Nice work, Matt. That's how I remember them back in the day. My buddy Chuck was an Opel mechanic and he had an immaculate red '70 GT. He always took offense to the baby Corvette nickname; he referred to C3 Corvettes as "big plastic Opels". He also used to say that OPEL stood for "Old Parts, Expensive Labor".
Yeah, having owned 2 of these I agree, looks too tall, not long enough, and that “rainbow” shape just doesn’t look right to me. Too bad as I was hoping it would be better.
Super job on the Riv, Jim. I am not a fan of the big rims on older cars but here it works for me. Nice choice of colors, too. I have one of these in the stash to build and while the roof is not quite right it still builds up into a nice looking model.