1940's & '50's Automobiles

[Murdoch17]

I have built two diifrent types of cars built on the Palace Cinema car chassis, using two seperate ideas for starters:

• The first was to built a tail-finned late 50's car, such as a '57 Plymouth Fury, based off the Cinema car.
  
• The second was to incoprerate the large front end scoop-thing, like those used in the late 1940's - early '50's, (I eventually came to the conlusion that the original LEGO design was the best for the scoop, so I kept that part of the car official.)
  

Knowing not much about car building, is I set out to built two seperate styles from the same mismatched car.

Here are my results:

1950's Automobile

This 1950's car had the front grill raised 1 plate higher than the rear. It has a single stripe, no hood scoop-thing (I really don't know what it's called!) and smaller mudguards.

The rear features double tail-lights and tail fins, while the stripe wraps around the back. This car only comes in red, black and white, with the stripe comming in Dark red, white & black. (not shown). Any combination of said stipe and base colors will work, but the ones i've slected were the chosen becuase of personal preferances.

1940's Car

This car type features much of the same as the 1950's car seen above, such as wheels, axels, and front grille design. However, the mudguards, cabin, and inside design are very diffirent from the other car. This car type only comes in red, white, black, and dark bluish grey.

(NOTE: The rear slope has been changed since this photo was taken. The 2x4 slope has been replaced with 4 '1x3' slopes, BL Part #50950.) The rear of this car features singluar tail lights and a graceful curve towards the roof.

The 1950's car has no inside, but the '40's car does! Two seats, a radio, and an steering wheel are included.

Last but not least both 1950's & 1940's cars are roughly the same size, letting them park in small spaces, such as this lovely cottage garage. (sneak peek of what's comming soon!)

LXF comming soon!

Comments, questions, and critics welcome!

Edited March 31, 2013 by Murdoch17

[Bregir]

Great looking cars! :)

[lightningtiger]

Not bad at all 'Murdoch17', I like them except I still have misgivings about those wheels and huge wheel aches !

Brick On LDD On 'Murdoch17' !

[timmyc1983]

Cool cars and i like that cottage, nice colour scheme :D great work!

[Murdoch17]

After reading lightningtiger's comment, I realize he is right about the wheels. I have now changed the wheels on the 1940's cars to a bigger size, but kept the wheel arches the same. Here are some pictures:

Also, you will notice two new colors: Tan & Light Bluish gray. These can be built, burt the tan car requires some dark bluish gay parts, such as the roof and wheel wells.

The wheels are are only a couple centimeters away from the wheelwells, so they may / may not work in real life. They seem to work in LDD, but then again, it could be working because of an error. (I don't know for sure ethier way, but I will know soon when I get this built!)

MOC Page / LDD file comming soon... I hope!

Edited April 4, 2013 by Murdoch17