OK, I like AW's new '64 GTO, but the stance bugged me. Some cars look good with Tuff Ones wheels and tires, but I don't think they work well with the proportions on this one:
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So I got to looking underneath, like I always do. The first thing I noticed was that the front screw post is attached to the bottom of the hood, but the hood is a separate piece... it can be removed by grinding down the melted pins holding it on. (I didn't try it, just pointing it out...)
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Unlike many other recent JL and AW cars, the GTO doesn't have the huge pieces below the front and rear windows holding the window piece in. The "glass" is held in by pins in the bottom of the roof, similar to Aurora cars. There is, however, still a good deal of plastic that can be removed from the bottoms of the windows, so I got right to work:
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I had to really attack the bottom of the windshield, because that's exactly where the gearplate rails on an Aurora Tjet chassis end. I could have trimmed the rails on the chassis, but I wanted to see if I could get it to work without doing so.
I shortened the rear screwpost significantly more than the front one, and now there's VERY little clearance between the bottom of the trunk lid and the back of the gearplate. Here's the finished product compared to the unmodified black one:
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Big difference, huh? More and better pics in a minute...
--rick
So I got to looking underneath, like I always do. The first thing I noticed was that the front screw post is attached to the bottom of the hood, but the hood is a separate piece... it can be removed by grinding down the melted pins holding it on. (I didn't try it, just pointing it out...)
Unlike many other recent JL and AW cars, the GTO doesn't have the huge pieces below the front and rear windows holding the window piece in. The "glass" is held in by pins in the bottom of the roof, similar to Aurora cars. There is, however, still a good deal of plastic that can be removed from the bottoms of the windows, so I got right to work:
I had to really attack the bottom of the windshield, because that's exactly where the gearplate rails on an Aurora Tjet chassis end. I could have trimmed the rails on the chassis, but I wanted to see if I could get it to work without doing so.
I shortened the rear screwpost significantly more than the front one, and now there's VERY little clearance between the bottom of the trunk lid and the back of the gearplate. Here's the finished product compared to the unmodified black one:
Big difference, huh? More and better pics in a minute...
--rick
