Roadrunner

That is an excellent price. Sooner or later, I'll be grabbing a 1:16 Peterbilt or Kenworth.

I'll be real interested in seeing that.

I like the blue/silver combination a lot.

Looks better and better.

Very cool.

Thank you very much, I appreciate it. Thanks, I like it too. 3M blue painters tape and plain old masking tape were used. Thin paint, low pressure, and that seems to do it.

Thanks a bunch. The paint is Testors Root Beer Metallic lacquer, from a spray bomb. (I've yet to try painting a model car by airbrush.)

Excellent. Glad to see you rescued it from the damage, Joe.

Try telling them that you might also be recording the conversation. They'll stop dead in their tracks and want to know if you are or not. If you say that you are not, the call will proceed, if you say you are, they'll hang up, if you refuse to give a definitive answer, they'll hang up.

Perhaps a bit premature, but I went ahead and painted the hood stripes today. I used tire black (flat) mixed with clear semi-gloss, but probably should have used more semi-gloss. Any way, I certainly won't be repainting it, so this is the way it'll stay.

I've already decided to go with the kit provided hood on the '71, as the air grabber hood is still pretty cool. Also, if I went with the style I was thinking of, I'd also want to source the hood/fender stripes, and I don't know of any being available. It's possible that they appeared in other iterations of this kit, but I have no idea about that at this time.

My latest acquisition. Perhaps not a big deal to a lot of you, but it certainly is to me. Over the summer/autumn, I’ll be doing several projects here that will definitely benefit from an impact driver, and this nifty little tool from Ridgid, will easily get into places my DeWalt and Milwaukee 18V drills can’t manage. (I really wanted the Milwaukee equivalent of this tool, but its performance specifications are almost identical, yet costs $50 more.)

And I appreciate the thought very much, Ace. When I begin my '71 GTX, I may need some parts there, not real sure though. I'm not real wild about the hood that the kit has, but there seems t be no other option there for the '71.

Here's hoping for a speedy recovery, Joe.

Thanks, Ace, but I'm beginning to grow really weary of working on this one, so I'll just wrap it up, warts and all. Since so many other things are incorrect for a proper '69, having a correct steering wheel is not that big of a deal to me right now.

Actually, instructions quite clearly show a column as being molded integral to the wheel, but there is no column present.

I like them both equally, so I'm a no vote.

Fenders. I've never been a real fan of fender-less old cars.

Very nice. I like the Challenger too.

X3. It looks splendid.

Very, very nice.

Very well done, I like it a lot.

Very nice. I like this one a lot.

Very nice. This is right up my alley, as I've liked the old gassers for a long time.

Well, Ace, you nailed it again; brake and clutch pedals do drag on the floor, so I chopped them off and shortened them. If I ever do another one of these (probably a convertible GTX or Roadrunner), I'm going to try to add emergency brake pedal, turn signal lever, high beam dimmer switch on floor, courtesy lights, speakers and some other stuff, to dress it up a bit more. Also, for some reason, my steering wheel has no column to speak of, despite being shown in the instructions, so I'll need to add some plastic tubing for that.