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Wow!!!!! LOTS of fab work going on in here. Very good progress JC!!

DAAAANG!!! First off I didn't even know this kit existed. ( I worked on these when they were brand new at a Pontiac dealership in Dallas and back then I wondered why they only had one exhaust outlet?? ). Secondly , you're definitely putting quite the spin on this one. Will be watching.

Very fine work on that engine!! Gotta love a super detailed six.

I didn't like the hole that was cut in the hood. I'm not much of a fan of that kind of stuff because most of the time it just looks cheap and half done. There are those cars that do look cool with a hole in the hood and a big tunnel ram dual quad setup coming out of the hood but this aint that car. I cut some black Evergreen styrene to match the hole, glued it into place with Tamiya cement, filled in the cracks and low spots with super glue and sanded everything flush nice and purdy. Hemi is still coming along as well: an "in chassis" shot with the engine wire harness installed: It's gonna take up the whole engine bay opening when it's all said and done. Still gotta work on the stance some.

Beautiful work on that side marker. Overall progress is amazing!

Good start JC! Love all the history and info!

Thanks Mike! Been away from the bench for a few weeks fellas. Lots of activities in the 1:1 world to attend to during the summer. Got the stance checked and still want it a little lower but this'll be the starting point. Here's the rolling chassis with the powertrain test fitted. Got the distributor drilled a few days ago in anticipation for the orange spark plug wire arrival in the mail. I got the wires yesterday so I went to work on that this morning. I also received my "banjo" fittings for the carburetors so I can run those fuel lines now. My intention was to go with the stock routing and lines for the fuel delivery but this is a custom ride. I found some photos that I took at the San Antonio speedway that may suit this build even better. A nicely built Hemi with the super stock manifold in a Belvedere: BTW..............I'll be saving the stock routing for the kit that I robbed this motor from. Oh but wait................there's no motor in that kit any more. No worries about that......I got the replacement kit yesterday.

Man...……...this is SICK!!!! Am I ever glad to see this one back in progress. You nailin' it bubba!!

You're right about having the eye/ vision of what things CAN turn into when tackling one of these kinds of projects. I've performed a few restos myself and know the kind of work it takes to turn out a good ending. You've certainly attained that here with this build Rich.

Cool lil build. Good subject choice!

I must say.............I am very impressed by the realistic detailing that you're throwing at this one Daniel. Detailing is one thing, but pulling it off to the point that it looks this real is a definite plus. Great work here.

Thanks Jeremy! I'm certainly going to try Erroll. I'm waiting on throttle linkage, spark plug wires and the like to arrive in the mail for any more progress on the engine. Until then I'm marchin' on with the wheel construction. Since I've gotten the modifications to the rear wheel sleeves from my local machine shop , I've been waiting on the studs and nuts needed for the rear wheels. I took the base wheel face and drilled all the lug nut holes out a little so the studs would fit. Here's the lug nuts that I acquired from RB Motion: (if none of you have checked THAT site out then you need to. AMAZING stuff on there) Lug nuts installed: And here we are with the wheel face adhered onto the wheel sleeve and a light wash applied to the lug nuts to bring out the detail. Before installing the wheel face I hit the wheel sleeve with some steel wool and then followed that up with some Mothers Aluminum Polish to bring a nice shine to the sleeves. Each of the rear wheels were 8 pieces in total. Fronts were 4 pieces each.

Oh HELL yeah!!!!!!!! I've been waiting for this for a LONG time!!!!!!!!

Lookin' good Craig. What color is that on the engine?

These are really nice kits and it looks like you are making the most out of it Craig. Good work.

This......................is about as real as it gets! Fabulous work!!!

Now this is totally different!! Very cool Rob!!!!!!

Way to go on passing the torch down Anthony! Your son did an outstanding job!!

Looks awesome James. Where'd you get the wheels from?

Thanks Tom. I think it's gonna take "mad genius" to get that Freightliner done. lol

Man..................that's a good lookin' car Mike.

Heya Dan! I've let this one go to a certain degree just because I've been so dang busy in the 1:1 scale world. I'm coming back around to this one but needed something a little more like I'm used to for the time being. I started another "Demon II" build over in the Auto section that shouldn't take me too awful long to get completed. I may even have it done in time for the HAMS show in Houston for July. I want to take my time on this FL and do a decent job so rushing is out the window. Will be back soon with some things that I've found with the kit and how to overcome them. Thank you for checkin' in pal. I see what you mean Rich. It's not much but it's there. Will look into that.

Man..........I'll put this on the scale of watching Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson play at the same concert. This is gonna be one heckuva show right here!

I've been working on this one on and off this week. Engine build is under way. I've decided to NOT go the blower route and go with a dual quad super stock motor. I'll be using the heads, rocker covers, intake and timing cover out of the 68 Hemi Dart kit (which I'll have to replace because I do want to build a Hemi Dart) and retaining the block and transmission from the Willys Street rod kit so as to keep the mods to fit the engine into the frame to a minimum. I had to modify the timing cover and intake slightly to get them to fit together on this engine block. I've been doing a lot of studying on this particular powerplant because I want to replicate the fuel delivery system and throttle linkage. Here's the base build up as of earlier in the week: and here we are with it as of now (Part number is wrong on the filter-might should've left that part off). another thing that has caught my interest are the two piece aluminum wheels that are available these days. I actually acquired these wheels some time back but the rear wheels were so wide that I didn't have a tire wide enough to mount them in. So I took both of the wheel sleeves into a machine shop and had them cut the sleeve to the depth I wanted and "Walla!" , I've got myself a set of usable Pro Street wheels now. I'll have the wheel studs and lug nuts coming by next Thursday. Here's where we're gonna go with the tire and wheel set up:

Good Lord!!!!!!!!!