[USMC]

im doing revells snap tight PT crusiser i am looking for some scratch building ideas. if any body has anything let me know thanks.

[Bigasshammm]

You could scratch build it into the hideous looking convertible version.

Or if it already is the convertible version then Idk. Always hated that car.

[Phantom ordie]

It would make a cool street rod,rear wheel drive V-8 Pro-street rear end.

[GreyGhost]

Phantom ordie, on 04 April 2012 - 12:09 AM, said:

It would make a cool street rod,rear wheel drive V-8 Pro-street rear end.

Yeah, there are guys out in California dropping HEMI Crate engines in them ....


Gregg

[Old Blind Dog]

LOL! The PT Cruiser is one of those cars you either love or hate!
I happen to love it, and always thought it would be kinda cool to have a convertible in bright canary yellow with wide white sidewalls.
Unfortunately, most of the women who would otherwise be inclined to date me, wouldn't be caught dead in something like that.

cheers

Old Blind Dog

[Skyraider Maniac]

If it has a sun roof, mount a M2!

[GreyGhost]

How about a PT Cruiser Coupe ?

>>> Clicky <<<


-Gregg

[B-17fan]

I realize you're probably thinking of things much different than these, but as a Cruiser owner, these two caught my attention at a midwest auto show last summer.

[Bigasshammm]

You know the orange one actually looks ok. Maybe if they made a 2 door version it would have done better.

The gold one I stopped looking at when I saw they still had the exhaust at the rear but put fake side exhausts.

This post has been edited by Bigasshammm: 31 May 2012 - 02:01 AM

[Wayne S]

Woodgrain "Woody" with moons on it and surfboards.

[ross blackford]

, At first when the P/T Cruiser was released I didn't like it at all but then when I got to have a look close up in the showroom I gradually started to change my mind. To my mind it has that timeless late 1930s just pre WW2 look about it and I notice many other cars are also starting to have that look about them.

Gregg, that P/T Cruiser coupe looks to my eyes a lot like the GM-H Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick Fully Enclosed Coupes (or Slopers as they were locally nicknamed) of that "just pre WW2" era. Oh and BTW, thank you for the link to it. Holden's also built bodies for Chrysler products in that era including 2 and 4 door Dodge and Plymouth Slopers. Even the fastback Fords here were given the same nickname and the 4 door Cruiser has that old world Dodge/Plymouth 4 door Sloper look about it and the 2 door even more so. I've read somewhere that the first few prototype Ford Sloper bodies here were actually built by Holdens as they had the production processes already down pat.

The Cruiser though has more of a GM-H Sloper look to it with its less steeply raked rear panel and no protuding boot/trunk area. I'd like to see a Holden Cruze Coupe with this kind of styling as it seems to symbolize what some feel was a less stressed time in our history, although with WW2 just around the corner and everyone around the world knowing what was coming I'm not sure if it really was that much less stressed. Those days, just as today, were a time of great automotive advances and it's good to see most manufacturers cuing their styling back to those lost days.

,
Ross.

This post has been edited by ross blackford: 08 June 2012 - 11:43 AM

[GreyGhost]

Ross, here's the concept car the PT Cruiser came from ...

The Plymouth Pronto Cruizer ...

>>> Clicky <<<

>>>Clicky Again <<<

>>> Again <<<

>>> And Again <<<

The PT Cruiser sold really well for the first 4-5 years it was available ... I believe Chrysler miss-handled it later on ... I'd love to see them bring it back with a coupe version much like the original concept "Cruizer" ...


-Gregg

[ross blackford]

, Hmmm Gregg; not sure I like that one really. To me it doesn't look as attractive as the coupe you linked to in your earlier post. Was that one (the earlier one) built by a specialist body builder or as a concept by the factory? When the Holden Monaro's third iteration was so successfully released to the market in 1999 a specialist body builder in Glenn Innes in the NSW New England region built a concept Ford Falcon 2 door coupe. It never found favour with the Ford brass and it wasn't as attractive as the Monaro (to me that is, but then I'm a Holden man and not so keen on Fords) but far more attractive than the XC Falcon coupe that was the last of the Ford Falcon 2 doors in about 1977 or '78.

,
Ross.