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Thanks Chuck. I kinda like the look of the grille. Can't say the same fro the bumper though. And, yea, I wonder why MPC did those fenders like that. I has assumed it was to clear the sleeper unit on the RT truck but apparently it was like that before that truck was issued , so??

Chuck, could you post up a couple pics of those parts? It would be interesting to see them, I never had that kit.

Beautiful car Donn. Love the color, looks exactly like the darker aqua GM had that year.

Love it !!

Man ! Did that ever turn out great ! ?

Thanks Phillippe.

Beautiful car. Man, I gotta track one of those down !

Thanks Dann

X2 !! ?

Thanks, It's '67 Pontiac "Gulf turquoise" from Scale Finishes.

That's a Zowee "Covered Draggin" They were smaller than regular Hot Wheels ,, about 1/2 the size and very simple construction, usually just a metal main chassis with wheels and a plastic detail part or two. Here's a link to some info. https://www.hobbydb.com/marketplaces/hobbydb/subjects/zowees-series

I can think of one thing that might have inspired it.

looks good Mike.

beautiful!

Cool. I have a spot for those cars. BTW, IF you haven't painted the hood yet you might want to correct it. It should have a crease up the center . Also the vents are all off slightly , like the hood's twisted. When I did the "mini me" of my car, I had to sand some and add some material to to both sides of the hood to center it properly.

It's a cowl scoop, air comes in from the high pressure area at the base of the windshield. Opening the front makes no difference on the real thing and may in fact defeat the effect. But thanks for the comments.

That's pretty cool Curtis. Looks nice and clean, an easy resto. That passenger side headlight looks like it came from a '64/'65 Thunderbird. IIRC, they both should be like the driver's side one.

That sure looks great ! ?

Ouch !

Just fabulous Mike !

Sorry about that. I was trying to do a post with instructions on how to easily post a pic. Something happened and I got locked out and the site wouldn't come back up until now. Anyway ,, The rest of the text that should have been above the pic was,,, go to your pic, right klik on it and klik on "copy image" from the menu that appears. come back here where you type your post,, right klik, , , klik on "paste" from that menu and there you are.

,,,and there you are.

Yea, I've grown up with Buicks and have owned quite a few, including a couple Rivieras and haven't seen any in grey personally either. But, all the advertising from '64 when they were introduced and in the '65 brochure show them in grey. I'm not telling you how to build your car, just throwing out some information. Do with it as you like.

Like Casey says, the "Formula Five" wheels in the '64 Buick are actually the Buick rallye wheels. New for that year. This is the only time I've ever heard them referred to as that. The proper Buick term for them is "styled steel road wheel".

That's really looking great. I'm not sure if you're going totally factory stock with the chrome rallye wheels but if you do, in '65 the detail paint on the wheels was grey, not black like almost everyone thinks. It looks like it was only that year and was indeed black from '66 on.