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That would be " chromatically challenged", Len. Let's be sensitive. ?

I must be using a cheap search engine. Well there ya go! Tubbed and slammed in the weeds. ?

Looking good now....don't forget to sand your tires ?.

The 'Vette looks like "Hemi Orange" to me, Len. They both look terrific from here!

Waste not, want not.....? The color on the 'Vette reminds me of Speghetti-Os.

No, really? ? Thanks, Will.

Yeah, see? It looks like a Crown Royal bottle. It's a doo-over. ?

I was expecting "ew....gold?". I had to find out what this would look like. ? I tried that '29 roadster with fenders and I totally hated it. No more A-bones with fenders for me. Or deuces. That's why I like those Revell kits - no fenders. ?

Curses.... foiled again! Ok, I didn't curse much but I did get some foil on the door panels. There's a little on the dash too. Thanks for looking. o k

Yes, Lenny, that's the plan. ?....the interior parts went in the dehydrator yesterday; they were still sticky. I'll be playing with that today. I need a completion to justify my existence.

When the exterior is this color there aren't many choices. I thought maybe all white but that made me feel like i would be taking the lazy way out. The dash needed to be body color so...here we are. For now.

So....time for snow tires pretty soon?

I'll get back to it but I need to get other stuff done. It did sand out just fine, Dave, it's just the rear quarter trim. It's filled in with primer and won't allow sanding without ruining the molded-in grooves. My first mistake was not masking it out from the very beginning. Lesson learned. I'll deal with it later.

This one is in the box. The crazing in the area between the trim spears on the rear quarters that are "corrugated " was impossible to deal with and still be able to properly finish that trim. The only solution I could muster is to eliminate the corrugations but that is a very invasive operation involving much body work. Maybe I can come up with a solution but the original idea will necessarily be abandoned.

It may be a cool kit bash if that Austin Gasser kit is easy enough to find....naaah. I've gotta stop. ?

Back in the mid '70s the Rhode Island state legislature neglected to notice that the vehicle inspection law had expired and did not burden the residents with a new one for a year and a half. How convenient for me and my Olds powered Plymouth coupe that would have undoubtedly failed an inspection in spades ?. Thanks on the door handles, Dave, I'll try to not lose them...

Sorry, David, I couldn't help myself. After that posting I immediately searched for a London Taxi gasser just to see if there ever was one. Nope. But then I went straight down the gasser rabbit hole and spent the rest of the night there. ?

Not much here but this one is, for all practical purposes, done. I just need to install the three handles that I needed to make. The kit handles were flashy beyond usable. And I lost two of them. Anyway, this is all I have to show for now. I made new handles using .035 styrene rod, .040 half-round and some CA. I hit them with Molotow and I'm giving them a few days to cure. The .035 rod happens to fit the holes in the doors very nicely. The rumble seat handle hole is a bit bigger but oh well. I left that rod long and it will bottom on the floor. That's it. Thanks for wasting you time ?

Last week I hit the bondoed areas with some Ace "sandable primer" in order to smooth out those areas and a few days later I wet-sanded. Today I sprayed the whole body with Tamiya light white primer. I put it on too heavy and tomorrow I will be sanding a lot of it off ?. Lacquer is hot. Lacquer is hot. Lacquer is hot...I have to write this 100 times...Lacquer is hot. Lacquer is hot. Lacquer is hot....don't wait up....Lacquer is hot. Lacquer is hot. Lacquer is....

Did a little painting on the interior today with a cheapey 2 stage airbrush. I don't know why anybody likes them. It's such an awkward process. But I started to get the hang of it and it's all good. Thankfully ?. So here's what it looks like after that. The plan is to foil the middle section of the door panels and some additional miscellaneous application. I have a photo reduction instrument panel. I may find it impossible to detail the dash the way it sits now. I had to glue it to the door panels in order to get it all to fit together with the '63 floor section. So I'm not looking forward to "disassembling" the three parts. We shall see. Wish me luck ?. Dont worry, I also plan to tone down the purple and buff up the white with some satin clear (I heard what you said ?)

....and flames ? Edit: the FI SBC was exactly how I pictured it.

Gasser.

Well, you are pretty far north...it'll be 16F by Halloween ?

Ooo yeah, we were drowning for the past 2 days. That 16 degrees can't be Fahrenheit ?...?

I think black would be safe. I like the contrast of what's there now and as a contemporary hot rod it would work but the wheel/tire says traditional....what is the time period depicted by this representation? (am I overthinking this, Bil? ?) You have flathead power, '60s rolling stock, and maroon paint. Black is safe. ? Edit: you've got me bloviating now so....we enthusiasts in the year 2024(that's right, it's 2024!) now have a very long history of rod building to draw upon. The examples are virtually infinite. You can depict a car built in 1948 or 1955 or 1975 or 2000. I love the cars built around the late '50s. I hate the high-tech billet buggies. But then you have resto-rods of the '70s and nostalgia rods and on and on. So then...if you are building it today in 2024, you've got to decide on a time period you want to depict...enter the back-story. Who built it and when? But you know all this. I'm done now. ☺️ heh heh heh....