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Leave it that way for a while. If you ever get tired of looking at it like that, you can always apply the decals for a new look. I'm planning to build mine straight from the box, polishing the beautiful metallic blue plastic, swirls and all.

First time I've seen that term used correctly in years. Maybe decades. Respect! And bonus points awarded for resisting the temptation to throw "literally" in there, too!

That's an easy detail to do and really adds a lot, but very few modelers ever actually do it. Looking good, BTW. Great sit!

Hey, I saw that you sat in on my Remedial High School Physics lecture at Hyperscale last night.

The guys on Street Outlaws routinely throw out numbers in the 2-4000 HP range. Of course those aren't actual street cars, i.e., you can't imagine one being driven on an actual street to get somewhere. I'm pretty sure that their cars would have been competitive with ANY nitro funny cars of 1968, maybe '69, though. Maybe even up through 1970. That's why I watch those shows--they remind me of the early funny car and pre-Pro Stock match race circuses. Good times!

Long as it's not the "angry spider with parted hair" pattern.

I can relate. I just wrapped up a temp job that paid well enough that for a few months there, I was on a hot streak on the Bay myself. And to my utter delight, a number of my "holy grails" became available during this time. Have only bought one kit in the last month or so. I think my credit card is almost back to room temperature now.

Might be. I never put it together that those are two different kits. Could those be the same plastic? Is that Revell really 1/25, or is it really 1/24? (I know the Monogram is 1/24 because some time back I investigated swapping the Monogram fender vents into the Revell '67 body and found that they'd be way too big.)

B-M didn't build that many '69 Chevelles--and I've only found pics of a couple--but since these were 100% custom cars anyway, there's no reason you couldn't build your own following the various typical B-M mods of the day. A COPO/Yenko version would be interesting. (Except for the wheels and stripes, these are actually the same cars, as the '69 Yenko Chevelles were actually 9562 COPOs available in only limited colors.)

The AMT '69 Camino chassis is the correct length. That's why if you buy the Jimmy Flinstone '70 or '72 Elky resin bodies, which were made from '69s, repro '69 chassis are part of the deal.

I didn't save the yellow one, and probably won't. There is a LOT of excess glue around the window trim, which is almost certainly impossible to fix. I'll probably end up breaking it up for parts.

Cool! I have a '67 promo that need restoring. Windshield is cracked but I have a common reissue '69 for replacement. You are giving your PayPal account quite a workout this week!

But none as good as their descendant, Team America World Police. Dirka dirka! Dirka dirka DIRKA dirka!

Very nice! The color looks great, as does the finish. Drive on!

I feel that way about a LOT of '50s-'60s customs. Not all, but quite a few. In most cases, the "customizers" didn't do the poor car any real favors.

Very nice indeed! In fact, one of the nicest builds I've seen of this kit, probably because you didn't use the kit's silly, ill-fitting chassis (or if you did, you modified it quite well). I also like the way you managed to almost fill up the kit's comically over-radiused rear wheel openings (something that's been giving me headaches). More truly inspiring work from you! Drive on!

Absolutely beautiful! I hope your other two projects come out as well. BTW, it sounds like they might be great candidates for our "Bring Out Your Dead" completion build project, where we parole ancient projects from the Shelf of Doom and drag them across the finish line. Round Six of the build wraps up the end of next month (March), and I'm hoping there will be enough interest for a Round Seven, which would run to the end of June. We've found this is a great way to encourage each other to GITTER DONE! I invite you to join the fun, if you have any interest at all. See here: At any rate, drive on!

Thanks for the kind words. My folks had a '68 Impala 4DHT in Sequoia Green that was my favorite car of theirs. It was killed in a feak flooding accident involving a fire hydrant, replaced with a white '69 with dark green vinyl top that I never thought looked half as good. As soon as the AMT Supernatural '67 Impala comes out, I'm planning to paint it in dark green as a tribute to that car (since we'll probably never see a '68 kitted again.)

Very, VERY nice! Once again you are inspiring me to dig one of these out and Snake-slap it together. (BTW, this is one of my highest compliments. )

What's the pretty green paint? Is that Testor One-Coat Emerald? It looks very most way excellent on this car.

Beautiful! If I ever build this car--and I WANT to--it'll be in overall red, with just Dyno Don's name on the lower sides, before it got the full paint job applied. There's one pic of it as such in the Dyno Don book and it looks REALLY sharp to me that way. Come to think of it, one of the very first models I built on my return to car modeling in the mid '80s was the JoHan Maverick. I did it as a street freak, painting it Model Master Stop Light Red and swapped in the SOHC from the Comet. I don't want to strip and rebuild it, as it's an important relic of my modeling history, but I might consider putting the Dyno Don decals on the lower body, if I can find suitable ones, and letting it "pass." Hmmmmm. I have a rebuildable glue bomb in the Snakepit, but it's earmarked to become Fast Eddie's first one in yellow with the simple blue stripes. I already have the Slixx decals. Mavericks are getting hard to find. Even glue bombs are going for insane prices on ePay. I just managed to get together enough parts to build a nice promo. Dunno if I can round up enough stuff to do a good Pro Stocker again.

If anything, you're understating it, and the final straw was, the model shown on the box was most defintely NOT built from the kit in the box! Outright fraud! I had one of these. I kept taking it out and looking at it, seeing it what would be needed to fix it, and always put it back. About a year ago I got in the mood to get it out, squirt it red, and Snake-slap it together no matter how bad it looked, just to get it done. Went looking for it in the Snakepit and couldn't find it. I must have sold it off years ago and forgot about it. Oh well.

Oh my yes! And even on '55-'57 Chevies, too!

Fabulous! Very possibly the nicest Henry J model I've ever seen built. I've got a Skip's Fiesta issue of this thing somewhere in the Snakepit; you're making me want to dig it out and slap it together!