knowing the Individual other than by name, I was not sure what his reaction would be. After hauling the model with me several days, I finally located him at a café. I walked in with model in hand. As I passed the table he was seated at, I set the model on the table without explanation, then proceeded to the table behind him. I had no more than sat down when he turned around with model in hand and said, “This is amazing”.
I never intended to give the model to him, however after his reaction I could not take it back.
End of this long story. Several weeks later, I wrote a check to pay at a store. The clerk read my name on the check and asks, “Are you the guy that made the model of my father’s truck?” She told me he put the model on a shelf then instructed everyone in the house to never touch it. To this day, when I see that truck on the road, I think of that model truck and wonder if it is still on the shelf.
Wish I had taken a photo.
Shorty

[corvettejim1968]

that is an amazing story thanks for sharing it with us.

[chevy_man5]

Still a work in progress. I need to pretty much redo the frame, and take my time. I was rushing, and it is pretty apparent! LOL

[64jmb]

Originally Posted by chevy_man5

Still a work in progress. I need to pretty much redo the frame, and take my time. I was rushing, and it is pretty apparent! LOL

Hey Did you ever get the GMC Grills and hoods done?

[jonzcustomshop]

here is a vintage custom I picked up on ebay a few years back...
amt 60-61 annual:

[jonzcustomshop]

other stuff..green step- just a pic I have saved, the wedge section is a hotwheel that was on ebay, the black one is another 60-61 annual I picked up that had been customized in the 60's, the last one is a resin kit

[factorystock]

Done about 10 years ago when Modelhaus sold GMC stuff. This would be a 3000 series GMC equivelent to a Chevy C40. Could use a V6 emblem.

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by jonzcustomshop

here is a vintage custom I picked up on ebay a few years back...
amt 60-61 annual:

Somebody sure put a lot of work into that custom. It looks like the truck version of the El Matador.



Here are a bunch of early assembly Ebay photos I’ve collected. Amazing how many similarities there were in the build styles. Of course in 1962 most were probably slapped together by other inexperienced teenage baby boomers like me:

[chevy_mike]

Where did that suburban model come from?

[jonzcustomshop]

Originally Posted by chevy_mike

Where did that suburban model come from?

maybe ebay... I missed a resin one once.. I bid $45 , it went for $90+!!!-just the body...

[61_FL_Apache]

Good stuff!! I use to do a lot of model building when I was a kid and have done a few lately, but none of these trucks yet.. I need to get crackin on finding one to build.

[Rune]

Hi,here is my scratch building of 1960 Chevy LCF...i need some info
are there anyone who have sales brosjure of that truck?i need most is
chassies data with mesurement of lengd and wide in inch..hope some one could have that and post it for me...



Hope too here from ya..sincerley Rune...

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