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I have to agree on that sweet Olds. Low, but not what I see as a "Lowrider". That said, a lowrider doesn't necessarily have to have wire wheels or hydraulics. ,,, or even crazy paint for that matter. The most famous lowrider of all,, the "Gypsy Rose" [both versions] originally rode on 5 spoke wheels. Either Cragar SS or Astro Supremes and as Martin says, lots of older ones use original or custom wheel covers. IIRC, Gypsy Rose didn't even have hydraulics installed until sometime in the '80s. I also see a lot of lows in single colors or factory style 2 tones instead of the wild multi-color paintjobs that are the expected style. Seems that extreme lowness and white walls is a must though. I may not be able to explain it very well but I know one when I build it. So, I guess I'm in, I have a few more big Chevys to do.

"professional wrestler" maybe ?

Just some paint and flocking but I did add a column shifter made from a strait pin. It seems to be coming together nicely now.

3 magic words ,, silver paint marker. What you can't get at with the marker you can touch up with a 00 size brush.

Did a little work on this while I'm waiting for paint to dry on the pickup I'm working on. Got the tailight surrounds roughed in.

I just went to a local auto paint supplier and had them mix me some basin st. blue in a touch-up bottle. I doubt you could get it more accurate than that.

You did a good job on it. Looks like you needed to source some parts from other kits?

Um, yea, I recognise that list. It's the list Tom Carter [Spotlight Hobbies] made up of the kits that were originally available. It was never meant to be a list of what's still able to be released,, in fact, Tom will tell you most of the tooling on that list just doesn't exist any more.

AMT did the BFG car back in the early '70s too.

Made a new bed floor from scratch to clear the mini tubs and the channelling of the bed. Just some sheet plastic with evergreen strips added ,, faux finish wood and foil on the bed strips.

Not in 1/24 or 1/25 scale that I know of. AAM did a nice resin stock conversion at one time but that was 25 years ago or more.

,,, and don't forget Jag XKEs Lots of kits of those too.

Hey. I didn't even know he was still doing that contest. I haven't heard anything about it in years.

I really like that one!

Both were also made in 1-peice aluminum.

Drilled out the headlights moulded into the grille and replaced them with a couple of the ones I cast in clear resin.

Here's the pics of the Revell engine. Not the greatest. I don't remember any belts or accessories at the front of the engine either.

later issue of the Revell Thunderbolt Fairlane with the stock flat hood.

There's a few people making resin Falcon kits. I'd try to get just the body from one and use all the good parts on it.

I have a built one I've had since new. I'll see if I can find it later and take some pics. IIRC, the engine was kinda basic, short on detail like the cam cover script but probably could be detailed out to look good.

I made these about 10 years ago. Kinda hard to tell in the pics but it's strung with a few strands of my wife's blond hair.

The emblems wouldn't be a problem Snake. MCG has a PE sheet for [IIRC] '65 to '67 Vettes with all the needed emblems and the different gas cap covers for each year. I would have got the set for the '65 I just finished but I was going for a mild custom look so I didn't need them.

Microscale makes some incredibly thin stripe waterslide decals for HO scale trains. They label them as 1 and 2 wide inch strips so whatever HO scale is,, so they'd be 1/87 and 1/43 of an inch ?? I'm not sure but the ones I have are thinner than the line from a Bic pen. They come in several colors too.

If it were me, I'd use the '84 chassis. The Blazer chassis is not bad but too short a wheelbase even for a short box pickup, you'd need to stretch it . That generation chassis isn't all that different than the earlier one and it will build up with a stock 4X4 height, all you need to do is not use the seprate lift blocks at the ends of the springs. That chassis is actually quite nice of you get rid of those stupid lift blocks and 1/20 scale wheels/tires. As far as the inner fenders go, cut the ones from the cab and use the ones molded on the chassis, they're correct for that generation pickup, the ones molded to the cab are not.

To me, and I've only seen pics of these real engines ,, it looks like a "B" engine with Poly intake and associated parts, like the distributor. So, how close to a stock engine would it be if you swapped a regular "B" intake and distributor onto the kit engine? Would that make it passable?