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Painted the valve covers with Revell chrome, turned out nice and dried to the touch within 24 hours..was able to glue them on the assembled engine. Still have to put the distributor in and run the plug wires and the engine will be pretty much complete.

Made some beltline trim out of half round, glued them side by side to replicate the trim on the fender, door and 1/4. Also deleted the battery from the engine bay and made an empty "battery tray" in place of it.

Looks good! Only thing I'd be a stickler over is the headers. I know you used the hemi headers but the inside exhaust ports and primary tubes on a wedge/440 mopar are siamesed like a small block chevy.

I went out and got some paint today, I think I have the color figured out. Since I dont have an airbrush I'm stuck with rattle cans but I've seen Tamiya has a light metallic green that looks close so I figured I'd try a basecoat of another color to achieve the shade I'm after. I shot some on the old junk fenders I cut off. Used Tamiya TS 17 gloss aluminum as a base and a couple light mist coats of TS 60 pearl green. Looks close to the factory 1965 color "willow green". The pics I have of the car are all from the early 90s and not the best lighting or quality so its tough to get an exact match, but after googling the color on other chevelles I think its pretty close.

Thanks man! was a fun one to build.

Hahah! So you know of this car is see?! I've heard those stories of the pea gravel/cement in the tailgate before and considered opening up the tailgate to make it just a bit more realistic...but the bed floor is molded too high on this model, just wouldn't look quite right. I just recently talked to a guy this weekend who is friends with the current owner of Chuck's old Elco..its sat untouched since probably the late 90s to early 2000s, looks the same just no motor/trans.

Thats super generous of you, I appreciate it! I've got a plan for the "top end" of the motor and pretty much have what I need to make it accurate. I did a similar built big block in a 57 corvette which will look the same minus the valve covers..same single plane intake and dominator. I picked up some moroso valve covers from Iceman that I'll use on this car. Here's how the corvette looked.

Thats better..

Yeah those mufflers were a short lived trend lol..but the model companies sure latched on to them..there were a few other pro street kits I remember that used them.

Worked on it a bit more today. Cut out the inner part of the frame rails behind the engine mounts and moved them out a bit for header clearance..will get sanded and smoothed out before paint. Also decided on the AMT 67 chevelle pro street headers but cut and shortened them up since they would hang pretty low otherwise, and don't worry the goofy super trap mufflers will go bye bye. Change of plans for rear wheels, got these rally wheels from Fireball modelworks which look awesome, so that's what I'm going with.

Haha yeah the front end and grille on the AMT 65 kits is what kept me from building this car for so long. I just bought both the revell chevelle and the el camino and took both bodies out and put them next to one another and stared at them for a while trying to figure the easiest way to combine them..and this is what I settled on.

Cut the 4 speed trans off and glued the resin th400 on. Modified the trans crossmember a little bit by grinding some plastic off to make it thinner and the engine/trans dropped right in place where it needs to sit. Next up is to clearance the frame rails for header clearance. Not sure which headers I will use, as of now I have some big block headers from the AMT 67 chevelle pro street kit..but might use some resin ones that are in the mail currently. We will see.

Small update..smoothed out the sidewall on the rear slicks and made up some center caps for the front centerlines, also cut off the back seat from the Revell chevelle interior tub and test fit it, lines up nicely to the firewall.

Shaved the emblems off the fender and sanded down the rocker trim and added some sheet styrene to the bottoms of the front fenders to make it all match.

Gathered up some of the parts I'll need for the build, mocked up what I have so far to see how it'll look. The scoop is a little tall so I'll have to shave some off the base to make it sit right.