Snake45

I know it, but both the song title and artist are just too long to type.

I feel your pain, Ron. The '69 Camaro's paint job I'm currently working went south yesterday too. Strip and repaint time. Ah shucks oh well.

Yup. If you can find a rare recording him of him doing it, that's the way he sings it. That song was, believe it or not, cut from Darkness on the Edge of Town. What genius thought "Adam Raised a Cain" was a better song than Because the Night?

Easy Off oven cleaner will strip Testor little bottle enamel, but if you don't want to bother, the engine compartment of GM cars of that vintage was semigloss black, so you can just shoot that right over it if you want.

Well, here's an MPC, just as I built it in 1968....

Very cool! The '65 Riv is a classic, alltime great design. Can't wait to see what you do with it.

That's Dave Edmunds--From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come). But he didn't write it--you want the writer, too? (I've never been able to find a recording of the writer performing that song, and I'd love to, because it's so him.) Another lyric by the same writer, with a song two other artists had a hit with: What I got I have earned What I'm not I have learned Desire and hunger is the fire I breathe Just stay in my bed till the morning comes

Spirits above and behind me Faces gone, black eyes burnin' bright May their precious blood forever bind me Lord as I stand before your fiery light

What you gonna do when you can't seem to understand? How ya' gonna feel when your woman's with another man? Yes, "The John Kay Orchestra" is my humorous way to refer to Steppenwolf.

I'm always on the lookout for hobby-usable stuff at Walmart, Michaels, Hardware Stores, auto parts stores, drug stores, office supply joints, everywhere. Silver Sharpies, double-sided tape, cheap superglue, masking tape, rubbing alcohol, single edge razor blades, 3M wetordry sandpaper, Krylon and Walmart paints, paintbrushes, all kinds of good stuff. The paintbrushes I'm currently using came in a generic Chinese-sourced "value pack" of various sizes at Walmart. They're as good as any "name brand" expensive paintbrushes I've ever used.

Absolutely! Although half those lyrics were sung by the entirely lovely and yummy Patti Russo. For those who have never heard (or seen) this amazing song, prepare to rock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF1wVv8OnfE

What about love? It's defective! It's always breaking in half What about sex? It's defective! It's never built to really last What about your family? It's defective! All the batteries are shot What about your friends? It's defective! All the parts are out of stock What about hope? It's defective! It's corroded and decayed What about faith? It's defective! It's tattered and it's frayed What about your gods? They're defective! They forgot the warranty What about your town? It's defective! It's a dead-end street to me What about your school? It's defective! It's a pack of useless lies What about your work? It's defective! It's a crock and then you die What about your childhood? It's defective! It's dead and buried in the past What about your future? It's defective! And you can shove it up your a**!

Well, if you see it, fine. There's a certain amount of "family similarity" there of course, but it's not particularly strong to me. I believe I've read that the '67 Camaro was a "clean sheet of paper" design.

I think the latest issue of that kit comes with both clear and blue-tinted windows.

It's Testor Mythic or Mystic Emerald. It has much less sparkle or flakiness than some other colors in this line. I don't think it looks TOO far off the MCW '68-'69 Chevy Rally Green that I did my Revell Yenko in. If/when I ever get this one finished, I'm gonna dig that Yenko out and photograph the two side by side. I think if you had to, you could pass this stuff off as Rally Green.

Opening lines of Monster, from the John Kay Orchestra. Absolutely fabulous song that's ten times more relevant now than when it was written. (I could swear I posted these very lines earlier in this thread.) "Don't you know we need you now We can't fight alone against the Monster."

That was Chevy's answer to the Falcon, which was outselling the Corvair IIRC.

That, and the overall dimensions of the first-gen Mustang. BTW, the second-gen Corvair and the Mustang and the first-gen Camaro all had the same wheelbase: 108".

Tempted by Squeeze--great little tune. If you have to get a stupid song stuck in your head, you could do a lot worse than this one.

The Monogram kit isn't bad at all but it's 1/24. I think it's a '78. In 1/25, the AMT 70 1/2 might be the best 2nd Gen Camaro ever. It might provide a good chassis and some interior parts, and so forth. You might even want to convert the body to the later style.

Go for it! Plastic is cheap! I've managed to acquire the body and interior bucket--nothing else--from an original AMT annual '68 Corvette. This body isn't particularly accurate because AMT didn't have the GM promo contract for '68 and they had to tool up working from "spy photos" and sketches of the new Corvette. I've been unable to find a hood, front end, etc for this body, so I've been thinking of doing it as a Corvair-powered "kit car" (I'll have to scratchbuild a hood and front end and so forth). Just by coincidence, I was looking through some old Rod & Custom magazines today and found that around 1970 a guy named Dick Dean actually did produce a Vette-ish body for VW platform called "Shala-Vet." Sorta the same idea. Mine will look better. ETA: Wow, never realized before that one of these was in the old movie Death Race 2000!

I don't see a whole lot of Corvair in the Camaro, other than the "hip" rear fender kickup that was seen on most GM cars of the mid-late '60s. What Corvair mechanicals did the Camaro have? Was the front end geometry similar, or something, because I can't think of anything else.

TWLC goes on fairly heavy, and will dry thicker than other clearcoats, and thicker than other lacquers in the Testor line. In my experience with the stuff, what's worked is to go for a just barely wet coat, no more. If you get more orange peel than you wanted, do the same thing again the next day. The stuff polishes out beautifully, BUT it's harder than most paints and even plastics. I ended up buying some "heavy duty" coarse polish just for WLC. Cuts down the polishing time by half or more. And if you screw it up, it comes right off with rubbing alcohol.

Oh, no. I think it's from the '80s. You can see part of the box in the latest pic. It has Pontiac V8 and OHC6 engines, and a Firebird steering wheel. The last issue from these molds I know of was the AMT-boxed Yenko. This issue went back to the standard exposed headlights/grille, though not the same part as the original annual kit. And they did something with the roof on the Yenko kit. It's not the same as all earlier versions, and it doesn't look right.