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1962 Pontiac Catalina
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Please email me and tell me honestly what you think!
1962 Pontiac Catalina
| The chassis is very clean. This shot
is before I changed the color to gold. |
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| Here you can see the interior colors,
textures and BMF. |
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| If you look under the dash, you'll see
the 8-track player and fader switch I made from plastic sheet stock. |
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| A little better view where you can also
see the ignition and trunk/door keys. |
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| More interior detail shows here. |  |
| This shot is also before the color change. |  |
| The separate frame is pretty good.
The transmission crossmember was still
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| I added brake lines and a fuel line. |  |
| Again, brake and fuel lines. |  |
| The engine before separating the trans. |  |
| Here's the finished body. |  |
| Under the hood you can see the brake
line detail, throttle linkage, heater core tubes, and other details. |
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| Another view. |  |
| Another interior shot. |  |
| Here's the chassis finished. Notice the
speedometer cable? |
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| Valve stems in the wheels.
By the way, the rear wheels are resin copies
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| This is where the term "Wide Track"
came from. |
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| This is a slightly different angle than above. |  |
| Even without an engine it still looks mean. |  |
| I like this view. It's all most people would
see if they raced against this car. |
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| Mutt & Jeff are busy installing the warmed
over 389. |
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| Transmission crossmember on the left. |  |
| You can see the ramps I built here. |  |
| And here. Notice Jeff's standing on a box.
He's not quite tall enough without it. |
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| See the coffee cup, oil filter and muffler on
the table? I built the table and cup from styrene tubing and sheet. |
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| Jeff looks like he's got things under control. |  |
| The barrel is a resin cast I made from
one a list member sent me. The guys came in that package too. |
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| Helicopter shot. |  |
| Too much light. |  |
| Here too. |  |
| The trans is from the kit. It's hollowed
out in the front with the clutch fork and input shaft visible. |
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| I built the creeper from sheet plastic and
hand made the casters. Measuring my personal creeper helped! |
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| The swingset was built with styrene tubing
and angle iron. |
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| I built the block & tackle by casting
small air cleaners in resin and gluing them together. The chains are old necklaces. |
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| The tanks came from the '53 Ford pickup kit.
I built the cart and torch head, and the hoses came from the local railroad hobby shop. |
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All pictures of models on this page are Copyright 1999
Jim Olson. All rights reserved.
Reproduction without my permission is strictly prohibited!
The box art is Copyright AMT/ERTL.