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Thanks guys. I'll be moving on to the rear seat and seat belts later today/ tomorrow morning. Caught a dang cold and it's got me down for the meantime.

Thanks fellas! Hopefully this'll finish up to be a decent lookin' car. James: I just painted the floor black, applied some Elmer's glue down and peppered it on the glue and kind of mashed it in some and dumped the excess off. This flocking is very fine though.

Thanks Steve. Some corrections to make here and there but overall I'm happy with it so far.

This interior just keeps getting better with each addition. I've got the door handles and window cranks as well as the Camaro badges on the door panels and the console is finished. The shifter is a bobby pin that I bent and sanded the shifter ball to get rid of a seam it had. Center gauges are from the PE set I bought. I'm going to buy another set of floor mats so I can fix that drivers side floor area. I'm not happy with that but I'll fix it. Here we are so far guys:

I absolutely love restos Pat and you're doing a great job with this one. I view it like I'm restoring a 1:1 scale car when I'm building like this to try to add creativity along with the upgrades. . Awesome work buddy!

Steve I just cant tell you enough what a helluva job you're doing on this. Words just aren't enough. Learning here...................

Ok gang. It's been a little bit since I posted any updates here and I'm trying not to bore everybody to death with a picture of a floor mat here and a picture of foot pedals there so I'm waiting till I feel that I've got some substantial progress before posting. Additionally , if I spend all my time taking pictures then I don't get much done at the bench. I build slow enough like it is. Here we are with the dash in place, carpet / flocking put down everywhere except where the seats go and floor mats down. Folks I'm doing the very best I can with what I have here so there was just no hope of getting the floor mat on the drivers side to go under the pedals unless I wanted to cut that area of the floor pan out and graph in a "blank" piece of styrene and drop the pedals down from the back side of the dash. That's more work than I wanted to do so I cut the floor mat just short of the pedals and did most of my fancy foot work with the pedals themselves to try to make up the shortcoming. I've got the shifter plate along with the shift pattern insert on the plate installed on the center console in this pic and will be adding the PE gauge bezels and gauges as well as the shifter lever soon to round out that console. The two front seats with the chrome emblem picked out with that chrome pen: and the back seat that I robbed from the spare kit since my original Camaro build did NOT have a back seat at all in it. Yeah ....the roll bars are going bye bye for the revamp and I'll be installing this seat along with seat belts for the front and rear seats. I'll also be filling in those openings for the roll bar with some sheet styrene.

Looks like it turning out to be just that..................spectacular!!

Looks to me that you're off to a great start Ray!

Dude!! This is crazy!!! That looks like the old Street Demons 41 Willys with it all molded in that light blue possibly? Taking notes for when I build mine. Again.........excellent work!

Go for it Ray!!

Verrrrry nice paint work and stripes look fantastic. Clean little Nova you've got yourself there!

Oh man!!! Wow!!!!

As promised , I've been working on the steering column along with the dash for the better part of 3 days. First off I took the OOB steering wheel and cut out the spoke holes and shaved off the horn pad. I then drilled two holes in the column. One on the right for the ignition switch, key and key chain and the one on the left for a turn signal lever. I painted the steering wheel spokes with the newly acquired chrome pen that I just got in the mail and installed a PE "SS" horn pad. I then took a PE key along with a PE ignition switch bezel and a PE key chain with a "Bowtie" on it , made a scratch built key ring and put it all together and installed it into the column. The turn signal lever is made from a .019" needle I had in the spares box and I'll be painting a black knob on the end of it tomorrow morning. Any ways here it all is. I'll show the before picture (which I knew I should have taken a more clear "before" picture of the dash beforehand but this is all I've got) and then the improvement pics: Before: After:

Rich: Man thanks for the good word and the suggestion. I'll surely take heed to it. Lou: Ebay is your friend. They are on there all the time. Check it out. (I will say that the newer Revell Camaro is ALOT better-but I understand the nostalgia/ sentimental reasons for building it) http://www.ebay.com/itm/1980s-Monogram-69-Rampage-Camaro-Plastic-Model-1-24-Scale-2725-/401262427910?hash=item5d6d1abf06:g:EjUAAOSw44BYJ~w3 and http://www.ebay.com/itm/Monogram-1-24th-scale-1969-Chevy-Camaro-Z28-model-kit-EXCELLENT-NEW-COND-Wow-/192078304750?hash=item2cb8c255ee:g:3sIAAOSwo4pYekMM I'll be turning my attention to the steering wheel and column tomorrow morning.

Sorry for the delay in updates everybody. I've been working on this thing but there are a lot of corrections to make. First off the PE bezels are NOT going to work with this dash ....................BUT I've got a different plan. Here's where I started: I drilled out the IP gauges and sanded down the back of them for the scale thickness factor and sanded the Camaro emblem off as well as cleaned up a bunch of flash and sinkholes that I found not only on top of the dash but the face of it as well. Here it is all cleaned up and painted. All dash trim was brought out with a silver lead pencil. While it's not the best dash you'll ever see, it's a far cry from what it was.

I missed the last couple of updates on this bad boy Steve. I really don't know what to say as I'm at a total loss for words. You're really showing the model companies how it's done though. That I can say!!

Good progress Mike. Lookin' good man.

This is me on how quick.............er ............slow I build. It takes me about 9-10 months per kit unless I go totally out of box. Then it's around the 2-4 month marker. I've got a lot of kits though so that's where we differ. I haven't counted but I'm pretty sure I'm looking at about 50-60 kits. As for a percentage I'm looking at about a 3% or so.

Looking forward to the re-start up of this build Kerry.

You know, I had forgotten about the clear steering wheels on those old classics and I remember thinking those were the coolest thing when I was a kid. Looking forward to seeing what you do with this Steve.

Nice detail on that engine Mike!!! Starting to come alive!

Man.....................what a project!!!! Mister you sure know how to cut 'em up and put 'em back together well. You've got yourself a front row seat spectator here bud. Watching...............

Lol!! I hear ya loud and clear Rich. It the sentimental value of the kit that drives me to put a little more time into it. That MPC interior looks pretty dang good there I'll tell you that.

Go for it Andy!! Ok folks. This is the very best that Monogram could do in the late 70's and throughout the early 80's I guess. It's not very accurate but it's what I've got ................so we'll deal with that. It's not going to be perfect but I'm shooting for the best I can do with this interior bucket to transform it into something that somewhat resembles this....minus the wood grain of course. Yuck!