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Good Lord !!!! What tha ??? Holy....!!!! You gotta be....!!!! Wow!!! Nice technique on those seats and it looks killer !!!!

LOL. I've always liked the look of this car and that's probably the main reason right there Greg. I had this kit as a kid 34 years ago and made a mess of it. While I'm not going to the great measures that you are with yours, I hope to make this one a helluva lot better than back then. lol. 'Course.............I built the gasser version back then too.

Man I turn my head and then check back in and ol' Derrick here's got half the dam car built already! Screamin' progress and looks good so far bud! BTW if you ever wanted to paint those letters on the tires there's an acrylic white pen available at Hobby Lobby that works great. You've gotta be careful shakin' it up too much or pressing down too hard but it yields excellent results on the white letters on model car tires. It's worth the small purchase.

I like the progress and the change up. Where did the carburetors come from?

Now this'll be cool to watch!!! Go for it Dave!!!!

Looks like you've got some neat ideas floatin' around with this one Anthony. I'm currently using this chassis on my Revell '54 Chevy Sedan Delivery build. I can't believe how well it fits up into the body of that thing.

It's like Revell can't seem to make a re-tool of this one. Instead it's the same ol' stuff with a different set of decals...................and wheels.

Thanks a lot Carl and Dave! Picked this one up yesterday for spare parts. Sheesh!!! I don't know how in the world Revell could market this kit under that theme and expect it to sell. Jeez!!! In any case a lot of the parts are cleaned up on these re-release kits I have found and I'll be cutting the rear door from the body to display it open.

I agree with the high backs that you chose as well Rich! Keep up the good work. Man this is killer!

Thanks Bill! Yeah I was even gonna build it like the box top and was thinkin' "Yeah..........yeah... ...no......no,no,no,no,no!!!!" lol

I finished up with the rear suspension this morning by painting the shocks , the rear mount points on the springs, painting the spring mount bolts at the axle and adding PE bolt & nut heads to either side of the leaf spring mount eyelets at the spring ends. Shocks and rear axle/ suspension are now part of the chassis. I also added PE bolt heads to the front subframe to main chassis for a bit more realism. I ended up using a spare drill bit for an axle so that everything would tie up nicely between the wheel/ axle fit. Suspension progress with all shocks, plumbing and PE hardware installed: Here's the ride height I was looking for in the original mock up with attention directed towards the rear wheel/ tire in relation to the wheel opening. and here is where I'm at right now with the axle installed displaying assembled ride height as it is right now: Man those "meats" just look purdy underneath there don't they?

Wow!! I never knew. Thanks for the information on that Bill!!

And here I thought that AM only did cool WWII aircraft kits! Good lookin' build so far Derrick. Got any photos of the kit box?

Yours is all well deserved man. A good model build is a good model build.

Now this..........grabbed my attention. Wow!!! I have yet to ever see one of these!!!!

Good job so far on this one James!

Thanks Jeremy! Well I made a little extra progress on the chassis this morning. I got all the rear brake lines and fuel line formed and installed, got the differential and rear springs all painted up and glossed and started fitting the rear shocks. The chassis has been painted all aluminum with a gloss coat over it and the fuel cell and other two boxes in the back have been darkened slightly with a coat of Tamiya Smoke for a bit of contrast. Here's what I've got so far with that:

This stuff is top notch man! Really likin' the home made trim on the side. Brilliant.

Dang..................this is beautiful. Great attention to detail and resourcefulness. Wow!

Om el lete that slide this time.

LOLOLOL!!

Thought I'd bump this thread up to the top again. That is a cool idea with the Thunderbirds.

Man there's some great ideas rollin' off the line with this one! Second choice in wheels was a definite improvement!!

I've actually given thought to that Carl and thanks. Right now I'm concentrating all my efforts towards getting the vehicle stance the way I want it without mauling the heck out of it. I've done a couple of things that are helping to lower the front end more. It's just too level of a stance as it is right now. While I'm not going to get as crazy with the undersides as I did my F-100, I will still be doing little things like brake lines and fuel lines which I already have formed and painted up for the rear brakes. From what I can see I have a lot in front of me in regards to body clean up and prep as well as a few corrections to make here and there. Updates coming hopefully by this weekend folks. Thanks for all who are peeking in to check progress.

Nice touches to the rear of the car regarding tub cut outs and tubs. That's also a neat idea for the window trim.