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Nice shine on that car body Pat. You know, I get just as much a kick out of what's in the background of these pics as I do the actual ongoing build itself. Adds a whole new dimension to the build.

Dang Jim. Your attention to detail brought forth by your imaginative fabrication and resourcefulness are just simply amazing! Detailing on a good budget. Right on brutha!!! I'm already looking for those hex beads!!

Thanks Carl. I wanted to get up and work on it some this morning but sleep prevailed.

Thanks a lot Carl , Dave and Randy! Well guys, the floor mats came in the mail yesterday and I went right to work finishing the interior. All I have left at this point are the door lock rods/ knobs at each door but that'll be one of the last things to take care of with this model. I will, however, go ahead and drill the holes in the door panel. Here it is with floor mats at all four seating positions , the front seat belts installed and a Hot Rod magazine to round it all out. I just hate these engines that are molded in two halves with the oil pan included. After taking care of the seam lines and priming , I carried the black basing over from the aviation side and applied it here. I went ahead and black based the intake manifold as well. I shot the block with some home mixed Chevrolet Engine Red and shot the coat on and then shot the intake with some "Aluminum". After that I applied a subtle wash to bring out the detail of both pieces.

That color on that car body looks great man! Love the interior work too Mike. Doncha just love those teeny decals?? lol

Man this is just craaaaazy cool!!!!

That's some good imagination and vision that you've got going into this. How long have you been planning this out? Looks like it all belongs there!

Looks like another good one Mike.

I like the way you're thinkin'.

Yes siree ! I'll be in on this one for sure John.

Thanks Anthony. When this all started the interior didn't have a back seat. I think it was in the kit but for some reason I chose to omit it on the original build. When I got the spare kit it had one in it but it was notched out on the sides for the dang roll bar braces. This is after stripping the white paint from it: Here it is after filling in the cut outs with some Evergreen sheet styrene and filling and sanding everything smooth. Additionally, I made some small cut outs where the seat back and seat bottom meet for seat belts which are now installed with the PE seat buckles. Man I guess I need to fill the center "dot" in on those buckles. I'll also be working on the front seat finishes to match the rear seat. No biggie on that though.

Man the amount of work that it's taken you to get this far is off the charts Rich. It's all worth it and its cool to watch it all come together.

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!!!!