Snake45

I applaud your decision. It'll look awesome!

Polish it up, just like you did the Maverick. The polished black plastic will look amazing!

I use the back of an old Xacto blade and I guess the secret to success is experience. I start a groove very lightly and don't use much pressure until I've established a real groove for the blade to follow. Push too hard too early and as you know, the blade can jump out and scratch where you don't want it. I'd estimate it takes 30 or 40 strokes to get a properly deepened groove--maybe even more. Scratches are more easily filled with superglue than with putty. Keep trying--the results are MORE than worth the effort. Soon you too will be looking down on modelers who don't take the time to do this extremely important step (IMHO).

Very nice! I especially like the way you got the front wheels ALL the way forward in the openings, the way so many of the real early Nova funnies did. Nice touch!

Local toy show today. My old reliable vendor didn't have anything I needed. There was a new guy there selling a few kits and builtups but he seemed to think they were made from crushed rubies and bald eagle eggs. Wanted $20 for a built AMT '72 Nova! Did buy a complete, unstarted Lindberg ''79-'80 Mustang kit from him for $5, though--seemed like a good deal and I can easily have $5 worth of fun with it.

That looks 100 times better than either Revellogram '70 AAR kit!

I started the same thing about 6 or 8 years ago. I'm putting the '70 front and rear ends on the '71 body. Gotta finish that sometime soon. Still haven't decided whether to go Hemi or AAR with it.

Now that's an original interpretation of this classic! Nicely done!

"Flavor"? Just like The Count! But I think you're right. Spent a little time googling '67 Pontiacs this afternoon, and discovered (I think) that the Ventura was the only model without the lower body chrome and junk, so I might go that way with it. I'll probably take the fender skirts off it, too. And give it a little bit of a rubber rake. Yah, a street cruiser with that timeless, ageless look--I think that's the way to go.

Now THAT's different! Gotta say, I'm looking forward to seeing where you go with this. Drive on!

I've never seen their '62 Impala, but I have the '70 Elky. Frankly I don't care about the engine and interior. The body doesn't look too bad except for the roof, which they screwed up a little. I laid 6 or 8 hours of Snake-Fu on it and it fills the '70 El Camino hole on my shelf quite nicely, though I admit I'm not the world's biggest fan of that car.

Took another look at mine last night. It's not in as good a shape as I thought. Looks like someone has sanded off the rocker trim, and the lower rear quarter trim. Or started to. Or tried to, or something. Most all of the wheel opening trim is gone, too. Is there supposed to be an arrowhead on the nose? If so, I'm missing that, too. One of the vent window pillars is broken at the top, but still all there, so that's a do-able fix. At least the A-pillars are complete and straight, and the roof's not caved in or something. I have the original chassis, and (tri-power) engine, and what looks like a complete interior. So it looks like I can build a complete model car, though with the problem and the faint nameplates, I don't think a factory stock Bonneville is possible, at least not by me. I might just clean off all the trim and do it as a nice street cruiser. The other stuff in the giant ziplock baggie turned out to be parts for the backbirth AMT '65 2+2 kit. In fact I think that whole kit is in there except for the body shell and interior bucket. The instructions in the bag are also for the '65 2+2, not the '67. So I'd say at the price I paid for the thing, I got semi-hosed. Well, maybe not. I watched them for quite a while on eBay before I got this one, and was never able to come up with the stupid-crazy price they seemed to demand. So if I can be happy with a clean street cruiser, I guess I did okay, and I'm sure I can find some good use for all the extra '65 2+2 parts. Maybe the chrome will work for a '65 Bonnie promo I have that need restoring.

Thank you Dodge Driver and Mr. Obsessive! You get it. Sadly, almost no one else will now, as we've been shoved down into the seldom-opened diecast closet. Oh well, I tried.

Yeah, but unlike many diecasts, it's a scale and a subject and a price point that will be of interest to many of us car modelers. I thought maybe some would see the news here who never look in the diecast section.

Thanks for sharing. (One wonders why you even opened the thread.)

The First Gen Camaros (and their '68-up Nova cousins) were engineered from the beginning to take the big block engine, so the "front clips" are the same between 6-cyl, small block, and big block cars. The only difference is that the big block Camaros HAD to have an SS or cowl induction hood for air cleaner clearance (and the '69 Zs with the dual carb setup). All '69 Yenko Camaros came with COPO 9737 "Sports Car Conversion" package, so it might be said that mechanically, they pretty much WERE 427-powered Z/28s (except I think the Yenkos were available with automatic transmission and the Z/28 was not). From its mid-'69 introduction, the famous cowl induction hood could be ordered from the factory on any Camaro SS or Z/28, and was available over the counter to bolt onto your lesser Camaro (and it perfectly fit the '67 and '68 cars, too).

Would you believe $12.99? http://www.diecastmodelswholesale.com/1964-chevrolet-nova-ss-burgundy-muscle-car-collection-1-25-diecast-model-car-by-new-ray/ Okay, it's a diecast, but I've found that some of these things respond remarkably well to a little Model-Fu and can sit proudly on the shelf with good curbside kits. Especially when no kit is available. They're available in "burgundy" and black. I just ordered one of each and the total with shipping is still less than one resin '63-'65 Chevy II/Nova repop. When I get them, I'll post pics and a brief review, if anyone's interested.

Doesn't the '69 Z come with 15" Rally Wheels? Those would be correct for a Yenko--well, except for the fact they may be sized for 15x5 wheels to use the '57 Chevy stock tires, instead of the proper 15x7s on much wider tires. The tires will be the big problem here, not the wheels.

I'm confused. Do you want the staging lights, or the Christmas Tree, or both? The oft-reissued MPC '72 GTO comes with a Christmas tree.

Now those ARE Your Father's Oldsmobiles!

The delays are now at least somewhat tolerable. But at least once a day the site will lock my computer up completely, and then close down and reopen the browser. And then it will reopen all the tabs I had open EXCEPT this one.

I agree too. I've got several '65s I need to get motivated to do.

I've decided, since I can't confirm any '67 Bonnies in Verdoro Green (and since I don't have any on hand anyway), that mine will be Testor Teal over Walmart Black Primer, playing the role of Mariner Turquoise (AKA Chevy Tahoe Turquoise). Been wanting to paint something that color since the day I discovered it.

Yeah, but there's not that much traffic down in the CB section. We'll get more eyeballs on our Bonnies right here.

I agree. Let's keep this one all '67s. No '66s. No '68s. No '69s. I would allow Modelhaus '67 GPs, though, but that's it. And yes let's do a group '66 build too, but separately. I have a glue-bomb MPC convert to restore, and a NIB Hasegawa to build.