MOC: Restored 1957 Coupe - Getaway Car

[Illerejug]

Hello again! Today's 8-wide vehicle is a restored 1950's era passenger car.

Warden Jones collects and restores classic vehicles. Today, he drove his restored 1957 coupe to work at the State Prison. Little did he know that today was the day of the big prison break. Unfortunately for the Warden, a pair of convicts spotted it in the parking lot after they busted out, and hot-wired the classic car for their getaway!

(Most pictures are clickable for larger versions.)

Stats: 179 pieces (not including minifigs); 8 studs wide; 22+ studs long; 153 grams; Click to download the LDD file. (edit: link is dead now, sorry.)

Design Goals:

- Overall design of a passenger car, instead of a racer.

- Fully enclosed cabin with nice looking interior accessories.

- Seats for 4 passengers. (I gave up on this goal; it only seats 2 minifies.)

- 2-1-2 hood stripe pattern (via jumper plates) that I had previously prototyped in LDD.

- Solid and playable for my 5- and 2-year old kids.

- Mechanism for attaching weapon systems to be play compatible with World Racers.

The 1950's style was initially unplanned, and only came about due to my struggles with finding an acceptable roof design. I prototyped many roof designs using all sorts of pieces – standard 4 x 6 car roof pieces, plates, slopes, and so on – but none of them looked good. Finally I stumbled across the 6 x 8 x 2 shell piece in LDD and realized that it solved the roof problem nicely *and* suggested the 1950's styling. From that point, it was easy to build toward that style.

Front & Back

The very front of the car doesn't strongly resemble a typical late 1950's era vehicle, but I like it anyway :)

The technic holes in the front of the roof were intended to be the mounting location for any weapons I designed for the vehicle. As with my Can-Am Racer, I never ended up designing a weapon system for this car.

Side

Top

Cabin / Interior

I tried to keep the dashboard fairly simple (based on the era) and give the interior a decent color scheme to contrast the body color. This view also illustrates how I used the same door design as the Street Speeder; the design is decent, but not great; I came up with a better door design on my muscle car, which I'll post probably in a week or so.

Doors Open + Roof On

Enjoy!

Edited September 15, 2013 by Illerejug

[XimenaPaulina]

Nice work on this 8-wide Coupe Illerejug, I really like the red-black color scheme, though I think it would be better if you smoothen the studs with some tiling or SNOT building.

[Cancerkitty]

That roof is just about perfect. The whole car has a great shape to it. I agree, removing the studs would improve the look quite a lot.