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Too bad. I really liked his drumming.

I really like that! I think if I owned a 1:1 '62 Chrysler, it'd be very similar to this one.

That's some nice work!

Yeah... I'm looking and looking at that rear trim line, trying to decide how to go about it. It's actually the shape of the bumper that's off: it has too much curve to it, but I'm limited in how much I can flatten it.

Lots done, lots more to do. This is the first real mock-up, but I like how it's looking so far The grill/surround is bonded to the body, and will be body-coloured with only the headlight buckets & hand-made tube grill being chrome. I'm using styrene-with-liquid cement as a filler, When done, the original chrome trim will look like parts of the fenders and hood. Trying to minimize the heavy look to the front end... The front bumper will also be body-coloured, with the bumperettes in chrome. The rear bumper will be full-width taillights, with the license plate in the middle. Possibly thin chrome spears along the taillight width? I'm thinking of a dark gold, with a tan leather-look interior. Comments always welcome.

The only car I had that I wouldn't drive now was a '77 Aspen. It was very roadworthy - I'm anal that way - but the darn thing took forever to warm up to the point where it would keep running on damp days. Spring thaw days... it's a good thing the battery was strong. It had to be started at every stop for the first 10 minutes or so. After that, it was good. Or as good as a brown, four door, slant six Aspen could be. I finally put a manual choke on it. That made it a little less stall-prone.

The first new car my Dad bought was a '71 America, in Royal Blue. Beautiful car, but by 50,000 Nova Scotia miles, it was done.

The photo-etch blades can be a life saver (or parts saver, whatever you prefer) for glue-bomb work.

That's some very nice work. It just look right.

Very nice!!!!

Done in Viper Red base/clear, with Molotow'd Halibrands from Drag City, pie crust slicks from Modelhaus Tires, a S.C.o.T. puffer from the parts bin, and a set of Molotow'd headers from a Chevy II. This was a pretty fun build. Comments always welcome!

I built this quite a while go, and it was really showing it's age. Originally, I did it in the Daytona 500 scheme, with chrome wheels, body-side molding, etc. Now, it's more representative of a mid-year ride for the Future King. Some deep cleaning, light polishing of a few dust nibs, new Power Slide decals, and BMF to replace the old silver painted trim. Comments always welcome.

Very nice work.

Thanks for the comments, folks. I've begun to get far more enjoyment out of rebuilders and gluebombs than I do with most new kits. This one took quite a while, but it was fun.

I don't have any before pics, but this thing was horrid: NOTHING was glued in the proper place, some parts were welded solid with glue, a few were melted in place. So much glue was used... I wondered if anything could be done with the poor thing. I made new leaf springs & most of the front right suspension, polished the glue-finger prints off of the windshield, filed, sanded and re-attached everything in the interior, took all the custom add-ons off of the body, lowered the suspension, shaved the body trim, added tinted windows, and covered it all in left-over Silver Pearl basecoat from my old Montana van. A resin front bumper from a Chevy truck sprayed with Molotow chrome, foiled rear bumper from the parts bin, spare tire from the parts bin, homemade taillights, leather interior, etc... I'm glad it's done! Comments always welcome.

Very nice!

Very Hot!

Thanks for the comments! I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. For all of it's shortfalls, it's still a great old kit.

Very nice!

I Dug this out of the collection of builts that never got put into a display cabinet, intending to clean the dust off and put it on a shelf. Built some 25+ years ago, I felt it deserved a little more love than the silver-painted trim allowed for. Foiled it, polished of a dust nib or two, swapped in some whitewalls, and gave it a good scrubbing. Comments always welcome.

I've been tinkering with this one on and off...

Thanks. I searched and came up with virtually nothing... Looks like a fun build!

This was in a big box of mid-seventies stuff I picked up this summer... I'm not quite sure what to think of the box contents, but the box art is kind of cool. There was a Gluebomb Maverick body in the pile that actually doesn't look too bad, proportion-wise.

Has anyone ever built one of these? I picked this up along with a pile of unbuilt and built kits from the mid-seventies. Not my cup of tea, but it might be good for a slump buster... ?

Ahhh yes. Forgot about the Charger floor. Thanks!