58' Chev's are way KOOL cars. I Have 3 of them, Impala, Brookwood wagon, and a rear one Yeoman 2 dr wagon. I should build one of my 58 kits. I have 6 diff ones. Yours turned out really nice, did a good job. Keep up the good work.
Ok, Ok, I get it! After first seeing your 32 Ford yellow American Graffiti car you're a fan of the movie and the era. Beautiful job. Especially with the interior! Wow, bang on man!!
I too had to literally scratch build replica add American graffiti 58 Impala very time-consuming and a lot of patience and research and study but man was it worth it I'm also doing the Mercury not a lot on that one as far as pictures and whatnot but it's a journey and it's fun but this is my favorite by far the 58 Impala
Super awesome job appericate your attention to all the detail. Just came across site and subbed to your channel. Very nice looking forward to more builds
Excellent! A lot of work that paid off. What would be extra cool is if you do the 4 main cars from American Graffiti - and then create a diorama of Arnolds with parking lot for a display.
Wow! you did a great job on this car = love how the "tuck-n-roll" tuned out, especially the vertical and horizontal directions, Did the movie car have tuck-n-roll on the door panels? Also great job on smoothing out the body lines to duplicate the movie car!
A lot of patience, here. 👍 I had a kit like this but sold it because I couldn't bear the thought of all that BMF.🙂 Regarding the movie - didn't the '58 belong to "Ritchie Cunningham," who stuck around town, got married and became an insurance salesman? If he was a high school senior in the movie, how could he possibly afford all the custom work on his car?
O.K - there is some room for speculation on this topic. First : the movie takes place in 1962, so the car would have been four years old at the time - not any backstory, so we don't know how "Ritchie" acquired the car or if he was working. Second : outside of the movie, and in real life, my Dad worked for two years as a bagger in a grocery store. When he graduated from HS in 1955, he had saved enough to buy a NEW 1955 Oldsmobile 2-door hardtop. I think the wage to purchasing power ratio was more in favor of the buyer back then. I don't have any more than that.......
One of the best looking impala in movie history. Great work in detail.
58' Chev's are way KOOL cars. I Have 3 of them, Impala, Brookwood wagon, and a rear one Yeoman 2 dr wagon. I should build one of my 58 kits. I have 6 diff ones. Yours turned out really nice, did a good job. Keep up the good work.
Very nice job loved how you did it
Ok, Ok, I get it! After first seeing your 32 Ford yellow American Graffiti car you're a fan of the movie and the era. Beautiful job. Especially with the interior! Wow, bang on man!!
Incredible job, i dont have the patience to do all that detailing. Ur a master modeler.
Fantastic job congratulations!
Great job ,,love it !! 58 belair was my first car with a 348
Fantastic job bro.
I too had to literally scratch build replica add American graffiti 58 Impala very time-consuming and a lot of patience and research and study but man was it worth it I'm also doing the Mercury not a lot on that one as far as pictures and whatnot but it's a journey and it's fun but this is my favorite by far the 58 Impala
Fantastic!
Great job, I'm a big fan of the Cars.
Super awesome job appericate your attention to all the detail. Just came across site and subbed to your channel. Very nice looking forward to more builds
Excellent! A lot of work that paid off. What would be extra cool is if you do the 4 main cars from American Graffiti - and then create a diorama of Arnolds with parking lot for a display.
I've got Milner's '32 done, and am about 75% done with Falfa's '55. Haven't thought much about the Pharoah's Merc.
Excuse me for jumping in Daveman but I was thinking the exact same thing! It would take a lot of work but would it EVER be cool!!
My favorite car!! Beefy and badass!!!!!
327's are sweet!
A thumbs up for you.
Looks amazing, have you ever been to the 40 Watt Club?
Wow! you did a great job on this car = love how the "tuck-n-roll" tuned out, especially the vertical and horizontal directions, Did the movie car have tuck-n-roll on the door panels? Also great job on smoothing out the body lines to duplicate the movie car!
In the movie it was mentioned the Impala had a 327 instead of a 348
Yeah... but that was "Toad", and Hollywood.
A lot of patience, here. 👍 I had a kit like this but sold it because I couldn't bear the thought of all that BMF.🙂
Regarding the movie - didn't the '58 belong to "Ritchie Cunningham," who stuck around town, got married and became an insurance salesman? If he was a high school senior in the movie, how could he possibly afford all the custom work on his car?
Who knows... maybe a friend of a friend whose 2nd cousin's uncle does custom paint?? I've had lots of things done on the "barter system"...
O.K - there is some room for speculation on this topic. First : the movie takes place in 1962, so the car would have been
four years old at the time - not any backstory, so we don't know how "Ritchie" acquired the car or if he was working.
Second : outside of the movie, and in real life, my Dad worked for two years as a bagger in a grocery store. When he
graduated from HS in 1955, he had saved enough to buy a NEW 1955 Oldsmobile 2-door hardtop. I think the wage to
purchasing power ratio was more in favor of the buyer back then. I don't have any more than that.......
@@urbanurchin5930 I believe you are correct about the power of wages during the 1960s.🙂
Back in the day it was common to take your car down to Tijuana Mexico for tuck n roll upholstery
What size half rounds are you using?
and don’t forget, only 30 wt castrol oil