Concept Camaro
Inspired by the Penske Camaros of the late 60's

By: Ismael "the Corvette guy" Gonzalez

Another Non-Corvette build.

    I have always been inspired by other modelers like Bob Downie, who has demonstrated over and over again that a curbside can be a GREAT looking model. So this was a 3 week quick build focused mainly on the paint scheme. Of course I couldn't leave it as is, so I did a racing inspired interior. The idea was to build a dual purpose car: A street legal daily driver (emissions inspection, license plate etc) for the week and a track warrior for the weekend.
  Obviously inspired by the racing Penske Camaros of the late 60's, I put a modern touch with the mirrors and deck spoiler in raw carbon fiber. Been such a quick build it is far from perfect. The extinguisher is a tad too big and I have no idea if the roll cage design is correct as I didn't get any reference, among others.  But I like the end result.

Here are pictures of the interior prior to assembly, since it is hard to see once in place.

Details:

Revell Snap Together Concept Camaro
Scalefinishes.com Sunoco blue and Sunoco yellow paints
Perry's Resin wheels, tires and seat
Brass roll cage
Heavy Aluminum Foil interior panels
Machined Fire Extinguisher
5 point racing harness
Motorola Radio and data logger


Thanks,
Ismael

9/29/2008