Snake45

Very cool! You don't see these built that often. It looks good in black! Well done and model on!

I wouldn't hold my breath.

Thats 4" too short. And again, I'm not even sure the frame is the same between '64-'72 A-bodies and the later cars.

Thanks for the encouraging words. Any ideas for the GTO? Yes, I have plans, as I posted above. I see you're looking for a chassis and interior. I'll keep you in mind after I get these broken down and figure out what I have and what I need. In the meantime, I've decided I'm looking for a pristine AMT '76 Nova kit. These were apparently reissued not THAT long ago and so aren't really rare, so I hope to find one at a decent price.

Wheelbase is the same as '70 Monte Carlo and '68 El Camino, but I don't know if the A-body frame is the same for the Colonnade years.

Tom Petty, the Wildflowers album.

You and I must be the same age. We had the same field trip!

A Telly Savalas movie called Killer Force, back in the '70s. Unbelievably bad.

Yawn! Yawn! Yawn!

To-ga! To-ga! TO-GA!

Got the new paint polished out on glue-bomb '70 Challenger I'm rehabbing. With some luck I might have the thing back together by the end of the week.

Got this one at the only remaining Rite Aid in my area, $10. When I got it home, was surprised to see it wasn't a Welly, but a Motor Max. Not sure what year it's supposed to be, but the manufacturing date on the chassis is 2010, so I'll call it a 2010. This was in the worst shape of anything I've bought at Rite-Aid. It had numerous splotches of a yellowish ick, possibly tape reside with dirt on it. You can see these on the trunk lid, the roof, and right-side door. There were also quite a few little nicks in the paint. It looks like it's been played with, and not especially gently. And the doors open a little too easily, and don't seem to be held closed as normal. Oh well. I took off all the yellow ick with rubbing alcohol, and touched up the paint nicks with Silver Sharpie--this worked about as well as any kind of silver paint I have on hand. If you didn't know the dings were there, they wouldn't jump out at you. The only other things I did to this one were sand the tire treads, then flow some more black paint into the grille and hit the grille itself with the Silver Sharpie. Can't really find anything else it "needs." It's not perfect, but it sits nicely on my diecast shelf with the Ferraris, Porsches, late-model Vettes, and so forth. Not too bad for $10 and a couple hours easy effort.

Finally got the 4-4-2 rescue finished. I have somewhere between 12 and 20 hours in it, FAR more than I expected it would take. Much of this was spent trying to match the paint on the roof, which I failed to do, hence the black vinyl top. Repainted the interior all black. Touched up the wheels. I also filed down the thickness of the wheel rims so they'd sit farther into the tires instead of sticking out. Haven't found headlight lenses yet but I'll eventually add those at some point. I was able to polish some flaws out of the windscreen, but couldn't save the backlight and ended up having to scratch one up from some clear plastic packaging. In addition to my standard beloved Silver Sharpie, the side trim was done with the Deco-Color Premium marker from Walmart, which looks about 95% as good as Molotow but dries in an hour or two, is more durable, and costs about 1/3 as much. Not my best/finest/proudest glue bomb rescue, but it doesn't look too bad from two or three feet away and it goes in the 2020 Finished column. Meanwhile, I stripped the Challenger body and interior and have repainted them already. With a little luck, I can have that one back together later this week. Last Sunday I picked up a couple more "easy rescue" projects, and here's the next of them--'67 GTO. It's complete and the paint seems to be savable. But it's not a factory color, so I'll have to do it as some kind of "Day 2" project--maybe a mid/late '70s high school hot rod or street cruiser.

1965-66, to be exact. Not sure if by "repopped" you mean reissued or resin-copied. The molds became the '67, which quickly became the AWB funny car which was recently reissued. I don't know if anyone has ever reproed the kit in resin, but I believe that at least the body was available in funny car form. Might still be. ETA: Competition Resins shows a '66 body. Might be reworkable into a stocker, maybe: http://www.compresins.com/site/751597/product/CR-4005

I'm still getting a HRM website. Try here: https://www.hotrod.com/

Um, no.

This seems to be the car. Guy's name is Shawn Fink if you want to google for more pics.

Last night on Street Outlaws, a guy on the Wyoming team was running a very hot 1G Nova wagon--2 door! It might have been a SD, I don't remember. Obviously a conversion, but very well done and cool looking. Kinda makes me want to dig out that Boss Nova backbirth and scribe 2 doors into it. Would sure be easier than trying to scribe 4 doors into it (including the window pillars). Actually, I have a Jimmy Flintstone Nova SD body, but one side has a warped-out lower half that I don't know if could be fixed.

What are you talking about? Many if not most HLs were shut down for WEEKS back in the spring. I know the three in my area were.

VERY cool! This car is so obscure it's not even pictured or mentioned in the Grumpy's Toys book. Well done and model on!

Cool! I recently restored a '66 Mustang that was painted in Pactra Leaf Green and discovered that Short Cuts Hunter Green is a VERY close match to it, if you ever want to do a "tribute" build.

Very nice; clean build! You just reminded me I have a couple of these I need to get back to. Well done and model on!

That's pretty much how I handle Valentine's Day!

I googled diecast 1/18 Javelin and was unable to find ANY pre-71 Javelin of any kind. For my own interest I also tried 1/24 scale and the closest I came was an ERTL '69 AMX which is often mislabeled as a Javelin. I have one of those and while the overall shape isn't bad, it can't be built into an accurate model of even a stock AMX.

Absolutely fabulous! If I could come up with the tonneau cover (missing from the issue I have), I could build one of these or something very, very similar. (Anyone got a spare laying around?) VERY well done and model on!