Skypower

I'm digging it, gonna be a cool ride. Nice work.

Wow that's very coo,l great job. Someday maybe I can get there. I have a lot of learning to do before I would attempt that.

Ouch, good thing about these cars, all things are fixable. Good luck with it. I'm a fan.

Love it. My first car was a 70 340 challenger pistol grip and plum crazy. I will build one some day when I can do it some justice. Yours looks great.

Very nice I love all the aging, I haven't learned any of that yet.

Thanks for the info Gene. I don't know what color I'm gonna paint it yet I only have spray bombs at the moment so I might leave it primer till I get an air brush and paint booth. Right now I'm just frustrated but continuing on. Tonight I put the interior together and thought great no problems till I went to test fit, guess what, more issues. The interior was to tight and kept pushing the frame out from under the body and it wouldn't go all the way up in the doors. Two hours later, after sanding and fitting everything seems to fit fine and looks good. This one sure is teaching me some lessons in patience and persistence but its all good. Now maybe I can get some sleep I just couldn't leave it like that till tomorrow.

Nice I'm going to do mine as a small block AAR if I can find the correct motor and decals. I'll keep the Hemi for another project later.

Welcome I'm relatively new also, a great bunch of guys here.

You have helped me a lot John and thank you.

Your doing great, looking very authentic.

Thanks for the info guys. John I will be hunting some of the correct size wire and washers so I can make it look right. Thanks again for showing me the how too's. Always good to have a mentor or should I say mentors, because around here there seems to be lots of guys willing to help and give good advise and tips. Thank you all. Bob PS. I bought the new Cuda kit today so maybe that will be my next build, but I'm thinking AAR Cuda, who knows I still need to find a 340 and a 6 pack to go that route.

Very nice job wish I could build like that, I'm still a learning..

I like what I'm seeing so far, keep it up and have fun.

Again a couple more hours of sanding and fitting. This time I decided to assemble the firewall and inner fenders, well more issues, when assembled the chassis stuck out the bottom of the body pretty significantly so back to grinding and fitting. I think I got it now but what a mess it was, and I made, (lol) dust everywhere. Are all these multi piece front ends like this or is it just mine, well at least I got another lesson and I made a little more progress. I think I figured out why I'm having so much trouble with this one. I'm a Mopar guy and its a Chevy so it don't like me. lol

Thanks Greg, I was gonna say how's things down under but since I just read you tweaked you back I won't. Hope you get to feeling better. P.S. man I love your build I'm learning a lot. Thanks. Bob

Do they have any shows in Florida? If they do I will do just that. Dip stick came out ok, I didn't have any shielded wire that size so I just used this wire to see how it would look, I will either paint it to make it look like its in a sheath or just rip it out when I find the correct wire. So how did I do.

Thanks for the advice Ken, I do have a hobby shop about an hour away that carries some evergreen and a good selection of models and paints and such. I do try and support them as much as I can but I drive buy a Hobby Lobby on the way to and from work and I have a Michael's right around the corner from the house so I shop those places also, I think the biggest thing is just trying to figure out where to buy what, rather than wondering around the stores hunting for stuff they don't carry, and learning what online venders to use for the other stuff. I own my own business so I do try and support small businesses when I can. Thanks again. Bob

Thanks, I'll check Hobby Lobby on the way home and see what they have.

Thanks Gene. Well spent a few more hours scraping and sanding and I finally feel like I made a little progress tonight. I glued up some components and filled some holes and reworked the motor so the intake fits properly and then I played with making a dip stick just for grins to see if I could do it. This thing is being a bear but finally heading in the right direction, even if I still have lots more flash to deal with. Anyway thanks for looking. If anyone has any tips for removing the flash other than the back a exacto knive and 1000 grit paper I'm all ears, this is only my second build so still learning.

Thanks again John for sharing some of your trade secrets and how too's. I will be tearing into some of my old electronics that I have laying around for some unknown reason. Maybe I can find some good stuff who knows. Thanks.

Looks like you had fun building that one, very cool.

Just incredible work, thank you for posting the steps for us, really helps a lot rather than I did this and that. What do you use for plug boots and detail wire, I need to add that stuff to my bench. Thanks again. Bob

Love this build, with all its detail. Thanks for the schooling, I'm a newb.

Well I kinda got side tracked and started messing with my Cuda build so this hit the side burner for a while. I pulled it back out tonight and all I got done was some clean up. Man this thing is a pain, tons of scraping and sanding, who knows how many hours I have in this thing and haven't really even started building. Anyway at least I'm back at it on this one. A couple pics of tonight's progress, not much to say the least. Still got lots to do. Oh, removed tv's from the backs of seats, don't remember these cars having tv's on the backs when I was growing up.

I will check with my local printer, we use then occasionally maybe I can get a little better bang for my buck. lol