John L.

By the way, what's the story about the "Stingray" side emblem being on only a few '69 Vettes?

All '69s had the Stingray badge......but only a very few, very late model year '68s had them. They came back with the badge to answer complaints from customers about it not being there, created a new one and spelled it different from previous ones (one word instead of two) and planned to put it on the '69 anyway, but put it on a very few '68s. By the way, the pic Trae posted is a '68. (and once upon a time, many years ago, I owned a '68......if only I had known........)

Great work, by the way. Can't wait to see updates!

Wow, great work so far, and I will be following this one very closely! Oh, and by the way, don't pay any attention to Trae and his choice of colors......he's only had one Vette.......so he's never had any other color!

Thanks for posting the great pics, Tom.  It was a pleasure meeting you yesterday, and looking forward to getting together again, soon!

By the way, your Pontiac is awesome, and very worthy of the Ricky Couch award!  Congrats!

I have both the Sherline Lathe and Milling machine, and I assure you they are very good quality machines.  (In fact, they can even be upgraded to CNC with parts that are readily available from Sherline, and using your home computer.)  I've had both since the early 90's.  We bought the lathe first, as you will likely use it more often, for many things.  We later added the milling machine to "compliment" the lathe.  It is correct that you can turn rims on the lathe, but if you want spokes, or slots in them, you will need a mill.  With a rotary table and index attachment on the milling machine, it would be possible to completely make rims on the mill.  This kind of thing is the reason I got the Sherline machines..........attachments/tooling are very easy to find, and many times specialized for miniature machining, which is what I do for models.

Granted, these machines are smaller capacity.....but if your main intended use is for modelling, that may not be a bad thing.  I would highly recommend the Sherline machines, but as posted by others here, your real expense will likely end up being in additional tooling after the fact, regardless of which you buy.  Good luck, and looking forward to seeing the results!  

Very nice build. Despite the kit's shortfalls (tire/wheels), you still built a beautiful model, of a great car. Forgive me, but I've got to post the following pic ....still one of the greatest days of my life!


They really do run like the reviews say, too! Most awesome car I've ever driven!