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Looking good there! And you do have a couple of cool builds in the making! I hope the new meds work for you!

I decided to af some nuts and bolts to the chassis In visible spots. I made these and printed them in various sizes. i did also make a new cross bar for the swaybar, the arms connecting to the a arms are stock, when the bar was there I used insulation from a cable to make a rubber busshing and a strip of metal as brackets and finished it of with studs and nuts. I did also make some work with the exhaust. Swedish law dictates that the exhaust are not allowed to exit underneath a space where you have occupants. Which leaves me with side exits on the exhaust, but that’s not really legal either. So I routed it all the way back. And due to clearance issues I ran 3mm pipes which led me to put electric cutouts to let all the exhaust pressure out on full boost. Actually read about a similar 1:1 build that did just that. I put magnets under the mufflers to secure it wile fabricating, but will do some visual hangers as well. I will tuck the exhaust so it won’t be to visible behind the bumper to retain that discrete look.

Looking epic! Seats are a nice model in it self!

Great minds think alike 😁could never have guessed you had a damage underneath that plaque! i suddenly remembered that I had forgotten to install the go fast pedal and the slow pedal… so I lifted the boddy and had a pita to install the hanging pedals behind the dash. I kept the brake fluid canisters and linkage and the individual brake cylinders and even the brake scale from my 3d print.. even though it will never, ever be seen again! A mishap also knocked the battery out of place so I got an opportunity to improve on the ground wire which is now secured with a stud and nut. Also made a fire extinguisher system, not done but it start to looks crowded as I want it to!

Lights are looking great! as does the rest of the build! That steering as Will mentioned looks epic, and super hard!

Welcome to the board! Hope you find inspration here!

Welcome to the board! hope you find inspiration and looking forward to se what you work on!

Made some progress, not really on the impala but I managed to put couple of coats of putty on the Mb that got its paint stripped. the Impala got some attitude added in the boot and I covered a BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAHup with a suiting sticker. Tire Slayer.. I also added a California plate.. not that it should’t have anything else than a Swedish plate. I did also replace the dash decal with a bigger one, same text. 🙂 and don’t worry I have not glued the body to the interior yet due to I am not sure I am done with body of works yet. o and I did mend the broken chrome work.

I have totally missed the finishing of this one! Came out great, as always!

A real beauty! Good work!

That truck came out absolutely beautiful! The white paint job looks super, I am dreading white since it’s to easy to make it look like plastic. Al details are just spot on as usual!

Great build Francis! Every part looks 10/10!

That’s a bad as Chevy! Your scratch work is always impressive! Will be raging along for the ride and might take one of my 1/16 out again.

Nice build!

I built my first car kit in the mid '90s probobly in 1996 or 1997 around age 10, the first car kit was a 1957 Corvette that i hand painted. to try to make it look like the box art. I do have it in a box in pieces since i at some point decided to restore it.. now i am thinkin of gluing it back as is. Second kit was a Blazer. First overall kit was a small 2 seater aircraft that i glue bombed.

It’s a Swedish icon, and as I mentioned I started this build in 2003 or something like that with the intention of making a tru replica, but that does not work for me 😂 The driver is also a legend and used to work at the biggest carmag over here (a bit like friburger in a sense). i don’t think there is a class for it but it would be cool if there was! 😁 but EV’s would probably destroy such a class. The idea of the trailer have crossed my mind, even gotten some basic files to start with in the computer. I don’t know about the wing mirrors.. would ruin the look/stance I belive. thanks for checking in!

Thank you Titino!

Thanks allot!

Nice work on that vent! Regarding the kit you are looking for. The black one with flames is the same kit. And it also have the same flares for example. https://www.super-hobby.se/products/Ford-Rat-Roadster-1932.html

I put some paint on the parts, glued the wheelie bars and dry fitted the pull bar.

Thanks David, and thank you for taking your time to respond it’s much appreciated! I have not done that much last days due to other things but did this tow bar for trailer and caravan. The inspiration for this build have had the world record on 402 meters with a caravan behind. So of course this need to have it!

Looks great!

Nice detail work with the straps and all!

Nice build! And great work on the interior details, your electrical boxes came out great!

Thanks! I do believe these need some tire profile to look good 🙂