Hardbody Camaro Build with Brian Meharry Part 2

Here she is soldered together with the front axle tube in place. I cut additional slots that will be used to solder the chassis in additional spots as well as the end of the tube.

View from underneath. I rounded the edges of the angle for a little smoother look. Its also one less thing to poke a turn marshall with.

Closer view of the front end set up. I will solder the front axle in next.

After a few hours in the tumbler, our frame looks like a shiny piece of jewelry. Well mount the body next.

To go for the American short track look...those wheel wells are going to have to be opened up.

I used JK products lane stickers, stuck them to the body in the desired location, and traced around them with a Sharpie. The shaded parts will be removed with a Dremel sanding drum.

Heres the wheel wells cut out so that we can obtain a wider stance. Im going with a flat black hood on this one. Black hoods are just sinister looking on Camaros.

Check in next time when Brian shows his stenciling and pin-striping techniques.

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Chevrolet Camaro Red Zone Concept

A design statement achieved with current and future accessories is the inspiration for the Camaro Red Zone Concept. It uses the Camaro convertible’s style to demonstrate what’s possible with a carefully selected collection of accessories – and it debuts a new, heritage-inspired stripe graphic that will be available soon. The result is a tasteful combination that blends contemporary style with a classic flair.

Chevrolet Camaro Red Zone Concept highlights:

• New-for-2012 model year Crystal Claret exterior color with black convertible tonneau cover
• Chevrolet Accessories 21×8.5-inch silver/polished-face wheels
• Silver heritage stripe
• Chevrolet Accessories body-color grille and convertible wind screen
• Suspension lowering kit by Pedders (Chevrolet Official Licensed Product)
• Concept polished strut tower brace
• Concept “RS” underhood liner
• Titanium leather interior with Silver Ice accents
• Black soft instrument panel insert
• Chevrolet Accessories Silver Ice door and instrument panel inserts
• Chevrolet Accessories floor mats with silver “CAMARO” logos

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67 Camaro

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67 Camaro

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2013 Chevrolet Camaro Hot Wheels Edition

At the SEMA Show in Las Vegas the Chevrolet Camaro Hot Wheels edition has unveiled that will be available from spring 2013 in a strictly limited edition. Called 2013 Chevrolet Camaro Hot Wheels Edition.

Chevrolet has now created the popular model cars from hot wheels to life and brings hot with the Camaro wheels Edition from spring 2013 a special version of his sports coupe on the market. As with the collectibles in model cars is also the Camaro hot wheels Editon strictly limited and only available as stock extends.

Chevrolet has the special Camaro with the design Department developed Mattel wheels Division, and Holst Felix, Vice President of Mattel wheels forward Division, especially on the Camaro Special Edition, after all, responsible for the design of model cars for 20 years, he and can now for the first time one of him with designetes driving himself in his garage.

Visually, you can see the special Camaro at its "kinetic blue" livery with black stripes on hood, roof and trunk lid, the ZL1 rear spoiler, the ZL1 Grill, the 21 "-alloy wheels with red stripes and the hot wheels logo in the grille."

In the Interior you can find then black leather seats with red stitching and hot wheels logo on back and doors. Special model is available as Coupé and convertible, and the motorization the 3.6 litre V6 with 323 HP and the customers can choose 6.2 liter V8 with 400 / 426 PS.

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Hardbody Camaro Build with Brian Meharry Part 3

I usually free hand paint my numbers with a brush and One Shot lettering enamels, but this is another method of making your own numbers. I draw them on blue painters tape, and carefully cut them out with an Ex-Acto blade.

Number masks shown applied to the body. When spraying the main color, make sure to use light coats of paint so that the paint doesnt bleed under the masks.

Im about 5 hours into the build now. Im going to do some simple pinstripe techniques next around the numbers and elsewhere on the body. 

Im going to paint a couple of red lines on each side of the car using One Shot enamel. Notice how I left the masking tape for the numbers on the doors.

Once the red lines are dry enough I peeled off the straight masking tape. After that, I outlined the white numbers with red as well with a 20/0 round brush. I layed down a few white diamonds and star shapes in white. Im going for the early 70 s short track look here. This car is a loose interpretation of a car that ran at Raceway Park on Chicagos South side.

The main color of this car is Testors Purple-licious from a rattle can. I used a little bit of yellow to make the numbers on the doors pop out a bit. Im going to wait at least 24 hours for the lettering enamel to dry. The body will be coated with acrylic gloss, and the hood will be coated with a satin finish.

Heres the finished body mounted on the chassis as previously built. Its a good idea to check the fit of the body on the rolling chassis before moving on much farther.

In the next installment, Brian gets into some tips and techniques having to do with interior painting and motor mounting.

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