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Definitely the best way to go if the scripts and emblems stand out enough from the body. Here's one I did about 15 years ago. Sorry for the blurry pic.

According to wikipedia, an adult horse makes almost 15 horsepower! ,, I did not know that.

You crazy kids with your big hooptie wheels and little teeny weenie tires.

I like B ,, but I'd like it better with a chrome '29 rad and stock hood. I could live with the wheels but rather a set of 15 or 16s. OH, but here's another option I bet some would like even better.

Sitting in a fast food joint a couple weeks ago and overheard a late teen-age boy tell his friends "he was acoustic, his mother had the doctors test him."

Cool. That's the same color my father's '67 Meteor Rideau was.

Look'n great Paul. You really have an eye for these conversions.

Love it ,, perfect color for that car.

Beautiful build Raoul.

Just gorgeous !

If it were me, I'd use a set of wire wheels from an AMT Cobra roadster kit. Cut a small disk for each wheel from an appropriate size plastic rod and attach them to the centers of the wheels. You may have to carefully sand the wheel center down so the disk will sit flat on the spokes. a little foil and a bit of red paint should finish it off. Better yet if you can find the red rocket decals but I don't know if any kit has them.

Did it last year. Paint turned out a bit too dark though.

Thanks everyone. Yea, that pickup is one of my personal faves too. They might be my favorite because we had a burgundy long stepside GMC when I was a kid . I've got at least 4 more I want to build too. , , The red custom from the side of the GMC stepside box. an almost stock lime green and white '69 or '70 Chevy stepside another full custom incorporating parts from this generation truck and the '88 up trucks. candy orange-red maybe?? a candy dark blue '72 short fleetside with a thin tube grille. Good thing I stocked up on kits, parts and re-builders when I came across them.

That's gonna be cool. I've been planning a '55 build along the same lines as yours, even have the same wheels in the box for it. Hadn't really thought about a chassis swap but I do have a Revell '55 cvt I was never planning to build though so?? Going to do mine in black and white like a "black widow" '57 and have a big block . Those cars do look good in green, I'll be following this build for sure.

I think all issues of the kit have it as it's on the chrome tree but the only one I had was the one from the '70s with the blue kit on the box. Maybe someone here will have one they'll part with?

There's one of those in the old Revell '55 Chevy with all the opening panels.

We were lucky. There's still people living in small travel trailers with porta-potties in some spots along the St.John river.

I keep coming back to look at your blue Firebird. Just beautiful.

Super nice bunch of builds.

Cool, I think this is the first factory stock build I've seen of one of these kits. I've seen the metallic lime '76 GM color lots of times but I didn't know there was a solid version, that'll really make the car stand out. Nice.

They're all nice but that blue T/A just pops !!

They all look great but I love that green and black sedan.

Thanks David. I took the T/A to a friends place on higher ground about a block away when the flood came so it was fine. You don't see many dark blue '85s. Mine's actually a '14 Honda color, Dyno blue pearl. It's almost the same blue that was on it but the old blue was a solid color and this one's pearl. I changed it because the original solid color looked a bit too "industrial" for my tastes. We knew what to expect so no real damage, just one shelf unit fell over. Had a couple built models and some paint on it. That was about it.

Should have finished a couple more this year but the flood in late April put a halt on my building. Just getting set up for models again. Taking a bit longer than it normally would as I'm doing up a more dedicated room to work in with a 10 foot counter top work area instead of an old kitchen table. Anyway, Here's what I finished before being so rudely interrupted by Mother Nature in April. Long term '68 C-10 project. Curbside resin '66 Fury. and this took up a lot of my free time last summer. The fade stripe decals above the silver skirts have been added since these pics were taken. Thanks for looking.

That's true Snake but it can also be said for pretty well any pre-'73 Chevelle you could mention. Far as that goes, you could even build the exact same car Revell just issued using the AMT '69, one of the '68 conversion kits and a suitably detailed donor chassis for example.