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This is a 4D brand kit. Parts are card stock that you punch out. About $10 it was a fun 2 day build. I did fill some of the tab & slot joints with ddrywall putty and repainted.

It's just a little rain, jeez louise!! Those dudes are weird.. In 2017, I found and purchased a real deal, rust free, complete, numbers matching 1970 Chevelle SS 454 LS6 still wearing its slightly faded original Cranberry Red w/ black stripes, black buckets & console, 4-speed, 4.10:1 14-bolt rear, jacked up with air shocks in the back, mandatory Centerline trashcan lid wheels, and bright yellow traction bars.. It was the kind early 80s hot rod that everybody drove back then from what I gathered.. I dunno, I wasn't born yet.. And, what I paid for it was the kind of deal that would make ALL of YOU just sick lol! Those rain worrying kinds of dudes would lose sleep over the fact that I drove that car daily for the next 3 years, and I drove it HARD, and EVERYWHERE, in spite of the average of 6 mpg, adding some 20,000 miles to the 44,000 original miles that it had on it when I bought it.. Rain, shine, sleet, snow, mud, didn't matter! I even scored some hail dents during the 2018 tornado season way out in Iowa.. And again in 2019 going after what would later be known as the Dayton, Ohio Memorial Day EF4 tornado.. They're only cars, COOL cars, but, just cars.. My LS6, 1-of-4,475 built, went to its new owner in 2020, and has since been obsessively OVER-restored, and is now never driven, and is the kind of concours show car that literally gets pushed from the trailer, to the show field, and back again.. Anyway, my Canadian friend, THANK YOU for posting your pics from that Canada Day show! That Fargo van is excellent, and the obvious star of the show is that rare and beautiful 1960 Plymouth Fury convertible, but I can't help but dig that gray square body Chevy truck with the front mounted spare tire the most!

Wicked!!

Gonna follow this! Can't beat whitewall slicks at all!

getting real close to the finish line Brian!

Liking what I see so far. Where did the tires come from?

Steve at this point I'm going to call it a day and use the jet way decals whether they or right or wrong. Thanks again for all your help with this decal mystery. I will probably add the nascar decal under the winston cup decal just because its supposed to be there and I have seen it there on other Allison cars as well as Petty and Pearson.

Have a couple more great traders to give shout outs to... Dragline and Chryslerjunkandstuff. Both, great guys to trade with!!!

Thanks, I usually go to the heartland nationals every year, couldn't go this year because I moved across town.

Looks good, although a couple of quibbles: 1. Although I guess it looks racy, I don't see much reason to have that twin scoop hood on there unless it's ducted directly to the carbs, like it was on the A/FX cars. Just more unnecessary aerodynamic drag on a touring car. 2. Is that a single reservoir brake master cylinder? Seems a little archaic, hmm? Sorry if I'm picking nits here . . .

Going with a late war camo pattern and I've got the secondary color & color modulation applied and have done some additional work on the road wheels. I'm finding that building armor is pretty enjoyable.

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Gearboxes with shifters of the three-on-the-tree variety located on the right-hand side of the steering column were standard equipment on American automobiles for many, many years.

You may be right about the Jet Way decals Mark. Are those old school Hedman decals right below “The Real Thing” decals, to the right of the Champion decals? One thing that seems to be a constant on all Bobby Allison owned cars is the use of Reed Cams.

Chartpak graphic tape works well for me. Comes in a variety of widths. Make sure you get the crepe stuff if you have a curves you want to go around. Here it is on a 1/25 scale body, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work on a larger scale.

It's sitting right. 👍👍. I haven't been to a Goodguy's show in years, they stopped the Rhinebeck NY show a while ago.

Glad you’re back. Do you sell your files at all for personal use?

Getting wet typically won't destroy a car, so I have no idea what these guys are thinking. I should have shot some video. Guys were literally panicking, running around like destruction was imminent. Getting peopel out of the way, grabbing covers from their trunk, yelling at wives to help them get the cover on. It was ridiculous. And I remember from my days working for Porsche, there were guys like this. If it looked like rain, they wouldn't drive their car.

It seems to have gone extinct. That tape, and most of the dry transfer (rub-on) letters and numbers, were used mainly by architects and draftsmen, all of which have moved on to other means of doing their work.

Great looking monte Carlo!

Outstanding looking Galaxie with some superb detailing!!

Oh yes they made a V8 I have a photo of a 57 with dual quads from the factory. I'm old enough to remember the 57 Hudson they could open up into a full bed quite a history in its day.

I built the Revell '54 Chevy Panel Wagon a while back and I thought that was going to break me from purchasing older kits. Then I purchased the old Revell '56 Ford F-100. Good grief.......that one hurt. lol In short......I feel your pain brother.

'60s were vastly superior to now in my past-it geezer opinion, when even most frilly girly girls could drive manual gearboxes.

I got one of my grail kits off Ebay, and tbh, I will be buying another 1-2 of that kit off Ebay soon. I have bought truck parts, pc parts etc off there and had no issues!