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I've gotten the hinge fabbed up, I'm not too sure how it's going to work, hopefully it will look better when painted.

Wow, I'll bet those buyers were sure glad to see the 4speed when they looked inside. You should've gotten a Promotion/Raise/ bonus for ordering those. I'm envious l was only 3 in 76. I had 3 manual floorshift Novas 1 75 SS 4 speed with console gauges, 1 75 SS with 6cyl 3 speed, bench seat, and a 77 Rally with 4 speed I live in Va. 4speeds are more common on the east coast. I did have a 78 Nova Rally also with 4speed but It was just a parts car (windows were shot out and the engine was gone) I took off what was good and threw the rest away.

Cool! It's nice to meet someone who knows these cars. It's pretty Awesome that you seen them when they were brand new. I seen an advertising for the 77 Rally in an old magazine that read... The All New Nova Rally, A Wolf in sheep's clothing. Using driveline from the Camaro, they'll never see you coming! After owning 18 of these novas I just don't feel right driving anything else. To me it's the best handling and most confortable of all the novas. Here is a pic of the last one I owned.

I'm working on building up the hatch area, I cut and fit a peice of clear styrene. I like using clear because it makes it easy for an accurate cut and a nice fit because you can see through it to make the stencil. Also I'm working on shaping and smoothing the body. I've decided now that I want the hatchback to open and close on hinges so my next step is to fab some hinges for the hatchback.

Thanks, I hope it goes smoothly, l love them all but my favorite is the disco era 75-79 novas. I'm kinda a Corky, offbeat, weirdo... so it matches me.

Here is some modifications I have made so far... I removed the hatchback from the car. Sanded the door handles (I like the 3D handles from the Revell 69 camaro convertible) and the NOVA script from the fenders (too large and also not on my real car.) I removed the floor shift console to accurately portray the inside of my car which has the Concours only folding arm rest bench seat. I hope this one doesn't snowball, l'm trying to keep it simple but you guys know how that goes.

mine is the Concours Hatchback, the rally wheels I plan to use are in the kit. The Mpc version kept the same interior all the way to 79 (square lights) which is the Squad Rod. In reality the nova's dash was redesigned in 1977 so the interior is accurate to my 76. So my idea is to have the hatchback opened at shows with the hatchback up on the model also, all while displaying the model in the hatchback. Hope that don't sound confusing I'm using a folding arm rest seat form the batman joker goon car, it's close enough. In order to make that fit l had to remove the molded console from the nova's tub and add the transmission hump from the Amt version.

I do have the correct grill but in order to make it fit l'll have to trim down the bumper filler on the 79 body to make the 76 grill fit.

I've decided to build a version of my real car to display at shows and cruise ins. I hope to hurry it along. So it's gonna be a pretty simple build. Here are some very early stages photos and a pic of how it will look when completed. Thanks and Stick around for updates.

Thanks everyone for the compliments, and welcoming. I posted the outdoor pic of the 57 on a real car forum that I'm a member on and some of the comments were... how far did you move the engine back? and do you drive it on the street? I consider that to be the best compliment when someone believes it's real. One post said I'm pretty sure that is a model and it's awesome. Anywho, heres a pic of what I really drive.. I'm in earily stages of building replica of my car so I hope to start a build thread on it soon. Stay tuned and Model on, dudes!

Thanks, I don't build many 1/12 models. But my brother had this one left over from his modeling days and I found it in his garage one day and thought I could do something with it. I scratch built a dash tach from a value stem cap and a gas tank from 2 paint markers spliced together. I used some 69 camaro parts and scratch built a straight axel. Also I cut the side walls out of the slicks and stuffed the white walls inside to give the "piecrust" look to the rear tires.Added hillborn injection and some flames to complete the "Gasser" look. I finished second at the contest I entered it in. I was happy considering it was just scrapped parts from an earlier build.

Hi everybody who loves building model cars. I've been been building models for 30 + years now.I thought I'd show some of my work here. Thanks and enjoy...