'70 Grande

Love this build; everything about just looks so "right"!

Same here; maybe trying to load too many pics into one post.

Looks really good both ways! Throw alittle black-wash on those wheels to make some of their details pop-out!

Excellent looking build! Your engine compartment detailing is exceptional! Sure would like having a 1:1 of this exact car in my garage!

I, (like many), will be watching this one closely! You're off to a great start!

Really looks good! How did you achieve that finish on the Black paint; is that a straight from the can Black paint color or does it have a coating of some kind? ( I ask cuz I wanna replicate that color on an in-progress build of mine)!

Beautiful! Looks really good!

I'll be watching this one to the finish! It looks really good thus far. Gonna try your paint technique on the next interior that I paint.

...or is it the version that came molded in that Turquoise-colored styrene? I'm curious what you did to make those headlights appear so good; is it paintwork or clear plastic headlight lenses that you added to make them appear so realistic?

Now that last post made me belly-laugh!!!

That box artwork is outstanding!

Might hafta build one of these and quickly show it to my mother. She hated these '27 T's as my grandfather drove her to high school every single day in his old 1:1 in the mid-1950's! Grandpa was frugal, and my mother would say he thought he was "wise" too because who "would wanna date the girl that comes to high school everyday in a nearly 30 year old "T"! Funny thing was my dad told me that brought alot of attention my Mom's way... and it worked on him!

A terrific-looking Oldsmobile convertible, the color choices are outstanding as is the build-quality. Tried unsuccessfully to PM you; you mentioned you have some extra Grand Slam kits that you got the whitewall tires for this build from... I have been looking for all of the body, glass and interior pieces from one of those 1965 Pontiac Grand Prix kits; would you be interested in trading those unbuilt parts from one of your extra Grand Slam kits? Please PM me if you might be; thanks!

Really, really like this build... and it has no numbers and large sponsor decals on it, too! Great subject matter and as always from your workbench, outstanding build quality!

I appreciate all the fine comments... gives me some courage to post more of my builds... thanks all!

Thought I'd add two more pics:

Couple of more pics...

Started this build a few years ago. It is the vintage 1/25 MPC Pontiac GTO kit, (molded in Dark Blue), which caused me to paint it in a similar Dark Blue color over a Blue interior. I built this as a 2-door sedan, (instead of a hardtop), adding posts and rear, side-window glass, and as a circa-1972 car; 5 years old with its second owner who did a few performance upgrades to it. Interior is flocked, engine compartment has been upgraded with some additional panels and details, chassis has been upgraded with some additional panels and details as well. I deliberately build this car with a slightly-tall stance to it as my reference pics research for 1:1 '67 GTOs seemed to show that many of them "ride-alittle-high". Tried to give it the weathering of a 5-year-old daily-driver. My body paintwork is far-from-good as this is the area where my model-building skills can use the most improvement... still gotta add my driver's side rear-view mirror to call this one complete! Comments, criticisms and suggestions are all welcome.

I also have this kit in-progress but it hasn't been out of its box and worked on for several months now. Two things I do seem to remember from previous builds of this kit I did year's ago... 1) The track-width of the completed front suspension runs a little wide with the front tires sticking outside of the front fenders; I wanna try to narrow-it-up on my work-in-progress. 2) That front suspension also sits a bit high making the finished build have a nose-up stance to it.

Nice build; the post-race weathering effects are quite good! Two questions- 1) How did you create that dent on the passenger-side door/fender? 2) Does this build have mis-matched tires, and if so, is that part of the post-race effects?

Doesn't have to be revolutionary or groundbreaking for me; I just have a dislike for one-piece chassis and prefer to replace them with detailed versions in all of my builds.

Stunning build!

Rich... Agree; the '66 Impala stocker is my favorite in the series, (although the "stubby" but nicely-done illustration of it on the box art makes me chuckle)!

Chris... thanks for those wheelbase measurements. I'm not surprised at all by how accurate that measurement is when compared to the 1:1; those "kit-makers of old" really knew what they were doing! Now the challenge will be finding a more detailed chassis that doesn't hafta be stretched a long ways to make 126"! I've done these type of chassis-stretches before, but I'm not sure I wanna do another one for this '66 Wildcat kit.

I'm curious what the 1/25 wheelbase measurement is on this kit... (its 126" in the 1:1 world). I have never liked one-piece molded chassis with no separate suspension pieces and might get this kit if I could find an accurate/more-detailed chassis to swap underneath it. Anybody have any chassis-swap suggestions?