Thanks Stuart!
Ok gang.....I've had a flurry of progress and ideas on this one as of the last few days. First off I moved forward on stripping the carburetors of chrome which I was going to do anyways as chrome on carburetors just don't look right.
Secondly I modified the Nova frame by shortening the frame in the back and shortening the leaf springs. Up front I cut the forward part of the frame completely off and cut out the center section. You can see the differences here........
After that I cut the front part of the '54 frame off and graphed that in. I still need a couple more bolt heads to make this more legit looking but I took all the measurements and
this............is gonna work.
I cut into the forward part of the frame about 3/16" where the front crossmember and front suspension mounts up in order to lower the car in the front another 3/16". Repositioning the front spindles up another 1/16" along with notching out the frame should round out to lowering the front of the car a total of 1/4" to get the look I was looking for in the first place. This is how the car is going to sit without the 1/16" spindle location. The rear of the rear suspension is exactly where it's supposed to be as well. Like I said , it's gonna work. It was even a little easier than I
thought it was going to be.
About this time the ideas started soaring around in my head after I studied the back of the vehicle interior some. I still need to notch out where the wheel tubs are going to fit on the floor here but I've got some decent plans for this. First off here is the rear floor...
Now I thought to myself, "What can I do back here to make this interesting?"
Soooo. I found a 1/24 scale flat screen TV on ebay
Well I've gotta have something to sit this on and somewhere to sit so how about using a coffee table and couch from a 1:24 scale dollhouse set? Again..found these on ebay. Hey ......what tha hell ya know?
Gotta have somewhere to store the cold ones too so I found a 1:24 scale cooler with an opening lid to put those in....
and speakin' of cold ones.......I found some 1:24 scale cases of those too! A case of these'll go on top of the cooler....probably Bud or Heineken
I took measurements and plotted everything out on the floor using cut up post it notes to see if everything was gonna fit.....
Looks like it's gonna make it. I may throw another Hot Rod Magazine and scratch build a remote for the TV to put on the edge of the coffee table/ TV stand. Looks like I might need to run an air line and an airbag to the L/H side of the rear suspension to even things out back there for the weight on one side factor.
