Zoom Zoom
10-23-2006, 10:48 AM
A couple years ago several of us were bench racing/bench re-designing the Carrera GT, consensus was that we felt the car should have been a coupe rather than a roadster. Armed with our talents, several of our illustrious rogues set off bound and determined to show Porsche the err of their ways. Holy crap, the older I get, the more I sound more like Mark Gustavson. Please forgive me LOL.
Brian took off first, and landed gracefully as usual with his CGT coupe wearing a modern Ferrari fastback and a style unmistakable to Carrozzeria Dino Venabli. Henry and I brainstormed and measured Revells GT1 roof and found it to be a killer variation that fit the CGT kit body with ease. Henry palooza'd his way to victory, doing the roof conversion in a day or so to much fanfare and having the model (a competition version) on display 2 years ago at Birmingham, and later at the NNL East. It looks so natural I still think most people have no clue it's a custom job. Looks just like the Porsche factory spit it out. I did the exact same roof conversion to mine, with intentions for a street coupe. It sat in the box until yesterday.
Ken Mouton aka Pauly Sty Rene took another turn, he combined his CGT with a Jaguar XJ220 roof for a magnificent black and white coachbuilt CGT coupe.
Yesterday I cracked open the kit again, got an idea to sink the rear part of the roof down to meet the recessed area below the spoiler instead of flush with the tops of the fenders and flush with the leading edge of the spoiler (and forgive me if someone else has already figured out this modification before me. It's entirely possible). By narrowing the roof along it's natural contour line, it allowed a more graceful shape that flows w/the existing body much better than my earlier mockup. It also seems slightly reminiscent of the rear haunches of a Cayman S. I envisioned a couple pieces of styrene to fill the gap w/the recessed roof, Eric suggested that it should be puttied so it could be slightly concave/contoured, to match the contours of the CGT body. I immediately wanted to find pre-shaped plastic that I could glue in place vs. using putty. While I was thinking out loud we both looked inside the open box at the same time, and voila...the original CGT decklid was sitting there shouting something like "hey, quit ignoring me and glue me into that bad boy!". I ended up gluing in the decklid that I so despise on the open version. And it works, I shaved a bit more from the roof sides and welded it in place. It might make it to the show. I really like it, I'll need to tweak the details a bit, add some primer/filler and it'll be on the way. I think it's sufficiently different from all the other CGT coupes that it will have it's own unique appearance. It makes me think that someone really needs to make a Cayman look like a GT1 or JGTC racer ;)
http://images19.fotki.com/v32/photos/1/10258/4182870/1-vi.jpg
http://images17.fotki.com/v28/photos/1/10258/4182870/2-vi.jpg
http://images19.fotki.com/v36/photos/1/10258/4182870/3-vi.jpg
http://images16.fotki.com/v29/photos/1/10258/4182870/4-vi.jpg
http://images19.fotki.com/v32/photos/1/10258/4182870/5-vi.jpg
http://images16.fotki.com/v30/photos/1/10258/4182870/6-vi.jpg
http://images16.fotki.com/v31/photos/1/10258/4182870/7-vi.jpg
http://images19.fotki.com/v26/photos/1/10258/4182870/8-vi.jpg
http://images19.fotki.com/v26/photos/1/10258/4182870/9-vi.jpg
Brian took off first, and landed gracefully as usual with his CGT coupe wearing a modern Ferrari fastback and a style unmistakable to Carrozzeria Dino Venabli. Henry and I brainstormed and measured Revells GT1 roof and found it to be a killer variation that fit the CGT kit body with ease. Henry palooza'd his way to victory, doing the roof conversion in a day or so to much fanfare and having the model (a competition version) on display 2 years ago at Birmingham, and later at the NNL East. It looks so natural I still think most people have no clue it's a custom job. Looks just like the Porsche factory spit it out. I did the exact same roof conversion to mine, with intentions for a street coupe. It sat in the box until yesterday.
Ken Mouton aka Pauly Sty Rene took another turn, he combined his CGT with a Jaguar XJ220 roof for a magnificent black and white coachbuilt CGT coupe.
Yesterday I cracked open the kit again, got an idea to sink the rear part of the roof down to meet the recessed area below the spoiler instead of flush with the tops of the fenders and flush with the leading edge of the spoiler (and forgive me if someone else has already figured out this modification before me. It's entirely possible). By narrowing the roof along it's natural contour line, it allowed a more graceful shape that flows w/the existing body much better than my earlier mockup. It also seems slightly reminiscent of the rear haunches of a Cayman S. I envisioned a couple pieces of styrene to fill the gap w/the recessed roof, Eric suggested that it should be puttied so it could be slightly concave/contoured, to match the contours of the CGT body. I immediately wanted to find pre-shaped plastic that I could glue in place vs. using putty. While I was thinking out loud we both looked inside the open box at the same time, and voila...the original CGT decklid was sitting there shouting something like "hey, quit ignoring me and glue me into that bad boy!". I ended up gluing in the decklid that I so despise on the open version. And it works, I shaved a bit more from the roof sides and welded it in place. It might make it to the show. I really like it, I'll need to tweak the details a bit, add some primer/filler and it'll be on the way. I think it's sufficiently different from all the other CGT coupes that it will have it's own unique appearance. It makes me think that someone really needs to make a Cayman look like a GT1 or JGTC racer ;)
http://images19.fotki.com/v32/photos/1/10258/4182870/1-vi.jpg
http://images17.fotki.com/v28/photos/1/10258/4182870/2-vi.jpg
http://images19.fotki.com/v36/photos/1/10258/4182870/3-vi.jpg
http://images16.fotki.com/v29/photos/1/10258/4182870/4-vi.jpg
http://images19.fotki.com/v32/photos/1/10258/4182870/5-vi.jpg
http://images16.fotki.com/v30/photos/1/10258/4182870/6-vi.jpg
http://images16.fotki.com/v31/photos/1/10258/4182870/7-vi.jpg
http://images19.fotki.com/v26/photos/1/10258/4182870/8-vi.jpg
http://images19.fotki.com/v26/photos/1/10258/4182870/9-vi.jpg