Joe Handley

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I agree and would like to see the same of the GM f/s vans too. The body molds of the GM van need some restoration around the drip molds, but I'd love to see newer interiors, maybe the Chevy and GMC grills with both single and dual headlights.

Well, here's down town West Chicago as of 11:30 tonight, should do the same tomorrow night for a comparison too. Since I posted this, Dad told me he's heard that there might be as much as 30" by the time this is all done........he wished me luck on my way home form work tomorrow already

One of my co-workers also works for the county and has already called off for this entire week and may be lucky to go home in that length of time, they've already set up cots at his garage for the guys to come back to and sleep in between shifts, and the place was a media madhouse by 3pm this afternoon too! I also just talked to a customer who told me one of the 4 lane roads (Kirk Rd for the locals on here) near the store is already drifted over.

St. Charles HobbyTown USA, I'm the big guy with glasses and a full beard, and the other employee mentioned is the big guy with glasses and a goatee

Don't see why that would matter Justin.

A co-worker and I had both thought about doing builds for this contest until he read the portion of the rules that excludes hobby shop employees

I'll wait for somebody to make a kit of the Volt

I'm digging the three spokers and mesh wheels!

I love the build, but I'm not sure about the wheels, the baby moons and white walls just don't look right and I'm just not a fan of those Nike wheels on anything. How about the new ZR1 Vette wheels?

I don't know about that, there used to be part numbers for those kits in the old computer system at the HTU I work for. I'll have to look tomorrow and see if they're still in the current system. As for the movie Cars, I still love that movie, as does my kid sister, both of us are adults without kids

OK, that's weird! I was looking at mine last night thinking that the deck lid and taillight surrounds would make a neat looking tonneau and lined up nicely with the seat backs. I do like how the stock bumper looks on that artwork and your build too, seems to fit the appearance better than the roll pan and grill. I have to do a different color though, pastels aren't my thing I'm getting a new few ideas for mine from these pics!

Thanks Harold, looks as if those little pieces of flash need to be cut out for both the bumper and pan.

Got a question for you Harold, I noticed a small flash like section of plastic towards the insides of the tail light hoops where the trunk dips down to meet the rear bumper that looks like it should be cut out but doesn't say to do so in the instructions and interferes with the fit of both the centers of the stock bumper and the roll pan Am I right in thinking that those little bits of styrene need to be cut out?

Well, I usually a tinker with a few kits here and there, not really doing much other than the fiddly pre-paint stuff on them. Now on occasion I get a bug and throw together something simple (usually the Revell snappers or that AMT Challenger I built last fall) but hopefully cool and different looking. Between work (although that didn't stop the Challenger), weather (I live in the Chicago Burbs), other hobbies, and the internet (spend way too much time on that ) I don't get much styrene work done

Wow, you guys have me beat, I usually can barely finish 1 model every 2-3 years

Hey Markus, what are you planning to do with that package tray area? I've been debating about making a cover for mine from the convertible top cover or cutting it out and making something for that part of the interior.

How's your Vipers going so far guys? I've got the sub assemblies and basic bodywork done on mine so far, just need to strip the chrome pieces and start to paint it. Also been thinking of replacing the corrugated tubing between the filter box and throttle bodies with styrene tube before I paint all that stuff.

I keep thinking of this when I see that van

The R/T version of that would be pretty cool, and the starting point for a number of other variants of that platform too!

True, although Rt 38 from West Chicago through Geneva is getting bad enough I think I need desert racer springs and sjhocks on my Jeep

Kinda curious on the pricing of that car too, it does look kinda neat and it would make a good DD for somebody like me......now if it had a rally suspension on it, the highway I take to work is a little on the rough side right now

You do know we're talking about the Bears and not the Cubs, right

IIRC the roof was permanently attached to the car because of Kennedy's Assassination during the rebuild.