The main chassis of the car was acquired by me from a friend who either worked on the show, or knew someone who worked on the show. I forget the exact details. However, the car was only a casting of the top half of the car, and didn't include any undercarriage details. When I originally got the casting, I kind of put it on the back burner, as I didn't know what the undercarriage pieces looked like. Later, miracles of miracles, the exact same style of car was auctioned off by "Profiles In History". The auction catalog showed two pictures of the car. One was of the top, and the other was of the undersite. Second miracle was that this particular undercarriage had already been scratch built by me as part of my car reconstruction project.
You can see some pictures of the original casting, along with the pics from the profiles catalog on my Profiles Car web page
Even better, all of the scratch built parts had already been molded. Despite the fact that it still sat in a box for another six months, the actual build up of this car too just under a couple of days. I filled the chassis with rigid foam, and sealed it up with a thin layer of resin. Probably not the best technique, but I just wanted it finished. The undercarriage parts sit on top of a little platform, which I scratch built from styrene. I poured up the various resin pieces, glued them on, and did the assembly. Painting was easy for the most part.
I started with a coat of some dupli-color blue that sort of matched the pictures in the profiles catalog. I masked off the top half of the car and did the undercarriage. I tried my best to recreate the speckled undercarriage paint job that was on the original. I think it turned out pretty close. I then masked off the areas for the windows, again trying to match the profiles auction.
Things kind of fell apart when I decided to hand paint the silver pinstripe and headlights. I got a little careless with my fingers, and ended up smudging some colors around. It was messy, and the clean up wasn't much help. Still, I figured that if it was finished, it was better than a kit in a box, so I kept going. I sealed the whole thing up with a couple of coats of clear coat, and it's done.
Turned out pretty cool, and it's a nice, quick little project that got finished in short order. I wish I had more like that!!!!