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Wow!! This thing looks great!!!

Glad to have you on board Jeremy! Looking forward to the next T/A of yours! Got the engine finished up this morning. It only took me around a week to get everything together on this one and I stuck to my guns on my OOB goal all except for the oil filter decal. It's not much but it adds a lot to any engine build. For some reason the exhaust manifold texture came out grainy in the photos but it looks smooth in real life. Weird. Anyways, here's the 5.7 liter LS1 engine for this beast. It's my first OOB engine in YEARS!

Thanks Dann. I'm currently work on the chassis and engine painting and assembly. Hope to have progress photos soon. Thanks for following along.

Thanks Jim. I seem to be making some fair progress on the interior now that I got the major detail work out of the way. Hopefully I can get the flooring installed and the seat & seatbelts under way soon.

I've seen that color on a few and while I do like it I'm more of a red fan with these cars. That does look good though. Thanks Carl. Glad to have you along.

X 2!!

Dang Jeremy! A little late to the party here bud. Very nice work!

Thanks Curtis. I did see one thing that I did NOT like about this kit as well as the 1:1 scale cars when they were new is that it comes with ONE tail pipe. I didn't understand it or like it then and I sure aint going to do that to this car. I've already got the necessary parts coming to make this a dual outlet exhaust as of today.

Don't sweat it bro. Working on the rest of the interior now. I didn't like the OOB door panels ………………..at ALL. First off , the OOB armrest and inside door latch handle were barely visible. No "Maverick" trim bezel was present at the top of the trim panel either. Being a car than only sees the track....it's not SUPPOSED to have a window crank handle either....BUT...it was molded in and I decided to install a PE handle and knob from the spares bin. The armrest was made out of spare resin parts block retainers that I had, the door latch handles were made out of square bits of PE that I bent and glued into place and the trim bezel was from extra window crank knobs that I had in stock. Interior in the foreground is OOB with the one I'm using in the back ground.....

Thanks Carl. LOL. That's a really good question Kevin.

I really meant to comment a couple of days ago when I had this bad boy pulled up on the screen. What a fine build this is in every aspect. Just beautiful.

Man this is some really clean work going on in here Jimmy!!! Keep 'er comin' !!!!

You just keep givin' 'er the ol' 1-2....

Thanks John. Your input is much appreciated and you are right. For some crazy reason it didn't even occur to me to remove the radio. Pure oversight...but.....I'm already done with the dash and it'll be staying there. Just can't bring myself to go backwards with that part of the build. Thanks Jerry!! lol Thanks for your comments Len. He probably did use the Mr. G shifter. This was one of the liberties I took with this car though and there are a few here and there. Thanks Scott. 'Preciate that Francis!!

Thank you both for the heads up.

Man that's wild. I mean....I'm seeing them ….and others are seeing them elsewhere. Maybe it's just a temporary Image Shack thing. Hopefully it all gets sorted out.

Hmmm....that's weird. They're showing up here. Lemme try some thing else.... Edited....there...how's that?

You know fellas.....every once in a while you have to negotiate a TRUE hurdle in modeling. Sometimes it's paint, sometimes it's fit and sometimes it's things like I've been going through for the past week.....the assembly process. I've been building models for a long time and lemme tell ya.....nothing....I mean NOTHING has tested my patience and my abilities as a modeler as much as this aftermarket shifter from Futureattraction. To put it lightly...this shifter looks absolutely fantastic after it's all been put together. But therein lies the hurdle.....the assembly. At 26 pieces it is one of the most intricate PE items that I have taken on yet. I kid you not....I've got every bit of 7 hours wrapped up in this thing. I had half of it pieced together one morning after spending an hour + on it and the very next day upon picking it up to continue......it all came apart. Yeah....stuff like that and then being under the optivisor the whole time. Eyes hurt...got a headache...got pissed off......contemplated throwing stuff and I think I made up new curse words along the way . Feel free to contact me for the updated curse word list. Those that know these shifters will see some discrepancies and that this is not the shifter for this car.....I'm going to be ok with the way that it is and am more than happy to install this jewel into the interior of this car. For me it's just too sharp lookin' of a shifter to pass up. I've still got to cut that one long pin off ( I'm leaving it in place to be able to work with it for shift rods install) and have just a little clean up left to go as far as glue smears but a little thinner and that'll go away. I felt a TRUE sense of accomplishment when I got up from the bench this morning and wanted to show that to you all. and just for a scale reference.....

That looks good Kerry!! Glad you pulled 'er back out and finished 'er off.

Looks good Jeff!! I had one of these and I'd be happy with that as a gift for sure!!

Flawless! Keep 'er comin' Francis! Beautiful fabrication!

Love what you're doin'. The ground work for this car is solid.

Very impressive build Rob. Kudos goes out for imagination and vision.

Man there aint a DAM thing wrong with that!!! Totally smoked that one!!!

NICE!!!! Going over to the "Under Glass" section now...….