Grocery-Getter
This car covers a lot threads posted here (fav custom, Praise the lowered, Future application), so I thought I’d start a new one.
While I was helping, I had the car at my disposal too, so considering the 100+ mile trek there, I used it for some local errands. It‘s the same type wagon as I converted here.
I eyeballed the wheelbase and determined it was close enough for a T-jet chassis. After grinding away the extra plastic bits inside and shortening the bottoms of the glass frames, I set up the front axle assembly, added a Pro-stock hood scoop, black paint, foil and a bit of detailing. I left the bonnet a matte finish to give it a kind of carbon fiber/fiberglass look. I finished with 2 hr. intervals of double dipping in Future, and leaving it in front of a mild heat source. That wiped the matte finish off the hood, but the whole car is very shiny.
Everything tucked in nicely and it sat very low, but when I went to assemble it on a complete chassis, I was off. The pickup shoes where in direct line of the front axle. I figured more time was needed to think this out.
Recently, I tried a different approach by using the T-Jet chassis and soldering two pick-ups together on each side, removing the stock front wheel mounting points, and gluing extensions for the holders- past the point where they were binding-- and it worked.

Soccer Moms Unite!

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Thanks for look-see

Cheers..

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Bossman, very wicked indeed... Pro Stock Soccer Moms, now there is a mind movie for you...

Jeff

VERY neat.... I have a fondness for station wagons. But exactly what kind of wagon is that? The Ford logo is clear enough, but it doesn't look like a Taurus... the snoot is too long to be a Windstar/Freestar... is that something from European Ford, or maybe a down-under Falcon? Do tell...

--rick

Boss,

Looks pretty good from here! However, I can't believe it got the jump on that Chevy coming out of the hole. :eek: :thumbsup: rr

Hey Park,
You are very observant! I thought the same thing. It looks very much like a late eighties-early nineties Euro estate. For an American wagon, it has design cues from several models. From the side it looks like an early Taurus, from the front it looks like an extended nose late-model Ford, and from the rear it looks like a GM (to me anyway).

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The ford script came from a 40-year old Ho decal sheet I clear-coated. I save all of my old decals (doesn’t everyone?).
This came in a clear plastic tube with a few other vehicles—a van, fire truck, and a police car. I got them at the dollar shop. I hope to get to the rest sometime this year.


Boss,

Looks pretty good from here! However, I can't believe it got the jump on that Chevy coming out of the hole. :eek: :thumbsup: rr

Hey RR-
Believe it. Maybe if the other car went “beep-beep” things would have been different.

Thanks for all the comps', guys

Cheers..