Speedpro

That looks really nice. Great color choice. Makes me want to build one

looks good! like the color.

Very Nice!

Nice!

@Ace-Garageguy, I was reading your post and got to the phrase "Chrysler- Gia Showcar" and saw the picture, Just had to share with you that I used to work on this exact car that is in the picture I posted. Its easy to look at a picture of this car and think "Man, is that beautiful. But when its right in front of you, It's more of a "WOW". Worked on this car for 10+ years a couple times a year. One of the scariest cars I'v ever worked on because Its a aluminum body! Had to be so so carefull. You think that car is something, You should see what's in that garage in the picture. $$$ Speedpro

I'v found that Mr Hobby Super Clear Matt over flat, satin, semi gloss has given a very convincing vinyl appearance.

Just about done with getting the wheelwells back together. As you can see, the area that the leaf spring mounts too is still open on the chassis as that needs to be figured out. Now that a rear diff has been decided Upon, I can get after that. Things worked out better than I thought. Kinda missed on a couple things but nothing serious. Alittle seam sealer will hide all that! Here's a photo to show the tire width difference and the room gained. The top slick is from the '65 gasser kit. And get this, when done, the tire won't even be up inside the wheelwell. Thanks for the comments and looking.

Got things going back together. This is going to take some work to fill in all the new voids and cut lines. Didn't make too big of a mess of things so it should turn out just fine. That rear end scale size problem is solved.......... I think. After an extensive hunt for a rear end that will look at home in this nova, I came across a very good candidate. The revell '30 ford model a coupe was kind enough to give up its rear to help a fellow hot rodder. I think that this ford 9" is the right choice. A few changes had to be made before it can be used. First, the shock mounts were cut off. The axle tube narrows for a control arm to mount to. The axle tubes were cut off at this point leaving somewhat of a pin. The axle tubes were then drilled out to slip onto the pin. At this point enough was trimmed of the tubes to get the wheels and tires in place. Once the wheel backs are figued out, the axle tubes will more than likely be shortened some more. The tubes are not glued to the center section yet so they can be shortened. Still have to work on the leaf springs new location also. Still more to do to finish up the wheel tubs. Thanks for looking.............................

Thanks david, I thought about this for awhile. Turned out to be the easiest route to get it right. I like that term Styrene Magic. Thanks Chris, It's actually a gm 12 bolt. Could almost pass for dana though. Amt totally miss on this one when it came to scale size. Not to worry......I'v got a plan! Thanks Trevor I can asure you that the rear end I was mocking it up with will no longer be used. I'v got a plan and it has to do with a different diff.

Made some progress here on the nova. Not much done, But alot figured out. At least I hope figured out. So I went through and cleaned up all the cut lines and inspecting what I'v done. Spent some time checking the space that's been created for the tire to work in. So far,so good. At this point, I'm working on two major things here. First one is how much to remove on the part that was cut out. Second one is taking off just the right amount so the tire fits and most important, the frame rails at the rear come back together to look like they were never cut. Turned out 1/8th (or around 0.120) is the best amount to take off the wheel housing. Mocking it up looks good, still needs alittle fine tuning, but it's darn close. To get the frame rails pointed in the right direction to meet up with each other, A cut was made to separate the rail from the floor pan on both the wheel housing part and chassis. luckily, the plastic is soft enough to put the bend in the rails. But they don't want to keep that bend either. It will work. Another thing that I looked at was the rear diff location with these bigger tires. And yes, it doesn't line up with the center of the tire. So thats going to be more fun........... Getting ready to glue this back together. I think I covered all the details (we'll find out). Thanks for looking

Thanks alot Steve See what happens when we are on this forum, We pickup little things that make us more creative builders.

Sound like quite a project you got going there. Hope it works out for you. Never thought of looking at it that way, hmmmm! Wasn't going towards prostreet, just trying to get a bit bigger tire under it. But you are definitely right! Thanks Gilles

Rooster, Thanks for checking out the build. Not sure which tool you are talking about so here is a picture of the tool's used for this modification.

Really like this! Great build.

Cool little digger!

Great looking mustang! Very clean work.

Geat looking 442!

Working at the rear of the car, the rear differential is something I think will get changed. What I don't like about it, Is it's scale size. Looks way too small to my eyes. I got the rear end out of the '66 nova ss kit i'm using for this bash and it look's allmost too big. Feeling I had nothing to lose, I went ahead and installed the '66 rear end. At this point I'm not sure whats going to happen here yet. Might have to come up with another rear end to try, I don't know. In this photo you can see the two rear ends next to each other and see the size difference. The '66 is on the right. On to the nextpart I would like to change out, And that is the rear tires. The slicks that come in the gasser kit are nice and all, but I want a little more rubber on the road or race track. My search led me to the revell 1968 dodge dart hemi kit. The MH Racemasters will work. But they are going to need more room than the existing wheelwell is providing. So on to the planning stage to see what it will take to make this happen. Came up with no solid plan. Only a "That might work". So the plan is to cut out the wheelwells and remove part of the floor. And do it in a way that it looks like it never happened and it came that way. I figured the best thing is to just start cutting and see where it leads itself. Some tape was layed down to show the line that first cuts needed to be. First using a scribing tool, a starting line was made. Then a tamiya scriber was used to make a nice line that the saw will follow. Worked awsome. The remaining cuts are all up to the guy with the saw. Can only have straight lines. This all has to go back together and look like.....We'll see. Here's the tires being used.................. Now that it's cut up, I need do some cleanup work and plan the next stage. Thanks for looking.............................

Its always a pleasure watching your builds. Your lucky to have access to such a beautiful car. I am a retired classic car technician and had the opportunity to restore a couple of these W30's in my day. The engine is looking good so far. Will be following you on this one to see how it comes along. Paul

Thats alot of work you put into that front end! But you pulled it off and your efforts really show because it looks awsome. Will get even better when paint hits it! Looking forward to seeing more.

looking good! Too bad you had to paint it twice. Second time is always better in most cases and that's what you got here. Clean looking build so far!

Really nice looking vette! The paint is very smooth and the engine details are spot on.

A 33' that I painted for a friend. Color is mcw antimatter met blue.

Nice build! Really like the color.

Very nice! Can't miss with red and it looks very smooth.