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So i pusshed the pickup of the car until 5 of april but i stumbled over a set of wheels that should fit for a way to good of a price so i could not miss them. They are to big according to my first plan.. but that size does work on these since the wheel arches are so big. They are 20x10 and 20x10,5. also the new front quarter can be seen next to it. and the cast iron grill. It’s at least half an inch thick.

nice progress there! Engine came out good, i have been looking at it many times and just put it back. nice to see it beeing built OOB.

Good that it worked out for you!

Sweet! Looks great in red!

Looks great! Engine and other scratch built components looks great!!

That is a super shiney paintjob! Sweet work! I got my Aston pretty good now, just a rub/polish with compounds and no wet sand and it looks good.

Nice start of a low truck there mate!

Super nice build! I remember when we had a black one in town and it was great!

Turned out great!

Great replica! Looks super good! Clean

That’s a rad and low SUV!

Super nice build there!

Shot some clear and no polish so far, might polish the hood at least. And I made some decals for this. My 15 year old Epson does a ok job I believe. I also dusted on some primer on the GCV.

Nice to se an 1/16 build. Looks good ned you did great on those spokes.

Super neat build dude!

Looking great as usually Steve! Great work!

I was doing work on my mb but noticed things that irritated me as well as I managed to loose my trottle linkage that I made so I boxed the mb. So while I was watching the first F1 race for the season this morning and seeing the Aston Martin pace car roaring past several times, thanks to rain and drivers putting a tire on the white slippery lines and spinning of, I got inspired to bring out a rebuilder so I could do a quick over haul and slap it together. So I brought out the Aston Martin DBS which is one of my absolute favorite cars of al time. Got this from a forum member in a trade. While watching the race I disassembled it and sanded the bodywork. Wheels was gone so I have printed a set of my own wheels and got them painted during the afternoon as well as the interior got some semi gloss clear which made the interior come alive. And then I managed to put a layer of silver first and then a metallic orange on top of that. looking good I believe.

Thanks! I can keep posting here when doing progress on it. yes they are very underrated but hey every one else’s loss 😉 Oo yours looks sweet!! Where can i see mor of it?

@Milo have you made some progress?

Got me some decals the other day, metal transfer for Mercedes and some JPS decals and two sets of seatbelts and some polishing compound.

@RockinRoller great progress mate! Cool project you have going! And nice to find an other in eu that have similar taste in cars as me hehe you are doing a great job on this build and I like your fabricated rear panel!

I just realized that it is almost exactly 20 years since i bought this car the first time around! It was april 4 2005 that my dad and I bought the car. I was in college (16 years old at the time) and lived 4h by car from home. My dad and I had been seraching for project cars for a while, he was looking at Tbirds which was not what i liked at all so i turned him back to chevys, he had a Jeep Chief and then a Suburban for manny years. I also turned down a torn down 72 camaro hich whe would have to go to the oter side of the coutnry to get, and I wanted something that we could drive while restoring. This one came up and I liked it. This is how i saw it the first time. When i saw it in person for the first time dad had installed the summer tires. Here we have started the restoration, reparing rust and cleaning up parts. Me when i was 16 doing some work. While i returned to school dad kept at it and repainted most parts and the boddy. Here it is primed and ready for paint. These pictures he sent me when I was away. Here he have gotten far, he was working at the fire brigade at the time and had time to spend on projects since they worked many nights but was of during the day instead. Here is one of the only pictures i have of him working on the car, while we were lowering it. Today he has parkinson and are not in the best shape. Miss those days when we where doing things together. When it was assembeled and after it was lowered. Btw my parents house to the left and the one to the right is where i live today I did restore parts of the engine but in the end i had to pul it out and do a full resto, but at that point I was working. First time around i did it seriously with new bearings pistons and sow on, i did most work by my self with help from a local car wizzard. But i did not realize that i hade missed to put pack the socet plugs below the camshaft after i had had the engine for machining so i quickly got a knock due to low oil pressure. Second time around i had my freind and car wizzard to assemble the engine, i helped out to learn but he did the jobb. here the built engine was going back. Long post and i hope no one minds my lengty post

Cool to see a Saab motor beeing used outside of Sweden. Here they are known for good power and i have heard many that bring out plenty of power with aftermarket turbo setups! Also common over here is to put BMW gear boxes behind any thing today. Many LS engines run BMW boxes thanks to their price and availibility. And also the option of having 8 speed and dual clutch transmissions for not much money.

I have had this project boxed up for a while and brought it out today again. And I got some minor work done. Redid the oil filter canister and aded mb star and mb text to the engine. I also noticed that the interior interferes with how the chassi and body mates. So some thing have to be done about that. I also noticed that the hood does not sit right so I have to address that. I was thinking of leaving it un hinged but I might rethink that since it makes more sense to have it hinged. i did get my decals for the JPS livery and the set made for the lotus 78 was not what I expected. They were more yellow than gold, and looking at reference pictures of the 78 that year they did not have a livery that looks like real gold . Glad I ordered the BMW Jps decals as well, they were more of a chrome gold. Thinking on how I do with the livery. Any ideas and recommendations on gold paint?

Looking good, paint looks flat and nice!