Bills72sj

I am halfway through slowly building a modified one of these. (Day cab Dual Drive) I will be following yours.

This one is on my to do list too. Following.?

Here is the plan. Sleeper cab TRIPLE DRIVE (extended frame). Rectangular headlight conversion. Possibly scratch built headache rack. White and red paint scheme (if I can mask it successfully). Destined to connect to my modified lowboy trailer I built last year.

I'll be following this one.

Where did you get the chain binders and glad hands? The wood perimeter on the deck is novel too.

Thank you and thank you. They can still be had at decent prices. Very nice drivers with nice paint jobs can still be had for under $20K. While the supply is low, the demand is even lower. I got mine fresh out of the paint booth for $3000 and since it had not been clearcoated yet, they did the gold for $200! Of course that was back in '98 or '99.

Very nice job on the whole car especially, the stripes.

You should be very proud of those builds. They turned out great.

Thank you everyone for sharing. I think I am going the scratch built route for my 1st two.

That is one of the main reasons I usually do not put a lot of effort into interiors.

That is good to hear. Except for my visit to you, my Grand Prix has not been rained on in years.

Somebody likes MOPARS!

need more fuses

I have that and I like it. Have you built any that are old enough to know if it yellows?

Well done sir.

You have very good weathering skills. Nice job!

Thank you guys. This one is actually the 3rd one I had painted black and gold. My 2nd one was even nicer than the one I have now. Here is a pic of the engine that went into it. I assembled it myself. I lost that car to a fire. 9 years of blood sweat and dollars up in flames.

David, Thank you. The paint scheme was inspired by a Hurst SSJ but mine does not carry the gold onto the roof. I have only seen one of those in real life and it was a rusted out beater driven by a couple of cowboys in Wyoming.

I have shown most of my models here on the forum. Today I am sharing my most favorite cars. 1972 Pontiac Grand Prixs. The littlest is a Johnny Lightning that I modified with gold paint, gold wheels and BFGs. The middle one is a 1/25th scale kit I bought in the mid 80's. Since then my skillset has improved greatly. It is overdue for a restoration. The wood one is a gift from my best friend who commissioned it from a local artist who usually makes VW bugs and vans. I met the artist and he really enjoyed the challenge. Could I make changes to make it closer to correct? Yes, but I will leave it alone as it is a piece of ART! The 1:1 is what is in my garage right now. I have owned it since the late 90's. It is basically a survivor with nice paint, very nice original interior and a filthy, well-running original engine. I have installed a killer 14 speaker (FOUR are 10" subs) 5 amplifier stereo in it. I had to put in a separate marine deep cycle battery just to run it. Every couple of weeks (weather permitting) I find an empty parking lot and jam my playlist for 2-1/2 hours. I mostly like female pop with good bass guitar riff. Anything that has been recorded with a sub-octavizer really shakes the seats and makes the mirrors blurry. It has a numbers matching 455 and makes enough power to turn the 295/50 BFGs into quite a smoke show. However gas mileage is around 10. (not that it matters). I go to car shows most summers and I am ALWAYS the only Grand Prix there of ANY year. Comments are welcome.

I have already searched old threads. Does anyone know of any resin casters selling this spoiler?

Notice centerline of C-pillars hits the top of the quarterpanel at or forward of the centerline of the rear axle. The Saab C-pillar centerline hits the top of the panel way behind the axle centerline. When you shorten the wheelbase on your galaxie, be cognizant of this relationship.

I have made a little bit of progress on my Freightliner triple drive. I am stuck not being able to paint because of the humidity here. Here is what I have so far.

I have been struggling to make progress. The frame spent 2-3 weeks in the purple lake followed by 2-3 days in brake fluid. It appears the black is not going to come off of the suspension pieces. If I ever get to paint, I will have to prime before shooting the frame red. I did some studying on my masking requirements for my decal placement. Upon closer inspection, I need to lay on some more gloss white under color first.

It has been raining here at least every other day for a MONTH so the humidity is always too high to paint. I have done a small amount of assembly and prepped a bunch of parts for painting. I am getting frustrated finally having the time but STILL not being able to spray paint. Here is my progress so far.

Most impressive. I envy your skills.