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I know exactly what you're talking about, David. I recall having to narrow a dash (but I can't tell you on what ?). The next kit I start is going to get a lot of "tape assembly" before any paint. Gotta do the fixes before any paint. No surprises next time.....yeah, right ?.

Yeah, I thought about that and knocked out the side glass but that wasn't it, Dave. The dash is tight up against the bottom of the windshield (this is after removing the remains of the locating pins and grinding the bottom corners of the glass away) and it looks fine but still there's a gap so I filled it with an .040 strip. Good enough. My big concern was the huge gap between the hood trim and the grille. I couldn't let that go without a fix. It seems there are always surprises when I get to this point on every build, regardless of looking for just this sort of thing ahead of time. Stamp collecting would have been a lot easier ?.

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Greg, I have used lacquer thinner to thin Testor enamels for spraying, successfully, and also for thinning out thickened-up enamel, in desperation, for brushing. What happens to the paint after that is hit or miss. This may not be pertinent to this discussion but I have recently experienced an issue with the lacquer thinner I got at Lowes recently. I use it for cleaning brushes and noticed it was acting "strange". Then I used it for thinning MM enamel for spraying last week and I noticed the solids in the paint were separating out and congealing and settling to the bottom of the jar. I stopped using it for anything immediately.

Thanks, Rick, I still have a bit more to do. She's gittin' there.

Oh I admire a woman that lights up a room like that. You're a lucky guy!

Mine came from Cedarhurst. The only fowl language from her is aimed at me ?.

Oh she's a beauty, Dave. And yeah, when the Garage Guy speaks, people listen ?. I do. I'm happy to hear of your BMF experience; I ordered up two of the 001s from them on your say-so. Can't wait to take it for a spin. They had some problems with their vendors, as I recall, some time ago and the "Ultra Bright" was not for anyone with patience like mine ?.

That's a fact. Tonight I found the complete 427 from the '66 Fairlane on ebay. I'll use that in the Galaxie and swap the chassis', giving me a screwbottom Starliner with a nice 406. ?

Ok....just when you think it's all going great, the AMT curse kicks in and things turn to ?. Despite everything I did to ensure that the windshield/dash relationship was friendly, the firewall would not get any closer to contacting the underside of the cowl than about two mms. I did everything I could think of but still the gap remained. What to do, what to do....fill the gap! Next, the chrome trim on the hood would not line up with the corresponding trim on the fenders and the gap between the top of the grille and the hood trim was horrific. The hood was resting too high. My solution: shave the underside of the hood where it contacts the fenders and shaving the top of the radiator support. You can't know this stuff until you get to this point in assembly. I'm just glad that Wifey wasn't home when all this was unfolding ?. She doesn't approve of my fowl language. ? So, anyway, here's a few pix with the foil on.

Yup, thanks, Tom. I'm still working on obtaining an intake (I've been begging ?) and it will probably be a high-rise and I'm ok with that.

Thanks for your interest, Dave. Yes, those Holly's are outstanding! I'm going to be looking at those, for sure. I wish I had known about the dual quad intake before I bought the kit with the black car on the box ?...oh well, sometimes if you don't ask the right questions....anyway, I'll get there eventually ?.

Thanks, Dave, it's all foiled now and the glass is in. I should be able to ģet some pix up tomorrow. Stay tuned.

Yup. I agree with Len. I was thinking about doing the same thing to the bumpers for my '58 Belvedere. They are a horror. You would think somebody at the tool design department would say " hey, if we put the gates on the bottom of the bumpers...." ?. But that wouldn't solve the parting line on the ends issue. I usually sand the gate areas with a white stick and hit it with Molotow but the ends are sometimes so bad the only thing to do is what you did, David. It's a big improvement.

Mike, thanks but neither of the parts pictured are the ones I need.

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I bought a flight of that stuff but have not had the guts to try it. I got a set of iridescent colors. I would be interested how to use this stuff. I'm mostly an enamel guy. But no water base at all. It seems unnatural ?

I happened to notice the low count of your posts and was surprised to find you only joined in January of this year. ? I was also surprised to find this thread went into hibernation back in August '23 ?. Well, anyway, this is a project, among others, that got sidelined when Wifey's health became a priority and I lost all that good painting weather. I still have 3 or 4 more cars to paint but it's going to get hot and humid here soon. I've got maybe a month now to get them painted. I'll be lucky to get one or two. Tonight( I just knocked off) I was attaching stuff to the body with 5 M.E. and flubbed the tail light bezels. So...tomorrow I gotta scrape the epoxy out of the body and off the bezels and try again.? Final assembly is always like this for me. ?

Yay! Looks great, John. Skipping the rocker trim is the right thing for this quarter-miler/ street sleeper. Did the kit include slicks?

Hello. Remember me? I know, I know... it been a while ?. Anyway, she's finally painted, polished, and getting put together. Here's a few pix to get 'er back on the front page. I'll have more after I finish the foiling. Thanks for looking.

It seems I have the 2000 issue and it has only the single quad intake but I must say it's a beauty. The whole engine is super nice. I have a Thunderbolt but it's getting built so no bashing allowed. Those decals look good, Tom, I'm going to check them out. Thanks, Tom. J

I hope you don't mind me picking your brain, Tom, I don't do this type of build very often and I just hope you can point me in the right direction on some things. I now have both the '63 kit and I found an affordable Starliner (a truly great kit from the looks of it) but it looks like I'm going to need an intake setup to emulate the Tasca car. I think what they ran was a mid-rise Edelbrock with a pair of 650 Holly's. Do you know of an aftermarket caster who has this? I think the 66 427 Fairlane kit might have it but it's getting expensive. Any thoughts? Thanks, J.

Thanks, David, it's probably best to go to the source. I am on it! ?

Hey, David, im glad you mentioned the BMF. Which variety of BMF did you use and from what vendor? I need to get some and maybe I can catch the same lot you got yours from. The stuff can vary...I'm sure you know ?.

Oh boy.....coincidentally, I have run into a similar issue today. I may need to cut off my rear wheels so I can move the rear axle housing back 2 mm. It's that or get the dremel out and remove some styrene. I will take the path of least resistance ?. Should you put it back in the box, I'll take that engine ?.