January Hotrodders Art Contest 2010 "Chevy Shoebox Nova 63 to 67 Anything Goes"
January Hotrodders Art Contest 2010 "Chevy Shoebox Nova 63 to 67 Anything Goes"
Looking back over the time we have done these contests, we've covered alot of bases in different vehicles. Time we tighten it up a bit and get to some tougher choices or we'll be out of them soon, lol.
As January starts, so does a new set of needs for the contest to continue, most can draw, most have access to photos or are capable of artwork of any type.
This Month, the choice of vehicle goes to the "Chevy Shoebox Nova 63 to 67 Anything Goes", Gasser, Classic, Drag Car, Road Carver or even a rat rod and so on. The most searched for car on the net and everyones favorite. Easy lines for an artist, classic formats of all years in drag racing or customs, this should be a good one for all of you.
Contest will end on January 25th with the polls closing on the 31st with a winner choosing the contest subject again.
I'm sure the members are looking forward to your enties and so am I.
Sweet work forty, clean and BLUE, love it. That's pretty much what this car looked like before the recent flames addition to it. BTW, it's the fastest True Street Nova Champion and runs 8.40's at 160+ while being street legal. A guy name Marc Schankweiler owns it.
Yes i seen that also. They built 3 of these for the race scene they sent them to corvette and the fastback section is all fiberglass. I would like to see one up close and personal
Both the light green car and the dark green car are the same car, raced by Alan Green Chevrolet in Seattle,both pics are just one year apart on the racing scene. Car was constantly being updated by the dealership guys racing it as the A/FX and early funny car match race scene took shape. Three of these fastback cars were built, only one still exists, the former CKC Racing team car from Texas. It is currently undergoing a restoration by the current owners in Pennsylvania.
Doors, roof/fastback, front fenders, hood, and front and rear roll pans were all fiberglass. Roof was done on a convertable bare body by the Corvette plant and has a lot of similarity to the 63-67 Corvette when viewed from the rear as the roof tapered to the bumper kind of like the 71-73 Buick Riviera. Cars originally came with 377 stroker Rochester Fuelie engines and 63 style Corvette IRS and were intended for road racing. When they weren't allowed on the road courses due to lack of enough cars produced to meet rules, the cars ended up as drag cars and the suspensions were soon dumped for a regular axle in the rear(IRS sucked for drag racing), and shortly thereafter all three also recieved a straight front axle as was common for the mid '60's.
Soon after I first saw pics of these years ago I felt Chevy really missed the boat not offering it to the public in all-steel form, like the Charger, Marlin, and Torino/Cyclone. Word is by the time these fastback showed up in 1964(they were built by Anahiem Calif dealer Bill Thomas, who tried to get Chevy Corporate to pick them up), Chevy Engineering and the Design Studio already had the Camaro introduction and the '68 Nova restyle underway.
Would love to try to do a resto mod revisit of this car and roof myself someday, but my skills are not quite to that level of fabrication yet.
Bob, not sounding like a dick or anything but the contest was for the shoebox 63 to 67 Nova's. A totally different body style.
I'll leave it up to the members to chime in for 24 more hrs to allow them or not allow them.
Since we started doing this and leaving stuff pretty much wide open, I thought it may be essentiial to go back a bit to a year or body style of that year for a cghance to catch up when it pertained to door cars and not just a random rod or street machine.
If the members are OK with it, I'll add them with their blessings to the contest.
My bad ....I had forgot about the contest and when I remembered, I remembered it was Novas but I didn't go back and see the years .... I don't want to have to bend the rules, so I did another quick photo to enter this month.
Bob, I have to say you are a complete good sport about everything that happens here, and for a "quick" peice of artwork, damn that looks really crisp and I have a fondness for Blue also. Awesome job.
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