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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...….

Good lookin' car. Got any engine shots?

That was another reason I even got this model to begin with was the fact that there just aren't that many of them being built.

Thanks Craig! I was contemplating a black paint job but I already do enough black paint jobs as it is. Needed something different but definitely not silver or white.

Ask anyone who really knows me and they'll laugh themselves silly about the idea of me building a simple OOB model. It just never seems to happen. My projects will take anywhere from 4-6 if not 8+ months to complete because I simply cannot leave the OOB kits alone. With that being said, I've been wanting to build a late 90's / early 2000's Trans Am for a while now. I was working in a Pontiac Dealership as an auto tech when the 1998 Trans Am equipped with the new LS1 engine were being freshly delivered and I instantly fell in love with these cars. I mean the 93-97 T/A's were nice but these...….these were fast right from the factory. No factory American built car had given me the "butterflies in the stomach" feeling under hard acceleration before my first test drive in one of these things had. Beautiful and fast cars these were and even though I never actually owned one of these, I got several chances to drive pre-sold and the used offerings that were there on that lot (I was NOT one of those techs who went out joyriding in owners vehicles-just a wrong thing to do to another mans car) and I loved every minute of it. Anyways I'm going to build this car pretty much OOB. I just need something that I can actually make some worthwhile progress on. I will take the liberty of dropping it a scale inch or so but I do like these in stock form so there won't be much at all in the way of "extras". I owe the fact that I got this kit at all from BigTallDad as a gift so a BIG shout out goes to Ray for it. Thanks bud.....you are da MAN!!! We'll be going with red for it:

Very nice paint work. That looks totally awesome!!!

Just checkin' in Dann. It's been a while since I've been in here.

This looks really good. Nice n' clean resto.

I was noticing that as well. I don't think he forgets much. lol.

Thanks for the comments Francis. Yeah Tamiya Rattle can primer is what I use for autos as well as aircraft builds. Just can't go wrong with the stuff. Well I got some more done on her this week. I cut the rear and two side windows out of thin clear styrene and decaled the side windows up with racing stickers. Just waiting on those to dry so I can dunk 'em in some Future so I should be going in with those tomorrow it looks like. Then came the moment I've been waiting for at the rear of the car. Upon close inspection of the deck lid you can see some lock studs, quick release pins and cables at the rear most corners of the lid. I received my lock pin set two days ago so I was able to get some progress done on that. Reference shot: Progress so far. Still have to dot the 4 spots on each plate to simulate screws with some Molotow and add the cables later but here we are for now:

I really can't wait to see this beaut start taking on some shape Francis.

Very well built Wayne. Wow!!!!!!

That's a really good job on this Pat. You've got my vote!

Nicely done! Love all the detail.