1/64 Scale
~~AWESOME~~
59 El Camino
DRAG BOAT
and
TRAILER SET!!!!
KILLER
Candy Fade
Flames!!!

Take THIS Bad Boy Set To the Lake!!!!!!!!!

KILLER Candy FADE Flames!!!!!


Majorly Redesigned Boat and
COMPLETELY "ScratchBuilt" Trailer!!!!

Hot Wheels
59 El Camino
DRAG BOAT SET!!!!
This is a 1/64 scale casting.
These pics are pretty good, but, I can't stress this enough,
they ABSOLUTELY do not do this paint justice!!

The castings were stripped, sanded and polished slightly before any body mods or paint was done.
I have an EXTREME amount of time in this set...BUT....Its WAY COOL!!!!

I guess I will start with the 59 El Camino!!


This is from the 100% Line and no body mods were necessary, but, the hood was adjusted so as to open very freely and close much better than it did stock.
The "Tri Power" 409 engine has been detailed slightly and there was a TON of Alclad Chrome used for the body/window/tail light/hood trim as well!!!

This was the easy part!!!!

Now for the DRAG BOAT!!!!!

This "was" a Matchbox Sea Speeder Casting to start with, but, as you can tell, it was gutted and mainly just the hull and deck were utilized!!!!



The first thing was to remove all unnecessary parts which included the wheels on the bottom (wheels?? on a boat??), the holes were filled and sanded smooth!! Next I removed more than half of the rear interior parts and smoothed out the inner part of the hull as well!! This made room for the JL Top Fuel Dragster BLOWN HEMI!!!!! I also added near true to scale plug wires and also slightly overscale plug boots.....but, hey..it IS a "Marine Application" so they may be closer to scale than I think!!! LOL!! The engine has a base of Marine Epoxy which formed a perfect fit with the hull area and it is secured with a machine screw!!!
The seats and dash are donated from a Racing Champion Cuda!!!
I inverted the dash however so it looks more like a boat dash than a car version now!! It took quite some shaving and fitting for these parts, particularly the dash which also utilized a marine epoxy form fit!! When they fit properly, I primed them with Adhesion Promoter, shot HOK white over them...accents are Candy Red on the seats and the dash was detailed along with the steering wheel!!!!

The next part to be fitted was the windshield....donated by a HWs 65 Corvette and heavily shaved with a sharp exacto blade until it fit nicely!!! I painted the frame and after all paint was done, glued it securely in place!!!!
Also Alclad Chrome details were done to the deck rails and a few other areas!!!

The final part was the "JET" Propulsion outlet and shroud!!
A hole was drilled in the rear of the hull and I soldered together two sizes of brass tubing to give the appearance of having a smaller jet and slightly larger shroud!!! Once this part was shaped, filed, and sanded smooth I polished it to a near chrome finish and cleared it!!! Then it was installed in the hull!!


Now what about that TRAILER??!!!!!

Well, I am glad you asked!!! LOL!!!

Heres a pic of how it looked prior to paint!!

It may not be pretty in this pic, but, it gives you an idea of the construction!!!
I hand measured, cut, bent, filed, ground and "otherwise manipulated" brass tubing and flat stock, fishing lures and even curtain rod hangers to get what you see here!!!! Believe it or not!!!
The entire thing is SOLDERED together for superior strength!!!! Then it was filed, sanded, primed and repeated until it was smooth enough to paint!!!



Its paint is a dark Candy Ruby Red and I even Flamed the fenders!!!
Also painted in some tail lights with alclad chrome and candy red!!!
Plus, I added thin strips of rubber at each contact point so the paint on the hull of the boat would be safe and it also make the boat rest very securely on the trailer!!!!!